# Name this (probably performed by a diva) song.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 18, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-probably-performed-by-a-diva-song/104370 "2002-04-18T19:33:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-probably-performed-by-a-diva-song/104370/1 "2002-04-18T19:33:11Z")

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Because curmudgeonlyness is so much more fun if you actually know the name and origin of what you detest, I’m hoping someone can clue me in on this song I hear played at my gym.

All I can tell you about it is that it’s vaguely reggae flavored, and has the following snatches of verbiage:

(1) Turn out the light, turn out the light

(2) then comes this yodelling part (!!?), something like: “Yodelly yoddelly yodelly yodelly down down down, turn out the light”

(3) Hi, Opal!

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**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-probably-performed-by-a-diva-song/104370/2 "2002-04-18T19:36:17Z")

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That would be Nelly Furtado, and the song is called “Turn Off the Light.”

- s.e.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-probably-performed-by-a-diva-song/104370/3 "2002-04-19T23:51:45Z")

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Thanks, **scott evil**. Judging by the context in which I’ve heard her name I guess she isn’t a diva after all, but I still don’t care much for the song. The gym is like the cesspool of all modern pop music that I don’t like, since I rarely go anywhere else that I can’t exercise at least partial control over it.