Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Poker Facebook.



In Kid Cudi's "Make Her Say", Common says the words--

"Her poker facebook I already read it."


I can't tell if the genius of that line was completely intentional on his part. Teachers treat every possible connection to literary-genius in a novel as intentional, so I'll do the same.

The context of the line is key- the hook of the song is "Make her say Oh / When I Poke Her Face". This gives the "poker face" in Common's lyrics an assumed sexual connotation.

"Facebook I already read it" then adds the level of reading her face like a novel, "Poker Facebook" then adds its sexual connotation- adding another level.

A feature on the website Facebook is the ability to "Poke", giving Facebook a context in the pun- yet keeping "poke", "poker", and "poke her" all as compatible as each other in the overall context of the line.

Then add the original pun of the original lyric by Lady Gaga herself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So many plausible interpretations! I like them all. The sexual connotation seems too cliche in the rap world to be of common's own version. However, we all can't help but go to a classic cliche once in a while. Ha. Nice concepts love! Great song regardless as well in a whole.

 
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