Preferably a “radio” type song, like one that would get played on the radio. Not a musical/play/novelty-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious type song.
Has any artist ever worked ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ into his or her lyrics?
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Supercalifragilicious was introduced in a song, Mary Poppins if i’m not mistaken.
Also, what’s the longest one that rhymed?
Donovon gets some credit for managing to use “antediluvian”, but I’m sure there’s longer.
Does this one count?
Billy Joel rhymed “Starkweather homicide” with “children of Thalidomide.”
Shriekback rhymed “big, black nemesis” with “parthenogenesis”.
Eminem has. (ETA: Warning NSFW lyrics ahead.)
So Solid Crew rhymed “but who can decide” with “institutionalised”.
Except you forgot the -sticexpialido- part in the middle!
Well, there’s the 1938 hit “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua”, with the following chorus:
“I want to go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawai`i
Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua’a
Go swimming by”
Never mind.
J. J. Jingleheimer-Schmidt as a hyphenated proper noun?
Hey! That’s my name!
I believe it is ‘Getting Jiggy on the Shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg’ sung by the Algonquian Bonfire Seven. Sadly, they didn’t have a written language, all the band members are now deceased and the full song is unrecorded so the lyrics and melody are mostly lost.
A Part of That from The Last Five Years should count, because it has the word “smiles” in it several times. “Smiles” has a mile between its first and last letters.
That’s pretty long.
The Ballad of Buzz Lightyear probably would count, if that was a real song, because a lightyear is even longer than a mile.
I give you Professor Green’s D.P.M.O., from his 2nd album (At Your Inconvenience), an excellent rap song by this Brit which prominently features the word
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
“Fartstinkslikeamotherfucker!” as the opening lyric to Pantera’s “Domination”.
OK, that’s not one word, but it’s said quite rapidly.
According to Google, their use of “institutionalised” is actually the longest word ever in a Top 40 hit song.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, used in a few songs, most notably “The Lone Ranger”, a 1976 UK hit for the band Quantum Jump. Unlike supercalifragilisticexpialidocious it is not just something made up to be long, it is Maori.