Shake it like a polaroid picture
Shake it like a polaroid picture. Shake it, sh-shake it (Hey ya!)
"Ooo wee ooo, I look just like Buddy Holly,
Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore"
"Ooo wee ooo, I look just like Buddy Holly,
Oh oh, and your mari tidal boy."
I'm notoriously bad when it comes to song lyrics. Because I prefer to focus on the melody rather than the words or their intended meaning, I tend to make them up if I don't hear them properly the first time. In fact, I've got to admit that most of the time I don't even know what the song is about.. which is probably why I've never really minded the triviality of Des'ree's 'Life'. You'd be mistaken for thinking the lyrics were written by a three-year old illiterate retard:
I'm afraid of the dark
Especially when I'm in a park
When there's no one else around
Oh I get the shivers
The tune itself I find very appealing, if the lyrics weren't so simple I bet it would've been more popular.
Words are funny things indeed.
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I tend to have chosen musical genres where lyrical depth and sonancy is tantamount to the music produced. They are a symbiotic union living and feeding off one-another.
lol
Okay, a little dated but ‘Hey Ya’ is still getting decent air time. Is it just me (because I’ve been looking around and trying to find out) or is that song just a little bit more sinister than most people realise?
That is, sinister in a sexual way. I don’t want to break any rules of blogging, but just want to know if the same has occurred to otheres.
Mr. Andre there seems to suggest through the whole song that he’s no longer interested in a real relationship and just wants to ‘get off’, in whatever form that might be.
I find it hard to believe that ’shake it like a polaroid picture’ is just a random line – shake what like a polaroid picture?
In the UK there’s an old school yard gesture for a certain action that seems to fit not only the ladies’ actions but also the context.
SO am I onto something, or just seeing things?
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28 November 2003
warrenski05:50 pm
Indeed words are funny things. :)
With regards to songs and their lyrics/meaning, I’m precisely the same; 90% of the time I happen to like a particular song or genre because it simply “sounds nice” – the lyrics are redundant.