Sean Kingston - 'Me Love'
The mind is a curious organ. Every time I hear this song, whether on the radio, on the TV, or online, a strange phenomenon occurs. I know it's Sean Kingston - that machine-tooled glassy rasp could not come from any other robo-larynx - but my mind's eye keeps throwing up (and I mean throwing up) images of a pre-Katie Price Peter Andre, standing in a jungle pool and squeaking on about this girl he really wants to get close to.
And it's not even as if 'Mysterious Girl' was the most original song in the history of music. 'Sweat (A La La La La Long)' by Inner Circle was the exact same song, only not performed by a fit Greek with an armadillo's back for a tummy. And here it is again, only the armadillo has been replaced by a hippo (which is no crime, I'm rocking a fairly convincing gutapotamus myself), and there's now a sort of Shaggy junior micro-toasting thing going on in the verses.
It's been ages since I heard a song which was so clearly, explicity, CANNOT BE OVERSTATED-ly not aimed at me. Listening to it is a perfect way to capture what it must be like to be an atheist in the middle of a Catholic mass, or (in the interests of religious balance) a vicar at a Slayer concert. Lively things are going on, people are talking about situations in perfectly clear English (well, patois), and yet I don't have the faintest idea what the point of it all is.
This is the kind of song which it's easy to hate for being just a rubbish, over-sugary, formulaic, weak, try-hard, annoying version of the glorious music which has come out of Jamaica (Sean 'Kingston', indeed). But save your fury. It won't make 'Me Love' go away. It won't make Sean Kingston go away.
No, the only way to tackle it is to just let the people who made the song and the people who like the song get on with it. They're not hurting anyone, and they mean no harm. Surely we can all find a way to live together in peace and harmony? Can't we?
Good. Here's one more star than you deserve, in the interests of world peace.
Download: Out now
CD Released: November 26th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
I HATE This Song.
It's Not Original, It's Slow Nd Boring.
ok its bad... but it's not THAT bad...ok fine it is THAT bad...Confession: i caught myself singing along today to the "somebody come and take me away" part. To my eternal shame. Thank God this is anonymous.
[Yep, Lauren. You can thank the good Lord for that at least... - Fraser]