Niall Horan “Nice to Meet Ya”…worst lyrics ever?

My experience with Mr. Niall Horan is limited to the One Direction hits, and a couple of his songs as a solo artist. I actually like “This Town” and “Too Much To Ask,” but a single he released at the end of 2019 has the worst lyrics I’ve ever heard in both my ears. 

If you can bear, take a listen…


The YouTube video has over 32 mil views, so maybe I’m in the minority here. Honestly, the video was just OK but he has rabid fans so they’ll watch (and like) anything. Even the song itself… lots of praise via the YouTube comments but Niall has stated he wrote the song in a day… and I believe it. The lyrics are so very simple, too simple. Literally nothing happens in the “story”. He says he likes this woman, and wants her number. That’s it. 

I’m also going to venture a guess that this tattoo he says he’ll get (“I want your number tattooed on my arm”) will be one of his biggest life regrets. I’m sorry if you’ve ever lost 3 minutes of your life listening to this song… but maybe I can make it better. 

Try this one and hopefully it will cleanse your ear holes (and for more about this Maroon 5 video, click here)…


Thanks for stopping by! 

-Out of the Wilderness

 

Top 10 moments from Super Bowl Weekend

I’m going to be totally honest with you right now. My original plan was to make a list of my top 10 favorite Super Bowl commercials but the first few ads airing after kickoff were movie promotions. Nothing turns me off more than those types of commercials during the Super Bowl. I want to laugh. I want to cry. What I DON’T want is a movie trailer. So right away, I gave up on making that list. The first half of the game was somewhat entertaining but I felt the urge to turn the TV off and do some work. I know, what am I thinking? So instead of watching the rest of the game, including the halftime show that interested me about as much as math, I drove to downtown Nashville to deliver food with Uber Eats.

BUT! I do still have a list for you… my favorite moments from the entire weekend!

Top 10 Moments From Super Bowl Weekend:

10. Chatting with a couple after delivering their dinner with Uber Eats

9. Selling my DJI Mavic Air drone

8. The Chiefs impressive 4th quarter comeback to defeat the 49ers in the Super Bowl

7. Listening to Kevin Harlan’s Super Bowl play-by-play on the radio

6. In church, learning a new Latin phrase: ex nihilo

5. Seeing Don Shula and Dan Marino before the Super Bowl started

4. Watching my beagle Piper dig for moles in the backyard

3. Playing catch with the captain of my softball team

2. Worshiping on Sunday with a song my brother showed me months ago, “Waymaker”…


Like I said earlier, I watched some of the first half, and did get to catch the last 2 minutes of the game when I got home. But because I was driving around town for a couple hours, I missed most of the game… so without further ado, the #1 highlight of my Super Bowl weekend is…

1. Not being subjected to the Super Bowl halftime show

Thanks for stopping by! What were your highlights from the weekend? I’ll leave you with this… one of my favorite Super Bowl commercials of all time. This aired in last year’s game. Go Jeep!


-Out of the Wilderness

Gunshots rang out like a bell

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s gunshots at 3am! Who’s with me?? Last night I was sleeping (not very soundly, I’ll admit) when I was awakened by ne’er-do-wells in the middle of the night. I just so happen to have the moment I woke up on camera. Take a look at who was aware of the situation before I was…


Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well the rest of the night as proved by my sleep stats, recorded thanks to Garmin Vivoactive HR. My heart rate also spiked around 310am.


Listen, if you’re going to be shooting off your guns at 3am and zipping around town like you’ve got somewhere to be, do it somewhere else. This guy needs his beauty sleep! All joking aside, this really ticks me off. Thankfully, it’s very rare that I hear any gunshots but when I got out of bed to see what was going on, I felt extremely judgmental and justified in being that way. There were 3 cars in this little encounter and I don’t know if there was animosity or if they were just shooting for the fun of it. I can’t decide which I’d rather it be. But hopefully they won’t come back this way again. Just grow up…. and also… go to bed! It’s 3am!

Nothing good happens after midnight.

-Out of the Wilderness

Meghan Trainor “Nice To Meet Ya” video… a vampire dancer and a pricey printer

Meghan Trainor has a new video for “Nice To Meet Ya” (I know what you’re thinking, but no, it’s not Niall Horan “Nice To Meet Ya”), and the video seems to be a hit with Megatronz. Take a look…


Meghan Trainor and Nicki Minaj are obviously the stars of the song/video, but how about that printer! Am I right? It’s the Sharp MX-M623N and it’s featured in a whopping 10 different clips throughout the video.

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This laster printer will set you back a few bucks, but it boasts 62 b&w pages per minute! So for the length of this video (3 min, 17 sec), Meghan could’ve also printed off 203.5 pages. In other words, the average length of a best-selling novel! Or about 6 of my children’s books, which you can conveniently find by clicking here or message me for signed copies 🙂

Actually, based on the screen grab below from the video, maybe she DID print out a novel, but she’s sitting on it till she gets a good publishing deal.

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The office desks are blue and you’ll notice throughout the video, many scenes show blue items in front or on top of pink items.

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This might represent the viewpoint that society (and business, in general) is a male-dominated space. This fits the theme of the song, too, which puts into lyrics the idea that women are no longer going to conform to what they think they should be for a man’s sake. Women are equal, hear them roar.

Quite possibly the most dramatic part of the video is the woman in pastel blue (right side of image below). SHE MIGHT BE VAMPIRE!!! Notice how she is not visible in the mirror reflection of the women. This also fits the theme of the song that women can be whatever they want, EVEN VAMPIRES!

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Meghan wears 5 different wardrobe ensembles but she and Nicki Minaj are the only ones who don’t wear any pastel colors (excluding Nicki’s pink hair and Meghan’s handkerchief-type things at the tail end of the video). All the other men and women– excuse me– women and men, are wearing bright colors. Meghan sticks to black, white, and gray.

By the end of the video, pink is the dominate color scheme. No doubt this was on purpose, as shown with Meghan sitting in a blue chair holding up a large pink newspaper, and her heavy pink eye shadow.

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Thanks for stopping by! If you have any comments, feel free to chime in below.

-Out of the Wilderness

I suck at relationships

This is kind of just a reminder to myself that I’m terrible at relationships. You, kind reader, think about a few of the worst things a man can do to sabotage a relationship and I’ve probably done it. I mean, I’ve never cheated or done any physical harm, but I’ve been a bully. I’ve said things that were mean. I didn’t care. I was selfish.

It’s why a lot of my posts are about failed relationships or terrible dates. Had I got it right, even once, these things I write and post would be a lot different. My life would be a lot different. I wouldn’t be 41 and single. I may not even have 2 dogs. Hell, I may not even live in Nashville if I did even one less selfish thing in the handful of meaningful relationships I’ve been in.

Who knows! Ya know? We’ll never know what might have been… and while that is a Debby Downer kind of thought, I guess my story, and yours, too, is still being written. Let’s not give up quite yet, OK? I have a feeling we’re somewhere in the middle but the rest of the story is about to get really good.

-Out of the Wilderness