Want Me or Not

Whether You Like It Or Not

The boy bands have won, and all the copyists and the tribute bands and the TV talent show producers have won, if we allow our culture to be shaped by mimicry, whether from lack of ideas or from exaggerated respect. You should never try to freeze culture. What you can do is recycle that culture. Take your older brother's hand-me-down jacket and re-style it, re-fashion it to the point where it becomes your own. But don't just regurgitate creative history, or hold art and music and literature as fixed, untouchable and kept under glass. The people who try to 'guard' any particular form of music are, like the copyists and manufactured bands, doing it the worst disservice, because the only thing that you can do to music that will damage it is not change it, not make it your own. Because then it dies, then it's over, then it's done, and the boy bands have won.

[ti:How Come You're Not Here] [ar:P!nk] [al:The Truth About Love] [00:03.06]Artist: Pink [00:04.43]Album: The Truth About Love [00:05.74]Title: How Come You're Not Here [00:08.03]By: Victor Davis [00:09.66]Where have you been [00:11.53]Where have you gone [00:13.32]And have I done something wrong [00:16.73]You're the tooth fairy [00:18.73]You're like santa claus [00:20.54]You're like white noise [00:22.15]When I want my favorite song [00:24.02]Just come on back [00:25.88]And come on home [00:27.38]It ain't super smart to leave me alone [00:30.74]Light a flare, pick up the phone [00:34.29]I'm like a stoner babe without my bong [00:37.09][01:07.88][01:41.41][02:10.63][02:30.49] [00:37.89][01:41.78][02:31.17]Are you hiding in the closet [00:41.00][01:44.90][02:34.35]Are you underneath the bed [00:44.68][01:48.37][02:37.77]Did you go for a long walk off a short pier [00:49.59][01:03.53][01:53.22][02:07.41][02:42.69]How Come You’re Not Here [00:52.08][01:55.72][02:45.23]Should I worry you've been bitten [00:55.44][01:58.70][02:48.65]Or somebody got you high [00:59.10][02:02.68][02:52.27][02:59.35]Quick come back [01:00.42][02:04.11][02:53.75][03:00.85]Or I might just die [01:13.36]I've heard some rumors [01:15.09]About another girl [01:16.96]I heard she's cute [01:18.64]But she stores nuts like a squirrel [01:20.63]And that's all cool [01:22.37]I'll wait right here [01:24.00]Til you get bored [01:25.61]And she gets carded for beer [01:27.60]I'm the one [01:29.16]I'm just that slick [01:31.15]You won't find better [01:32.89]I'm honey dipped [01:34.62]There ain't a thing [01:36.37]That's fake on me [01:38.24]I miss you baby [01:39.85]Come home to me [02:17.62][02:19.11]Has anyone seen [02:20.84]Has anyone seen why he's hiding from me [02:24.26][02:25.88]Can anyone see [02:27.75]Can anyone see let's play hide and seek [id: wvlcvhsp] The Truth About Love