AIBU?
To hate the song "Shape of You"?
BabychamSocialist · 16/07/2017 16:00
I mean, it's basically only talking about the woman's body and looks, but literally nothing else, yet it's inexplicably popular.
I just don't get it - why can't songs have a good message behind them?
Pariswhenitdrizzles · 16/07/2017 16:06
I also find it annoying 
quite like the tune though.
What I find strange is Ed Sheehan always used to come across as someone who wrote 'intelligent' songs (if that makes sense, without me sounding like a total snob) but here, he's just writing about how much he likes a woman's body.
MeltorPeltor · 16/07/2017 16:24
I like it, he loves the shape of her. He doesn't stipulate what that shape is. The song is about how it started with a physical attraction and then got to know each other and he's in love with her. I have to find someone physically attractive to stay in love with them, I find my husband irresistible but that's not to say that's the only thing I love about him.
onceandneveragain · 16/07/2017 16:32
I hate it because of the lyric "We push and pull like a magnet do." It's just unnecessarily grammatically incorrect - "Push and pull like magnets do," would fit just as well and actually make sense.
- I am aware this is of no relevance to the point you were making and will slope off to pedants corner now!
I can see what you're saying, but, to be fair, a song saying 'I like you because I find you physically attractive', isn't necessarily insulting or
provoking - nowhere near the unpleasant misogyny of something like 'blurred lines,' or whatever.
AngelaKardashian · 16/07/2017 16:38
I hate it because of the lyric "We push and pull like a magnet do"
I always thought it said "too".
I don't mind it. I don't think there's anything wrong with a song saying you're physically attracted to someone. All attraction starts somewhere, after all. Also, like a PP said, he doesn't say what that shape is so it's not like he's encouraging any sort of beauty standards.
YokoReturns · 16/07/2017 16:39
If you think about the lyrics carefully, it's actually about one night stands.
It's deliberately 'shallow' because he doesn't know the person he's been with the night before. 'Every day discovering something brand new' means a new girl.
The whole song's about picking up girls!
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