beyond words

[victor steinbok]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> ...
> From one of several moving lyrics quoted by an enthusiastic journalist in
> this week's _New Yorker_ (p. 61):
>
> "I'll pass the class when my dad starts giving shits,
> but as long as our realtionship is turdless, I'm-a
> keep burning rubber and fucking these beats with burnt dick."
>


I like the idea of a "turdless relationship". The rest seems pretty
low-brow.



> "This isn't a plea for sympathy," says lyric-connoisseur Kelefah Sanneh
> (well, duh!!), but "...Earl [Sweatshirt] insists that rapping well
> ('fucking
> these beats') is the best revenge, and its own reward."
>
> I suppose I couldn't have said that better. But the real tragedy is that
> "fuck" now seems to be on its way to becoming a synonym of "to do."  Expect
> intergenerational confusion, because decades ago, when all possible
> meanings
> of all four-letter words seemed already to be in use, "fucking these beats"
> would have meant, if anything, fucking them up.
>


You might want to watch Blue Velvet again. "Fuck" was never the same after
that.

VS-)

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