50 Cent ft. Ne-Yo - 'Baby By Me'
Y'know that 'glass half-empty/half full' thing that people use to tell the difference between pessimists and optimists? Well, that's an example of the kind of filters through which people interpret the world (don't wander off, Fiddy fans, I'm getting to it), so you can spot where their prime motivating drive comes from.
Some people, for example, read a story about a man running down the street carrying a woman's handbag and assume he stole it. Some would assume he's delivering it, because it's got important medication inside. Some would even assume that it's his bag and he's running away from bullies.
50 Cent, it is fair to say, would begin by pointing out that it's a cheap bag compared to the designer kind that he can afford, and then assume that whatever amount of cash there may be inside is a paltry sum compared to the money he has lost down the back of his sofa in the last week alone.
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We already know this. We knew it when he released 'Window Shopper' and bragged about the stuff he can buy that other people cannot, and we knew it when he released 'I Get Money', from which the memorably blunt line "have a baby by me, baby, be a millionaire" is used as a sample here. Whatever happens in the world, from matters of the heart to his own stage-name, 50 Cent views it through the prism of a dollar bill.
What he's very good at, though, is taking that cash-centric viewpoint and turning it into a brutal, bottom-line kind of shrug, which says "look, we might as well enjoy the moment. Tomorrow I'm gonna be gone and you're gonna be annoyed, and frankly, I don't care about it either way because I'm rich enough not to. But seeing as I'm here and you're here, and I'm hot and rich and you're just hot, I'm gonna treat you like a queen, and then we're going to do something irresponsible."
This is the extent to which Fiddy thinks about romance. He doesn't care enough about anyone to spend the rest of his week with them, let alone his life. He kind of needs a seductive soul cushion to work from, and a Ne-Yo dancing about behind him, acting the gentleman, just to give his thoughts on the topic a kind of formal sense of manners. Otherwise he's essentially just talking dirty, and that's fine, except someone mentioned babies, and some women may find that to be a bit of a moment-killer.
There again, he also mentioned cash, so maybe he's just trying to appeal to the girl who sees the world the way he does: The girl who sees the running guy with the handbag and thinks "brilliant! I never liked that bag anyway. Now I can claim for a better one!"
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CD Released: November 30th
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Comment number 1.
At 23rd Nov 2009, Vern wrote:This song SUCKS Every time I hear it I turn the sound off! C'mon guys throw this one in the bin!!!!!!
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At 23rd Nov 2009, RandomEnigma wrote:This song is probably the most hilarious cringeworthy song of 2009! Have a baby by me, baby with me now...lol! Imagine if some random guy went up to Kelly Rowland and said that! I'm tellin ya he wouldn't be rollin in cash like Fiddy!
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At 24th Nov 2009, harrythedog10 wrote:Dispointing after 'Get Up' which was actually quite good, 2 stars for me but only because I'm feeling generous.
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