Ha! Do you get it? Word play about word play! With a capital "S" and an apostrophe (you remember those, right? Our parents used them.) this title means word play belonging to the pop star. As it is, I mean to stay that said pop star has "speared" word play, meaning, she's really nailed it.
She has a new song out, titled "If You Seek Amy." Now, these lyrics may seem innocuous enough, but all is not quite what it seems. For instance, the lyrics don't even make sense in some contexts. Here's one line: "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy." Huh? But look again....yeah, say it slowly: F-U-C-K Me.
Brilliant, huh? What a genius lyricist....not that she writes her lyrics, of course. I would take this opportunity to make fun of her for her rather juvenile efforts at cleverness, but here's the rub: it comes straight from James Joyce, the genius nominally celebrated by this blog! One of the true craftsmen with the Enlgish language and he resorted to these cheap jokes. Here is the excerpt, right out of Ulysses:
If you see kay
Tell him he may
See you in tea
Tell him from me.
And not only did he give us F-U-C-K, but there in the third line, in case you missed it, is C-U-N-T. Now, the dialogue does come from characters from whom you'd might expect to say this sort of thing, but to draw a verbal line from Spears to Joyce was, well.....a shocker. Goes to show that we all have a bit of bawdy in us, right?
And let's not forget the one and true master of the language (and master of the bawdy), Shakespeare: In Twelfth Night, the character Malvolio reads a letter penned by someone different than the signator. He analayzes the writing by saying, "By my life this is my lady's hand. These be her very C's, her U's and her T's and..." Sounding the "and" as "n"..... well, you get the picture.
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3 comments:
i think this is the first time your blog has ever actually taught me anything.
i didn't think it was possible for "if you seek amy" to be cheapened any more for me.
that is possibly the most idiotic song i have ever heard. i thought that like most things in this blog you made "if you seek amy up". i am sure all of the Ulysses quotes are true, however.
i miss the days of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Devo.
Two posts, both of which offend me! Lindsay has NEVER learned anything from this blog? It's chock full of info! And Casey assumes I make it all up! :-)
I've never actually heard the song...maybe I'll go do so.
Do you remember when we all did wish to if you seek ay her?
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