| Kanye West – I Wonder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Thanks, nanite10! i'm glad you understood my point of view and that my entry wasn't a waste of cyberspace. | |
| Kanye West – I Wonder Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think nanite10 is right in the song's focus on women, but i saw it with a different perspective. I think when Kanye writes "You say he get on your fucking nerves You hope that he get what he deserves Word? Do you even remember what the issue is? You just trying to find where the tissue is You can still be who you wish you is It ain't happened yet, and that's what intuition is" he is explaining a woman blaming her problems on a man, but Kanye may be saying that since she hasn’t followed her dreams (you can still be who you wish you is/it ain’t happened yet…) she has an intuitive dissatisfaction for her life caused by her self. And when Kanye raps about her going back home to her family, the family life is the smokescreen that hides what she really needs - independence, a sense of self, and pursuit of her own dreams. I think this is more evident in the final verse. When he says “how many ladies in the house without a spouse?/Something in your blouse has got me feeling so aroused” he is possibly referring to their hearts, and how not being married they have retained independence and can follow their dreams. He asks the women who have traded in their independence for “a husband and some kids” if they ever wonder what the meaning of their lives are and if they will ever find their dreams. I don’t think it’s such a slamming on the fakeness of girls as more a slamming on society and a wake up call to women. For so long our society has pushed for the idea that a woman’s dream should be to get married and have a family, so a lot of women don’t even realize they can have their own dreams that they should follow. I don’t think it is accurate to generalize women as selfish and self-absorbed. If they were, they would understand the need to do things for themselves. They wouldn’t give away their lives to men. I think the need for a boyfriend/husband stems from a lack of self-confidence and a yielding to what they think society says they should be. |
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