Yeah... I got it from my Mama

August 7, 2007

Okay... so I came across a new song by Will-I-Am - for those of you who don't know - one of the guys from Black Eyed Peas - and I guess he's gone solo. So anyway, I watched this video, sort of listened to the lyrics - nothing really registered but the title kind of caught me. It's called 'I Got it From my Mama' - you can pretty much guess what its about. Anyway, nothing really made me think until the second time I listened to it. I liked it because of its beat and how good it is to dance to, but the second time I watched the video and listened to the song I was like - whoa! Back up there!!!!

Here are the lyrics:
http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/w/Will-I-Am/Got-It-From-My-Mama.htm

Ladies… x3
Here we go…

Chorus... x2
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
I got it from my mama... x3
I got it got it got got it…

Honey lookin’ good from her head to her toe.
Beauty overload, body out of control.
She twenty-four, she could be a model.
So beautiful, also natural.
Mommy lookin’ good from her head to her feet.
She forty-four, but she still lookin’ sweet.
And you can tell her daughter aint even at her peak.
Cause her mama lookin’ so hot, packin’ that heat.
So be a good girl and thank your mama.
She make me steamin’ like a sauna.
Look out, look out, here she come now.
Look out, look out, here she come.

Chorus x2

Girl, your beauty is a sensation.
You sittin’ in, in a temptation.
I never knew a girl could shine like a sun.
You better thank your mama, cause girl, you the one.
We should have a date of celebration.
Celebration god’s best creation.
Girl you got a beautiful vibration.
Everyday should be your birthday, Hun.
You make the guys all dumb.
Maybe cause you’re blessed with the beautiful buns.
Maybe cause your beauty keep the dudes on sprung,
Wondering just where you got that from?
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
I got it from my mama... x3
I got it got it got got it…

Chorus

Ladies... x7
Here we go…

If the girl real fine,
Nine times out of ten,
She fine just like her mama.

If the girl real pretty,
Nine times out of ten,
She pretty like her mama.

And if her mama real ugly,
I guarantee ya she gon’ be ugly like her mama... x2

If the girl real sexy,
Nine times out of ten,
She sexy like her mama.

If the girl real hot,
Nine times out of ten,
She hot just like her mama.

And if her mama real ugly,
I guarantee ya she gon’ be ugly like her mama... x2

Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
Baby where’d you get your body from?
Tell me where’d you get your body from.
You can tell all this right here,
I got all this from my mama…
All of this stuff right here,I got all this from my mama.

If you pretty, make some noise... x3
Make some noise, make some noise.

Ladies… x4

Okay, I do realize that was a lot to read through and it was preeeeettty sad. There is nothing in those lyrics deeper than what it appears and the WHOLE song is about a woman's body and the fact that she got it from her mama.

The music video is pretty demeaning to women as well. I guess kudos to the women who are in it because they do have fabulous bodies... and I'm sure good genes... but wow... pretty low, but pretty typical of current music videos.

Here is the link to watch the video if you're interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHm8DbYkL0&mode=related&search=

Will-I-Am is on a beach, the only male in the whole video, surrounded by gorgeous scantily clad women. He even sits in a lounge chair with a woman dancing to the right of the screen and he almost directs her dancing and body actions with his hand. It looks as though the woman is his puppet. He points out different areas on her body such as her breasts and backside and she dances according to the lyrics. There is even a shot of Will-I-Am running his hands up a girls leg as she sits in a lounge chair and he oggles her.

It's pretty sad how Will-I-Am (and I'm not sure if he wrote these pathetic lyrics) comments on a woman's looks. If the girl is ugly - well of course she is ugly like her mother! *sarcasm. And of course if she is beautiful, she is beautiful JUST like her mother *sarcasm

Sigh..... what a shallow song....

How demeaning...