UPDATE: I’ve now posted the video that goes with this song. Even though it pains me to do so…. The other day I was in my car harrumphing silently about the lyrics to that song ‘Sexy Bitch’ by Dave Guetta featuring Akon.

In particular, the ones that go:

She’s nothing like a girl you’ve ever seen before

Nothing you can compare to your neighbourhood hoe

I’m tryna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful

The way that booty movin I can’t take no more

Have to stop what i’m doin so I can pull up close

I’m tryna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful

Dam girl

Dam you’se a sexy bitch

A sexy bitch

Dam you’se a sexy bitch

Dam girl

You want to know how you can describe this girl without being disrespectful? Try to use words that aren’t bitch or hoe. Start there WHY DON’T YOU.

How delightful to hear that the Boston Public Health Commission has developed a Sounds Nutritional Label that measures the ‘healthiness’ of songs. Here’s how they describe it:

The next time you’re ready to download that song from iTunes, you may want to check out how healthy it is for you. Just as a nutritional label allows you to count the calories in a fast food hamburger, the Boston Public Health Commission’s Start Strong Initiative has made it easier to measure what’s in the songs you listen to. Today, the Initiative announced the Sound Relationships Nutritional Label, a new tool to help music lovers evaluate how healthy – or unhealthy – songs are.

“Music, like food, can feed our brains and give us energy,” said Casey Corcoran, director of the Commission’s Start Strong Initiative. “But songs can affect our health and the health of our relationships.”

The tool, patterned after common food nutritional labels, invites consumers to become song lyric nutritionists by helping them identify relationship ingredients that make up a song. Using printed song lyrics as a guide, users can tally the number of healthy relationship themes, such as respect, equality, and trust, which are present in the song. And, like fattening calories, unhealthy relationship themes – possession, disrespect, and manipulation – are also counted. The number of times these themes are mentioned also factor into to the song’s total nutritional value. Corcoran recommends consuming lots of ‘healthy relationship’ ingredients for a balanced media diet.

“By encouraging young people to employ the Sound Relationships Nutritional Label, parents and educators can begin a dialogue about how romantic relationships are portrayed in songs—and how those portrayals might shape their ideas about what makes a relationship healthy or unhealthy,” said Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. “I hope that using this tool will help adolescents become more aware of the messages they are receiving, (help them) begin to make healthier, more self-respecting media choices, and tune in to their music—in more ways than one.”

“We aren’t telling people what they should or should not be listening to,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the Commission’s executive director. “We are giving them a tool that will help them make an informed choice about what they put in their bodies. We hope this is the start of a conversation about how the media we consume affects our relationship health,” Ferrer said.

How fascinating is that! So much emphasis is placed on how what we SEE influences our ideas but what about what we hear?

Here are the 10 best and 10 worst songs for relationship health…..

Do you ever find yourself merrily singing along with songs on the radio only to hear words coming out of your mouth you don’t agree with? (I do). Or doesn’t it really matter? Is it just music and who cares?

Which songs REALLY annoy you?

[i mage ]