FROM THE VAULTS - Replay
Written by Todd In The Shadows Monday, 06 February 2012 02:02
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02.06.2012 - 03:30 | Gothka13
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02.06.2012 - 04:50 | FullofQuestions
Oh god, is that what it means? If I didn't hate the word before solely because of my inner grammar Nazi...
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Yeah, I never understood the whole thing with guys calling a girl they wanted to date "shorty/shawty" considering the definition for it in the urban dictionary (yes people this does exist I have held it) means a short person or someone small in statue-particually used as term of endearment for like say a child.
I know when I was in college and the Job Corp Center some of the guys would call me that because I was shorter than most girls.They would say it good-humorly as a 'big brother' sort of way, so I definitely agree on it being a bad good way to romantisize a girl.
I hope that cleared it up.
And for the song, I don't LOVE it but I don't hate it either. It just really gets stuck in my head alot...alot alot *___*
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02.06.2012 - 05:51 | ColbyJ
I call girls by their first name, or woman, or girl, or diva. That last one was a joke.
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02.06.2012 - 08:00 | Zachary Amaranth
I'm sure he meant "shorty" in a nice way. Like...Ummm...
Well...
...Uhhh.
You see...
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02.06.2012 - 17:07 | FullofQuestionsBesides, as my friend says, we're not short, we're fun-sized!
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02.06.2012 - 11:33 | Vismutti
I guess it's meant to imply that the girl is cute? Sort of like "kid" or "baby".
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02.06.2012 - 12:22 | JackitK
Wait so "shorty" is a nickname for girls in general and not just short girls? All this time I thought rappers just had oddly specific tastes.
...that and discovering "shawty" has any relation to this has blown my mind.
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02.06.2012 - 17:25 | doomgirlmeg
The first time I heard "shorty" in a song, it was TLC's "Scrubs", and the line was "If you have a shorty and you don't show love..." And I thought it meant if they weren't... eh... well equipped and didn't compensate... It wasn't until years later I was told it meant that they had a child they didn't care for. It's a very odd endearing term.
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02.06.2012 - 03:40 | Mousetrap
Really looking forward to QBob's next single.
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02.06.2012 - 04:19 | serfdom
I loved this song when it came out. Although that was dead on when I was just getting back into chart music so I didn't have much to compare it with.
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02.06.2012 - 04:47 | tmib
"she a gun to my holster"?
If it's "she is a holster to my gun" it would make sense. Would be a weird sexist metaphor though. lol
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02.06.2012 - 05:53 | ColbyJI dont get it either, shes someone you depend on when theres a robber in the house? I guess that means you throw her at the robber? Or shoot her?
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02.06.2012 - 15:32 | Ptrack_Git
It means she is always at his side. Sorry that wasn't funny, I just thought I should point that out.
BTW I hate this song because it's insipid hollow and as Todd correctly points out... BORING. Like late 90's wimpy alt rock boring.
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02.06.2012 - 11:26 | VismuttiI'm guessing Iyaz likes pegging? ... Or possibly enjoys gun play? Whatever it is, he obviously wants a dominant woman. Or he might be gay and not ready to come out.
Whatever. Not like I care about what he likes. I wouldn't even have heard about the guy without this review...
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Todd said that he didn't understand calling the girl "a dime." That would be slang for saying she's a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, because a dime is 10 cents.
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02.06.2012 - 05:53 | ColbyJYeah, thats about the only good compliment to give to a girl. Calling her a "10" is kind of good, depending on the context.
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02.06.2012 - 05:43 | TriforceForever
so "shawty" means shorty... even tough its also being used by guys who are about half the size of the girls they are talking about. good job rap/R&B world! you invented another stupid thing!
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02.06.2012 - 05:43 | PixelJustice
I-Kon would have been hilarious especially since his song is like an Apple advetisement for Ipod's.
also, telling the girl she's a dime.. ouch lol that's one way to get slapped. Dime makes me think... Cheap.. easy to come by.. worth ten cents LOL you could say Ten.. but a dime is out of a dollar so yeah.. ouch
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02.06.2012 - 05:55 | ColbyJI wasnt interested when I saw the video of this song, I only cared about the video model. That girl is definitively a 10.
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02.06.2012 - 06:23 | DarkSaber
Stuck on replay.....much like Todds show.
