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Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling
I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x4)
Tonight’s the night night
Let’s live it up
I got my money
Let’s spend it up
Go out and smash it
like Oh My God
Jump off that sofa
Let’s get get OFF
I know that we’ll have a ball
if we get down
and go out
and just loose it all
I feel stressed out
I wanna let it go
Lets go way out spaced out
and losing all control
Fill up my cup
Mazal tov
Look at her dancing
just take it off
Lets paint the town
We’ll shut it down
Let’s burn the roof
and then we’ll do it again
Lets Do it (x3)
and live it up
i gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good good night (x2)
Tonight’s the night
let’s live it up
I got my money
Lets spend it up
Go out and smash it
Like Oh My God
Jump off that sofa
Lets get get OFF
Fill up my cup (Drink)
Mazal Tov (L’chaim)
Look at her dancing (Move it Move it)
Just take it off
Lets paint the town
We’ll shut it down
Lets burn the roof
and then we’ll do it again
lets do it (x3)
let’s live it up
Here we come
here we go
we gotta rock
Easy come
easy go
now we on top
Feel the shot
body rock
Rock it don’t stop
Round and round
up and down
around the clock
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Saturday and Sunday
we keep keep keep keep on going
we know what we say
party everyday
party everyday
got a feeling
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good good night
Notice anything interesting about this song? If you like it, you’re not alone. In fact, I concede that it’s got a highly addictive tune. But what does it say? And for those who don’t quite listen/pay attention to lyrics, what does the music video convey? I’m willing to go out on a limb here and say that anyone listening to the song and watching the music video will associate the idea of “good night” with whatever is being portrayed in the song/video.
It is for this reason, that I argue that the cool factor regarding drinking and binge drinking has to do with way more than the illegality of the activity. Consequently, it is questionable whether lowering the drinking age will have the desired effect of curbing binge drinking, as proponents of the lower age argue.
Even then, some may argue that one’s actions are not dictated by the pop culture one consumes. One would hope that such is the case. However, studies suggest otherwise. For instance, this study on the “Association of Attractiveness and Popularity with Binge Drinking in Young Adults” suggests that “binge drinking can be used as a means to attain social acceptance. High social status is usually accompanied by socially conventional behavior, and much of the young adult culture in the US sees binge drinking as an activity partaken by attractive and popular individuals.”
I have to say that Joshua Sharp’s observation that “there remains a powerful subculture at college in which binge drinking is socially acceptable.” You don’t have to look very far. Just count the number of unauthorized liquor bottles smuggled in, consumed, and disposed of indiscriminately in the student seating section of a college football game.
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I like how you incorporated a song into your post. This song is popular among teenagers, like many other hip-hop songs. However, teenagers can look at various hip-hop songs in other ways.
ReplyDeleteWhen teens listen to songs like these, they may associate "having fun" with "drinking" or "doing bad things."
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ReplyDeleteWhen you say: "When teens listen to songs like these, they may associate "having fun" with "drinking" or "doing bad things," that is exactly the point I'm making. Even if teenagers can, as you say, look at various hip-hop songs in other ways, there is no denying that the environment one grows up in has bearing on one's attitudes and actions.