Music Review: Cascada "Bad Boy"
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Bad Boy
Album: Everytime We Touch
Year: 2004
Cascada has become disillusioned with love in the ambivalent “Bad Boy.”
Racing synths open the single, setting a bemused tone. Cascada asks her boyfriend if he can recall the day he told her they had an open relationship. It was a decision he made by himself and for himself. She tried to explain how it much it would hurt her but he cut her off. Her powerful, strong heart crumbled from his selfish suggestion. Her affection for him dissolved and she became icy towards him. It changed her point of view about relationships and love from fairytale to cynical. It was a slap a face to hear that she wasn’t enough. She could no longer be the naïve, giving girlfriend she was with him before.
In the chorus, she says he can be her boyfriend in name only. Like him, she’s going to use him for sex. Otherwise, she wants nothing to do with him and prefers not to have to talk him at all.
The disconcerted synths zip around the beat, unable to settle down. Cascada chides him by calling him a bad boy. The disconcerted synths return again for another solo.
In the second verse, she tells him in the beginning of their relationship, he would never cheat. It was something he would never do to her. After awhile, she couldn’t get him on the phone to talk to her or see him. He ignored her and thought she would fade away. But she vows she will get him back and scar him like he did to her.
The chorus is sung again.
The disconcerted synths have another solo to close the single.
Cascada, like so many young girls, believes her relationship with her current boyfriend is her last shot at romance. It’s the best it’s ever going to get. The rejection and indifference is a major part of it, which nobody talks about. She figures she will stay with him until the loneliness inside her goes away.
Her accepting, timid vocals weaken the anger in the lyrics. Although she doesn’t like the way he treats her, she wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s a cool guy, who all her friends think is hot. She can’t let him go without feeling like she truly lost.
The spastic arrangement is unsettling and rough. It clobbers the beat to a tuneless pulp.
“Bad Boy” is a slapdash effort.
Album: Everytime We Touch
Year: 2004
Cascada has become disillusioned with love in the ambivalent “Bad Boy.”
Racing synths open the single, setting a bemused tone. Cascada asks her boyfriend if he can recall the day he told her they had an open relationship. It was a decision he made by himself and for himself. She tried to explain how it much it would hurt her but he cut her off. Her powerful, strong heart crumbled from his selfish suggestion. Her affection for him dissolved and she became icy towards him. It changed her point of view about relationships and love from fairytale to cynical. It was a slap a face to hear that she wasn’t enough. She could no longer be the naïve, giving girlfriend she was with him before.
“Remember the feelings, remember the day/My stone heart was breaking/My love ran away/This moments I knew I would be someone else/My love turned around and I fell.”
In the chorus, she says he can be her boyfriend in name only. Like him, she’s going to use him for sex. Otherwise, she wants nothing to do with him and prefers not to have to talk him at all.
“Be my bad boy, be my man/Be my weekend lover/But don't be my friend/You can be my bad boy/But understand/That I don't need you in my life again/Won't you be my bad boy, be my man/Be my weekend lover/But don't be my friend/You can be my bad boy/But understand/That I don't need you again/No, I don't need you again.”
The disconcerted synths zip around the beat, unable to settle down. Cascada chides him by calling him a bad boy. The disconcerted synths return again for another solo.
“Bad boy!”
In the second verse, she tells him in the beginning of their relationship, he would never cheat. It was something he would never do to her. After awhile, she couldn’t get him on the phone to talk to her or see him. He ignored her and thought she would fade away. But she vows she will get him back and scar him like he did to her.
“You once made this promise/To stay by my side/But after some time you just pushed me aside/You never thought that a girl could be strong/Now I'll show you how to go on.”
The chorus is sung again.
The disconcerted synths have another solo to close the single.
Cascada, like so many young girls, believes her relationship with her current boyfriend is her last shot at romance. It’s the best it’s ever going to get. The rejection and indifference is a major part of it, which nobody talks about. She figures she will stay with him until the loneliness inside her goes away.
Her accepting, timid vocals weaken the anger in the lyrics. Although she doesn’t like the way he treats her, she wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s a cool guy, who all her friends think is hot. She can’t let him go without feeling like she truly lost.
The spastic arrangement is unsettling and rough. It clobbers the beat to a tuneless pulp.
“Bad Boy” is a slapdash effort.