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02.06.2012 - 07:10 | Rupert Fieth
Yeah, "dime" sounds kinda insulting to me too. Like cheap. Or dime-a-dozen.
I kinda like the chorus in this song, but the rest just goes beyond mind-numbingly bland. Plus the lyrics seem... well, they're not exactly thought through. Exactly same problems that I have with Jar of Hearts.
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02.06.2012 - 12:00 | navvyshanekar
It means a ten. The full term is "dimepiece". Yes, finally some street lingo I know. Thank you... that Episode of Psych I watched at some point.
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02.06.2012 - 07:38 | baticus_moronicus
From the first time I ever saw this particular review it always bugged me that you make fun of the guy for cooking his girlfriend food and sounding a bit soppy about her. Guys do cook for their girlfriends voluntarily (i.e. not because they're 'whipped') and it's a love song, why the hell shouldn't he sound in love? In the verses he just sounds happy. And you mention this as a contrast to other RnB stars who are getting more and more macho, but do we really want to encourage that trend? You'd prefer male RnB singers to be strutting douches? I'm sure this song's sentiment is preferable to what we might call the Chris Brown angle on women...
Everything else you said about it I agree with though: it's pretty boring and was very overplayed when it came out, and the chorus is a really dumb simile, as it's basically comparing his girl to that really annoying tune you just can't get out of your head all day. Good one Iyaaz, whoever you are! I hope Apple paid royalties accordingly.
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02.06.2012 - 10:40 | Tameel1"From the first time I ever saw this particular review it always bugged me that you make fun of the guy for cooking his girlfriend food and sounding a bit soppy about her. Guys do cook for their girlfriends voluntarily (i.e. not because they're 'whipped') and it's a love song, why the hell shouldn't he sound in love? In the verses he just sounds happy. And you mention this as a contrast to other RnB stars who are getting more and more macho, but do we really want to encourage that trend? You'd prefer male RnB singers to be strutting douches? I'm sure this song's sentiment is preferable to what we might call the Chris Brown angle on women..."
Yeah, I agree with this. In fact, my own dad used to cook every night and say soppy things to my mom all the time. He also sewed a lot of my sister's dresses when I was little! Did that mean he was whipped or not macho? Hell no. He just loves cooking and sewing. He also loves being a bouncer at the local pub, being a judo instructor and modifying cars. Everyone's got a hobby. People don't always fall into neat little stereotypical boxes.
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02.06.2012 - 12:50 | replyman
If his wife also flew around the world, and he just stayed home, then, yes. Because the implication is that she's getting some on the side. He's a chump.
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02.13.2012 - 07:32 | baticus_moronicusNah, I see that part as just another cute thing couples say to each other, 'Even when you're away all I think about is you', something like that.
Plus, switch the genders and tell me if you still read that into it. If the guy flies off around the world, he's off doing that important man business while the girlfriend staying home waiting faithfully is seen as sweet and touching. But if a woman flies off round the world leaving her boyfriend at home? Hell, she must be doing it to cheat on him, there's no other conceivable reason why she'd ever have a reason to go round the world! Important business, always wanted to travel? Nope, cheating. Of course.
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02.06.2012 - 08:36 | Harapeko4
sighs.......... I agree with you man........... BRING BACK THE BOY BANDS !!!! xD
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02.06.2012 - 08:36 | poisontongueWell no wonder shawty's got him singing na na na... he couldn't come up with anything better!
This song sucks.
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02.06.2012 - 08:50 | RestlessVagabond
The original meaning of "shawty" was in reference to children. This disturbing morphing of it to mean an attractive woman has me seeing R. Kelly around every corner stalking my niece.
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02.06.2012 - 09:40 | LevelUpLeo
The problem I have this with song is that it started a trend of "love is like music" songs, all of which state they want to listen to it on repeat. The next one to come out, I never took notice of, cause I thought it was this same song (I wish I would of taken note of it). The other one I heard is this one that goes "Repeat-peat-peat-peat- peat-peat-peat"...
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02.06.2012 - 10:33 | The_Awesometeer
This song is just so blah and dont hate it but I dont love it. Just fades into the background
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02.06.2012 - 11:29 | Skyscraper
Yeah, I'm on Baticus side. I get it was probably only meant as a joke-criticism with no real thought put into it, but when you start out with "man every other R&B singer is totally a macho douche-bag these days", and then follow up that the one guy who actually sounds NICE is "whipped"... you sound so schizo that the joke just falls flat. The lyrics almost made me LIKE this song just because they were nice.
