The Big Question: DID Helen Keller Talk With Her Hips?

During my high school’s Senior Awards Night, there was a dispute a couple of days before for the valedictorians to dance to 3OH!3’s “Don’t Trust Me,” a hip and magical song about love and easy women hitting on aroused men in a bar. Personally, I like the beat. I could dance to it all night without being bored of it. However, a high school ceremony that honors students who spent their entire life gaining respect from professional adults is not exactly the best place to play this song. Choose your environmental surroundings wisely before pressing the play button.

Lyrics. The first verse introduces the woman that the lead singer spends pretty much the entire song talking about. She’s your typical chick: black dress, goal-setting actress, and money from parents who might have had a mysterious and unexplainable death. She’s obviously got a boyfriend who claims that he has “beef” somewhere in his body (who would've EVER guessed), but HOLD ON! Luckily, the lead singer doesn’t have to worry; he’s a vegetarian, so no harm can be done!

The chorus makes a clear lesson: don’t trust a ho. Although she tells him things that he wants to hear but knows are not true, he still gives in. Go figure. And I have to thank him for repeating three times not to trust a ho. I’ll take that to heart. The second verse sums up that the girl seems innocent and lonely and is just looking for a good time, but is actually hiding a secret that no one can tell, possibly a drug addiction or some abuse from the boyfriend. Apparently, the singer does not care, and I don’t think "The Ho" does either. The lyrics really have no deep meaning other than “I wanna have relations with that girl and I don’t care WHO or WHAT she is!” Bravo...bravo...

Ali’s favorite: Here is the question of the day. DID Helen Keller talk with her hips? According to several online sources, she was engaged but did not move on to the next stage. And seeing that she was living in the early twentieth century, hips were probably not moving around in the manner that 3OH!3 were jamming about. But who knows? Thomas Jefferson had African American children with curly red hair. Perhaps Helen Keller WAS doing the deed! The world may never know. What we DO know is that 3OH!3 is using the Helen Keller term that some Apples-to-Apples gamers would like to call “senseless” in order to make their song funny and sexy. IS it funny to make fun of a blind and deaf woman? That is where the question stands. Compared to the rest of the world and their Helen Keller jokes, 3OH!3 did not do much bad in this. Admit it…you laughed. I did. They did. We all did.

While listening to “Don’t Trust Me”, I am enjoying the soft intro of electronics that sound similar to a ping pong game. The distorted electronic guitar chords during the chorus, however, are a bit annoying. But it's not a big deal. Truly, there is just a quiet electronic part during the verses and then a drum beat with some distortion, and then it ends with some electronic sound-effects. I applaud this band seeing that they did not even have to add too much background music to make this song sound good. It’s popular among the crowds and fans, so it works. But the high notes coming from the singers were more of a “Hah Hah, you sound funny!” rather than a “Wow! You guys have sexy voices!” Don’t get me wrong though, I do not think that singing the backgrounds in your range would make the song sound the way it is.

So there’s my review of “Don’t Trust Me” from 3OH!3. By the way, it’s not a typo for those who have never heard of this band. 3OH!3. Learn it, because I think that they will become even more popular later on. Listen to their album, “Want”, and their hit single “Don’t Trust Me”, and then decide for yourself whether you enjoy this song or not.

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