I love Nelly. I mean I went out and bought the double CD like so many other fans.

"Drop down and get your eagle on girl."

Really, Nelly, "Flap Your Wings"?

How do these artists come up with these lyrics?

I'm all for turning up the volume on my radio and dancing alone in my car just as much as the next person, but aren't these song lyrics getting just a bit out of hand? You be the judge.

And while we're on animals and all, how about that country song by Big & Rich that says, and I quote, "Save a horse, ride a cowboy."

I don't know about you, but my preferred choice of transportation does not include a four-legged animal that slaps the flies away with his tail.

And I just love listening to a three-minute song about someone sporting their white T-shirt wherever they go.

"I slang in my white tee/I bang in my white tee/All in the club spitting game in my white tee."

I must admit, whether I think the lyrics are genius or not, I still find myself repeating the song to myself, hoping others aren't listening.

As much as I want to put those songs and the artists who write them in the dog house for making money off of bad lyrics, it's inevitable that I'll catch myself humming one of the tunes.

What disappoints me the most is the fact that I didn't think of the song before. It just seems as if anybody can throw some lyrics together nowadays and call it music.

What if I would've made a song about sporting a pink tee?

I know you're probably rolling your eyes just like my brother does every time I propose that idea to him.

Call me old fashion, but whatever happened to the Aretha Franklin lyrics such as, "A Rose is Still a Rose."

"Cause a rose is still a rose/Baby, girl, you're still a flower/He can't leave you and then take you/Make you and then break you/Darlin', you hold the power."

It's basically about the girl being in control of her relationship and not letting the guy run over her. Now, that's girl power.

Or the Luther Vandross, "Wait for Love."

Isn't that something we can all relate to?

"Wait for love that you've been missing/Sometimes love takes a long time."

The moral is to be patient. And patience is a virtue.

Heck, I'll even take Phil Collins' "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore."

"Things can change, from a misunderstanding/Nobody talks, nobody hears, oh oh oh/Makes me wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore/Oh I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore."

When I asked my good friend Brandon about a song with positive lyrics, he suggested Percy Sledge's classic "When a Man Loves a Woman."

"When a man loves a woman/Can't keep his mind on nothin' else/He'd change the world/For the good thing he's found."

Now that's something I can agree with.

Isn't ironic that the songs with good lyrics have to do with love? After all, isn't that what the world needs now?

Back to bad lyrics. Sorry, but I'm going to pick on R. Kelly.

"You remind me of my jeep, I wanna ride it É And something like my bank account I wanna spend it, baby."

So maybe I'm taking these songs too literally, but if a guy tells me how much I remind him of his Jeep, I might just be tempted to run him over with it.

Amber Miles is a senior journalism major from Dallas and serves as editor for The Tech Talk. E-mail comments to anmiles24@hotmail.com.