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Safety dance!
(c. 1983)
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What? Did somebody fart? 
BE! AGGRESSIVE!
B! E! AGGRESSIVE!
B! E! A-G-G! R-E-S-S-I-V-E!
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If you’re looking for arithmetic examples, there’s “Come Together” by the Beatles:
One and one and one is three…
Of course the pedant in me says that’s wrong, since I interpret the word “and” as a Boolean expression, meaning the answer should really be “one”. They should sing it as “One plus one plus one…”
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The Scissor Sisters played with this convention in “Bicycling with the Devil”:
*I wish I could ride with you because you and me and the devil make two. *
(Note for Googlers: Complete lyrics are highly not-work-safe.)
I hate the parts in Morningwood’s “Nth Degree” where they spell the name of the band.
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The Scissor Sisters played with this convention in “Bicycling with the Devil”:
*I wish I could ride with you because you and me and the devil make two. *
(Note for Googlers: Complete lyrics are highly not-work-safe.)
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Isn’t there a song that goes “You and me and the devil make three” that’s, like, better at math? Not as good at math as “Calculus” by 2 Gether though.
And is there a trend in new music, presumably of the hip-hop or rap variety, to spell things out? I can’t think of any songs besides the aforementioned one by Gwen.
To go back a bit, check out “L-O-V-E,” one of the best songs Nat King Cole ever sang:
Also, Elvis did one of these; in Clambake he spelled out “C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-C-E,” which is way, way too long a word to be spelling out in a song. I’d lose my place halfway through the word, and had to listen a few times to make sure he was spelling what I thought he was spelling.
I was lying on the bench slide in the park across the street
L-A-T-E-R that week
(Len - Steal My Sunshine)
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Not just current. Try D-I-V-O-R-C-E for instance.
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Yes, but as much as I passionately hate that song, at least it made sense–she was spelling the words she didn’t want her little boy to pick up on. Sad, sad song.
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Yes, but as much as I passionately hate that song, at least it made sense–she was spelling the words she didn’t want her little boy to pick up on. Sad, sad song.
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True enough. I was just trying to make sure the idea wasn’t all that new and “current.”
I was going to ask (maybe in another thread – maybe not) if anybody could name one older than K-A-L-A-M-A-Z-O-O, even though that’s not quite the title of the song. Guinastasia might know of one. 
There was an old song on American Idol this week that used spelling.
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The first time I heard “J to the A to the Y to the Z” (for example) I parsed it as: J[sup]A[sup]Y[sup]Z[/sup][/sup][/sup]. And I thought, “Man, that would be impossible to integrate.”
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That was my point – how else is there to possible interpret it?
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Maybe they’re just dreaming of U-N-C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L-L-O-V-E.
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Would that be an improvement over a F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A. double L.E.D. L.O.V.E.?