Saturday, August 13, 2011

brainy songs

my two favourite intellectual instances in songs are:

"pre-raphaelite curls in her hair"  from "Cocksferry Queen" by Richard Thomson.  A very particular variety of curls and I assume this also implied that Ms. Cocksferry Queen should be gazing in an unfocussed manner off canvas while clutching  something. I feel that just makes the song dated. Just would not make sense to people who lived before the 1800's. Not one for the agees, but...

...the most monstrously intellectual song reference is Australian born talent Rick Springfield's "Jessies's Girl"

"I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot."

MOOT! he used the word moot, how many years have I spent waiting for another song to use moot. Rhyme it with cute again, I don't judge-just use it again for pity's sake! Is anyone worthy of using the word moot in a song? In media, it can only use it in the same sentence as Parliament. As in, "the topic must be mooted in parliament". Here in the USA, they only report on the US and there are no *#@$*& parliaments so Alas, I shall perish in this land without hearing it that sacred word again.

P.S. all you songwriters reading, "moot" can rhyme with anything that "cute" can so there is a plethora of precedence here! pick up your rhyme dictionary, Google it I'll try and get you started with some examples:

Mah bitchees be bringing me the avacado
But they be knowing I aint an aficianado
So I'm a gonna bust sum nutz and moot that froot

chorus:yes sir, he gonna bust sum nutz and moot that froot (thrice)

Mah bitchees be bringing me the ginger
And ahm a thinking I gotta injure
Surely they know I be a jain
and for unnerground food I gotta abstain
So I'm a gonna bust sum nutz and moot that root
yeeah
chorus:he gotta abstain and moot that root (thrice)


see? how hard can it be? I believe in you. god speed