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** To clarify why that throws ''Rolling Stone'''s musical credentials into a snit, not to mention the writer's ability to do math: combining measures of four and two gives tens or long threes (sixes, but divided differently) with possibly the occasional fourteen. (why not eights or twelves? they have their own rules, and if they don't follow them they're something else) |
** To clarify why that throws ''Rolling Stone'''s musical credentials into a snit, not to mention the writer's ability to do math: combining measures of four and two gives tens or long threes (sixes, but divided differently) with possibly the occasional fourteen. (why not eights or twelves? they have their own rules, and if they don't follow them they're something else) |
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** ''Rolling Stone'' probably got this wrong by counting the fourths in the verse - giving 22 (4x5+2) and then dividing by two (for no apparent reason). |
** ''Rolling Stone'' probably got this wrong by counting the fourths in the verse - giving 22 (4x5+2) and then dividing by two (for no apparent reason). |
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* During the controversy over Hasbro's plans to sell a series of Pussycat Dolls dolls, the [[Moral Guardians|watchdog group]] who started the campaign against them [http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/pressreleases/pussycatdolls.htm claimed in a press release] that "Don't Cha" "alludes to group sex." Several media outlets picked up on this and made it sound like the song ''itself'' was about group sex. This all came as a surprise to people who'd actually heard the song. As near as anyone can figure, the supposed allusion is an extremely tortured interpretation of the line "I know she ain't gon' wanna share." |
* During the controversy over Hasbro's plans to sell a series of Pussycat Dolls dolls, the [[Moral Guardians|watchdog group]] who started the campaign against them [https://www.webcitation.org/65cwb8Q8a?url=http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/pressreleases/pussycatdolls.htm claimed in a press release] that "Don't Cha" "alludes to group sex." Several media outlets picked up on this and made it sound like the song ''itself'' was about group sex. This all came as a surprise to people who'd actually heard the song. As near as anyone can figure, the supposed allusion is an extremely tortured interpretation of the line "I know she ain't gon' wanna share." |
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* ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' theme song creators "Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet" are often referred to as a "surf band". Hence, their song "We Are Not A Surf Band". |
* ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' theme song creators "Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet" are often referred to as a "surf band". Hence, their song "We Are Not A Surf Band". |
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* For high hilarity, check out the US media coverage of the rise of Beatlemania. When the first reports of [[The Beatles]] and their massive British success started trickling across the ocean, it was portrayed as some sort of quasi-religious cult centered around a bunch of untalented losers who sing "yeah yeah yeah" over and over. When they hit America, many people struggled to understand what made the music so different. It sounded like rock-and-roll, but everyone knew rock-and-roll was that 50s fad that ended when Elvis went into the Army. |
* For high hilarity, check out the US media coverage of the rise of Beatlemania. When the first reports of [[The Beatles]] and their massive British success started trickling across the ocean, it was portrayed as some sort of quasi-religious cult centered around a bunch of untalented losers who sing "yeah yeah yeah" over and over. When they hit America, many people struggled to understand what made the music so different. It sounded like rock-and-roll, but everyone knew rock-and-roll was that 50s fad that ended when Elvis went into the Army. |
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