Comments on: Alternative Music Fan Notices Contradiction In Jessie J Hit Song

By: junkieeee

junkieeee — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:20:01 +0000

A bit late I know,,,,, but… The people defending “jessie j” about her blatant contridiction in her music sound like politicians with the rhetoric they use, ROFL coptor

By: Darragh

Darragh — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:20:33 +0000

First comment that springs to mind.

“Who the f$%k is Jessie J?”

By: Matt O'Neill

Matt O'Neill — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:23:39 +0000

It’s satire.

Or…Are you guys also being satirical…?

By: Dan N

Dan N — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:55:36 +0000

She co-wrote a Miley Cyrus hit from a few years ago, so she wouldn’t have been too short on cash.

As much as I liked the post was just wondering what inspired this? That song came out a year ago, or is it only just breaking in the states?

By: Doozer

Doozer — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:08:31 +0000

doesnt it all depend on when the song was written? im guessing she wrote this when she had none…

maybe the words should be “its not about the money money money but id like some” would that be alright?

By: Adam Burrows

Adam Burrows — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:29:43 +0000

Did someone just compare Jessie J to Karl Marx? I love the internets.

By: Matt O'Neill

Matt O'Neill — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:54:47 +0000

This was fucking rad. Well done, Wallace.

By: Erika Meyer

Erika Meyer — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:18:39 +0000

By: TBeing

TBeing — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:47:48 +0000

Well put, Erika! Indeed, there is an argument that an artist and his or her creative output should be separated – they often know not what they do or say. I have heard a parallel argument about Marx himself, who was by all reports a complete arsehole, getting his serving maid – that’s right, he had servants – pregnant and treating his offspring therefrom with total disregard. He also enjoyed his comfortable bourgeois lifestyle due to the funding of his chum Engels, whose money came from his family’s dark satanic mill in Manchester. But of course, so my friends who follow his philosophies say, that in no way devalues the wisdom of his output.

By: Erika Meyer

Erika Meyer — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:14:51 +0000

I have been studying this song for days now. I’d call it a paradox: “a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.” (Dictonary.com)

It is flawed logic to conclude that because the song makes money, it is ABOUT the money. It is also flawed logic to presume that because Jessie J is rich, it (whatever it is) is about the money. Rich people don’t need money, because they already have it.

The song gets downright profound in the verse when it longs for a mythical time when “it wasn’t all low blows and video hoes.”*

And despite being cliché, my grandma said the same thing to me about money not buying happiness. My grandma was an underpaid single working mother from 1947 to 1964 when she married a corporate executive. She married a wealthy man, but even then, it was not about the money, it was about love.

There may be a small contradiction in the part about six strings and a half stack and keys because I know as well as anyone, that stuff ain’t cheap. And you do need a car to transport it. But I get the point: these are tools of the trade, not ba bling ba bling. So I totally agree, but I’d add transportation and a rehearsal space. Maybe a P.A.?

This song is an awesome pop song because it is both simple and deep, trite and profound.

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* This was an actual conversation last week with my 16 year old daughter. She likes a lot of good pop and rock music.

B: Most of my friends don’t like rock music. Most of them like hip hop.

Me: Yes, hip hop has been popular for some time now.

B: (scowls) I don’t like the lyrics. It’s all about money and girls and cars.