I should know better than to expect sense-making

December 6th, 2008

So I am compulsively listening to a few tracks from the new bSpears album. It’s mildly embarrassing, because I want to feel like I am cooler than that, but I really loved Blackout for some reason, and a few of the tracks from Circus are really good. I soothe myself by remembering that they pay batrillions of dollars for the best songwriters/producers in the universe to come up with this music, and it’s not my fault if I like it. I have no choice. It’s been engineered to stick in my head. But still, even with the very best songwriters that money can buy, the title track Circus contains this puzzling line:

“I’m like a performer, the dance floor is my stage.”

Now… the thing is, she’s not LIKE a performer, she IS a performer. So what the heck? I mean, listening to the song it would have still fit to say “I’m a performer, the dance floor is my stage.”" just drawing the first few syllables out.

And I seriously don’t know why I expect logic, or care. But people were paid hot piles of cash to write that nonsensical lyric. So that’s weird.