Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!lo From: lo@harvard.ARPA (Bert Lo) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Nominations for worst song lyrics Message-ID: <83@harvard.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 12:21:32 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.83 Posted: Tue Oct 9 12:21:32 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:14:28 EDT References: <1242@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 22 > > There's a couple of songs have some really bad lyrics, and > unfortunately, they are both by bands that I really like. Here > they are: > > 1) Da do do do, da da da da,.....by the Police. > > 2) All we hear is radio ga, ga, radio goo, goo......by Queen. In case you didn't notice, the lyrics to "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" specifically say that words and talk and rhetoric are meaningless and dangerous and that only actions really count. That's why the chorus might seem so stupid to you. As for "Radio GaGa", "GaGa" and "GooGoo" are "synonyms" for "good". The song is about looking over the outer appearance of music and seeing what it's really about. In this case, they mean, don't just stare at the visuals and make the obvious connections between the music and the message, but instead, put the music into your own perspective and take it in the framework of your own life. The reason the song's title is so "silly" is that it's meant to partly ridicule the current turn that radio has taken.