If you're a sick of this song, I'm sorry. But I just wanted to give it it's due, after all it currently sits at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. And lyrically, it's not bad.
B.o.B, a native of Decatur, Georgia, has a great flow and I'm more than elated to finally hear a rapper from the South not spit out that horrible dribble that you hear from the likes of Soulja Boy, Young Jeezy, Lil Jon etc. The rap has some terrific angst and tells a good tale of a young boy growing up trying to get into the rap game.
The Part 2 mix with Eminem will probably be one of my favorite rap songs of 2010. Slim Shady does what he does best by talking about all that angst he had growing up in Detroit. The beauty of it is that both his lyrics and B.o.B's do any amazing job staying true to the theme of the song.
We all need to have a sense of wonder to keep challenging ourselves to achieve that next goal.
And when you’re growing up in the inner streets of Detroit or perhaps in a less than perfect inspiring atmosphere of Decatur, you need something to keep those dreams alive.
Enter Paramore’s Hayley Williams.
She belts out one of the greatest messages in music so far this year.
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the next sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now
Maybe the night skies of Detroit and Decatur were polluted with broken dreams to see real stars. The metaphor of airplanes to stars is something that is quite poignant. A lost soul just needing something, anything to keep their hopes and dreams alive.
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