Inspired by this thread, I wanted to get off my chest a song lyric that has bugged me since Idon’t know when. The song is, Bust a Move by Young MC:
Your best friend Harry has a brother Larry
In five days from now he’s gonna marry
He’s hopin you can make it there if you can
'Cause in the ceremony you’ll be the best man
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OK, so your best friend’s brother wants you to be his best man…if you can make it. Does this guy not have any friends of his own? And how is it someone decides on a best man only five days before the wedding, if you can make it that is. C’mon! other than that I have no problem with the lyrics of this or any other rap song.
Cherish, Kool & Gang, unless I’m missing something…
“If you receive your calling before I awake would I make it throught the night”- if you’re alseep and someone you know dies, you’re not even aware of it- why would you not make it thru the night?
Corrosion of Conformity has a song with the line “help me Jesus help me clean my wounds/he said he cannot heal that kind”- saying my kind instead that kind would have resulted in a great double meaning- how did they miss that?
And my current most annoying, Keith Carradine “I’m Easy”- I can’t bars or my insides- friggin love song and he calls his heart his insides?? Becasue heart didn’t have enough syallables and he was too dumb to come up with a different line? This has to be a scrambled eggs type thing that they forgot to fix.
One more that annoys me so that I could do a pit thread on- whatever Nelly Furtado song has her claim “I live my life by the moon/If it’s high I do something, harvest something else, full something…”. Do you really? You really live your life based on the type of moon? Were there any people in history who did this? No?Just you- ok.
I would love to go up to her and ask- hey what kind of moon was it last night and what did you do as result? Oh you made that up? Big surprise.
Alternative interpretation of that line: But in this ever changing world in which we’re livin’
Now you can sleep the peaceful sleep of a satisfied grammar nazi.
Oops! Nearly forgot!
Shannon Noll’s song Lift, used as the opening theme to the Australian version of The Biggest Loser I know you’re hurtin’
Feels like you’re learnin’ [twitch] ‘Bout life the hard way
And it ain’t workin’
They almost rhyme. They nearly rhyme. But… they don’t friggin rhyme!
(Apologies if I got the lines wrong - posting before my five minute edit window closes!)
I find that part is almost comprehensible compared to the next few lines:
But after midnight
Morning will come
And the day will see, yeah
If you’re gonna get some
OK, Nelly, misuse some quasi-mystical female-empowering moon imagery if you will. But don’t switch from the first to second person as arbitrarily as you switch images, mmmkay? And when you sing a song about self-examination and getting past false fronts (though I’m probably reading way too much into it), don’t put in a throwaway line that sounds like a double-entendre.
You still have “in” twice. I always thought the lyric was, “But if this ever-changing world in which we’re living…” In fact, the next line (“makes you give in and cry”) only makes sense if that’s an “if,” not an “in.” I think what creates additional confusion is that he says livin’ instead of living. That’s what I hear, anyway.
I believe I’ve complained about it before but, since it’s in a song I love, it really bothers me. The Chi-Lites Have You Seen Her the lead singer cries “Why did she have to leave and go awaaaaaay!”
*Boom boom boom boom
I want you in my room
Let’s spend the night together
From now until forever
Boom boom boom boom
I wanna do the boom
Let’s spend the night together
Together in my room
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Do I really need to comment?
OK. Apparently they can only come up with two words that end in “oom”. Great rhyming guys.
There’s the blatant ripoff of the admittedly inane but extremely catchy “Boom Boom Boom let’s go back to my room”
There’s the phrase “from now until forever”. Yeah, THAT really makes sense. Next you’ll be saying “light years into the future” and I’m afraid we’ll have to shoot you.
And that’s one bloody long night too (actually, if you had this song on repeat play it would probably seem like a VERY long night - but I digress)
Also I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair - makes me want to go thump her just for the title alone
I’m laughing, because I had the same reaction the first time I heard Mariah’s version. As soon as I heard her start singing, I wondered if she’d keep the “doesn’t.” Sure enough…
Yes, I know she’s technically referring to how the first time you get hurt is the worst, but… I keep thinking “No! No, it’s not! People always start with a few test cuts, shallow ones, to see what the pain is like. THEN they cut themselves. Dumbass.”
