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[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

(x-post from own LJ)

I am trying to collate all the songs which contain a reference to the kind of girlfriend you can get when you are famous (Spotify playlist). If you don't have Spotify where you are, the list is currently :
Rock Star - Everclear
When You Wasn't Famous - The Streets
Top Of The World - T.I.

This is only three, what others are there? So far they are falling into two broad subcategories :

i) girls you can pull when you are not famous are a bit horrible
ii) girls you can pull when you are famous are a bit horrible

Do share your thoughts on this, whether here or via last.fm tag. This might also be a golden opportunity for you to break out the "unexamined assumption" tag!

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

(hehe, just bagsying these ones here as well)

Gold Digger - Kanye

Girls Girls Girls - Mötley Crüe (at least i assume so, haven't listened to the verses ever, really)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

actually having just googled the words to GGG, it appears that there is a third category of girls that you can pull when you are famous:

Strippers

(which i think means The Most Romantic Song Ever Written, Perfect Gentleman by Wyclef should be added to yr playlist)

Me and you, 'Clef, against the odds

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Totally agree that strippers is category (iii). But despite the obvious romantic value of Perfect Gentleman, I'm not sure that it's obvious from the narrative that Wyclef is famous. I must listen to it again, perhaps more than once, in order to decide this.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

All Kanye songs are about this, well the 30% not about how awesome Kanye is or about how even if you are famous you will still get dumped.

Also

BUSTED - AIR HOSTESS!! Except actually maybe not bcz the fame is incidental, "she didn't know I'm in a band".

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh cripes, BUSTED- BRITNEY surely also relevant to these interests?

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

"Wearing My Rolex" kind of. That is, if you're Wiley you get to pull the kind of girl who is a watch thief.

In "I Wish" Skee-Lo reckons that basketball players (who are kind of famous, in some circumstances) get all the fly girls, while he gets only the hood rats.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

BACK THEN HOES DIDN'T WANT ME
NOW I'M HOT HOES ALL ON ME
BACK THEN HOES DIDN'T WANT ME
NOW I'M HOT HOES ALL ON ME

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No idea why non-Youtube videos always refuse to embed on stupid lj.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How about the sort of girlfriend that is famous as well? I am thinking of 'Upgrade U' by Bouncey and Jay-Z here - they are co-dependent on each other to maintain their fame levels!

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Yes! This is a good one, and does not involve the girl being a bit horrible.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I think Nickelback's "Rock Star" talks about Playboy Bunnies and whatnot.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Is this specifically about girlfriends, or are songs about the boyfriends you can get while famous applicable too?

If so, Beyonce's "Irreplacable"?

One if by land, two if by sea?

[koganbot]

Jeremih "Imma Star": Girlfriends don't get much more space than, say, marijuana, but anyway, (1) "Got a bad bitch, her hair & nails tip top," and (2) "You're a Scorpio? Girl get over here/Ride me all night like you kin of Paul Revere/Kissing on my neck, nibbling on my ear/You say you wanna chill go ahead & have a beer."

(By the way, I love this way more than "Birthday Sex," but I seem to be the only one.)

Re: One if by land, two if by sea?

[koganbot]

Of course in the vid he's not a star, but a ghetto kid just pretending, or not even pretending - then he wakes up and it was a bad dream, and he's back in his mansion. Quite good-natured. (And IRL I'd say it's very up in the air whether Jeremih will be a star.)