Girlfriend by Bow Wow & Omarion

I can't stand a lot of the pop songs I hear on the radio these days ("Low" by Flo-rida and the new Rihanna songs come to mind instantly) but I have a habit where once in a while I'll get obsessed with a pop song and play it incessantly until I overload and can't listen to it any more. This happens with not-so-poppy songs as well. It used to drive my college roommate nuts. ;-)

For a while, the song I was obsessed with was "That Girl" by the pop group NLT (which stands for Not Like Them, which is a poor choice for a name since they are EXACTLY like all other male pop groups before them). I became obsessed with it when my friend Kyoko showed me the video. In the video, the group crashes a high school dance in the gym. This isn't any ordinary gym, though. It's a gym whose floor opens up into a pool at the push of a button. The group and other kids, including, "that girl," jump in and the boys do a cool dance in the water. I LOVED the pool scene. I'm not sure why. Here's the video:


(I just realized the director is the same one I worked with during the Mastercard Priceless Experience internship)

Despite Kyoko's assertion that he is the "second ugliest" of the group, I fell in love with Kevin, who sings second, and was also the pizza boy on an episode of the Office.

Anyway, a while ago while I was at the gym I was watching the Tyra Banks show. Bow Wow and Omarion were on the show, promoting "Face Off" and they were so adorable. I became obsessed with their single, "Girlfriend." I've been listening to it recently, but one thing about the song always gets to me. There's this lyric:

"And her body's built like a stripper"

I get that strippers generally have nice bodies, but I'm not sure I would be excited if a cute guy came up to me and was like, "Hey, you've got a body like a stripper." It made me wonder:
1) Would other girls take that as a compliment?
2) Do these guys write the lyrics themselves? They're so cheesy...

Here's the video:

Yes, it's wildly inferior to the NLT video.

Yes, the song is terrible. But it's catchy, and sometimes that's all you need for a hit...