Darius Rucker’s song “I Got Nothing” came out May 15th, 2011. In the song it talks about how a woman wants to leave and the man doesn’t want her to, but he doesn’t have any magic words to tell her to stop her from leaving. Other popular songs by him are “Don’t think I don’t think about it”. This song talks about how even stars hurt and how they think about the past, and it’s hard to leave someone that you love. This song is helping shape ideology because it talks about a fight that led to someone leaving, and it shows how Darius feels. A lot of people can relate to that, having someone leave them. It really stops and makes you think and wonder if you could have done anything or said anything to stop someone from leaving you in the past or the near future. This song to me breaks a stereotype about love and relationships, because they’re not all perfect like they make them out to be.
This song, “ I got nothing”, in the beginning talks about the setting of the song and how he’s stayed up all night apologizing to his wife. They knew what this fight was going to lead to, and they’ve been waiting for it for a long time. He wants to say something to change her mind, but he doesn’t know what to say. He was hoping maybe if he said something then it would buy him more time to think about what to tell her. He has nothing to say though, to stop her from leaving, and to stop him from hurting. All he does is pray to God, hoping to give him something to say as he watches her pack her bags. Then, take off her ring, slip it off. He wants to get down on his knees again with that ring, and tell her what she wants to her, but he just says he has nothing to stop her from really leaving. He says towards then end, “If you go I got nothing”. And then she leaves.
This song goes against the dominant ideology of love and relationships because; it talks about the heartbreak, and the hurting. Our country’s ideal love relationship is perfect, and happy. It never really talks about how the relationships end, if they do end. It doesn’t talk about all the hearts that are broken and the pain at night when you’re feeling lonely. They don’t tell you that when the word love comes along, I don’t know why. And that’s what this song talks about, how to handle someone leaving you, and that’s what you got to be ready for when you are ready to love.
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