Milow's song "You And Me (In My Pocket)" at first glance seems to be a really cute, fluffy song about how someone who is so in love that he wants to be with the person who loves all the time and everyday, a feeling probably everyone who has been in love once can relate to. The last lines of the song are "I really wish that you were smaller/Not just small but really really short/So I could put you in my pocket/And carry you around all day", which makes for a really endearing image somehow.
However, the way the song describes the other forms this wish takes is beyond creepy, destroying any possible romantic conotation. The second verse begins with "I wish you were a little bigger/Not just big but really really fat/Doors you would no longer fit through/In my bed you would have to stay". Not only is the choice of words anything but flattering but downright insulting and inconsiderate of people disabled due to genetic obesitiy or other diseases, it also suggests that the lyrical I would not mind their partner to be sick and immobile to the point of them being tied down to their bed, which again has loads of unfortunate implications. The next lines take the repulsive imagery even further: "I often wish that you had feathers/I'd keep you in a giant cage/All day long I'd sit and watch you". What at first sounds as if it could be an allusion to the beloved person being a winged angel is in fact the degradation of a human being to an animal being kept locked up as a pet, solely for the entertainment and pleasure of its owner. The last line tries to compensate for that, saying "I'd sing for you and that would be okay", trading the lyrical I's love and affection for the beloved's freedom. The chorus "Oh you and me/It would be only you and me" becomes a morbid promise, because the song hardly even hides that it has a rather psychopathic point of view: "I wish you were a little slower/Not just slow but paralyzed/Then I could plug you into a socket/So you could never run away". A promised love song in exchange for what basically sounds like the
life of a hostage tied to the bed of someone obsessed over them? That is
anything but romantic, that is more alike to the plot of Stephen King's
book "Misery", and definitely not an ideal topic for a
chipper love song.
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