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I think it might be the absence of Pharrell Williams that makes the song work. That's the one thing that every cover has in common!
... yeah. You know, you might be right. It just doesn't sound like he takes the song anywhere, if that makes any sense.
Makes perfect sense, actually, only I think maybe it's a feature and not a bug. Kind of. In a weird sort of way. I'm very tired and a bit loopy, so this is probably just horseshit that sounds deep right this second, but why not follow along?
The song is about spending all night--probably every night--trying to score casual sex, right? And not to take anything away from casual sex, because sex is awesome, but...well, the hunt for it
is pretty much an activity that goes nowhere. I mean, yes, sometimes you score (if you're Pharrell Williams, you probably score a
lot), so yay!
...but then it's back out to the club to find the next girl (or guy, or genderqueer, or whatever), as if you'd never left. There's no final goalpost, no threshold of success that's like, "Okay, that's done now; I can find something else to do with my nights." You might find any number of reasons to quit spending your nights trying to get lucky, but the reason will never be because you accomplished your task.
So, in that sense, the fact the original song doesn't build to anything is very appropriate! In a highly meta and probably unintentional way.
Too much thinking palate cleanser: white rappers.
Brass Monkey by the Beastie Boys and
Top O' The Morning To Ya by House of Pain.
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