The 19th song I will be analyzing is “Save You Tonight” off of the album Up All Night. This song is about the guy wanting the girl to stop waisting her time with someone else and instead go out with him.
Evaluating Masculinity
This song has such severe “I’m a nice guy but no one wants me” vibes. For example:
“I, I wanna save you
Wanna save your heart tonight
He’ll only break ya
Leave you torn apart, oh”
This lyric, among others, is one example of the assertiveness and aggressive nature of this song. I mean, he is basically saying “You don’t know what you want but I do and it’s me.” He is very much trying to project his feelings onto her in hopes that she will go out with him.
“Oh now you’re at home
And he don’t call
Cause he don’t adore ya
To him you are just another doll
And I tried to warn ya”
I just had to point this lyric out because this is just him saying “I told you so.” Very not cool.
Evaluating Femininity
In a way, I feel like this song paints the girl to be dumb, to put it lightly. Again it goes back to the “nice guy” syndrome. In an effort to try and be the nice guy, this guy is just making the girl seem like she is in the wrong.
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