#964698 - 06/25/01 04:45 PM
Stupid lyrics and how to fix them
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dansouth
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Test your creativity. Post a stupid lyric along with your suggestion on how to fix it.
I'll demonstrate with a stinker from the early 80's:
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
- Wang Chung (who else?)
FIX # 1 (simple method):
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
FIX # 2 (drug and alcohol method):
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody get numb tonight
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#964699 - 06/25/01 04:58 PM
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I have no idea how to fix this one, but there is only *one* true rhyme in Ray Parker Jr.'s "The Other Woman" (a song I enjoy despite the lyrics). All the other rhymes are "sound alikes". Check it out:
Chorus:
I’m in love (I’m in love)
With the other woman
My life was fine (Life was fine)
Till she blew my mind
I’m just an average guy
I fool around a little on the side
Never thought it would amount to much
Never met a girl whose love was so tough
Who’d have though a one night stand
Could turn into such a hot romance
Mmm, well she did it to me
I slipped and fell in love
(Chorus)
I know the rules of the game
You hit once, then break away clean
I should have never gone back, I know
But I had to have just a little bit more
My friends laugh, but that’s all right
I may be a fool, but I know what I like
Now I hate to have to cheat
But it feels better when I sneak
(Chorus)
Oh, this affair is unique
All my life I never met such a freak <-- ONLY RHYME OF THE SONG
She keeps going strong for so long
When I get home it’s all go
This message has been edited by popmusic on 06-25-2001 at 02:41 PM
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#964700 - 06/26/01 02:31 AM
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Talk about - pop music
Talk about - pop music
Shooby dooby doo-bop,
Whop whop shoo-bop
New York London Paris Munich
Everybody talk about - pop music
Now, about fixing it...hmmm...well...actually, I don't think this can be fixed.
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#964701 - 06/26/01 05:07 AM
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d gauss
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...muskrat love.
ummm.... "big ass, new york city, eat your mama and yo car, this and no mickey mouse rat love"
-d. gauss
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#964702 - 06/26/01 10:55 AM
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Now the second line in this verse really SUX!!
Here she comes just a walkin' down the street
Singin' doo wa diddy, diddy dum, diddy doo...
See what I mean?
Now if one was to delve deep into one's artistic depths one could turn this lyrically retarded gobble-de-gook into a true masterpiece... observe...
Here she comes just a walkin' down the street
Singin' DUM DIDDY DOO, DIDDY WA, DIDDY DEE!!
SO THERE!!.... infinitely better!!
What's wrong with my 'infinitely'?
This message has been edited by Rowan on 06-27-2001 at 07:35 AM
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#964703 - 06/27/01 01:37 AM
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Nice work Rowan, I'd say you'd deserve at least 50% of the publishing for that....and after using autotune, infinitely would be spelled correctly. LOL Just joking!!!!
What I hate is when someone gives up before the song is over. How many times does one see a third verse that's only half as long or has a not so brilliant line of yeah, yeah, baby, baby, wella wella blah blah that barely skids desperately into the chorus out.
Oh yeah, and singing whatever over someone else's hook looped over and over counts as stupid lyrics by default IMHO....
Andy
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#964705 - 06/27/01 05:14 AM
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She will wear you out
Livin' la vida loca.
Fix:
She is down and out
Livin' on weed and coca.
This message has been edited by dansouth@yahoo.com on 06-27-2001 at 02:15 AM
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#964706 - 06/27/01 12:59 PM
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Originally posted by sysexguy:
What I hate is when someone gives up before the song is over. How many times does one see a third verse that's only half as long or has a not so brilliant line of yeah, yeah, baby, baby, wella wella blah blah that barely skids desperately into the chorus out.
Andy
You can always take the Herman's Hermits "Henry the 8th" approach...shamelessly admit to the listener you were too lazy to write anymore as you shout "Second verse, same as the first!" The suckiest thing about that is it actually works!
Later,
kc
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#964707 - 06/27/01 01:39 PM
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My wife writes the lyrics to our songs and I tell her as long as I can change a couple of words here and there or sylables to make it totally disgusting and sexual that we have good words..
Say like Elton John's "Your Son's going down on me".
Totally sick but works for him right...
Brian
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#964708 - 06/27/01 01:48 PM
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Radiohead's "Creep":
"I'm a Creep / I'm a weirdo"
I prefer the more artistic lyric, "I'm a Creep / I'm a riddle".
When I found out that they weren't really saying "riddle", I didn't like the song as much.
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#964709 - 06/27/01 02:10 PM
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What was the other Elton John lyric...
Bernie wrote "Hold me closer Tiny Dancer"
Elton wanted to change it to "Hold me closer Tony Danza"
HAHAHA
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#964710 - 06/28/01 04:26 PM
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"I'm not as naive as you think I am
Know what goes on between a woman and a man!"
The fix? Kill the songwriters. And the people
who developed the cynical concept of pre-fab groups.
They are an anti-human virus.
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#964711 - 07/07/01 07:01 AM
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Originally posted by Tedster:
What was the other Elton John lyric...
Bernie wrote "Hold me closer Tiny Dancer"
Elton wanted to change it to "Hold me closer Tony Danza"
HAHAHA
Ha ha. Laughed out loud, and I rarely do that at my PC. I applaud you. Although, lets not get into senseless Tony Danza bashing. "HEEEY!"( whoops)
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#964712 - 07/07/01 07:45 AM
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Okay, I had to do a search on the Internet to find the original Megadeth lyrics, because as soon as I heard them a few years ago, they got converted into something else:
The original:
Bestow upon me knowledge
Wizard, all-knowing, all-wise
I want to rule this kingdom
Make sweet the breeze, now defiled
Dethrone the evil prince's iron fists in velvet gloves of sin
The improved:
Bestow upon me buttocks
angular, and chisel-edged
thusly equipped shall I be enabled
to sit upon the slimmest ledge
Meaning of course, once you have your own ass squared away, you can be comfortable anywhere. What the original Dave Mustang lyrics mean I don't know. The meter is all wrong, but that never stopped anyone else did it.
-CB
PS. I thought it was "I'm a creep / armadillo". I get the feeling pop music lyrics aren't as cool as I thought they were.
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#964713 - 07/09/01 03:33 AM
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Not exactly a lyric fix post of mine, but now that we're talking Radiohead, I have the hardest time getting some of the lyrics...
Last song off OK Computer
"The box said no one else but me..."
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#964714 - 07/09/01 07:16 AM
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Smoke on the wahder
A fire engine guy
doesn't even rhyme
Smoke in the skyeeee
A fire engine guy
fixed
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