At number one in the BBC Radio 1 singles chart is Flo Rida featuring Kesha singing “Right Round”. You can listen to it on Spotify and read the lyrics here.
The song is made up of a dialogue between Flo Rida and Kesha. The basic gist of the song is repeated in the title and the corus with:
“You spin my head right round, right round
When you go down, when you go down down”
The song is loaded with sexual innuendo and extols the virtues of girls, bling and beautiful bodies. The implication is that if you have enough money you can buy whatever you like, whether it’s material possessions or women. Flo Rida is very clear that he knows what he loves by how he spends his money: “My money love her like a numba one fan” and he goes onto sing that:
“From the top of the pole I watch her go down
She got me throwin my money around
Ain’t nothin more beautiful to be found
It’s goin down down”
So, what is there to commend in this song? Well, Flo Rida is very strong on his understanding that sex, beauty and relationship are good things; he shows us very clearly that our finances betray our hearts and he is very willing to put his mouth where his money is and vice versa! I wonder how Flo Rida would respond to Jesus when he says:
“Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.” (Matthew 5:28-29)
Sadly though Flo Rida has taken what is a good thing and made it a “god” thing. This song does not encourage us to view women as humans made in the image of God, but as objects to be manipulated and possessed – literally bought! When Adam met Eve he sang her a song. He sang:
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23)
The commentator Matthew Henry says of the creation of woman:
“That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
We must ensure that we treasure all of mankind, both male and female, as made in the image of God and not persons for us to objectify, manipulate or possess in any way.
As we, and those around us, hear this song we might like to consider some questions to ask of it:
The song is made up of a dialogue between Flo Rida and Kesha. The basic gist of the song is repeated in the title and the corus with:
“You spin my head right round, right round
When you go down, when you go down down”
The song is loaded with sexual innuendo and extols the virtues of girls, bling and beautiful bodies. The implication is that if you have enough money you can buy whatever you like, whether it’s material possessions or women. Flo Rida is very clear that he knows what he loves by how he spends his money: “My money love her like a numba one fan” and he goes onto sing that:
“From the top of the pole I watch her go down
She got me throwin my money around
Ain’t nothin more beautiful to be found
It’s goin down down”
So, what is there to commend in this song? Well, Flo Rida is very strong on his understanding that sex, beauty and relationship are good things; he shows us very clearly that our finances betray our hearts and he is very willing to put his mouth where his money is and vice versa! I wonder how Flo Rida would respond to Jesus when he says:“Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.” (Matthew 5:28-29)
Sadly though Flo Rida has taken what is a good thing and made it a “god” thing. This song does not encourage us to view women as humans made in the image of God, but as objects to be manipulated and possessed – literally bought! When Adam met Eve he sang her a song. He sang:
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23)
The commentator Matthew Henry says of the creation of woman:
“That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
We must ensure that we treasure all of mankind, both male and female, as made in the image of God and not persons for us to objectify, manipulate or possess in any way.
As we, and those around us, hear this song we might like to consider some questions to ask of it:
- Does the song put men and women on an equal footing as one another?
- Is it right for radio stations and artists to promote the objectifying of women?
- There’s a very strong view of the beauty of the human body and of sexuality, but what would a society be like if all the males acted like Flo Rida seeks to?
- Finally, we might like to ask the question the Jesus poses to all of us in Mark 8:36 when he asks “…what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”
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