What Really Grinds My Gears
Posted by Wayne Bretski in Music
Idea stolen from sports blog The Big Picture. This was a recent one
**Caution: Bad Language**
Link here, regarding using the brights on a crowded freeway. Key quote:
Flashing your brights on the freeway is different. I do that s*** all the time. Especially in Seattle where everyone drives like a student driver. I'll come up behind a c***weasel who's doing 55 in the fast lane. I'll flash my brights at him to change lanes so I can continue driving like a person who has a sack. If he moves over, a courteous wave follows; flashing the brights worked.
You probably don't want to know what he'll do if they don't get over...
But what really grinds MY gears is the extra lyrics to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and other Christmas songs. I taught music to K-3 students last week. The real lyrics were sung, sometimes even with joy; the extra words (like a light bulb") were SHOUTED. Same with "Jingle Bells", which went like this:
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle .... (trail off)
HEY!!!!!
Oh what fun .... (mumble)
HEY!!!!!
[repeat]
Mumbling until chorus.
Why don't people explain Christmas songs to kids, so they know what they're singing? And what is with the 'extra' lyrics? Those things really grind my gears.
To alleviate the irritation, here's a song off the new Gorillaz album.
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