Nothin' On You

Ya know... I love music. A LOT! And it's funny because I didn't used to love music the way I do now, today. For the past couple of years I've been fairly dissapointed in the direction music has gone. The legacy the 70's, 80's, and 90's had left it seemed like we were coming in hot for the new millenium. To be quite honest it started off decently but music for me has been on a decline lately (mainstream of course). This decline has led me the past couple years to look to other alternatives like old school hip hop, hair bands, dance, electronica etc. I completely abandoned the radio and went soul searching, and during this couple years I found my love for dancing.

For so many years I was the guy that sat on the sidelines while everyone grinded it up on the dance floor. It's not that I couldn't stand in one place while a girl "danced" up on me, but it never really fitted my quirky and spontaneous attitude towards music. The typical 70 bpm rap song just didn't work, and now that I'm djing I've noticed my range is more or less between 110 and 128 beats per minute. This is where most house and dance songs fall. Recently the explosion of electronic music that is starting to become mainstream in the US is very exciting. I love the sounds of Gaga and Kesha now and I like the new dynamic, but nonetheless many of the songs I feel that come out aren't classic or legendary. Just like I feel like Lil' Wayne isn't really a rapper. His game is too narrow and his style isn't original, nor will any of his songs be hot after this next 10 years.

But the first time I heard Nothin' On You by B.o.B. and Bruno Mars I almost died. The song is so impeccably put together and the lyrics actually relate to how I feel about women. This is a rare coincidence in a mainstream song, especially a song that has so many influences. You can feel the jazz and the neo soul oozing out of the song. I love stuff like that. "Beautiful girls, all over the world, I might be chasing but my time would be wasted, they got nothin' on you baby..." That's flippin' sick, and honestly this song has fallen into Mervyn's little timeless mental category. I feel like this is one of those songs where my kid's will ask me what was bumpin back in your day, and then I'll be like Nothin' On You... Then they'll have a blank stare and I'll get to say, it was before your time young lad. Music like this gives me hope that the world isn't falling into a place where the stereotypical stripper girl with oiled legs dancing around the screen is what love is all about. The words in that song are the words I'd probably say to someone I really loved. That girl would be so special and so important that I would want to tell her every day how wonderful she is. Music like this makes the mainstream tolerable again. Songs like this should be the future of Hip Hop. I miss having positive messages in mainstream music.

"... and just like that girl you got me froze, like a nintendo 64"