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{ Monthly Archives }
December 2009
Thesaurus Songs
Hi everyone. I’ll save my apologies for being such a delinquent blogger for a later post (read: NEVER!).
Despite my utter lack of blogging productivity here at MIMR, I have as always been consumed daily with thoughts about music and songs and albums and songwriting and all of that. I’ll try to work through my back-log of ideas in the coming weeks AND resolve to be a more productive blogger in the coming new year. Ahem.
That said, I’ve had idea for a blog post, which I will now address, percolating in my tiny little mind for years now. In fact, the genesis of this post can be traced all the way to the fall of 1988, when I was but a junior in high school, years before the internet was even invented. (NOTE: I know that last statement was utterly untrue. Please spare me your comments to that effect.)
It was in October of 1988 that a certain song first hit the airwaves, a song that soon dominated all forms of life on Earth for months to come. And it is that song that is the germ of my gist. As the title of this blog entry cleverly reveals, the topic at hand is what I like to call Thesaurus Songs.
First, we must define what is a Thesaurus Song. The rules are very simple: the song must prominently feature a word in its title AND its chorus. The word must be of sufficient length and rarity as to lead the listener to the inevitable (and indisputable) conclusion that the lyricist discovered the word in a moment of writer’s block as s/he was perusing a thesaurus, looking for lyrical inspiration. Also, there needs to be some degree of awkwardness, if not a high degree, to the placement and use of the word. Something that makes you roll your eyes and say, “Yeah, SOMEONE just learned a new word today.” But the song title need not be excessively long or silly. In fact, it must contain the word in question and not much else.
You get the idea. So without further adieu, here is my list of the four most egregious examples of Thesaurus Songs, in increasing order of their crimes against Roget.