an idiotic song

It is a popular song on the country radio these days, called "Must Be Doing Something Right" by Billy Currington. I can't stand it. Here are the lyrics:

A woman is a mystery
Man just can’t understand
Sometimes all it takes to please her
Is the touch of your hand
And other times you gotta take it slow
And hold her all night long
Heaven knows there’s so many ways
A man can go wrong

Must be doing something right
I just heard you sigh
Leaned into my kiss
And closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don’t know what I did
To earn a love like this
But baby I must be doing something right

Anywhere you wanna go
Baby show me the way
I’m open to suggestions
Hmm, whatever you say
Tonight’s about giving you what you want
Whatever it takes
Girl I hope I’m on the right road
Judging by the smile on your face

Must be doin’ something right
I just heard you sigh
Leaned into my kiss
And closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don’t know what I did
To earn a love like this
But baby I must be doing something right

Oh baby
Hmmm

Don’t know what I did
To earn a love like this
But baby I must be doing something right
Must be doing something right

Oh yeah
Must be doing something right


Okay, here is why I hate this song. It is for the same reason that I hate it when athletes invoke God after they win a big game. "Thank you Jesus for making me a badass!" (There are a few athletes who I think are genuine in their expressions like these, but few and far between.) They know it is rude and egotistical to just say, "I am a badass!" So they fake humility and are blasphemous instead of egotistical.

We get the same phenomenon in this song. "You can see what a great guy I am, what a lover I am, what a great kisser, blah blah blah."

Maybe this is just a song about getting a woman's body to react. And if it is, then whoopity-freaking-doo. But if this is a song about being loved, then he misses the most important point about love. Love cannot be earned; it can only be given. This singer needs a way to pump himself up - I must be doing something right to earn this love - rather than accept love humbly as a gift. He inverts the relationship because he thinks he is a stud for evoking love.