Thursday, April 5, 2012

Rip It Up and Move Down At The Same Time, Apparently


I’m okay with having fun, but I have no idea how to Wang Chung


Jeremy's singing to himself again.  We should have some time.


Actually, I'm just making fun of the song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung.  You see, there are very few hard and fast rules when it comes to music, but one of them is something I like to refer to as "Jeremy's Big Rule #1."  It states:
  • If the lyrics of your song include the name of your group, it's a bad song.


It's actually pretty universal, covering just about every rap song, anything written by Kid Rock, and the aforementioned Wang Chung ditty. 


What about "Bad Company" by Bad Company?  From the album "Bad Company"?


There are, of course, exceptions to every rule...

"Rock and Roll Band" by Boston?


That one's kinda tenuous.  They're just referring to the city in the lyrics, not the band.


"Wild Wild West" by Escape Club?


Actually kind of a loophole there.  The full-length recording has the section in the middle where they say "Here comes Escape Club to rock you tonight" and that part is ridiculous and pretty well puts the whole song right down the pan.  However, the radio edit cuts that nonsense out, leaving a pretty decent song.  
ANYWAY...the point is that the Wang Chung song is pretty lousy and hasn't stood the test of time very well.  It also includes the line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight" which I have no idea how to pull off.  According to The Google, Wang Chung is Chinese for "Wang Chung"so their translation is no help.  


The opening lines of the song are "I'll drive a million miles to be with you tonight."  He'd be taking a ridiculously circuitous route to get there, since one million miles would circle the earth just over 40 times.  


All in all, I don't think we can put a whole lot of stock in the lyrics to this song.  Turns out to not matter much, since nobody likes it anyway.  

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