Album Rating: 4.5
It's time for lyric theory with Get Low. Today's topic is Do You Think I Am Pretty? I believe this song to be about a sex offender who is in prison for statutory rape.
"There's no window in this room, not that I really miss the view"
Prison, obviously.
"It's just that I may soon forget the way the grass looks when it's wet"
'Grass' here is metaphor for pubic hair, which further explains the context of 'wet'.
"I'm trying hard to read your mind, Built a machine to travel time"
The narrator wishes to travel time, either to a time before his imprisonment, or possibly before he turned 18, as a conviction for statutory rape would be off the table. 'I'm trying hard to read your mind' suggests that the girl who caused his downfall might have been playing mindgames with him.
"The medication does not work, There's poison in my drink"
This makes me think of a couple different things. Initially, I think of rohypnol (date rape drug), but I also think of how in psyche hospitals, the nurses, especially in the olden days, would try to force patients to take their medicine, even if the patient believes it is doing more harm than good.
"They never told me they were going to put me away. I'm not crazy I tell you! I'm not insane!"
There is a growing movement of individuals advocating for legalizing consensual pedophilia (or essentially doing away with statutory rape), and these individuals tend to argue that they are not crazy, and that their feelings are natural. The narrator of the song feels that his imprisonment is unjust.
"I made a magic wand today
Maybe I'll wish myself away
Next to the ocean where birds sing
"These are a few of my favorite things""
The rest of the song is just the narrator lamenting his imprisonment. "These Are My Favorite Things" is a song from the movie The Sound of Music, which invokes images of laughter, dancing, freedom, etc.
On the surface, Do You Think I Am Pretty seems like a song about a princess (Rapunzel, Cinderella) trapped in castle, but as shown above, I think there is a disguised meaning here.
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