By Beauty Damned

Beautiful

Like a teenager, listening to Frontin' over and over, watching the video over and over, swooning like a silly, silly little girl. My boyfriend has already ordered me to stop sighing every time I start daydreaming about Pharrell. I'm sorry, I can't help it. Me and many thousands of other women and girls across the country who cannot get enough of this sexy, SEXY motherfucker. I'm grown, for sure, but this guy makes me want to be fourteen again so that I can gather every available photo of him and plaster them all over the walls of my bedroom and blow kisses to them before I fall asleep at night. I am going to refrain from doing that so don't worry about me yet. I've read some interviews and articles about him and he has such a great personality and a unique outlook on life. It's nice to see people who are original making great music and contributing their talent to a business that is so saturated with bullshit.

For those slightly less familiar with the latest slang, "tear your ass up" is not a reference to violent anal sex, but rather, another way of saying "I'm going to turn you out" or "I'm going to give it to you like you never got it before," etc. I am explaining because the other day, Kathleen (once again having no idea how hilarious she is) said quite innocently (while the song was playing on the radio), "oh my god, he's going to tear her ass up! That's terrible! Why would he say that?" I explained to her that he is not talking about violently sodomizing anyone, but just about having incredible sex. She was still a little unnerved by it and just couldn't understand how tearing one's ass up was a good thing. Hahaaaaaa! She really kills me.

Frontin'

Don't wanna sound full of myself or rude
But you ain't looking at no other dudes cause you love me
(I'm sorry but... so sexy)
So you think I got a chance
You find yourself trying to do my dance
Maybe cause you love me (Uh, you do it well)
So then we tried - ain't feeling this love now
Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (fast we touched)
Then we locked eyes - and I knew I was in there
And I was gon' tear ya ass up (tear ya ass up)

I know that I'm carrying on, nevermind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin (you know I want ya babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (you should stop frontin babe)

Trying to be the best girlfriend you could be
But still you sneak and look at me, and girl I love it
Then you give your other girl a shove
Tell her you gon' call her ass how it was
And she's gon love it (whoa-oh whoa, yeah yeah)
So then we tried - ain't feeling this love now
Because you weren't used to how fast we touched (fast we touched)
Then we locked eyes - and I knew I was in there
And I was gon' tear ya ass up (tear ya ass up)

I know that I'm carrying on, nevermind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin (you know I want ya babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (you should stop frontin babe)

[Verse: Jay-Z]
Everytime your name was brought up
I would act all nonchalant in front of an audience
Like you was just another shorty I put the naughty on
But uh, truth be told you threw me for a loop, this Hov
I'm too old to be frontin when I'm feeling Denzel
And acting like you ain't appealing when you are
Strutting like you ain't my only girl but you are (I was just frontin)
I'm ready to stop when you are

I know that I'm carrying on, nevermind if I'm showing off
I was just frontin (you know I want ya babe)
I'm ready to bet it all, unless you don't care at all
But you know I want ya (you should stop frontin babe)

Aside from the obvious infatuation with Pharrell, that song reminds me of how sexy my boyfriend is and describes how infatuated I am with my man and how much I love to check him out when he's not looking. (Trying to be the best girlfriend you could be, But still you sneak and look at me, and girl I love it).

Posted by Maria at August 22, 2003 03:58 PM | TrackBack