Big No/Music

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Most songs here.
  • A particularly hilarious one happened in the song "MacArthur Park". The man is lamenting a cake:

"And I'll never have that recipe again. Oh NOOOOOOOOOO!"

    • Admittedly he is not lamenting a literal cake. He's lamenting losing a lover who was perfect for him. It's a metaphor, but as Dave Barry put it, "It's still a really stupid metaphor."
    • "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Jurassic Park", being a parody of "MacArthur Park", also has the NOOOOOOOOOO! In the' video, a T-Rex is about to eat Weird Al, so it fits.
  • A Preposterone-fueled one is found in the song "BEER!" by Psychostick.
  • In the Lemonheads' song "The Great Big No", one would expect an uncommonly large "No", but there is only a moderately drawn-out "No".
  • Don't Forget The Lyrics featured The Tide Is High by Blondie, seven missing lyrics:

"I'm not the kind of girl/ Who gives up just like that/ Oh noooooooo "

  • The Pink Floyd Rock Opera The Wall has one of these in "Another Brick in the Wall Part 3".
  • "Cassie" by Flyleaf starts with one. It's actually a Big Yes, although on the album version its only in the bridge of the song.
  • The video to Disturbed's "Inside the Fire" starts out with one of these.
  • Ozzy gets a couple of these in Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath."
  • Linkin Park's song "Blackout" contains several big nos along with a couple of surprise f-bombs.
    • "Faint" has Chester roaring "no" to kick off the bridge.
  • The Body Count song "The Winner Loses" has Ice T telling the story of a friend who was addicted to cocaine. The friend's life was lost. Noooooooo! 2:45