Originally posted by ggw?:
Originally posted by O'Mankie:
....just what in God's name is a "Hollaback Girl"
??This Shit Is Bananas??
A probing analysis of Gwen Stefani??s ??Hollaback Girl??
by GREG STACY
Gwen Stefani??s ??Hollaback Girl? is one of the most baffling pieces of music of the modern age. It??s got something to do with cheerleaders??that much is clear, judging from the chanting and the marching band that??s honking and tooting in the background. Beyond that, good luck deciphering the song??s ambiguities. We were so vexed by the mystery that is ??Hollaback Girl? that we have devoted countless hours to its study. Our conclusions are below. The first thing you should know, though, is that Gwen is not singing ??I ain??t no Harlem fat girl???at least, we don??t think she is.
Uh huh, this my shit
Gwen is introducing us to her shit.
All the girls stomp your feet like this
This talk of shit and stomping has nothing to do with actually stepping on feces. But what does it mean? From a reading of the later text, we can conclude that the song takes place in the world of high school athletics, and that Gwen is apparently leading the girls in a calisthenics exercise. The ??shit,? we surmise, is what she calls the exercises she??s teaching the other girls.
A few times I??ve been around that track
So it??s not just gonna happen like that
Here, Gwen exhorts the girls to try harder as they jog around the track, reminding them that physical fitness is ??not just gonna happen,? but must be worked at.
Cause I ain??t no hollaback girl
I ain??t no hollaback girl
These lines are the most confusing, but their meaning will become clearer later.
Oooh, this my shit, this my shit
Gwen repeats this four more times. She wants to make sure that we are well acquainted with her shit.
I heard that you were talking shit
And you didn??t think that I would hear it
Gwen has been the victim of some slanderous high school gossip, and she doesn??t appreciate it. Gwen is 35 years old sliding into MILF status at this point, but we??ll grant her some poetic license.
People hear you talking like that, getting everybody fired up
So I??m ready to attack, gonna lead the pack
Gwen is going to round up a ??posse? of her girlfriends and retaliate against the person who??s been talking ??smack? about her.
Gonna get a touchdown, gonna take you out
Gwen is going to beat up the person who wronged her, after she completes the cheerleading routine that will inspire the football team to score a touchdown. Gwen has interesting priorities.
That??s right, put your pom-poms down, getting everybody fired up
It seems the entire cheerleading squad is going to beat up the person who spoke ill of Gwen; they have put down their pom-poms, and they are now ??fired up? to exact swift and terrible vengeance on Gwen??s behalf.
A few times I??ve been around that track
So it??s not just gonna happen like that
Cause I ain??t no hollaback girl
I ain??t no hollaback girl
Gwen is apparently the captain of the cheerleader squad; she is the girl who ??hollas? the chants, not one of the girls who simply ??hollas? them back. Given that the squad is preparing to beat somebody up on Gwen??s behalf, she??s picked a strange time to remind them that she is their leader and they are her sheep-like followers. Gwen obviously rules her squad with an iron fist.
Oooh, this my shit, this my shit [repeated four times]
Again with the shit.
So that??s right dude, meet me at the bleachers
No principals, no student-teachers
Both of us want to be the winner, but there can only be one
So I??m gonna fight, gonna give it my all
We learn that it was a ??dude? who gossiped about Gwen. She challenges him to a fight at the bleachers. If he imagines it will be a fair, one-on-one fight, he is sadly mistaken. Gwen and her aforementioned ??pack? will pounce on him like rabid wolves.
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Couldn't she have put us out of our torture at this point by ending the song here and getting her knob (tho one from the two hit wonder of a Brit rock band who sucked more than a black-hole but had a pretty singer so got away with it, not unlike INXS before he choked himself while having a wank) of a husband to sort it?
BTW, when did she evolve from the singer of a midly entertaining ska-lite band into a wannabe pop-diva? And with all that $$$ she must have coined don't you think she'd buy herself a pair of tits?
