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Mika’s “Lollipop” denigrates love (“Love’s gonna get you down”), then pairs that cynical sentiment with this suggestive reference: “Sucking too hard on your lollipop.” Booty-centric lyrics get plucked from Sisqo’s “Thong Song,” Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” KC and The Sunshine Band’s “Shake, Shake, Shake,” Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious,” Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison” and Flo Rida’s backside-ogling strip club anthem “Low.”
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Timber!/That’s the way I like to, what? Timber!”) And as for what happens when the teddy-‘n’-twerking party ends, well, let’s just say the Bellas gleefully echo Pitbull’s insistence that no doesn’t really mean no (“She says she won’t, but I bet she will”). Pitbull’s “Timber” features excess drinking (“Let’s make a night you won’t remember”) and shameless objectification (“I have ‘em like Miley Cyrus, clothes off/Twerking in their bras and thongs. Another lyric in that sequence explicitly references oral sex. Lines from Nero’s “Promises” (“You got me so wild/How can I ever deny/You got me so high”) get fused to even more problematic stuff from Natalia Kills’ “Problem” (“Sweat/Dripping down your chest/Thinking ‘bout your tattooed knuckles/On my thigh, boy, boy, boy/ … My hips rocking/As we keep lip locking”).
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Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” tells listeners, “I loved deeper/And I spoke sweeter.” We hear the resonant chorus from The Supremes’ 1966 classic “You Can’t Hurry Love”: “Oh, you can’t hurry love/No, you just have to wait/She said, ‘Love don’t come easy/It’s a game of give and take.’ Snippets of John Legend’s “All of Me” implore and promise, “Give your all to me/I’ll give my all to you/I give myself to you.” Likewise, Jessie J’s soundtrack single “Flashlight” (which pops up both as her solo song as well as in tracks the Bellas perform) romantically gushes, “I got all I need when I got you and I/I look around me, and see sweet life/ … I’m not afraid when the rain won’t stop/’Cause you light the way.”
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Because despite the struggles, the Bellas’ cover reaffirms in vow-like language a couple’s commitment to each other: “We belong to the light/ … Whatever we deny or embrace/For worse or for better/We belong, we belong/We belong together.” A closer look at the lyrics of Pat Benatar’s 1984 ballad “We Belong” reveals a surprisingly complex glimpse into a fragile-yet-resilient romance.