Don't Cha!

It wasn’t too long ago that this song came out and of course the lyrics were perpetually stuck in Felicia’s head. This of course means that they were perpetually stuck in mine. This of course wouldn’t be the first time she had done that to me. It never bodes well when both of us are working together with the same song stuck in our heads. That just makes me plain cranky most of the time.
While dancing at the club when I took all my co-workers out, I found it terribly ironic that I had been jogging along to my radio station listening to the House remix of this song long before I heard this particular song in its original form. I found it slower and almost tougher to dance to. It was of course a Hip Hop song, but to me it just didn’t groove the way I had gotten use to.
As with all the other songs I’ve heard this way, I always like the remix better. There’s just something about a remix that fixes all the problems the song had before and just cleans it all up. Anything you can dance to is a good thing from the start anyway!
All though a song I would label as ghetto from its content, there’s something really damn catchy about the whole thing, and for better or worse it grew on me. I haven’t seen the video and probably never will. (Since moving last year I haven’t seen much of anything T.V. related.) This song has an interesting message; with the woman letting her object of lust know that she could have him at any time. The first half of the song is her telling the guy how badly she knows he wants her and how his girlfriend seems to notice too. Yet she tells the guy to back off. It ends with the idea that he had better forget all the hot stuff she’d just outlined through out the rest of the song because he’s in a relationship. Good message but a little contrary which I guess is at the heart of most females that would ask a guy, “Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?”


Don't Cha
By Pussycat Dolls

Oh, baby dolls

I know you like me (I know you like me)
I know you do (I know you do)
That’s why whenever I come around she’s all over you
And I know you want it (I know you want it)
It's easy to see (it's easy to see)
And in the back of your mind
I know you should be home with me

[Chorus]
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha

Fight the feeling (fight the feeling)
Leave it alone (leave it alone)
Cause if it ain’t love
It just ain’t enough to leave a happy home
Let's keep it friendly (let's keep it friendly)
You have to play fair (you have to play fair)
See, I don’t care
But I know she ain’t gon' wanna share

[Chorus]
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha , baby
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha

I know I'm on your mind
I know we'll have a good time
I'm your friend
I'm fun
And I'm fine
I ain’t lying
Look at me, you ain’t blind [2x]

See, I know she loves you (I know she loves you)
I understand (I understand)
I'd probably be just as crazy about you
If you were my own man
Maybe next lifetime (maybe next lifetime)
Possibly (possibly)
Until then, Oh friend you're secret is safe with me

[Chorus]
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Don’t cha, don’t cha