Posisi Cheryl sebagai solois kini telah melewati batas sukses yang grupnya, Girls Aloud. Dengan mengantongi empat lagu nomor 1 di UK, Cheryl tak terhentikan sebagai salah satu vokalis wanita yang paling berpengaruh di UK. Bisa dipastikan kalau 'I Don't Care' akan menambah koleksi hit Cheryl, sebelum album "Only Human"-nya dirilis.
Jocke Ahlund, Bonnie McKee, John Newman, beserta Cheryl sepakat untuk membangun kembali kejayaan disko 80-an lewat single ini. So set your expectation high on this one. Pendengar hanyut dalam atmosfer disko pop sespesifik padanan musik era tersebut. Dan lagi, asli, Cheryl bermain apik dalam arena ini, menyiasati kelembutan vokalnya untuk sedikit garang men-sounding-kan lirik tentang keakuannya.
Ini bagian paling sedap dari lagu ini:
"I don't care//And it feels so f*cking good to say I swear//That I don't care//And everywhere//There are ordinary hearts so don't play fair//But I don't care"
Sosok semanis Cheryl bisa menggunakan F-word dalam lagunya demi mengukuhkan ide dan konsep lagu.
Mempersempit pandangan, lagu ini sepertinya jawaban bagi siapa saja yang meragukan keputusan Cheryl untuk menikah lagi. Terlihat dari barisan lirik di bagian verse, ia mencurahkan perasaan mengenai kesendirian di verse pertama, dan membalikkannya kepada kebahagiaan atas keputusan yang diambil untuk kembali menyandang nama belakang orang yang dikasihi.
Ini mungkin menarik bagi siapapun yang menyukai Cheryl dan musiknya. Akan semakin banyak aksi untuk mengorek-ngorek lagu dari sang pop goddess dan mengaitkan dengan pengalaman pribadinya. Maklum, ini sudah kesekian kali Cheryl curhat lewat single andalan dari albumnya. Menampilkan emosi yang riil terhadap apa yang dinyanyikan jauh lebih mudah jika berasal dari pengalaman sendiri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOHXSpE-v0
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(Ai Hasibuan / CreativeDisc Contributor)
LYRIC
Waking up diagonal like an animal in a cold and empty bed, yeah
Shaking off that dream of you, I got shit to do and I'm ready to forget, oh yeah
I heard you brought that girl around in half a gown and asked if I've been there, oh yeah
Ask me how I'm doing now, I scream out loud, I tell him I don't care
And I don't care
I don't care
And it feels so fucking good to say I swear
That I don't care
And everywhere
There are ordinary hearts so don't play fair
But I don't care
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no
In this town what gets around
But don't bring me down, just static in my head, yeah
So take me out and turn it up
Well let's make it rough
We're gonna wake the dead, oh baby
Everyone is saying now, just slow it down
Or I'll get hurt again, oh yeah
When these things are feeling me, it's healing me
And I'm screaming I don't care
And I don't care
I don't care
And it feels so fucking good to say I swear
That I don't care
And everywhere
There are ordinary hearts so don't play fair
But I don't care
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no
There's an arrow in your way
Doesn't matter anyway, oh oh
I can see the milky way and it seems so far away, oh
Doesn't matter anyway
It's all falling into place
Just ignore the pretty face
Disappears without a trace
There ain't nothing left to say
I don't care
Feels so good
Oh, I don't care, oh
I don't care
I don't care
And it feels so fucking good to say I swear
That I don't care
And everywhere
There are ordinary hearts so don't play fair
But I don't care
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no
I don't care
Oh
I don't care
Oh no