Drake

‘This song will cause more relationship relapses’

(UrbanNewsRoom) Recently the Hip-Hop/R&B Superstar Drake recently released two songs off his upcoming album, “Take Care” Both songs were truly extraordinary, and from listening to both, this album could possibly be the magnum opus of Aubrey Grahams’ career. Nevertheless, I didn’t come to you all today to speak about Drake nor his album; however I did want to talk about one of the two songs that I’ve mentioned above.

Drake has released a song that almost everyone alike, man or woman, have constantly been raving about; copying song verses on social networks and pretty much attempting to relate the song to their lives. This song is “Marvin’s Room” and I feel this song will cause more relationship relapses, as it snowball’s to extreme popularity.

The basis of this song on the surface is about an ex-boyfriend, or ex-male lover that attempts to get back at his ex, by playing in on her emotions. Telling her that he knows she can do better (inferring him I assume) and also telling her that he knows that she still thinks about him. All of this is all fine and dandy, and yes this song relates to true real life human emotion but let’s be realistic… This song is hazardous to the emotional stability of those in relationships, as well as those that just left a relationship that was heavily emotional. This one song, I feel, has the emotional capacity of setting some poor girl out there ten steps back, all because the soothing, subtle melody of this song, added with the lyrics, has the power to convey senses of emotional distress and a since of longing. To make matters worse, R&B singer JoJo has also released a version of her own to relate to the women out there who could understand the angle Drake was coming from. However; as I listen to this song over and over again, I now realize that Drake, could care less about being with his ex again. He simply just wants to have sex.

Don’t get me wrong. I feel that JoJo’s efforts on the song were truly genuine, and she speaks of getting back with her ex. And it’s somewhat possible that Drake could be longing to get back with his Ex. But from listening to the lyrics closely, Drake has subliminally given away one of the emergency, “break the glass” rules to scoring a sexual encounter after the club. In my analysis of this song, Drake either did one of two things.

One, Drake became so intoxicated, so inebriated that he called up his Ex just to talk trash about her new guy, proving to himself that he could still have her if wanted– with the premise that if she was found to be willing, he would make the move to have sex with her.

Secondly, it’s possible Drake did one of the oldest tricks in the book known to be efficient and effective once implemented. Here’s my take. There are two separate scenarios with the same situations.  Drake is at the club one night and he’s also at a party of his, another night.  Drunk as usual, he finds that he is unable to find a woman to spend the night with him; therefore he does what any other guy usually does when this happens– he calls his Ex as a last desperate move. He then says all of the soft, sentimental things that he can, to convey the idea that he still thinks about her in order to get a chance.

This is why this song can cause problems for individuals. Why? Because even if the woman has not even thought of the man, nor even cared about his well being, he somehow finds a way to allow the woman to conjure up some type of emotional feelings about the guy.

These feelings are artificial to begin with, but become genuine after the sex has happened. This leads to a myriad of problems and drama that otherwise wouldn’t have ever started if that simple text or phone call wasn’t made. Music has always had the power to enhance emotions that have been suppressed deeply within the psyche. Music has often had the power to intensify many emotions that have been embedded within the psyche as well.

I say this to say, please ladies and gentlemen do not allow these songs of Drake and JoJo to go to your head and ruin a perfectly good relationship that you may have with a person. Not that I’m against a person getting back with their ex, but please realize your ex is your ex for a reason. If you do decide to take that route, at least have the decency not to involve yourself with another person until you are fully over your ex. Drake put together a great, realistic song, but please don’t get the reality of the song misconstrued.

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