Sexy Back, Douchebag Crush of the Week
Ok, I’m only a little ashamed to admit that I could watch little JT scoot around a dancefloor all day, but that’s only part of this issue. I’ve heard plenty about his new single, “Sexy Back”, and finally got around to listening to it this morning when I was notified (high alert, thanks E) that the video is on YouTube.
I (perhaps stupidly) assumed that the song was going to be about doing a booty dance with a girl and watching her backside. Or maybe about doin’ it with a girl and watching her … well, yeah. I just assumed it was about the body part.
But watching the video, and paying close attention to JT’s esoteric lyrics, I thought that maybe he was talking about a revivial of sexy. “I’m bringing sexy back,” he grunts. What’s up with his voice in this song, anyway? Someone told him that shrill psuedo-soprano wasn’t going to cut it, and he’s trying to sound like a grown-up now. How cute!
Anyway, just when I think that the song is about a sexy revolution (and feeling like it might be something I could support, after all, I need something to be reactionary and knee-jerk about, I’ve been feeling complacent. I imagined, briefly, my “Bring Sexy Back” and “Viva La (Sexy) Revolution” t-shirts and bumper stickers and felt I might have a new lease on life), someone else in the video starts talking about coming to the back of the club (is that what the kids call it these days?), where drinks are free and sexy runs rampant, and I get confused again.
It’s not necessarily about your backside, it’s not necessarily about a sexy revolution, and it may or may not be about a physical location. The levels this song operates on are mind-blowing. I gather from the introduction that we’re in Germany, so perhaps we’re operating on Hegelian or Kantian levels that my tiny brain isn’t capable of comprehending.
And I feel like a provincial douche for assuming it was about backin’ that thing up.
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