I’ma Let You Drill it In
Ohhh what is with you people and your hip-hop music? That insane, monotonous Beyoncé song is playing on someone’s stereo somewhere in the office and all I keep hearing is “ooh boy you lookin’ like you like what you see nah nah NAH nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah…check on me tonight!” laced with some vocal trills she’s doing which I can only liken, given the undulating waves of volume-changes (a substitute for technique and expression I don’t think), to a woman singing shrilly passing you repetitively on a swing.
OoooOOOooooOOOooeeeyyeaaahhoooOOOoeeeeeeeeee…
The chorus, which I googled, was found to be:
Ooo boy you looking like you like what you see
Won’t you come over and check up on it
(I’ma let you work up on it)
Ladies let him check up on it
(Watch it while he check up on it)
Dip it, pop it, twirk it, stop it
Check on me tonight
I don’t think I want to know what “twirk” means. It sounds painful. But being a compulsive Googler, I do now. The explanation is equally ridiculous.
ouch….sometimes Vicki, ignorance is bliss.
To help you recover, here are some emo-centric, airy lyrics:
I grease the lens and frame the shot
using a friend as my stand-in
The script had called for rain, but it was clear that day
so we faked it
The marker snapped and I yelled, “quiet on the set!”
and then called, “action!”
I kissed you in a style Clark Gable would have admired
I thought it classic
I want so badly to believe that there is truth
and love is real
and I want life in every word to the extent
that it’s absurd
I know you’re wise beyond your years
but do you ever get the fear
that your perfect verse is just a lie
that you tell yourself to help you get by
that you tell yourself to help you get by…
-”Clark Gable” by “The Postal Service”
I like The Postal Service! They always get me my VideoEzy Online DVDs earlier than expected!
Hahaha…I have to admit, it’s been awhile since I’ve used The Postal Service.
Thanks to you too, Fal. :D
vicki > you are welcome
The group is named “The Postal Service” due to the fact that that’s how their music was written, by mailing tapes to one another.
In 2004, the United States Postal Service sent the band a cease and desist letter citing their trademark on the phrase “postal service”. After negotiations, the USPS relented, allowing the band use of the trademark in exchange for promotional efforts on behalf of the USPS and a performance at their annual National Executive Conference. Additionally, the USPS website sells the band’s CDs.
Just some unless little trivia…
That truly is some unless trivia!
ben gibbard is “nice guy”. [http://www.knotmag.com/?article=1027]
Sprio -> thanks dude. no need for a spellchecker with you around. Just need to use up one comment space.
Some more “unless” trivia:
Dep Leppard’s “Two Steps Behind” was a little known B-side that was given for the movie “Last Action Hero” cause the band was on tour and didn’t have time to write a new song. Turns out the song became way more popular than the movie.
Spiro Agnew, name of a former US vice-president, is an anagram for “Grow a Spine” and “Grow a Penis”
Lawrence -> thank you! That’s a great non-bias review of the two best works that Gibbard has done. Could never have said it better and the review states the reason why Gibbard is my fav song writer at the moment. The expression of new self-awareness and the maturity of taking one’s pass and becoming someone better from it. Excellent.
1) I knew that Def Leppard bit.
2) I could’ve sworn I told you that Spiro Agnew bit.
Some more unless trivia…
the trivia wasn’t just for you dude :)
Thanks guys…I love trivia, “unless” or otherwise.
Ha. For a while I was worried that twirk was going to have as weird a definition as gorp.
oei are you sure it isn’t WORK it.
apparently that’s what it means. Though don’t look at me — the lyrics I found were cut and paste from elsewhere. Stupid hip hop song.