(It) Feels So Good, Steven Tyler...why is this still on the radio?!
First, I know the right way to look at this song is that it is a reflection of a memory rather than present day. However, given the lyrics and general mood/tempo of the song, I cannot help but interpret this as creepy old man hitting on young girls.
Here we have a song about a gentleman and a young girl. There is no mention of either age, but I think the age of the girl is fairly clear, and Steven Tyler sounds pretty much like...well, Steven Tyler...so we know his age. There are lines about being locked in a bedroom for a week and the girl being a superfreak so we can interpret the general theme without much thought. While I'm listening to this and thinking, "It's a little creepy that a man, at the age of 63, is singing in this manor about someone," we get to the chorus...
It feels so good, loving you
Yeah, it’s so good, the way you do the do
It feels so good, and I need oxygen
"I need oxygen." I don't even need to crack a joke about age. He stole any punch line I could think of and made it part of his song. Seriously, the oxygen tank is typically for the elderly. I'm willing to bet that is not his intending meaning, but once I get on the track of thinking, "He's too old to sing about this," that's really all I can think when he gets to this line in the chorus.
I hope I'm not alone when I say it's creepy when someone is singing about subjects that are more youthful or juvenile than they should be. This isn't Green Day singing a fan favorite from Dookie or any number of truly classic artists that have remained popular and continue to play songs from their youth in concert. This is a new song, and it is targeting a far younger audience and from a far older person than it should be.
It's kind of like New Kids On The Block's attempted come back with Summertime or the less creepy (but equally age inappropriate) If It's Love by Train. Come on Patrick Monahan, you're 42...lose the fohawk and stop pretending you're out partying all night.
Of course, the age of the girls in the video don't help the creepiness or my inability to stifle laughter. At least Train's video decreases the creepy factor slightly by laughing at themselves (I think).
