Re: General Girls Aloud discussion thread
I'm just gonna post this on here as well. I wrote this for my tumblr, but I thought it might get some attention here too. Its my essay/analysis of Something Kinda Ooooh. Or perhaps "overanalysis".
Something Kinda Ooooh is actually a really heartbreaking song.
Just by listening to the lyrics and analyzing them, I’ve come to realize that its a song about a girl who’s found out that her boyfriend is cheating on her.
The repeated lines “something kinda ooh, jumping on my tutu” is the beginning of the relationship, i.e. lots of sex and everything’s going great. That continues with the “makes my heart go boom boom” part. But when it gets to “something kinda ooh, bumping in the back room”, that signifies the girl finding out that her boyfriend is cheating. He’s fucking another girl in the “back room”.
The verse starts, and you can hear the pain in Cheryl’s voice. Even the video plays a part in the story. In the video, she’s driving, as in driving AWAY, as signified with the line “when tomorrow comes, baby I won’t even know your name”. She’s leaving to forget her man, and all the pain that came with him. The line “I’ll never meet you, never see you again” further reinforces this.
The next section tells of the beginning of the relationship again. “If you wanna put a line on me, now no, wait until the band gonna play real slow” is the night that the two met. He picked her up at a nightclub, but she wasn’t having any of it. But she came around and gave him a chance with “if you wanna handle me, you got to keep up”.
Once again, the chorus comes, and “bumping in the back room” is there again. She keeps flashing back to the day when she caught him cheating, while she’s driving away.
The bridge comes in, and this is where her heartbreak is most evident. “Oh boy, I can’t tell you how sad I feel.” This expresses her feelings perfectly. Also, the hurt in Kimberley’s voice is evident. Next, she’s saying to herself “I shoulda known where the man was at”, like she’s beating herself up for not seeing this coming. The other line in the bridge “tonight, is just another kink in your steel” tells us that she had her suspicions with the boy, and that she thought she might not be the only one in his life.
The final chorus comes and the girl is driving away, once again thinking of the beginning and end of her relationship. “Something kinda ooh, makes my heart go boom boom, something ‘side of me, wanting part of you. Something kinda ooh, bumping in the back room, something ‘side of me, wanting what you do.”
