The Men the Booze the Cocaine and the Grind

A song about strippers who blog.

LYRICS:

Jeni got a job in an adult club
Styled after an English pub
Where they served lamb and toplessness
Every day when she came home
And Jeni had a few minutes alone
She'd sit at her computer and decompress

Jnni felt like a rock and roll star
On the computer screen
As she wrote down every detail on her mind
Jeni she would then
Blog about it all
The men the booze the cocaine and the grind

Jeni was a keen observer
Of every man that didn't deserve her
The bores the smirkers the perverts and the punks
After a day of salacious gyrations
She'd back report all her observations
Alone and mean and exhausted and quite drunk

Jeni felt like a rock and roll star
On the computer screen
As she wrote down every detail on her mind
Jeni she would then
Blog about it all
The men the booze the cocaine and the grind

There was Mike who never once tipped
When he sat at the stage and watched the girls strip
And Jon he was such a regular tool
Because he couldn't obey the do not touch rule
Tim would come in with his girlfriend
And she'd pay for his dances and he'd make her spend
And the DJ was a creep and the manager had a gun
And Jeni she blogged about every one

Jeni got a job in an adult club
Styled after an English pub
She worked there for a year and three weeks
Her managers one day found her Web page
And fired her while she was dancing onstage
As she left Jeni said well fuck off creeps

Jeni felt like a rock and roll star
On the computer screen
As she wrote down every detail on her mind
Jeni she would then
Blog about it all
The men the booze the cocaine and the grind

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posted by Astro Zombie (4 comments total)

Fun stuff, and I like how it almost suggests 80's new wave. I could see it performed by that Soft Cell guy or something. I mean all of this as a compliment.
posted by edlundart at 8:45 PM on May 21

I wouldn't take it any other way.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:13 PM on May 21

Astro - more or less the same comment as per your other upload. I like your stuff, but you need to get some rhythm into it somehow - the lyrical ideas are good but you need perhaps a little more focus on grabbing attention musically? I guess what I mean is that the lyrical content is unusual, and the musical element needs also to be unusual - sudden injection of a beat or pulse would snap things into focus. And then you could drop it out again - and again grab attention. Obviously that's just my view and I hope you take this as constructive criticism.
posted by MajorDundee at 5:02 PM on May 22

Is it just me? I sensed a nice dose of Bowie's early work in this. I can see edlundart's point, too...a little bit of Ric Ocasek in there, too, but to me, the harmonies and all of it just screams early Bowie/Ronson. Either way, a great contribution!
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 6:31 PM on May 22