Among the black and Puerto Rican communities, I have noticed that
more and more songs are about love and romance. (And by black/Puerto
Rican music, I do not mean "rap" or "hip hop,"
but music sung by black and Puerto Rican people). I don't mean songs
about hooking up or animal-like sex, but full-fledged, long-term
love and romance - including songs about marriage.
The song that epitomizes this is "Let's Get married"
by Jagged Edge. These are the lyrics:
"Meet me at the altar in your white dress We ain't getting
no younger, we might as well do it . Let's just get married!"
This is sung to an undeniably charismatic beat. When it came out,
it was one of the top dance songs.
Another one of my favorites is by Thalia and Fat Joe called "I
want you." The beginning lyrics, from Thalia are,
"What . did I ... do to deserve such a man so special in my
life?"
The entire song is about Thalia and Fat Joe describing what they
like about each other, and that they only want one another. The
lyrics go on, from Fat Joe [warning: slang ahead], "Only got
eyes for her . I don't want to be a player no more."
The video for this song is also memorable where both of them are
singing to each other. Most memorable is, of course, the beautiful
Thalia. But, although she is a beautiful woman with a great body,
it is not the more egregious body parts that you remember about
her. Most memorable is her big, bright smile, being flashed towards
Fat Joe as she sings about him
There are others, including Puff Daddy singing that he "wants
a wife at home," Snoop Dogg singing a relatively romantic song
towards one special girl in which he tells her she is "Beautiful,"
(yes, guys, despite feminist hysterics, women still like hearing
this), and Wayne Wonder who describes a girl who "takes care
of [him] like it's a duty."
These are not songs that I had to go searching for. All of these
songs are popular and mainstream.
Now let's look at popular white/non-minority music.
A popular song by Christina Aguilera is "Can't hold us Down."
The song announces that, "This is for [her] girls all around
the world." The entire song is about "female equality,"
and by female equality, they mean, mostly, a woman's right to be
a whore and not be judged for it in the same fashion as men supposedly
can.
The video is particularly telling. The first scene is of Christina
walking down a street when a guy pinches her butt. She turns around
and snaps back at him. As on-lookers see the fight going on, the
women come out to support Christina, and men come out to support
the guy. It eventually turns into a male versus female fight - literally
with women on one side and men on the other, spraying the hose at
each other and trying to outdo each other with dance moves. [And,
as far as the dance competition went, the men won].
Other popular, young white music starts include Avril Lavigne,
who punches a guy in almost every video, and Michelle Branch. I
was quite proud of Michelle, when she did a song with Santana called,
"The Game of Love," which exalts romantic love (One of
my favorite songs to this day). But her most recent song, "Are
You Happy Now?" is as angry as ever, and Michelle admits it
is a "break up song."
So why is this happening? Those in the black and Puerto Rican communities
are embracing love and romance, while those in the white community
are dead set on gender war.
Well, it's quite simple to answer really. Those who have a vested
interest in people adopting certain ideological viewpoints (namely:
liberal) or voting a certain way (namely: Democrat) have no need
to separate black women from black men or Puerto Rican women from
Puerto Rican men. Black people vote Democrat at a solid 90%.
They do have a vested interest in dividing white women from white
men. They might not be able to capture the white male vote, but
they can grab the white women - as long as they remain single.
I don't believe there is an agenda being pushed on the black and
Puerto Rican communities in regards to them singing songs about
love. I believe they are simply doing what men and women do when
not influenced by corrupt leadership: they love each other.
Here is another observation: the love songs in the black community
were all sung predominantly by men. The angry, hateful songs in
the white community were sung by women. Take from that observation
what you will.
I believe that most of the gender warfare in the white community
is not natural, but rather is prodded by leaders. As proof of that,
observe that places in which certain leaders don't need gender division
don't have gender division.
It could be argued that there is, in fact, a lot of gender division
in the black community; indeed an embarrassing number of black children
are born to single mother households. I have been told before, however,
that this was a problem they inherited through slavery in which
families were frequently broken up. They were torn apart for quite
some time, and the negative effects, unfortunately, still linger.
But I do not believe that black people themselves, by choice, want
this. I have actually read from some black feminists that white
feminists don't understand their problems. One black feminist wrote,
arguing that black women are worried about black men not marrying
black women or staying around as fathers. White feminists, she said,
in all their elitism, do not care about this.
Well of course they don't. They're feminists. Their entire purpose
and goal on earth is to divide men from women. All I can say to
that young black feminist is: I understand.
Really, of all the places for gender healing and conservative values
to be brought back, it is in minority communities. The fact that
conservatives haven't capitalized on this is inexcusable.
Sex and music have always been and always will be united. The psychological
effects that music has on people, including the message of the song,
is profound.
During the feminist '70s, a popular song that comes to mind is
"I Will Survive," an anthem song for broken-hearted women
everywhere, exalting, of course, the single life and rejecting men.
Interestingly enough, this song was originally meant to be a Christian
gospel, but I digress. In the '80s, the Reagan years, love kind
of came back, and the song that comes to mind for me is "Take
my breath away," from the Top Gun soundtrack. Move on to the
late '90s, and all I can really think about is manufactured pop
and an explosion of single, angry young females. All these songs
help to define each era.
Just imagine the difference it would make if music were more like
it was before the 1960s liberal revolution. I was on a relatively
long road trip a few weeks ago, and the song "Rock Around the
Clock" came on. I was stunned by it. Imagine going to a dance
or club with that kind of song on! It was such a fun song. And it
wasn't fun in an explicitly sexual and crass way, as so many are
today. It was fun in a fun way.
I think it's absurd to say people in these happy years weren't
sexual. Yes, it is pretty apparent from their songs that sex was
on their mind. They just . were responsible about it.
Indeed, I think I'm going to do an experiment. At any party, instead
of playing songs that are crass and talk about animal-like sex,
I'm going to play fun songs. Imagine the difference there would
be if, at parties, instead of hearing Justin Timberlake saying he
wants to "rock your body," you heard Frankie Valli belting
at the top of his lungs, "I love you baby!" in his song
"Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." My guess is instead of
treating the opposite sex like a mere object, like both men and
women do today in the "hook up" culture, they might actually
look at, get to know, and be intimate with the opposite sex. Just
a guess, of course.
Those in the black community are reminding us of something: long-term
romantic love is an ideal. It is even better than any kind of crass,
one night stand sex. I hope to hear more of it.
Amber Pawlik