While I used the bathroom at Whole Foods this afternoon, a love ballad played over the PA system. I think the last time I payed attention to a hip hop ballad was when Boys II Men were not Jewish (or at least not publicly) and singing "End of the Road." Yeah, those were the days.
Anyway, while peeing at Whole Foods, I swear that the chorus of the song piped into the bathroom was, "Let me love you down," although I may have misunderstood the words. (I'm really bad with lyrics, although maybe not as bad as my friend Sara, who thought the song "Ohio" by Neil Young was a love song. Not that I should talk, as I didn't know what the song was called, who sang it, or what it was about, either. I didn't think it was a love song, though. But I digress...) In one verse of what I know refer to as My Whole Foods Bathroom Song, the singer crooned something about not being too young for the lady in question, so I'm guessing that "let me love you down" means that by taking on a younger male lover, the woman in question will be loved down, if that makes sense. If anyone knows this song, I'm curious to know what it is about.
What struck me as funniest about the whole thing was that the song seemed very out of place at Whole Foods. And that it played in the bathroom only, as the rest of the store didn't have music.
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You know, I miss the music in my office bathroom. Except for the wedding march, which was just SO inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteBoyz II Men are Jewish!? How the hell did I miss that?
ReplyDeleteAnd, voila-
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dapslyrics.com/display.php?sid=2582
"Love You Down" is by INOJ. One of my favorite 90s songs. :)
ReplyDelete"Love You Down" is from the 90s? Damn, I am out of it. Thanks for the lyrics and other info, ladies.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I did locate the clip in which Boys II Men tell Tyra that they are Jewish at Best Week Ever. This happened in Oct. 2007.
Worse, I keep spelling Boyz with an "s." I am hopeless.
ReplyDeleteNo, it is most definitely not from the 90's. INOJ's version is a remake of the original from the mid-1980's by Ready for the World. The lyrics changed every so slightly just to make it from a female voice when it was originally sung by a male. So words like girlfriend and guys were changed to boyfriend and girls.
ReplyDelete-Steph