Justin Bieber seems to think "I'd" rhymes with "Mine". That's really all you need to know about this song.
"Somebody to Love" is not a Queen cover, and yes I was kidding when I said it was, and Justin Bieber is certainly no Freddy Mercury. ...Let's just start talking about the stupid song already. It's bad.
The song starts off with some strange "Gotta gotta gotta gotta" noises being sung by someone. I have no idea who. It couldn't be Bieber, the voice is completely different, but it doesn't seem to matter.
"Oh/Ohhhhh!"
Justin Bieber likes saying "Oh", it would seem.
"For you I'd write a symphony"
He never rhymes "Symphony" in this song.
"I'd tell the violin/It's time to sink or swim/March and play for 'ya"
...Violins? ...Marching?
...Am I missing some sort of common thread between these things? Because when I think marching band instrument, I don't exactly think of Violins.
"For you I'd be/Woahh woahh/Runnin' a thousand miles"
He never rhymes "miles" in this song.
"Just to get you where 'ya are/Step to the beat of my heart"
1. That doesn't rhyme.
2. I don't understand what "I'd run a thousand miles to get you where you are." is supposed to mean.
3. I also don't understand what "Step to the beat of my heart" means, but I'll dismiss that as lovey-dovey nonsense.
"I don't need a whole lot/Comin' from you I admit I'd/Rather give you the world/Or we can share mine"
First, he says "rather" give you the world. He never says what the other option is. Rather give her the world than... What? You... Never explain. Ever. That's only one half of the lyric.
Second, that doesn't rhyme either.
"I know I won't be the first one/Givin' you all this attention"
Ok, at least that rhymes. Sort of.
"I just need somebody to love!/I- I don't need too much/Just somebody to love"
Can anybody FIND me somebody to love?
"I don't need nothing else/I promise girl I swear"
That doesn't RHYME!
"I just need somebody to love/I need somebody/I- I need somebody/I need somebody/I- I need somebody"
We're quickly approaching Eenie Meenie territory here with all this repetition.
"Every day/I'd bring the sun around/slip away the clouds"
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a RHYME!
"Smile for me/smile for me"
"I would take/Every second/Every single time/Spend it like my last dime"
Hm. That's actually almost clever. Almost.
Then the chorus repeats, but it's so bland and generic, I don't think I can say anything about it. So... Next verse!
"Girl you can have it all/Anything you want/I can bring/Give you the finer things/But what I really want/I can't find 'cause money can't find me/Somebody to love!"
Really Bieber? Because it sounds to me like that's exactly what you just tried to do. Y'know. Bribe a girl into loving you? Basically this part of the song is just saying, "I'll pay you to love me because I can't buy love."
...And then the song repeats the chorus and pre-chorus for a minute forty. A MINUTE FORTY. This song is 3 minutes 42 seconds long. That means, not even counting the first TWO repetitions of the chorus, the last 35% or so of the song song is chorus! That's absurd! Let's compare that to a GOOD song, 1985 (Mild language) by Bowling For Soup. (covered by them at least... Popularized... Whatever. It's the best version.)
That song is around 3 minutes 13 seconds. The chorus is about 20 seconds long. They go through it twice at the end of the song, for a total of about 40 seconds. That's reasonable. Also, the chorus to that song goes,
"Springstien/Madonna/Way before Nirvana/There was U2/And Blondie/And music still on MTV/Her two kids/In high school/They tell her that she's uncool/'Cause she's still preoccupied/With 1985"
Now contrast that with...
"I just need somebody to love!/I- I don't need too much/Just somebody to love/I don't need nothing else/I promise girl I swear/I just need somebody to love/I need somebody/I- I need somebody/I need somebody/I- I need somebody"
Did you catch the difference? Let me spell it out for you, the chorus of THIS abomination is essentially the same line repeated ad nauseam. It would be like having the chorus to "1985" be,
"1985/Oh I wish it were 1985/1985/1985/Oh I wish it were 1985"
Do you get my point? The idea of a chorus is not to repeat the same line over and over again, it's to get across the main message of the song, in a way that's pleasant for the listener to hear. The chorus of "Somebody to Love" isn't even pleasant to listen to the FIRST time, let alone after 3-4 immediate repetitions. Even a chorus as AWESOME as "1985" has would get irritating after 3-4 repetitions in a row.
You see, the point of having verses in a song is to break up the lyrics, so it's not just the same set of lines being repeated. There's nothing wrong with a chorus, as I said it's basically the backbone of the song, but you simply CAN'T have a chorus carry on for a minute forty at the end of the song. It just doesn't work. It gets tedious and dull, no matter how great the lyrics are, and of course in this case it's even worse because the lyrics are tedious enough without being repeated 3-4 times in a row.
I think this is actually my least favorite Bieber song yet. At least the others rhymed! This is just dull, even more repetitive than Eenie Meenie, which I didn't think POSSIBLE, and just plain bad. Still nothing resembling an "epic lyric", although he did at least have one line that resembled "clever" in this song.
Next up, "One Less Lonely Girl". If it's worse than this one was, I may not survive.
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