Music Review: Skylar Grey & Enimen "C'Mon Let Me Ride"

Skylar Grey  & Enimen

C’Mon Let Me Ride

Album: Don’t Look Down

Year:  2012

          Skylar Grey poses as a sex goddess in order to sleep with a guy in the lewd  “C’Mon Let Me Ride.”

          Curvy synths open the single, setting a seedy tone.  He’s known for being rough around the edges. He probably thinks she’s a good girl. She has to show him that she can enact any fantasy he has. She talks around the subject of her breasts, missionary sex, and other sexual positions she’s wiling to do. (“If you got a sweet tooth/You can taste my watermelons/If the swing set bores you/I can show you all my talents/I can wear a tail, like all the bitches can't/You can have all this, boy!/And there's only one thing that I want from you.”)

        In the chorus, Queen’s “Bicycle Race” sample kicks in while she tells him she wants to sleep with him. (“Come on, let me ride your bicycle/It's so fantastical, on your bicycle/We can get a little more physical/Baby, after all, it's only natural/I feel it comin', comin', comin'/I feel it runnin', runnin', runnin'/Come on, let me ride your bicycle/It's so fantastical, I'm your bicycle.”)

            Enimen adds “you want to ride my bicycle/you want to ride my bike.”

      Again, she talks around turning him on and oral sex. (“If the world starts freezing/I can make it hot and humid/If you get a bee sting/I can suck out all the poison/I can make you last/Like all the bitches can't/Have I made it clear, boy?/There's only one thing that I want from you.”)

           The chorus is sung again.

           In the bridge, he puts on his jacket and tells him he’s ready to leave whenever she is. She slaps him on the face and says she’s not compromising her morals for him. The other girls who sleep around make her sick. Sex is an expression of love for her. However, she might change her mind. She only knows him by reputation. (“I'm only fucking with you/Fuck you for thinking it's true/I'm not like the sluts in this town/They make me blehh in my mouth/I wanna ride on your bike/Cause you're the boy that I like/It's like I'm a sell out for you/But your bike's so shiny and new.”)

           Enimen has seen her eyes trained on his biceps. Despite her protests, she really wants to act on what she said earlier. He’s heard stories from some of her girlfriends and she wants one of her own. He’s given a lot of women plenty to talk about. However, the women don’t want to catch anything from him. They have no idea where anywhere else he has been. He admits to being a listless lover and prefers to not wear condoms. He’s well-endowed which is the reason why the women are with him. (“She's distracted, by my reflectors, man/I can tell the chick is attracted/My wheels spoke to her, my Schwinn is a chick magnet/Bagging up chicks like a bag of chips/With a bag of prophylactics as big as Mick Jagger lips/Shagging's not something I'm a pro at, but I ain't practicing shit /Allen Iverson has safe sex, condoms are for practice, man, I skip practice/Flip backwards while I flip this bike on its banana seat/My fantasy is to have you land where the kick-stand is/Got this bitch gagging, they call me the broad killer/I'm the cousin of Godzilla/Cause I spit fire and my dick is draggin'/Zig zaggin' up the avenue, pulling these chicks in my antagonist/Waggin', screamin'”)

             The chorus is sung once to close the single.

             Grey’s shrill, dense vocals are warped, with a twisted little girl voice. She entices the guy and then chides him for when he agrees. It’s as though she doesn’t fully understand what she’s saying, just repeating the lines she heard while watching pornography on Showtime late at night in secret.

            Enimen’s opportuntistic, skilled rap is both intelligent and irresponsible. First, he turns the  bicycle from a cheap euphemism into a metaphor, working in the details of it without being cliché. He also slips in the SAT word prophylactics without it being awkward or pretentious.             

           Second, he depends on the women to load up on antibotics and pills to be safe. He more than likely has some STD infection eating through his organs, causing him to be unable to perform and a dozen children out there who resemble him. However, his desire outweighs his instinct that Grey will sneak up on him one day after hiding in the bushes for days, kidnap him in a stolen truck, demanding why he hasn’t called her since.

  The muted Queen sample is able to get through the single unharmed. Even if there's familiarity with the song, Grey doesn't have the theatrical ability in her voice to bring it out. It's the only aspect of the song to get out alive with only minor psychological damage.   

  The sick  “C’Mon Let Me Ride” with its disturbing game, suggests one or two criminal acts that could happen.