But then I remembered that when the kindest thing you can say about a song is that it's inoffensive, it's probably not that good a song to begin with. Meh from start to finish is a good way of describing Replay. Not unpleasant, but unmemorable.
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02.06.2012 - 12:43 | replymanThose same four chords (I V vi IV) repeated over and over and over, check.
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02.06.2012 - 13:05 | LimeGreenSquid
Anyone who uses "Shorty" to refer to a girl or woman deserves to be promptly punched in the larynx with a shotgun that shoots chainsaws.
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02.06.2012 - 13:10 | Dark PaladinWhile I do see what you mean about this being your thinnest review, the poster gag always gets a big laugh out of me, no matter how many times I see this review. I think that joke by itself was worth it.
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02.06.2012 - 13:24 | Ancel De Lambert
I actually looked "Shorty" up a while back, due to Beeeiiiiiiibeeeeeerrrrrrr . The Urban Dictionary said it was originally a diminutive (hehe) for a new male crack-dealer, a greenhorn. It was changed from there to pretty much mean "girlfriend." So yeah, whole lot of wrong in the word.
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02.06.2012 - 13:39 | nostalgic90skid
I actually like this song, but I don't get the 'shawty' thing at all... Maybe I'm just too white.
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02.06.2012 - 14:20 | Pookiemookie
If his wife also flew around the world, and he just stayed home, then, yes. Because the implication is that she's getting some on the side. He's a chump."
But if a husband flew around the world, and the wife just stayed home, it would be fine huh? Double standards aren't cool. :[ @Skyscraper has it right.
This song is alright, I don't really hate it or like it. I try not to expect pop songs to be anything more than catchy.
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02.06.2012 - 14:20 | hauntedufoI quite liked this song. Well, I thought it was OK when it came on the radio anyway. But yeah, it is pretty average and generic.
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02.06.2012 - 15:05 | Steve the Pocket
I saw this back on the YouTube account (surprised it didn't get auto-deleted, actually; I thought Warner Music Group was in the habit of doing that) right before you introduced the From the Vaults series. I totally forgot it was from this late in the game because, like you said, it was a very short and simple review due to the sheer lack of anything to say. (It's also the first song you've reviewed that I partially knew from being on the new Weird Al album.)
And the pedant in me would like to point out that you left out a "na" in the captions during the bridge. As XKCD has pointed out, the number of "na"s can be critical to identifying a song. ;)
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02.06.2012 - 16:55 | Knight of Sol
"That girl is a dime, they say."
"...I have no idea what that means."
Darn, I was hoping you could tell me. XD
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02.06.2012 - 17:37 | Dancingstagequeen
So other than the fact you found the song boring you problems with this song and artist were:
*You didn't understand some of his slang (FYI 'She's a dime' just means she is pretty. It's not that hard);
*You can't pronounce his name;
*He cooks for his girlsfriend and sounds like a nice guy and so must be pussy whipped;
*and that he sounds vaguley like Akon (I think Iyaz has a more caribbean lilt to his accent rather than Akon's african inflected one, but okay).
... Uh Okay. :|
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02.06.2012 - 21:07 | LikaLaruku
I figured it was taken from "girls are a dime a dozen."
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02.06.2012 - 21:08 | LikaLarukuSounds like Korean pop music.
Well he's not singing about sex, money, or how cool he is, so the lyrics score an A in my book. It made me a bit sleepy though.
& hey, he mentioned cooking for his woman & wanting to marry her. He sounds like a keeper to me.
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02.06.2012 - 21:07 | NaomiHansen
(Ah, interesting - I knew the slang meaning of dime and Todd didn't.)
Could people just shut up with the "shorty" already? I thought that people would get the message after Bieber used it god knows how many time.
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02.07.2012 - 00:39 | CronoT
I cannot even begin to explain how much I loathe this song. I've experienced better melodies while beating my head against a wall.
I used to call this the SpEd song, because only someone who's in SpEd would be able to listen to this or like it. It's like that episode of SpongeBob where Patrick wrote a song that caused a massive riot.
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All I can remember about this song was that after a while, it was annoying with the 'nanana'.