Are there any songs that always tend to bring out the pedant in you? Something in the song that gets you twitching a little?
Maybe songs where they got their facts wrong, or maybe pronounced a word weirdly to make it rhyme?
What’s your beef?
An all time classic of the genre has to go to Alanis Morissette and ‘Ironic’.
Most of her examples in the song are not really ironic but simply a case of bad luck.
Apparently she has said that the fact that nothing in the song constitutes irony, is the irony itself and was completely intentional.
Hmmm, not sure I’m buying that 😊
Another one that gets me, is probably a case of me not them but, Martha and the Muffins ‘Echo Beach’ where the lyrics go- From nine to five, I have to spend my time at work
My job is very boring, I’m an office clerk
Now, they’re Canadian so I suppose I have to let them off rhyming Work with Clerk, but still. Makes me itch a little when I hear it as a British person who pronounces it ‘clark’ 😊
An all time classic of the genre has to go to Alanis Morissette and ‘Ironic’.
“I remember when ‘she’ was just plain old Allam Morris”. Ed Byrne had a routine where he finished off each line so that it was actually an irony – a No Smoking Sign one your cigarette break when you work in a tobacco factory. A traffic jam when you’re already late for the presentation you have to give on improving transport infrastructure.
I’ve always thought the Weather Girl’s ‘Its raining men’ is a very cheerfully sung account of what seems to an absolutely gruesome tragedy. I mean thats proper old testament stuff.
Not quite the same thing, but I hate it when a song refers to the song itself in the song. It completely takes you out of the moment… I can only think of one that make me cringe if I don’t turn it off in time (although the whole song is pretty cringe anyway) –
“Why do I find it hard to write the next line?” I mean, well you just wrote the line, but it was shit. Have another think Mr Kemp.
I know there are others.
– if the leaves are brown, isn’t that still technically autumn?
No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.
No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.
Could have avoided a lot of angst if they’d been clearer which system they were working to.
“Blasting Gelatine” I think? Which I think is gelignite but I might be wrong.
Either way I am pretty sure gelatine is used in explosives at a pretty useful medium for keeping stuff suspended and dispersed like silver nitrate in camera films.
If you are the champions then surely you’ve won, ergo you’ve already kept on fighting to the end.
A champion can mean ‘the winner’, but it also be someone who you put forward to compete on your behalf. So “we’ll keep on fighting (for you) to the end”. The song has always been a bit of a sing-along but perhaps the ‘We’ isn’t all of us, ‘We’ is the band and they the world’s nominated champions. Maybe
“in trial by battle, a procedure in which guilt or innocence was decided by a test of arms. Clergy, children, women, and persons disabled by age or infirmity had the right to nominate champions to fight by proxy.”
