When is this song going to be over, anyway?

[koganbot]

Excellent post by Dave over on Bedbugs [link now here] about The-Dream's "I Luv Your Girl." He ends with: They're dancing. We hit the bridge, a bit more sumptuous, addition of strings and a slightly modified chord progression. "Walkin' out the club, shawty what's up, mmm, I want her in the worst way." Yeah, probably a fantasy, he even seems snaps out of it. How much of this is actually happening? "Part of me feels so bad but (ooh!) not that bad." Sly smile, there. He's winking at us, mocking the boyfriend. But what does she have to say about this? Did she just say what I think she said? When is this song going to be over, anyway?

(But really you need to read the entire post.)

Me in the comment thread: The-Dream's songs never do end, in that the story never ends: lines from one keep reappearing in others, all relationships are in a state of negotiation and renegotiation, so any song by The-Dream can be a rethinking of any other. "Ditch That" could be a sequel to "I Luv Your Girl," same club but a different night and this time addressed to the girl, and now - this time - you know he's got her... until say the middle of Love Vs. Money when everything explodes and the fallout might be that she's back with the first guy.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Haha, typo! "seems to snap out of it" is what I meant there. A very mesmerizing song, tho...perhaps I was in a trance.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I suggest that we call the ambiguous temporality of The-Dream's world "the-dreamscape," a kind of aural canvas on which points are plotted impressionistically, connecting to each other in surprising ways without quite "connecting," as in "connect-the-dots."

[koganbot]

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