September 21, 2006

What is it with overly fast lyriced songs?

How many times have you lstened to such songs as "It's the end of the world as we know it" by R.E.M., "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel, "Mammals" by the Bloodhound Gang and "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies and tried to boggle the lyrics?

Now ask yourself this: "How many of us have devoted braincells to trying to learn these overly fast paced songs"?

Then subsequently, we fail to ask yourselves: "Why?" Is there some merit badge for learning these songs? Is it a prerequisite to getting into Harvard? Will it land you that dream job with Donald Trump? No...and yet we still attempt these purposely impossible songs. Maybe it stemmed from way back in the day when knowing what the jingled ingredients to the McDonalds Big Mac was the big tongue twister. They implanted it in our minds then and now we seem forced to learn every weird quick tune.

Posted by Darkstar at September 21, 2006 01:45 AM | TrackBack