Sex really sells but when everyone starts complaining about how videos and music are teaching are kids perverted things we can’t help but wonder why these songs and videos keep making the tops. One song in particular is by Brittney Spears called “If You Seek Amy,” really caught my interested when it was a huge topic on the Good morning America show. I just assumed that because Britney had been the spotlight for so long with her three melt downs and her babies’ daddy taking away the kids, but come to find out Britney is back on her “A” game with a catchy new song that is sweeping the nation but also making a lot of parents of young Britney fans uncomfortable. The song is about a girl in the club who everyone for some reason wants to take home with them, and this is not to take home for a sleepover. It directs towards men and women, bringing about the fact that this mysterious girl Amy is 100% sex kitten that everyone man or woman wants a piece of her. The song goes as far as talking about being obsessive by repetitively asking; where they might find Amy, what she likes with her drink, is she outside or in the bathroom? This song represents stalking, sexual abuse, and being permiscuis and that being okay. No one in the song that is looking for Amy is wanting her for her personality or just to meet this fun chick obviously Amy has been around this club once or twice. So I will let you look for yourself here are the lyrics complements of www.sing365.com :
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
Oh baby, baby
Have you seen Amy tonight?
Is she in the bathroom ?
Is she smokin' up outside?
Oh baby, baby
Does she take a piece of lime
For the drink that Imma buy her
Do you know just what she likes?
Oh Oh
Tell me have you seen her
'Cause I'm so
Oh I can't get her off of my brain
I just want to go to the party she gon' go
Can somebody take me home
Haha hehe haha ho
Love me hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
Amy told me that she's gonna meet me up
I don't know where or when
And now they're closing up the club
I've seen her once or twice before she knows my face
But it's hard to see
With all the people standing in the way
Oh Oh
Tell me have you seen her
'Cause I'm so
Oh I can't get her off of my brain
I just want to go to the party she gon' go
Can somebody take me home
Haha hehe haha ho
Love me hate me
Say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
Oh
Say what you want about me
Oh
But can't you see what I see
Oh
Say what you want about me
So tell me if you've seen her (let me know what she was wearing and what she was like)
Cause I've been waiting here forever (do you if she was going out all night)
Oh baby baby
If You Seek Amy tonight
Oh
Oh baby baby
We'll do whatever you like
Oh baby baby baby
Oh baby baby baby
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
La la la lala la la la
Love me hate me
Say what you want about me (Say what ya want about me!)
But all of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy (If you seek amy...)
Love me hate me
But can't you seek what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy (you seek Amy!...)
Love me hate me
Say what you want about me (yeah)
Yeah
Love me hate me
But can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
Oh (love me hate me)
Say what you want about me
Oh
But can't you see what I see (love me hate me)
Oh Say what you want about me
All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin' to If You Seek Amy
The funny thing is the way they get you with this song is the hidden chorus that says “if you seek Amy,” but if you sing it and listen to it sounds like “F-U-C-K ME.” I have to admit it is a very clever song the first song I have heard next to “Stairway to Heaven,” but I don’t have to play this song backwards to hear Amy wants to get down. I can see this song as being controversial in that when Britney first hit the scene she was the girl next door making somewhat sexual songs but that didn’t seem to bother most because she was an all American princess. But as soon as Britney starting having children, a divorce, and a mental melt down people became uneasy. But as soon as Britney made a comeback more people wanted to hear her new single. Now the girl next door is the stripper next door. This is telling our younger generation that being sexual active will get you the attention you deserve, but maybe people are “seeking Amy,” because she is missing because she got raped or met the wrong crazy fan who did her in. People don’t tend to think of that aspect when dancing to the new Britney song, but they sure as anything absorb what she is saying and continue to think that sex is okay with multiple people anytime anywhere. So maybe this time parents have a right to be mad that their children’s ipods are full of “Hit me Baby One More Time,” “I’m A Slave For You,” and “If You Seek Amy;” because no one wants to be “seeking out” someone they love because they might have met Amy or Amy’s friends. Of course YouTube only has the edited :) but I'm sure the video says it all.
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it's actually really funny that you did a post on this. A couple weeks ago when i first heard this song i was going to write a post on it. When Sarah and I first heard this song we didn't get it. We had to listen to it over and over again to actually get what it was saying. And personally i think this song just gave the public more of a reason to think that shes insane. Is that what she actually wanted? More publicity? Or does she actually think this is a good song to sell? And if it really is selling, its not for its good morals thats for sure.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!! i never really paid attention to that, i know you let me listen to your ring back tone that one day and you relized then i relized but thats really bad! Thats a terrible message, its like not even about "Amy" its basically like hey people are so jealous of me they all just want to do me kind of thing going on. Wow Britiny has really fell off her rocker!
ReplyDeleteThis is a really ridiculous song...yes..i do like the beat but really....i wonder why do women in videos even wear clothes...they mine as well just sit on beds naked...that will make the money...sex is just not personal to anybody anymore an i just think its very impersonal
ReplyDeleteWhen I first heard this song I thought it was really catchy, until I understood the lyrics. Some people think that Brittney may have been clever in her lyrics, but really she is sending a rather negative message to girls. You will notice that in the video she is dancing around and not exactly looking for Amy. As a matter of fact, she is secretly claiming that all boys and girls want to have sex with her. Many women, even teenage girls look up to Brittney Spears. This could lead girls into becoming promiscuous.
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