Friday, December 19, 2008

Earworm Central Station

OMG how addictive is that damn Beyonce song, even though it has about the stoopidest lyrics I've ever heard?

I love how Wikipedia quotes Beyonce offering an explanation of the song's meaning.

"That song is all about: 'I've been with you all this time, you're taking too long and now I'm looking hot and you see it and you gotta suffer because you shoulda put a ring on it,'" Knowles explains.

Seriously, this is not "The Waste Land," here. We are not deciphering "Ulysses." The lyrics are nothing if not self-explanatory, even if the video looks like an exercise routine from 1962.

3 comments:

  1. Isn't 2008 the year of the Ting Tings?

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  2. Anonymous4:26 PM

    The video that inspired this, Gwen Verdon's Mexican Breakfast, is from the '60s.

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  3. Anonymous1:46 PM

    Thanks Blair, you beat me to it. There is a youtube up where you can see them side by side.

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