What does "make me do" mean?

[Jason West]

It's a common phrase.

google search with explicit quote marks (" ") around the phrase

"make me do" - Google Search

slightly different results without the quote marks

make me do - Google Search

[Heyclown]

ok. It´s just that the googlesearches do not make me any wiser on what it means. But thanks anyway.

[Heyclown]

Thanks. What I really needed; appreciated.

[cool.as.i]

Originally Posted by Frank_Case

It more or less means that you want to do something but are hesitating and are asking for reasons to make you get off the fence and do it. It's a plea to have someone make up your mind for you.



Any lyrics are valid lyrics. Forget the rules. Break the rules. Make your own rules. Makes me think of the old Beatles song "Love Me Do." I mean WTF does that mean? It can sound a bit foreign when you first hear it. But then you groove on it and soon buy the record. In sum, unique and fresh is good even if it may sound odd at first.

+1 for breaking the rules, be your own gauge.

I could be wrong because I haven't thought about it nor heard the song in a while but I thought "Love me do" is just short for "Love me....do love me" and I think this use of "do" was much more common 50-75 years ago and I guess I never thought twice about it because I can remember my grandpa using it a lot.

My sister or I would say, "Grandpa, we wanna come over next weekend," to which he'd reply "do, please" or "please, do" or use phrases like "do hang your clothes" or "do mind your mother."

[johnny nowhere]

Let me see if I can't put it into perspective for you, Heyclown. I only know Swedish, but I believe you'll get the gist. I understand that the modifier 'do' is not part of a Scandanavian language.

'do' means 'delta', that is to say, 'in process of the action'.

'Make me do' would mean 'betvinga min handling' sort of.

I hope that helps.

[Richardwynne]

Originally Posted by johnny nowhere

Let me see if I can't put it into perspective for you, Heyclown. I only know Swedish, but I believe you'll get the gist. I understand that the modifier 'do' is not part of a Scandanavian language.

'do' means 'delta', that is to say, 'in process of the action'.

'Make me do' would mean 'betvinga min handling' sort of.

I hope that helps.

Why in god's name would that help

[Heyclown]

Everything helps here Thanks

[Zachariah]

If it is referring to the older way of saying things, then it would be a sarcastic way of saying make me do something.

In the context of love, a topic that comes to mind would be an unequal balance in the commitment. Something like "I want to love you, but I don't feel the same way as you. I don't want to see you hurt either... DO make me love you."

Or in the sense of a challenge. Testosterone. Thinking back to Clint Eastwood "Make My Day" something like "Do Make Me get pissed off enough to slap the shit out of you."

[Heyclown]

Thanks

The context is kinda sexual, and the line is

"You´re the one that I OH-OH-OH Make me do"

The whole lyric is about a guy totally lost in a beautiful girl and the song/production is clubish; a 128 bpm 4->the Floor (what else oO).
The lyrics is supposed to be uplifting.
I for one would have used a different combination but I don´t wanna hurt my cowriter here by removing his contribution so I thought I should check it out at GZ.

[Heyclown]

Originally Posted by Frank_Case

Just wrap some BS around it and come up with something silly like the above.

Firstly, thanks.
Yeah that´s what I feel I do. I feel it is really hard to write these club-ish sexual oriented tracks without the lyrics just becoming plain stupid.
Guess some of the trick is good metaphors.

I really like some of Usher´s lyrics in those type of song.

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by Heyclown

Firstly, thanks.
Yeah that´s what I feel I do. I feel it is really hard to write these club-ish sexual oriented tracks without the lyrics just becoming plain stupid.
Guess some of the trick is good metaphors.

I really like some of Usher´s lyrics in those type of song.

I love pop music and I mean music made for the population of people that buy music. I love the perfect corniness and the feeling of it.

That being said...make me do is a bit played...imo...unless you flip it the right way....

Right off the bat, it sounds dated, but that can be a good thing is flipped the right way.

