Nonsense Songs

While it's been interpreted in all sorts of ways, largely from the effect it had on listeners, that cry is actually a vocal approximation of a drum break, making Little Richard not just a rock 'n' roll pioneer, but one of the earliest beatboxers on record too. La La La is a song about the expressive limitations of words. But of course music is another way to keep people out of your face, so as a nod to the modern world, Naughty Boy 's lyric has him putting in the earbuds and "turning up the volume" to block out any further interaction, while continuing to sing out loud.

So the childlike, wordless Bollywood refrain upon which the song is built exists not only to us, but also within the reality of the lyric. If you stuck just to the verses and choruses ie. It has pathos and longing and angst and a fierce sense of lust, particularly in the verses. But what it lacks is a way of getting across just how doolally Lady Gaga 's passion has sent her. What she needs is a way of capturing the twin poles of despair and arrogance - a musical version of "I know this is a terrible idea but I'm damn well going to do it anyway" - created by this exceptional infatuation.

The words she chooses to do this with are perfect, starting with gibberish, stopping off at coquettish bluster and ending with a simple beckoning forefinger in her beau's direction: Never has a song so capably demonstrated the difference between song and poetry as Da Doo Ron Ron. The narrative portion of the Crystals lyric is so direct as to appear bland, and relies entirely on its musical setting and the wordless refrain that surrounds it.

Between the two lies the knowing refrain "da doo ron ron ron, da do ron ron", a very neat musical way of suggesting there's a gang of friends surrounding the narrator and they are squealing at her romantic revelations, both said and unsaid. This only intensifies as the chorus recaps the verse with a lyrical payoff that leaves everything to the imagination: Perhaps one of the least understood songs in popular music history, MMMBop is a song about seizing that moment, carpe-ing that diem and generally making good use of the precious time you're allotted on the planet.

It's there in the verses, which lament the passage of time with the vanity of youth: Luckily, nothing focusses the mind on appreciating the moment like a fantastic pop song with a giddy chorus, so in a sense, it's the least meaningful sections of the song that carry its message best. Although this song contains a great many words with actual meanings, most of which concern a terrific shindig with Lionel Richie and his pals, it's the breakdown section in the middle which deserves special attention.

Inspired by the chant in Michael Jackson 's Wanna Be Starting Something - which was itself derived from Manu Dibango 's Soul Makossa - Lionel called up a friend at the United Nations for the right language to help him create a great African incantation. But, as he told the New York Post , he'd given his friend too broad a brief - "Lionel, there's African dialects.

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So he just made up his own dialect, with sounds that suited the melody. This had the unexpected side-effect of making that section of the song appear to mean different things in different cultures: For a band that liked to hang extensive meaning and dramatic development onto their lyrics, My Chemical Romance also knew the value of a killer hook, especially one that required no extensive homework on the part of their audience when singing along at concerts.

Everything the song has to say is best said by that nagging opening refrain, which is so lively and chipper - but slightly cross and unsettling with it - that it sounds like you're being mugged by overexcited garden gnomes. After just 20 seconds of this verbal assault, the quickfire lyrical braindump of the verse acts as a moment of relative calm, where sanity is restored by Gerard Way describing the life of a nihilistic gang member with low morals.

Then when the chorus arrives it's with a slightly altered version of that opening refrain, as if we're now in a grand opera, the gnome West Side Story, where the surly drama of the verses is amplified by the spiralling insanity of those gangs of mocking voices into something quite disturbing.

Even in its earliest form, hip hop spoke a coded language of street parties and indescribable activities, and as a result, went on to influence the development of the English language with terms such as fresh and def and diss. However, it's hard to imagine the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary being unduly troubled by the section in Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa 's pioneering rap track - in which he, or one of his Soulsonic Crew, elect to stop rapping with words about how fantastic they are, and just zizz their way through a verse instead.

The wordless section occurs around four minutes in, just after an instrumental break, and carries with it all the nonchalant cockiness of a band who know all they have to do to keep the party going is maintain that beat and make any vocal noise at all, and it'll be great. And they're not wrong.

Like Naughty Boy, Sting wrote his wordless refrain about language letting him down, but his song is about music being the language of pure emotion, one that doesn't require such trivialities as grammar or spelling. Of course, it didn't stop people roundly mocking him for releasing a song with such a childlike chorus, but that's a hazard common to every pop songwriter. The simpler the message, the less profound it appears.

The internet is responsible for a great many strange things, and this is no exception. Eduard Khil was a Russian baritone singer, and this song is part of a tradition of wordless but still sung music calld vokaliz. It's a relentlessly upbeat and happy song, and to Western ears sounds not a little silly, which makes it an even more uplifting listen.

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Plus, I've always thought that Thom Yorke was recognizing the weirdness of the song with the line " What was that you tried to say? Yo -- I don't know. Why it Doesn't Work: I think I'll just let Adam Scott take care of this one: She didn't care if she made sense as long as she got that across. Despite the nonsense, Beck still gets this message across that he's a total Somehow the imagery, while making no sense whatsoever, helps you picture the ill-advised antics of a slacker high school dropout.

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