# What American song is this ripping?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545 "2012-05-01T18:58:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545/21 "2012-05-05T05:38:15Z")

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> [@JoseB](#):
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> Also, don’t forget the “let’s come up with some weird choreography/dresses/disguises/gimmick that will distract the voters/juries from the song itself” 😛

You’ve seen [Dark Floors](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985025/combined) too, I take it?

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**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545/22 "2012-05-05T05:42:51Z")

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[First song I thought of when listening to that link.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4k&ob=av2e)

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545/23 "2012-05-05T06:13:30Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> You’ve seen [Dark Floors](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985025/combined) too, I take it?

That movie is awesome. Makes pretty much zero sense, but is awesome nonetheless.

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**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545/24 "2012-05-07T07:23:32Z")

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> [@boomerwang](#):
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> [First song I thought of when listening to that link.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4k&ob=av2e)

This. It is totally this.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-american-song-is-this-ripping/620545/25 "2012-05-09T00:35:23Z")

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> [@Tengu](#):
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> That movie is awesome. Makes pretty much zero sense, but is awesome nonetheless.

I think it made more sense when I heard about the Eurovision thing, which I hadn’t until _after_ seeing the movie. While watching it, all I could think is “why are they being tormented by Slipknot wannabes?” so I wasn’t so far off the mark at all 🙂

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