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⌈ Secret Post #5673 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I tried listening to this and the singer is pledging his life away to some hot girl? It seems very much ...one-sided and not conducive to "both characters can't stay away from each other" scenarios but idk

[(Anonymous)]

That's a much more literal reading than I personally go for. It's not that kind of song to me. The song isn't about my ships, and I wouldn't want it to be. It's a song that evokes a mood--and unf what a mood. To me it evokes heat--every type of heat. Heat so inescapable and intense you feel half-crazed with it.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but yeah, this.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I guess I just can't ignore what the lyrics are literally saying, pointing out the girl is not as interested as the guy is and it's uneven

I was just expecting more relevant lyrics idk

[(Anonymous)]

To each their own, but for the record, I interpret the song differently than you do.

First of all, I don't think it's clear whether the woman being sung to is equally passionate about the singer or not. The singer describes her as staying "so cool," but that doesn't tell us anything about her heart. For all we know, the singer also seems cool on the outside, even as inside he is burning up.

But more importantly, I just don’t think this song is meant to be taken so literally. I don’t think it’s that kind of song. I think it approaches sensuality and passion as things that embody a kind of gut spirituality, and defy reason and practicality.

On one level, Rob Thomas was writing it about his then-girlfriend (now wife), who is Puerto Rican. She was his inspiration. But on another level, Carlos Santana was his inspiration, because Thomas--a 29-year-old white man--had been tasked with writing the lead single for a 52-year-old Mexican American rock icon’s big comeback, and whatever he wrote, it had to feel like it conveyed Santana.

So on the one hand, the song drew on Rob Thomas’s personal relationship for inspiration--and evidently his and Marisol Maldonado's commitment was pretty darn reciprocal, since they are still together over two decades later. But with that said, I would argue that the majority of love songs are not literal depictions of the relationship they were inspired by-- and I don’t think Smooth is meant to be particularly literal in any respect.

If anything I’d argue that, in spirit, it’s more of a musical supplication to the goddess of passion.

[(Anonymous)]

WGST 101 called, they want their hot take back