OMG ( Feat Will.I.Am ) Lyrics
[Will.I.Am]
Oh myy gosh
Here, Will.I.Am is amazed. He's totally stunned and captivated by something. But what is it?! You don't know just yet. That's why you need to keep listening! It's a "hook" if you will, to reel you in to the rest of the song!
[Usher:]
Baby let me…
Okay, so here, Usher is throwing in a "hook" of his own. "Baby let me..." You can almost hear the ellipsis in the song. That's how talented of a vocalist Usher is. You hear the punctuation in his songs! I don't know of anyone else like this... But what does Usher want his baby to let him do?!
[Will.I.Am]
I did it again, so I’m gonna let the beat drop
Oh myy gosh
Will.I.Am continues his "hook." What did he do again?! And why has doing it again led to him letting the beat drop? He's stunned and amazed that his repeated action has caused him to let the beat drop.
[Chorus]
Baby let me love you downnn
Usher finishes his "hook." The ellipsis is no more. He wants his baby to let him love it down. I say "it" here because at this point in the song, we as listeners are still unsure as to the subject of the song. Is it a woman? A man? A rhinoceros? This is why I love Usher. Only after careful listens can you discern what he is getting at.
There’s so many ways to love ya
Usher states a plain fact- Whatever the object of his affection, there are many ways he feels he can love it.
Baby I can break you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Got me like, ooh myy gosh I’m soo in love
I found you finallyy, you make me want to say
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Ohh myy gosh
The object of Usher's affection makes him want to say "OH" repeatedly, before concluding "Oh my gosh." It is important to note that Usher says "oh" here sixteen times. This is important, because past sixteen, the "oh"s will have diminishing returns. But by repeating "oh" sixteen times before concluding with "Ohh myy gosh," Usher extracts every ounce of power from the word. Anything less than sixteen, and the song would not have the same power. Note also, that Usher has said that there are "so many ways to love ya." Kindof like how there are so many oh-s in the song, right?! This kind of wordcraft wizardry is truly unique in this day and age.
You make me want to say
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, You make me wanna say, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh My goshh
[Verse 1]
I fell in love with shawty when I seen her on the dance floor
What has Usher seen on the dance floor? Yes, it's a shawty. And yes, it's female. But is it human? Or is it alien? Or is it maybe a alien-human hybrid?
She was dancing sexy, pop, pop, popping, dropping, dropping low
Never ever has a lady hit me on the first sight
Only here do we finally know the subject of this song! It's a lady- and I guess we must assume that it is a human lady! It's very clever how Usher waits until the 1:08 mark to reveal this in the song. I think that the strategy behind that is a metaphor in itself- Just like how Usher waits for almost 25% of the song to pass before revealing the song's subject, we wait at least 25% of our lives before we have a sense of direction- a sense of purpose. And some of us don't even have it at that point. It all goes to show what a philosopher Usher is.
This was something special; this was just like dynamite
Here, Usher is telling us something about him. His experience with a shawty lady is "just like dynamite." But how would he know this?! The answer is clear. Usher is an explosives expert, and physicist. Who else but a physicist could judge the force of a shawty lady compared to the force of dynamite?
Honey got a booty like pow, pow, pow
Honey got some boobies like wow, oh wow
These two lines are genius. By using such colloquial language, Usher is saying to his audience that he is just like one of them. But not quite! He dances better than all of us! Duh!
Girl you know I’m loving your, loving your style
Check, check, check, check, check, checking you out like,
Ooh (oooh) she got it allll
Usher loves the lady's style, and is checking her out. This much is clear. But a style is a manner of presentation that encompasses many things besides physical appearance. I believe that these lines pertain to Usher evaluating the lady while engaged in conversation.
Sexy from her head to the toes
And I want it all, it all, it all
Following thoroughly evaluating the lady's personality through conversation, Usher has moved on to physical appearance. He finds the lady sexy and is consumed by attraction. That is why he repeats "all" multiple times.
[Chorus]
Baby let me love you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Baby I can break you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Got me like, ooh myy gosh I’m soo in love
I found you finallyy, it make me want to say
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Ohh myy gosh
You make me want to say (2x)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 2]
Feel so hot for honey out of all the girls up in this club
This one got me whipped, just off one look, yep I fell in love
This one something special, this one just like dynamite,
out of sight
The first three lines of Verse 2 support the first three lines of Verse 1. Again, Usher places emphasis on just how special the honey in the club is.
Fell in love with honey like my, oh my
Honey looking wonderful; fly, so fly
Honey like a supermodel; my, oh my
Baby how you do that, make a grown man cry?
In this part of the verse, Usher uses two powerful metaphors. His honey is a) like "my, oh my" and b) like a supermodel. Both metaphors tie back into the consistent theme throughout the song that the honey/shawty/lady is truly extraordinary.
From here, the song repeats its chorus and most important portions to close it out:
Ooh (oooh) baby, you got it alll
Sexy from her head to the toes
And I want it all, it all, it all
[Chorus]
So, honey let me love you downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Baby I can break it downnn
There’s so many ways to love ya
Got me like, ooh myy gosh I’m soo in love I found you finallyy,
You make me want to say…
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh my gosh
So that was the chorus, and now the song concludes with powerful verbage...
Oh my gosh
oh my
oh my
oh, oh my gosh
oh myy gosh
[Will.I.Am]
Oh myy gosh
I did it again
So I’m gone let the beat drop
... and Will.I.Am appearing again. Notice that we still do not know what Will.I.Am has done again. This is in stark contrast to Usher's portion of the song. While Usher carefully reveals his love for the honey in the club over the course of the song, Will.I.Am remains cloaked in mystery. In a way, this mysterious Will.I.Am appearance at the end is much like the closing to Inception. You don't truly understand it, but you go along with it. Why? Because you know he's going to let the beat drop.
[Usher]x3
Oh, oh, oh myy
Oh, oh, oh my, my, my, my, my, my
Ooh my gosh oh, oh
I hope after reading this post, you open your ears and your mind to the meaning behind the meanings in songs. While not everybody "gets" music, with enough listening, I am confident that you can.
2 comments:
Hahahahahahahaha ... Oh Usher.
Clearly you are not as familiar with the vivid poetic imagery conjured by what I consider Usher's seminal work, Confessions Part 2. Confessions (Part 1) was simply not long enough to include ALL of Usher's many confessions - that much is made indisputable by the inspirational title.
The denouement of Confessions Part 2 occurs when Usher moves into an extended monologue delivered in a conversational style to the subject of the song, his "lady" if you will:
"This by far is the hardest thing I think I've ever had to do
To tell you, the woman I love
That I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely even know
I hope you can accept the fact that I'm man enough to tell you this"
Usher here, while confessing that "that chick" he was "creepin' with" in Part 1 is keeping their love child, wants his woman to understand that while this may be a tough moment for her, it is really the hardest thing that he's ever had to do. Clearly, Usher understands my everyday problems in which I must race to my significant other's place "in my whip" to deliver such news.
This passage hearkens back to our universal need for acceptance by those we love. Even when we cheat on them and ruin their lives, necessitating multiple confessions, at least we are "man enough" to confess those confessions and beg pitifully for forgiveness. So many confessions.
Steve, I hope you can appreciate the deep meaning of this song and its impact on the world.
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