Just to be clear pt. 2...
...Can't keep up with the various threads, but has anyone talked about the plot of "Te Amo" yet? This is what I wrote on Lex's thread:
Has anyone talked about how "Te Amo" seems to be about Rihanna being hit on by a woman in a club and cautiously kind of going with it? "Just watch your hands!" Or is she singing from the perspective of the boyfriend?
Story seems to be that Rihanna is in the club, dancing casually with a woman, and then at some point the woman puts her arms around Rihanna's waist and whispers "Te Amo." Rihanna understands that the woman is lonely but she can't love her the way the woman loves Rihanna. So she keeps dancing with her, but wants the woman to be sure that she keeps her hands down -- I'm not going to run away, but don't touch me like that.
It's kind of heartbreaking and complicated! I just wish the main conceit worked better -- Rihanna pretending like she doesn't know what "te amo" means, which I find incredibly hard to believe. She could have just as easily just used "te amo" without the "won't someone please tell me what it means" thing, which seems to be beside the point of the song anyway. Like, what does her saying "I love you" do to change what's actually happening here?
I'm becoming less and less convinced that this could possibly be anything but Rihanna's flirtation with, or at least empathy for, another woman's crush on her, btw, as the song makes less sense if Rihanna is somehow the "man" in a hetero relationship...
Has anyone talked about how "Te Amo" seems to be about Rihanna being hit on by a woman in a club and cautiously kind of going with it? "Just watch your hands!" Or is she singing from the perspective of the boyfriend?
Story seems to be that Rihanna is in the club, dancing casually with a woman, and then at some point the woman puts her arms around Rihanna's waist and whispers "Te Amo." Rihanna understands that the woman is lonely but she can't love her the way the woman loves Rihanna. So she keeps dancing with her, but wants the woman to be sure that she keeps her hands down -- I'm not going to run away, but don't touch me like that.
It's kind of heartbreaking and complicated! I just wish the main conceit worked better -- Rihanna pretending like she doesn't know what "te amo" means, which I find incredibly hard to believe. She could have just as easily just used "te amo" without the "won't someone please tell me what it means" thing, which seems to be beside the point of the song anyway. Like, what does her saying "I love you" do to change what's actually happening here?
I'm becoming less and less convinced that this could possibly be anything but Rihanna's flirtation with, or at least empathy for, another woman's crush on her, btw, as the song makes less sense if Rihanna is somehow the "man" in a hetero relationship...