I need you to need me.
February 10, 2015
By Gonzalo López Martí / LMMIAMI.COM
- Marshall McLuhan saw it coming with uncanny clairvoyance.
- Ditto Andy Warhol when he said, in 1968, that eventually everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
- However, nobody defined social media as masterfully and accurately as Cheap Trick, that toothless ‘burb rock bland band from the 70s.
- Check out the lyrics below:
- I want you to want me.
- I need you to need me.
- I’d love you to love me.
- I’m beggin’ you to beg me.
- I want you to want me.
- I need you to need me.
- I’d love you to love me.
- I’ll shine up my old brown shoes.
- I’ll put on a brand new shirt
- I’ll get home early from work
- If you say that you love me.
- Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin, cryin’).
- Oh, Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin, cryin’)
- Feelin’ all alone without a friend
- You know you feel like dyin’ (dyin’, dyin’).
- Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin’, cryin’).
- I want you to want me.
- I need you to need me.
- I’d love you to love me.
- I’m beggin’ you to beg me.
- I’ll shine up my old brown shoes.
- I’ll put on a brand new shirt
- I’ll get home early from work
- If you say that you love me.
- Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin, cryin’).
- Oh, Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin, cryin’)
- Feelin’ all alone without a friend
- You know you feel like dyin’ (dyin’, dyin’).
- Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin’, cryin’).
- Feelin’ all alone without a friend
- You know you feel like dyin’ (dyin’, dyin’).
- Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin’, cryin’).
- Feelin’ all alone without a friend
- You know you feel like dyin’ (dyin’, dyin’).
- Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I,
- See you cryin’ (cryin’, cryin’).
- I want you to want me.
- I need you to need me.
- I’d love you to love me.
- I’m beggin’ you to beg me.
- *Title: I Want You To Want Me
- Songwriter: Nielsen, Rick © EMI Music Publishing
- Boy they nailed it.
- They nailed it good.
- The percussive litany.
- The Tourette-like repetitive metric.
- They were tweeting 30 years ahead of their time.
- You might sense a certain nostalgia on my part.
- The longing for a bygone era of full sentences and real human interaction.
- Am I criticizing the newfangled platforms of communication?
- Not at all.
- After all, the song is the same.
- SocMed is not good nor is it bad: it simply is.
- It’s here to stay.
- We Latinos are addicted to the thing probably like no other demographic group.
- We crave the attention, we love the gossip, we thrive on escapism.
- We do it without a shred of guilt, remorse or self-consciousness.
- Our moms made us this way.
- Let’s ride this wave.
- Let’s not miss this train.