I usually make harsh first opinions...

I usually make harsh first opinions... It's in my nature. Blah. At first, I REALLY HATED the song Price Tag by Jesse J... but I'm starting to change my opinion about it... It is so like me to just hate on a song without listening to all the words. I'll tell you first the things I didn't like about it: the chorus bugged me (no good reason), her name is Jesse J, and she said that she was 'paying in love tonight' - which really doesn't make sense. Anyway... I'll post the lyrics here...

PRICE TAG by JESSE J

Seems like everybody’s got a price,
I wonder how they sleep at night.
When the sale comes first,
And the truth comes second,
Just stop, for a minute and smile

Why is everybody so serious!
Acting so damn mysterious
You got your shades on your eyes
And your heels so high
That you can’t even have a good time.

Everybody look to their left (yeah)
Everybody look to their right (ha)
Can you feel that (yeah)
Well pay them with love tonight

It’s not about the money, money, money
We don’t need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag

Ain’t about the (ha) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching.
Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling
Wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag.

We need to take it back in time,
When music made us all UNITE!
And it wasn’t low blows and video Hoes,
Am I the only one gettin tired?

Why is everybody so obsessed?
Money can’t buy us happiness
Can we all slow down and enjoy right now
Guarantee we’ll be feelin
All right.

Everybody look to their left (yeah)
Everybody look to their right (ha)
Can you feel that (yeah)
Well pay them with love tonight

Yeah yeah
Well, keep the price tag
And take the cash back
Just give me six streams and a half stack
And you can keep the cars
Leave me the garage
And all I..
Yes all I need are keys and garage
And guess what, in 30 seconds I’m leaving to Mars
Yes we leaving across these undefeatable odds
Its like this man, you can’t put a price on life
We do this for the love so we fight and sacrifice everynight
So we aint gon stumble and fall never
Waiting to see, a sign of defeat uh uh
So we gon keep everyone moving there feet
So bring back the beat and everybody sing
It’s not about

Yeah yeah
Oo-oooh
Forget about the price tag.

SO! Maybe just from reading the lyrics you might understand why I originally hated this song. The chorus, which I think repeats more than shown here, has a good message but is rather obnoxious. It has the ble-bling-ble-bling in there to make it catchy, and also to make me hate it. And at the end it has a rap by B.O.B, who is usually rather obnoxious although his songs seem to always have good messages. And the end is stupid. I don't like it when people ooh at the end of a song. It's stupid. baha

So, since I've picked a lot of it apart.. what did I actually like about this song!?!?

It has really good sentiment... and a couple of the lines are BRILLIANT. I bolded them. =) "When the sale comes first and the truth comes second" How true, yo. I hate it when people try so hard to sell something that they apparently lose touch with reality... or (more probably) deceive the buyers into spending money on a product they actually know little about.

"You got shades on your eyes and your heels so high that you can't even have a good time" Now, don't get me wrong. I love to look pretty like the next girl. But when being attractive becomes your only focus, it's harder to enjoy the little things. Por ejemplo, I'm so focused on walking in heels that I'm having a hard time really paying attention to what my friend is saying. She spills her guts, but all I can think is "Don't trip!" ... sad.

This song just focuses on the things we deal with every day in such a materialistic society... Jesse J wants to bring us back to the simple things, focusing on relationships with real people as opposed to relationships with cell phones. That's a bit of a stretch - I'm putting my own spin on it now. In this age where access to communication is so easy... people have a hard time really communicating. Yikes.

Well now I'm talking about technology and communication as opposed to materialism and money. Crap. Whateverrrrr. =)

So tell me what you think. =) I love love LOVE reading comments, so get to commenting! I dare you to be as opinionated as I. Cuz seriously - who writes two blogs in one day!?!?!! Me. I do.

My questions for you:

1. Did you like the song the first time you heard it?
2. Do you like it now?
3. How do you feel about society's obsession with money?
4. Any other thoughts? Git it girl.

G'BYE! <3