Katy Perry -California Girls

Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard this song. I can understand why some wouldn't like it, but I'll admit that I do. At first, it was just because of Snoop Dogg's verse, but the rest grew on me.

However, I'm wondering could the first line of the song be a metaphor?

"I know a place where the grass is really greener"

Well the song is about Cali, maybe she's saying that the ganja is really greener/better there.

Or the grass is greener as in it is better in California because of the legality of weed.

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Thoughts? Could this be possible; I mean Snoop Dogg is in the song after all.

 

totally about weed
its snoop. cmon.

 

wattafag

 

fo sho!

 

the song sucks I dont care if she was talking about mainlining heroin into her eyeball while getting gangbanged from behind. Its crap pop and living in Cali I have to put up with shit on a daily basis.

 

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I agree, she is totally hot.

 

I love all these funny spellingz

like when it was the year 2000, it ws Y2K. Ok, it's been shortened, fair enough

then it became Y2K1. That's fuckin' useless, it's 4 letters or numbers. Now I have seen graffiti by some clever soul claiming it to be Y2K10. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?? CALLING CAPTAIN COMMON SENSE..

 

I try to re-direct and transform my hate into more healthy and useful energy. It might be a fun song to dance to with girls if they were wearing Daisy Dukes with bikinis on top.

 

Im sure stayin alive was a fun song to dance to with girls when disco was popular, doesn't mean its not crap music.

 

crap music is relative to your opinion.

pop music is pop for a reason - it is POPular. of course any sort of music will have its naysayers, but on some level it appeals to a mass amount of people.

that being said, the song is pretty lame.

 

Sure its relative to opinion but there is this certain anti artistic 'evil' element that has pervaded pop/disco/bubblegum throughout the decades. Pop has really become just synonymous for music aimed for commercial success, very packaged and simple but it doesn't even have to become popular to be pop music now, This song is obviously popular though.

The simple structure, accessibility and often catchy lyrics is what is appealing about pop.

 

The song is about girls. "The grass is greener" is probably a metaphor (if she's even aware of what a metaphor is) for that fact that the girls in California tend to be better looking then elsewhere. Speaking from her and the media's vapid point of view. I don't think it has anything to do with weed.

I wish I didn't know this song.

 

frank sinatra's music was considered POP but is now heralded by all the degs in the US as some of the greatest out there.

just because it is POP music doesn't automatically grant it a bad song. a bad song is a bad song. whatever song successfully does what appeals to the pop genre would technically count as a GOOD song.

whether you think it is bad or not is your OPINION and is not a critical rating. critical assuming that you leave your own preference out of consideration of a song's 'goodness'

though this is all common sense. im no music critic but i would say this is a successful pop song. whether you like it or not does not change the fact that it is successful.

 

It is a successful pop song I won't deny that, there is some intagible element though when talking about good music.

If we base what good music is based on sales of songs Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd are technically one hit wonders. (well money cracked the top 40 for floyd so I guess 2 hits for them)

 

im not basing a good song on its commercial success, i'm saying that POP music generally can be determined if it is a good song based on its commercial success, as it's main goal is to generate revenue....

 

If it sounds good, isn't that enough? Fuck structure, we all need to bop to a little bit of crap

I like listening pop music on the radio whilst driving my car, doesn't mean the world is going to end.

 

well that is your opinion just as much as this song is crap is my opinion, a successful and good song are two different things to me and that's how my viewpoint is going to stay, so its not worth trying to convince me that there is something worthwhile in this song or whatever it is you are trying to point out.

 

word, i definitely agree.

i hate country music, but i can't honestly say that there are 0 good country songs, because that would be false. just because YOU don't like a genre, does not make every song in the genre bad. and obviously a good POPular song would be popular.

and it isn't my opinion. that is how music, movies, tv shows etc etc are CRITICALLY rated...by an impartial judge.