A few weeks ago, I had talked about Spain’s lyric competition to give words to their wordless national anthem. Now, the official Spain National Anthem lyrics have been leaked and are open for public discussion and consumption.
The lyrics to the “Royal March” were written by an unemployed man, Paulino Cubero, who said he wanted to [...]
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The “Gotta Digg” lyrics by Kina Grannis have been making the social networking rounds lately particularly on Digg.com. Kina posted the song on the techno-oriented website with the title “Cute Girls Sing Awesome Song About Digg” so as of this writing, 5776 diggers have dugg that song.
The Gotta Digg lyrics talk about the issues close [...]
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For years, Spanish soccer players and others have had to bow their heads and wait out the slow wordless dirge of the national anthem La Marcha Real to be played. La Marcha Real not to be confused with La cucaracha (or the Royal March) has been around since the 1700’s but only became official in [...]
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Okay, Jihad the Musical is sure to stir up some discussion as this clearly mocking parody will nonetheless hit a little too close to home for some to handle. Be that as it may, the fact that Jihad the Musical mocks the world’s most wanted man in blatant fashion also will give others a good [...]
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BBC News has come out with their “Top 10 Worst Lyrics” list. Unfortunately the BBC top 10 list is a bit limp in its criticism. Taking top horrors on the BBC list is pop singer Des’ree with her hit song “Life”.
While these song lyrics are indeed dreadful, they do not compare to most of the [...]
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Several years ago stop snitchin’ lyrics were hot on the hip hop scene as several rap artists including Ice Cube, Rodney Thomas, The Diplomats, T.A.N.G.G. and The Game were promoting this sentiment through their CD’s. Lately the controversy has been revived when CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted several segments last week on how the stop snitchin’ [...]
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According to the Associated Press, a Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, brother Rodney Jean-Jacques, who goes by the name Cal Akbar may get fired from the Fire Department for some anti-police lyrics he has written. Cal Akbar apparently wants to turn “pigs into bacon bits” and the firefighting higher ups are reeling as the Philadelphia [...]
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There’s an article in the Fort Wayne News Sentinel by Celia Rivenbark called “I Love Bad Lyrics Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake” that I would like to talk about today. Ms. Rivenbark makes some very good and insightful points, most of which I wholeheartedly agree with, for sure.
For instance, Ms. Rivenbark bags on bands [...]
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Funny song lyrics are not often talked about and represent a largely forgotten genre of music and lyric writing. Funny song lyrics may represent music parodies such as those from “Weird Al” Yankovic or Bob Ricci or just plan old humorous songs like the works of Ray Stevens including “Guitarzan”.
Adam Sandler must also be mentioned [...]
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The Clayton Daily News out of Jonesboro, Georgia has a good discussion on whether or not rap lyrics are starting to show remorse. Writer Joel Hall talks about how some rappers like Jay-Z and Andre 3000 are writing hip hop lyrics about the merits of travel, appearances outside the bling and even good credit.
I’m not [...]
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