arkstangent ([info]arkstangent) wrote,
@ 2008-12-30 15:11:00
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Current location:The Stone
Current mood: flippant
Current music:Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Thank you, Pandora.)
Entry tags:beyonce

Posit: Beyonce
I admit I might not be the most in the know with crunked out language of teh hip-hops.  I also admit that I enjoy the beat in Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).  But I propose that what she's asking is implausible.
Her line is, "If you like it, then you should have put a ring on it."  Is she admonishing her hapless beau that he should gave pierced her nipples?  Her labia?  Given her a crown?  Because I assure you that her finger, the "it" that usually provides the real estate for a ring, is not why the male was dating her.
Color me chauvinistic if you will, but I think she's asking for the wrong thing - not to mention, she doesn't score a lot of points for commoditizing herself.
Anywho, she can have another me in a minute if she wants.
Dance biscuits!




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[info]eilonwy
2008-12-31 05:16 am UTC (link)
Well, perhaps her finger is a metonym for her entire self. Or vice versa. It's understood that if you like "it" it's a reference to her body, whereas the second "it" is the metonym. (There may be a better term than that-- the one where it means referring to a part but meaning the whole, but I can't recall it.)

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[info]lizabethanqueen
2008-12-31 03:40 pm UTC (link)
Synecdoche!!! It's a part referring to a whole.

Metonym is a representation (white house for government, crown for monarch, etc)

I actually remember my teacher in 12th grade English being a stickler about this...

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[info]arkstangent
2009-01-02 02:04 pm UTC (link)
Ahh, well analyzed.
Post modern music with early modern stylings.

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