OMG...yeah, that's what I thought!

Ever the romantics, Usher and will.i.am show their appreciation of the female form in ‘OMG’.

The Plot

Usher is trying to convince his honey to let him love her down after his sudden realisation “Oh my gosh, I’m so in love.” And he hopes that by offering his shawty a bit of variety in the bedroom, he can persuade her. Who said chivalry is dead?

But this is the girl of his dreams, the one he has finally found, and she has everything he has ever wanted - "a booty like pow, pow, pow" and "boobies like wow, oh wow". Now, that's the barometer of a good woman!

And if that didn't convince her to fall into his arms, surely the compliments that follow will...

"Girl you something special, you just like dynamite,

You're, You're, You're, You're, You're, You're, You're out of sight."

What a charmer!

To top it off, he gets all misty-eyed. After all, the only way for a man to show the true strength of his affections is with tears. And to think this is number one, Oh my gosh!

It’s never good when you start a song by singing your own name...

I’ve still not forgiven Jason Derulo for ruining a beautiful Imogen Heap song in ‘Watcha say’ (you can see where he went wrong just from the title), so his follow up, 'In my Head', was always going to be an instant target for the Lyric Critic.

The Plot

Jason Derulo clearly wants to play to his strengths and as he points out he's not one of those guys who knows all the right things to say. I'll second that. Instead, he wants to demonstrate he's a good teacher in the bedroom. Clearly he's a confident chap, after all, he knows he has got more to offer than the guy she's already dancing with. So it remains that this girl is doing all the right things in his dreams - fulfilling his fantasies and all that - but I think that's the problem Jason; all the things you're singing about are in his head...

And that’s exactly where they’re going to stay!

They don't make them like they used to.

Well, they do but none quite so celebrated as The Beatles.

'Across The Universe'

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Chorus

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Chorus

Please stop replaying this song.

Poor Iyaz is having girl problems in 'Replay'.

The Plot

So Iyaz is hung up on a girl. He's thinking about her so much that it's like when you can't get a song out of your head - or in his case a "na, na, na" - and he won't stop banging on about her. He's like a bloody broken record!


But you shouldn't take this song on face value - the literary techniques are second to none. The repetition of replay to emphasise that the song is replaying over and over in his head is nothing short of brilliant and he uses possibly my favourite metaphor to date: "That girl is a gun to my holster." Genius. 
So anyway, he reminisces a bit about meeting his shawty. We don't learn her name but what we do know is that she's "like somethin' off a poster", she's nocturnal and she's particularly well-travelled. Genuinely sounds like a catch. 
If she takes a punt on him, I'm pretty sure it will go the distance. Their love actually transcends seas because they're "real worldwide." But I guess we'll just have to see how it (re)plays out.


Understandable then that this guy isn't going to do things by halves to get his baby girl. He promises to be her melody and write her the symphony of her fantasies. I personally wouldn't expect anything less.

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