Blinkbox Music polled 2,000 adults to find the weirdest song lyrics ever. That’s a small sample, and we don’t know their demographics or how long they thought before coming up with their answers, so the results are not exactly definitive. However, they are weird. The number one weirdest lyric was “Are we human, or are we dancer?” from the song “Human” by The Killers. Singer Brandon Flowers said the lyric came from a Hunter S. Thompson quote, “We're raising a generation of dancers.” That sentence at least makes grammatical sense, but the Killer’s version is just …weird.
Here’s the top ten:
1. The Killers, Human “Are we human, or are we dancer?”
2. The Beatles, I Am The Walrus “I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.”
3. Michael Jackson, Earth Song “What about elephants? Have we lost their trust?”
4. Lionel Richie, All Night Long “Tom bo li de se de moi ya, yeah jambo jambo.”
5. Carly Rae Jepsen, Call Me Maybe “Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad.”
6. Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow “Beats so big I’m stepping on leprechauns.”
7. Duran Duran, The Reflex “The reflex is an only child, he’s waiting in the park.”
8. Wham! Club Tropicana “Club Tropicana, drinks are free, fun and sunshine, there’s enough for everyone, all that’s missing is the sea.”
9. Taylor Swift, Love Story -”Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter, and my daddy said stay away from Juliet.”
10. Oasis, Champagne Supernova “Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.”
Given time, you could probably come up with much weirder song lyrics. If we were to take out Michael Jackson’s line about elephants, which really shouldn’t have made the list, what would you put in its place? -via The A.V. Club
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--- Frank Zappa, Who are the Brain Police
"Quite a few discarded their weapons and gestured to us to throw the fish. The women came out of the shade to watch our antics... A few men came and picked up the fish. They appeared to be gratified, but there did not seem to be much softening to their hostile attitude... They all began shouting some incomprehensible words. We shouted back and gestured to indicate that we wanted to be friends. The tension did not ease. At this moment, a strange thing happened — a woman paired off with a warrior and sat on the sand in a passionate embrace. This act was being repeated by other women, each claiming a warrior for herself, a sort of community mating, as it were. Thus did the militant group diminish. This continued for quite some time and when the tempo of this frenzied dance of desire abated, the couples retired into the shade of the jungle. However, some warriors were still on guard. We got close to the shore and threw some more fish which were immediately retrieved by a few youngsters. It was well past noon and we headed back to the ship..."
There is a lot to be said about some of the other tribes on near by islands that are colonized. They have a mix of isolationism, but want their kids to use hospitals and schools on the island. And the government has been cracking down on "human safaris" by tourist groups at near by resorts.
With it now accessible due to the 2004 tsunami, I think we can assume they've searched the ship and are now basing their entire culture on some 1981 Hong Kong videotape...
Here's a direct Google Maps link to the location of the Primrose, for anyone interested: http://goo.gl/maps/Jkznr
The Anthropological museum in Port Blair houses photographs of the tribal people. I was also fortunate enough to see 2 tribal teenagers closely on my visit to one of the islands.