You Make Me Feel By: Cobra Starship

this was my favorite song FOREVER no joke i own the CD and everything!


Trying to find meaning:

“You make me feel that/La la la la la/You make me feel so/La la la la la”

…really? That’s actually the chorus we’re going with here? What am I supposed to do with that? There are no insights in those lyrics, no commentary; this is literally a chorus filled with nothing. Since I dragged it in earlier, let’s look at the chorus for “The Way You Make Me Feel”: “The way you make me feel/You really turn me on/You knock me off of my feet/My lonely days are gone”. See? Starts in the exact same place, but actuallysays something. Maybe there’s some meaning I’ll only get if I check the verses. 

“I’m known for taking what I think I deserve/And you’re overdue” That’s a bad line, but let’s be honest, if a song can turn “I like you” into selfishness, that’s kind of impressive. See, it’s not about her, it’s about how cool he is, and how he deserves her, all while offering her nothing in return.

“And if you listen you can hear me through the radio/In that bright white noise” ”Noise” certainly comes to mind when I think of this song…

“What I been missing in my life/What I been dreaming of” Like what? No, really, I mean that: like what? Did Gabe Saporta forget to fill in his own lyrical Mad Libs before recording this song? For there to be any substance, fun, or likability to a song, there has to be at least one detail that people can relate to. Hell, Jeremih’s horrific “Down on Me” had more of a narrative than this. Ok, what’s Sabi got to say?

“I’m the baddest baby in the atmosphere” Again, a bad line, but since it had actual nouns in it, I’ll let that slide.

“You know I like it loud” Holy shit, a detail. Kind of odd, but I guess it works. Come on, give me something else…

“Tell me what you want so we can do just what you like” See, he’s not even tellingher anything!

I should mention that I’m having to get all of these lyrics off websites because both voices are so processed that I can barely make out what they’re saying. Saporta’s choice to use Auto-Tune is confusing; dude’s been singing in a band since 1998, and wasn’t using A-Tune even in “Good Girls Go Bad”. Sabi, meanwhile, is so processed that she might as well be a synth set to words. And I guess I should talk about “You Make Me Feel”‘s production, even though it’s barely necessary. Dance synths here, electrobeat there, overproduced guitar because oh right, this is a band, a quietish bridge, and we’re done. The “La la la la la”hook is kind of catchy, but purely in a sterilized ”Made for radio” way.

on night shades

 4 1/2

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