All I can say is tap into the corniness and play it for what it is. You know when you're on a roll? You know...when you're in front of a girl that you've been trying to impress for a while and you get her laughing and everything that you say keeps her laughing. That's pretty much the spot you should be aiming for with this. Not the laughing (per se) but emotion of temptation and lust. I think it will be a solid way to present these lyrics.

[scitscat]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

I love pop music and I mean music made for the population of people that buy music. I love the perfect corniness and the feeling of it.

That being said...make me do is a bit played...imo...unless you flip it the right way....

Right off the bat, it sounds dated, but that can be a good thing is flipped the right way.

If you believe it sounds dated, then do a flashback and make it more for a longer term couple. Today's club society would be like last week. : )

[Chucho]

Originally Posted by Frank_Case

It more or less means that you want to do something but are hesitating and are asking for reasons to make you get off the fence and do it. It's a plea to have someone make up your mind for you.



Any lyrics are valid lyrics. Forget the rules. Break the rules. Make your own rules. Makes me think of the old Beatles song "Love Me Do." I mean WTF does that mean? It can sound a bit foreign when you first hear it. But then you groove on it and soon buy the record. In sum, unique and fresh is good even if it may sound odd at first.

Love me, do.
or
Do love me.

You don't get that ?

"make me do" is nonsense unless there is more to put it in context.

[Chucho]

Originally Posted by Frank_Case

Everybody already knows that. "Love me do" is just backwards for "Do love me." And "Make me do" is just short for "Make me do it." My only point was that imperfect English and slang are acceptable in songs.

you said
"Love Me Do." I mean WTF does that mean?

I said it does mean something.

"Make me do" in itself doesn't mean anything. It is not shorthand for the phrase for 'make me do it'.

As your second language I can see that it's a bit complicated from time to time.

[NYCruiser]

Punctuation is everything…LOL

Make, me do
Make me, do

[theblue1]

I'll make it do. (I will make the object in question suffice.)

It will do. (The object will be sufficient or adequate to the task or situation.)

I'll make do. (I'll get by.)

So, in that context, one might interpret make me do as meaning, make me sufficient to your needs. Or, perhaps in another way of saying it, settle for me.

I guess.


That said, it's a bit awkard, without question.

And, for the record, I've always thought "Love Me, Do" was a pretty lame bit of lyric. (Glued to a pretty ingratiating song. It all worked out for them. )


PS... I sort of like the make me, do interpretation. Echoes back to the Beatles and that might help folks get the meaning.

Originally Posted by Heyclown

Thanks

The context is kinda sexual, and the line is

"You´re the one that I OH-OH-OH Make me do"

The whole lyric is about a guy totally lost in a beautiful girl and the song/production is clubish; a 128 bpm 4->the Floor (what else oO).
The lyrics is supposed to be uplifting.
I for one would have used a different combination but I don´t wanna hurt my cowriter here by removing his contribution so I thought I should check it out at GZ.

Maybe I should have read on before answering above.

Yeah, that lyric is simply nonsensical. It means nothing intrinsically. Or, conversely, in the context of pop music expression, it means whatever you want it to mean. Just don't count on other folks to get it. (That said, club music, so much of it is gibberish, anyhow, who really cares if it's got a good vibe and maybe a couple of hook phrases so people can remember it after they come down? Er, I mean, get home.)

[Chucho]

Originally Posted by NYCruiser

Punctuation is everything…LOL

Make, me do
Make me, do

You're all doing a stirling job of making sense of it but it's not going to work.
Use it by all means. Write a 3 hour opera using only the words 'make me do'.
It's still won't make it mean anything.

[Heyclown]

Thanks, no worries. "Make me do" was the only 3 words I questioned in that lyric. I´m amused and entertained by the tread. And learning all the way.

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by Chucho

[...] Write a 3 hour opera using only the words 'make me do'.
[...]

So 80s.

[Tinderwet]

Make me doo doo would also work.