Stripper Serenade

What is going on with artists making music about strippers?!?!  Are there any more songs about the average woman these days?  I thought this music was mostly confined to the hard rock and hop hop genres.  Then I stumbled upon Jason Mraz’s “Butterfly”, he’s adult contemporary, how confusing.

Usher’s “Love in this Club”, T Pain’s “I’m in Love With A Stripper”, Buck Cherry’s “Crazy Bitch”, are all paying homage to the grandeur of women sexually exciting people for money.  I may sound like a hater, but I think the profession has been glamorized enough.  So the music industry has begun to slight the girl-next-door in favor of tear-away pants and pasties.  I am sure most music artists spend a majority of their leisure time in stripper establishments and this is where their artistic inspiration takes root.  Seriously?!?!  Really?!?!?!  Pour all of your effort and artistic invention into a pop song about a woman whose explicit job requirement is to wear no clothes and pretend she’s hot for you?  Whom, if you took the “tips” out of the equation, would spray you with mace and run in the other direction?  Genius.

All I am saying is that the average girl here is wanting some songs about her.  About going to her crappy corporate job, but keeping a smile on her face.  About how sexy she looks when she’s washing her face before bed.  About how you laugh when the dogs knock her down to lick her face.  About how special you feel when she wakes up early and jogs to the cafe to grab your favorite latte.  Or how about you don’t know her yet.  She’s your neighbor who waits tables and takes night classes.  She’s always at your gym taking yoga.  She’s the check-out girl at the gas station.  She’s got her face in a book as you walk by a restaurant window.

Maybe selling the fantasy girl gets better music sales.  Fine.  But I’m not apologizing for my awful body dexterity, and the child-like modesty about my body.  I’m sexy damn it, I don’t need a pole to prove it.

Men crooning about strippers.  It’s played.