An Accident Sits Down With You For Breakfast

Mekons “Now We Have The Bomb” It’s trivia time! Q: What do the Mekons have in common with the Wu-Tang Clan? A: The lyric “cash rules everything around me,” which is repeated a few times over in this song, which I believe may be an intentional reference to the Wu. Dollar dollar bill, y’all!

I wrote this about J-Lo’s “Baby I Love U” elsewhere:

That particular J-Lo song seems sort of creepy to me. It seems aimed specifically at emotionally needy, clingy people in the worst way – it doesn’t sound like she’s really in touch with reality when she sings it, or particularly cares about how the other person feels because she’s so wrapped up in her emotions and needs. So it seems to lack empathy while demanding it. (This is true of entirely too many songs.) It may be the most emotionally honest J-Lo song that I’ve heard, at least in terms of how I understand her personality. The rest of her big hits have a sentiment which comes across as totally disingenuous (“Jenny From The Block,” “I’m Real,” “My Love Don’t Cost A Thing”), but that one song sounds as though it could really be coming from a very real place within her. (Of course, I say this because I don’t like her public persona.)