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[gothwalk]

If you removed the phrase "Oh baby" from the vocabulary of popular music, how much would be left?

(Been listening to some club mixes that a colleague made available; there are several tracks that consist of someone whining "Ooooh baby" over a beat, with some flying saucer noises, and that's it.)

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read that sci-fi story (oh god I can't remember the name or who it was by) about future archaeologists trying to reconstruct our culture from a pop song? They concluded that paedophilia was the most common type of relationship...

[salith.livejournal.com]

If that happened, we may get some decent songs being made... or not :/

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

But, be fair, you could say the same of:

removing Hallelujah from Christian music
removing all variations on fol-de-rol-hi-diddle-hi-day from folk music
and removing the number nine million from pagan music

:)

[kmlahti.livejournal.com]

I would not think removing those words would make modern music any worse. I would, however, suggest also removing the beat and the saucer noises. That would leave the good part behind.

[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

Funny you mention that. I've been pondering that since I was 11 years old. There seems to be a need for a two syllable filler in popular music, ad nauseum.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

First group that came to mind was early Led Zep ;)