Be my Valentine?

Artist of the week: As many of you know I’m an avid club culture music fan. My tastes vary over multiple styles and genres of club/electro music. I love B-more club and French electro so I figured I’d include these things in my blog discourse moving forward. Click on the Teenage Bad Girl image in this post to see a new electro artist I just found that’s in the same vein as most of the stuff on Ed Banger Records. More on this shit later.

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So it’s Valentine’s day, another made up holiday where you are made to feel obligated to spend money for the sake of proving your love for your significant other in order to counter their own insecurities regarding the legitimacy of your relationship. And it’s only on this day that it’s required; I mean, buy roses for your girlfriend any other day and it’s super sweet and thoughtful, but, buy them on valentines day and it wasn’t just thoughtful because you made the right decision. In this case you’ve saved yourself from the dreaded consequences of not caring for your significant other on this monstrosity of a holiday that Greeting Card companies have unleashed on this earth. Christmas is similar, only instead of love/sex it deals with the social dynamics of family relationships, but I tend to go easier on the obsurdity of Christmas because unlike Valentines day, Christmas used to be a REAL holiday fueled by religious belief and positive undertones. I’m not Christian or religious, but I think that having substance underneath the hype of the holidays not involving greed and insecurity is important.

This brings me to something I was thinking today while talking to a friend my friend Jennifer Peters. That something was, “what the hell does ‘be my valentine’ mean anyway?” Like, does it mean you’re asking for sex? Or maybe some lovin’? Or maybe you’re just asking for some innocent affection? I’m sure if you already have a girlfriend or wife you wouldn’t be asking for someone to be your Valentine since they’re already established as your other half. So theoretically “be my valentine” is more of a request to someone who may not necessarily be involved with you romantically at the time. Which also suggests that being a valentine is something that must be requested and accepted or you can’t brag about this girl being your valentine. But if someone agree’s to this “valentine” relationship, it really can only last until the end of Valentine’s day and then you got nothing, which makes me question the motives of having a valentine.

I think some guy should take a girl out with him to the bar and out with his friends until his friends are like “who’s this? Your girlfriend?” and he can be like “No dawg, this is my valentine.” and then the friends can be like “what do you mean?” and then the guy would answer his phone and be like “Oh hey baby-it’s my girlfriend one sec guys-yeah, yeah, I love you too, see you tonight.” and then he could be like “Hey so my valentine wants to get out of here, catch u later guys.” Hahaha.. It’d be awesome.