Hilarious. I have always made a hobby of picking on senseless, tasteless and/ or unintelligible song lyrics...since I was a little kid. So this book was right up my alley. I remember lots of the songs that Dave Barry covers...like the Hispanic song he quotes as "One Ton Tomato"...when I was in New Zealand 10 years ago, my workmates and I debated these lyrics, which we were cursed with having stuck in our heads due to a Chilean group who performed outside our building at lunchtime. Though the Scarface fans among us opted for "One ton o'Yayo" and came in a close second, our verdict was "One Ton of Mayo" in the end - a running lunchtime joke: "what are you having today, Tom?" "Oh, toasted cheese sandwich I think...with one ton of Mayo!"
He also forgot a few notorious ones. Most notably, Alphaville's Victory of Love, for lazy rhyming when they couldn't find any suitable words" "she's an investigator; she's like an elevator" (or is it "alligator"???). Roxette's She's Got The Look, for making no sense whatsoever ("...she's a juvenile scam, loving like a wild dog, she's got the look"), and Tinie Tempah for Miami to Ibiza, the song with something to offend absolutely everyone: "I've got a black BM, she's got a white TT, she wanna see what's hiding in my CK briefs, so I say wear suspenders and some PVC, so I can film it all up on my JPC..." You get the picture...thinly veiled though the crass lyrics might be by the artist's use of confusing acronyms. Except for the final verse, which is clear as day: "If you (ethnic slur) are balling, then man, I must be FIFA...". And, or course, anything by Nickelback, whose misogynistic lyrics were kindly dubbed "unsubtle" in a New Yorker op-ed: "I love the way you dance with everybody, and tease them all by sucking on your thumb; it's so much cooler when you never pull it out, you sure look so much cuter with something in your mouth." These ditties are also, unfortunately, ear worms that make the listener feel like it's Groundhog Day at your old junior high school...or at a never-ending Presidential address (no names)...take your pick.
Yes, whether a song is bad or good is a matter of opinion. But Mr. Barry's detailed essay on this subject is spot-on. Awesome...six stars. Except now, I can't get the refrain "one ton of mayo" out of my brain!
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