# Lessons I've learned from pop music
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033 "2006-07-18T16:20:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/1 "2006-07-18T16:20:23Z")
1.) If you refer to someone as “baby”, inevitably there will come a time when they will drive you crazy. That’s just par for the course.
2.) Love comes from one place and one place only - up above. If you think you’ve found love and it didn’t come from up above, then you don’t have the genuine article.
3.) If you really, honestly, truly don’t care, the best way to show this is to throw your arms into the air and wave them around. Don’t worry, everyone will know what you mean.
What else have you learned from pop music?
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/2 "2006-07-18T16:27:50Z")
“ **You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd** ”
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/3 "2006-07-18T16:33:01Z")
Anyone who has “arms” will inevitabley also have “charms.”
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/4 "2006-07-18T16:37:44Z")
If somethone makes you sad, it’s even odds on whether they’ll soon be making you mad, or glad.
…and dancinc is often followed by romancing. Or vice-versa
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/5 "2006-07-18T16:38:53Z")
There’s more than one way to leave a lover.
Oh, and tugging on Superman’s cape is a bad idea.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/6 "2006-07-18T16:41:03Z")
If you want a thrill you’re going to have to deal with a hill in some fashion.
It’s almost impossible to have the blues unless you have (or want to get) some shoes.
Anybody killed in a wreck involving a teenager will become an angel.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/7 "2006-07-18T16:53:31Z")
A mountain is something you don’t want to f\*ck with…
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/8 "2006-07-18T17:19:26Z")
If the topic is desire, you will eventually be reminded of something burning.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/9 "2006-07-18T17:40:54Z")
That if anything bad ever happens to your eyes as a result of some sort of conflict with anyone named _Nanook_, the only way you can get it fixed up is to trudgin’ across the tundra, mile after mile, nudgin’ across the tundra, right down to the parish of St. Alfonzo.
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/10 "2006-07-18T18:32:27Z")
The moon seems to be out on nights in June the most.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/11 "2006-07-18T18:46:31Z")
If you ever find yourself on your knees, you are obligated to either be A) begging “please”, or b) ready to please.
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/12 "2006-07-18T19:13:07Z")
Everything’s about love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
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### Author:  [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/13 "2006-07-18T19:16:14Z")
We don’t have to take to take our clothes off to have a good time.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/14 "2006-07-18T19:34:26Z")
Jesus was a man. He was a carpenter by hand. He was a hard working man and brave. But the cops and the preachers they nailed him to a cross. And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/15 "2006-07-18T19:36:02Z")
Working in a coal mine sucks.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/16 "2006-07-18T19:36:46Z")
Voices carry.
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### Author:  [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/17 "2006-07-18T19:37:46Z")
That the atmosphere of the planet on the other side of Mars may on occassion condense in someone’s locks.
More practical, though: you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. Although, on reflection what’s Mick really saying, “sometimes you CAN get what you want and sometimes you DON’T get what you need”? True wisdom indeed.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/18 "2006-07-18T19:50:20Z")
> [@Argent Towers](#):
>
> Everything’s about love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love is all you need…
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/19 "2006-07-18T20:07:09Z")
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are.
There’s a lady who knows all that glitters is gold. And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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### Author:  [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/20 "2006-07-18T20:12:10Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#):
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> A mountain is something you don’t want to f\*ck with…
Unless you happen to be a Voodoo Chile, of course, in which case all you’ll need is the back of your hand.
Also, **lyin’** is often a precursor to **cryin’** and, if left untreated, can ultimately result in **dyin’**.
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