Have You Heard That Song Entitled, ‘Good Girls?’

The Artist Goes By His First Name — Joe

I just finished writing an article about cultivating a long-distance relationship and having success as a conclusion. Then, I asked ‘Alexa’ to play a song I had been humming all day. In fact, I listened to it on the way in to work today and then, I also listened to it at lunch. Now that I think about it, I was playing the song in my office. One Sailor asked another, “Is that you?” The other Sailor said, “No, that’s Mr. Evans over here playing love songs.”

It was a quite comic relief moment in the office, but ask yourself this question. How much or how often does music influence your mode or the things you do? If you are driving and a head-banging song comes on, have you ever found yourself mashing on that accelerator just a little harder? Do you get a little more aggressive while driving when that high-tempo song comes on?

What about when you are a little sleepy and a slow song comes on? Do you get the sense that if you keep listening to that song, you might as well pull over, or you might end up in a ditch? It’s so easy to find yourself dozing-off to slower music and getting pumped when listening to fast music.

So, when I am Jeb-Bushing - my wife and I use that phrase when we have low energy - that’s when I have to pick-up the tempo, or I might not make it home.

And Joe talks about that in his song, “Good Girls.” In it, he expresses his desire to find himself a girl, but all the girls he meets already have a boyfriend. Man, what a bummer, especially because the woman don’t mention that they have a boyfriend at the onset.

Basically, Joe says that he is betrayed initially, because when he first meets a woman, she has the look in her eyes that says to him, she might be the woman he is looking to find.

You know how men are. We are just looking for a sign. Anything to indicate that we are on the right track. And if we see it, we are sliding in. We are going in for the kill.

But then the song says, “Suddenly my sunshine turns to rain, I dunno if it’ll ever come back again. That’s what you are — sunshine and rain, your eyes didn’t say you had a man.”

“Wait a second. Just a minute ago, it looked like we were about to hit it off,” he says. “Now, you got a man? Oh, my word.”

So that’s what this song is about. The melody is nice, the words and everything, they really bring you home, until you stop to listen to what he is really saying.

In the end, he is back in the world, by himself, thinking there must be a Roni — which is short for Tenderoni, which is a play off the old Bobby Brown/New Edition song named Tenderoni, which references a steak, but actually means a nice, fine woman. Joe says there must be a Roni in this world for him and by golly, he’s gonna find her.

So, if you haven’t heard the song, look it up. Let me know if the song means the same thing to you as it means to Joe. I really hope he finds his Roni.

About the author

Julius Evans has a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI; a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Communication and Leadership from Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ; a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from City University, Bellevue, WA and an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas.

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