You know what band has the weirdest lyrics in their songs? Outkast.
I think I first realized this as a middle schooler. I was at some lame slumber party where someone thought it would be a good idea to turn up the local R&B radio station so a bunch of 12-year-old white girls could dance to the jams of Lauryn Hill and R Kelly. And when Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" came on, I stopped being confused about which way to roll my hips.
Like, what the hell do any of those lyrics mean? "I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real, Never meant to make your daughter cry, I apologize a trillion times." If you are apologizing to a girl you dissed, why apologize to her mother? Give the girl the song she deserves. Her mother never liked you, anyway, Andre!
And then came "Hey Ya" in high school. " You think you've got it. Ohh, you think you've got it. But got it just don't get it." What the hell do I got? sex appeal? then say it. And what is "ice cold"? I think my favorite part is "Now while Beyonce's and Lucy Lui's, And baby dolls, get on the floor." In other words, let me thank those bootylicious girls.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but even though I love Outkast, their lyrics will always perplex me.
-Jackattack
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