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butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway · 4 days ago

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God I will never be able to describe what the line "the dezi to his lucy" does to me in my soul

Anyway, don't mind me I'm just having a semi-public, week long meltdown over the role of language and how we convey meaning in our experiences of self . Have a song about it.

#it's one of the most cubano infinite entendres i've ever heard and the fact that it's a song called cohiba is just #oh god my heart #like you have to understand how many layers this phrase has #five words and at least twice as many levels of meaning #there's the surface play on words reference desi arnaz and lucille ball #there's the next level of commentary made by swapping the genders in the references:#the dezi (ref singer - f - to desi arnaz - m) to his** (in reference to singer's partner - m -#esp when the line in the priod stanza was read as:#the dezi (ref singer - f - to desi arnaz - m) to her lucy (ref singer's partner - f - to lucille balle - f)#which is of course an immediate pivot into the next layer of meaning - the queered experience of literal sitcom heterosexual couple who were #also real world married and the racialized elements of society that both contributed to and violated this queering of heterosexuality #the next layer of course the racism that neuters dezi arnaz despite his self-evident sex symbol status and the way that lucille ball #became racialized by association attracting accusations of 'wearing the pants in the marriage' like bigots believed a cubana would #then you get to the reinforcement of gendered and racialized violence that desi and lucy experienced not just from the rest of the world but #also in their marriage to each other. the allegations of abuse and coercion/control - the caricatures of self both played on tv - all of it #which is already as many layers of meaning as there are words in the goddamn line and BABES THERE IS MORE SOIL TO TURN #the fact that she precedes the first version of the line (dezi to HER lucy) with the phrase 'she wanna use me' and ends it 'she's so bad'#but precedes the next version (dezi to HIS lucy) with 'papichuli' and ends with 'he wanna seduce me he's so bad)#AND SPECIFICALLY PAPICHULI TOO NOT JUST PAPICHULO #calling him not just a pretty daddy #calling him Pretty Daddy (diminutive)#like oh GOD maam every time you release a song I lose my goddamn mind #i know for a fact there are layers here i'm still processing and I've already listened to the song literally a thousand times at least #and like #those are the layers of meaning as they apply to a SINGLE FIVE WORD PHRASE in the song #the whole song is written like that tho and listening is like being whalloped by the way we mix/blend language to convey subjective reality #again don't mind me i'm just fucking FERAL about this and nothing can save me but someone snarling papichuli in my ear while they rail me #Spotify

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