It’s a great song, but so it should be. Neptunes production=instant classic.
Nice reference Wordman, I completely missed that.
I’unno, I never really considered what it was about. I just thought that it was a schoolyard style chant expressing sexual dominance. Just, the whole thing, I suppose. I’m-the-girl-the-boys-do-what-I-say type song.
Perfect skin, hair and form were essential to hunter-gatherer societies? Got a cite for that? Oh sure, maybe among hunter-gatherer Alpha Males, but there were (and are) lots of Beta, Gamma, and Omega Males lacking in the requisites to command such, um, prized commodities. 
In that clear skin, and shiny hair signified good health, and wide full hips signaled sexual maturity, and ability to give live birth, yes, these things were important to primitive societys. The males wanted a healthy female to sire children with, not some female who might die giving birth, or not be able to take hardships (like famine, or drought, or blizzard etc.) during pregnancy, someone who would stay alive long enough to raise the child. So, some level of perfection was highly desireable, for the puposes of producing offspring.
There are still aborigonal societys that empasize this kind of thing today, because life where they live is tough, and the females MUST be healthy enough to carry, give birth to and raise children so the tribe can survive. (I don’t think they go for the “acquire many mates, and have children by them all to get lots of food and supplies” nowadays though.) I can see the reasonings for such things in those cases, but not in this highly technological society. It’s almost an anachronism.
Such arrogance just gets under my skin. It goes beyond good self esteem, right to obnoxious. Yeah, if your pretty, flaunt it. Just don’t get so arrogant that you state that EVERY male will look at you, and say you are better looking etc. than the females that they choose to be with. That’s just rude, and setting yourself up for a fall when it doesn’t always happen that way, when a male has no interest in you. It is such a big brag, that it can’t come true. Also, why put jiggling so well that “all” the guys around you get hot and bothered above being a nice, honorable person? It’s an over-the-top brag, with a large amount of arrogant self delusion in it.
(I’m actually very good looking, or so people tell me. I just don’t go for that kind of arrogance, it’s not “beauty” to me.)
Zabali - you’re telling me you’ve never felt Hot? C’mon, everybody has moments where they feelin’ “Day-yamn! I am smokin’ today!” Of course it would be obnoxious to see someone do it in real life, but Milkshake isn’t real life - it’s just a song.
Good art is supposed to give voice to our innermost feelings. Sometimes our innermost feelings are “Boy, I’m Hot today!” - granted, not the most sophisticated of our innermost feelings, but it does happen.
Sure, way too many songs try to capture and express that particular innermost feeling; it just so happens that this song is better than most (damn right, it’s better than most).
Lighten up.
I’d dance to it, as I said, the vocals and instrumental riffs are solid. It’s just the attitude that it evokes that bothers me. (Because it seems to be going “mainstream”.)
Yes, I’ve had days when I felt “unstoppable”. I still didn’t get obnoxiously arrogant about it. I just had a blast dancing the night away, seducing my man.
There’s a difference between knowing/being sexy, and making fantastic brags. Either you are sexy, or you aren’t. You don’t need to brag if you are, just being so is enough.
It’s all good. To me, you are just stating the difference between an Introvert (the efficient woman who takes off her glasses and lets her hair down behind closed doors) and the extrovert (see Milkshake video). There’s room for both. Again, I don’t want to spend time with people as Out There as Kelis’ character in the video - but that’s just a video. I do, however, like it when someone I think is hot has a little strut in her step…at the heart of that little strut is a bit of a brag - it’s just a question of degrees, right?
I choose to believe she makes really good milkshakes - Haagen-Dazs, whole milk, et cetera.
But then, I really really like milkshakes.
Plain and simple She’s talking about sex.
Basically it is the same story… sex sells it.
However you define it in your own terms…
Iswear listening to this track on the bus, people must wonder… I can’t help but shake it!
Plain and simple She’s talking about sex.
Basically it is the same story… sex sells it.
However you define it in your own terms…
I swear listening to this track on the bus, people must wonder… I can’t help but shake it!
No, no, no! She says “I could teach you, but I’d have to charge.” How can you teach a woman to to have jiggly boobs? She’s talking about loving your body and exuding the confidence that brings boys into your yard and whatnot. It’s like Hüsker Düde said:
Made With Real Breastmilk™!
I really like this song!
And it’s a heck of a long way from my usual genres (see my screen name etc). It’s a combination of the fuzzy beat, the singing, and that brazen ‘ding!’ sound :D.
I didn’t really have to know exactly what she meant by Milkshake to enjoy the track, but I suspect it has to be some sort of sexual connotation. Watch the video.
I think it’d be easier to teach proper jiggling technique than to teach confidence.
I personally find this song almost idiotically repetitive, and I agree with Zabali-Clawbane that it’s kind of obnoxious. I really don’t like songs that encourage that catty competitiveness between women, but maybe I just need to lighten up. 
Didn’t Kelis also sing on Outkast’s The Love Below? Is that her on “Dracula’s Wedding”?
I haven’t seen the video, so I assumed milkshake = “milk”…shaking…inside a “blender”. I want a chocolate milkshake now (no innuendo) but I’ve got this picture in my head.
It was brought up before, but watch the video. Then you won’t have any doubt.
“I could teach you, but I’d have to charge”… cuauhtemoc
had it right… she’s not saying her boobies are better than yours, merely that her boob-display technique is better.
Think of two peacocks. Maybe one has brighter feathers, but doesn’t have that peacock strut down. The other has dull feathers, but can shake it like a polaroid picture.
Think about it… do you go for Ricky Martin in Screech’s clothes, or Screech in Ricky Martin’s clothes?
(personally, I always found Screech kinda endearing, and I’m sure he’d be a good provider, but still…)
“Shake it like a polaroid picture” is from ‘Hey Ya’ by Outkast, though :D.
Ugh. This song will become the “Whoomp! There it is!” of 2003/4.
Just an awful, AWFUL song. makes me want to but a 5/16th drill bit through both of my eardrums.
Like most songs that are out at the moment, it has more to do with the rituals that mating and dating revolve around in society. Kelis states that she’s got more of what it takes to get a man, and that it’s not just sexual features, but also confidence. Sure, she’s cocky about it, but, well, to be honest, any female who thinks she’s better than another is going to be cocky about it in some respect or another.
Rubystreak, to be honest, women are competitive by nature when it comes to finding a companion. Men are just as competitive, but they act upon it in a different manner. Women tend to be catty and mean, and men tend to display it in a physically different way. It’s a natural instinct in humans and other animals that has evolved over eons. You’re trying to take a basic instinct out of society, and it doesn’t often work that way.
Personally, I like the song. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it, plus, I can relate to the idea of being confident that you’re the woman that get the guys’ attention and make other women envious. Either way, it’s a dance club song! Does it really have to make any sense? 
