{"id":7237,"date":"2012-06-22T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:53:50","slug":"she-said-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/06\/22\/she-said-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"She Said Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which I list some pop song lyrics for you to guess, because it’s Friday and I’m tired.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The other night, on Twitter, Patrick Nielsen Hayden posted a snippet of song lyrics with the hashtag “#greatestalbumsofalltime.” I was bored and looking to kill time, so I followed up with a couple of my own, both of which happened to start with “She said…”<\/p>\n

And I said to myself, “Ooh! There’s an idea for a themed guess-the-lyrics blog post.” Thus, this.<\/p>\n

The following list is a set of phrases that immediately follow “She said…” (or “she says”) in a pop song (or, in two cases, have “she said” in the middle of the line). I’ve left that phrase out, because I’m lazy, and it makes the game a little harder. Your mission, should you be bored and looking to kill time with a silly pop culture game on a blog, is to guess the song based on the lyric. Post your answer in a comment, and if you like, include a line of your own for others to guess.<\/p>\n

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  1. Baby, forever. But I don’t like to be alone, so don’t stay away too long.<\/li>\n
  2. You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.<\/li>\n
  3. Nothing, man, it’s stolen.<\/li>\n
  4. I ain’t gonna do anything sexual with you, I’m kinda saving myself for the scene.<\/li>\n
  5. Dear boy, gonna make you a man.<\/li>\n
  6. I thought you’d never say hello, you look like the silent type.<\/li>\n
  7. Sonny, move out to the country.<\/li>\n
  8. So long, Norman.<\/li>\n
  9. Oh, baby, I feel so down, way to turn me off when I feel left out.<\/li>\n
  10. She’d like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis.<\/li>\n
  11. Son, have I got a little story for you.<\/li>\n
  12. I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong, if you play that song with the funky break.<\/li>\n
  13. You’ve taken me for granted because I please you.<\/li>\n
  14. I gotta go, but my friend can stick around.<\/li>\n
  15. Money is like us in time, it lies but can’t stand up.<\/li>\n
  16. Pardon me, are you ballin’?<\/li>\n
  17. Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell. You might be lord of half the world, you’ll not own me as well<\/li>\n
  18. I’m so obsessed that I’m becoming a bore.<\/li>\n
  19. Tell me, are you a Christian, child?<\/li>\n
  20. She’d always been a dancer. She worked in fifteen clubs a day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These cover a pretty wide range of stuff, and I think they’re all identifiable from these lines. Several of these are godawful earworms, once you recognize them. Two are by the same band, one exists in two well-known versions.<\/p>\n

    Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In which I list some pop song lyrics for you to guess, because it’s Friday and I’m tired. ———— The other night, on Twitter, Patrick Nielsen Hayden posted a snippet of song lyrics with the hashtag “#greatestalbumsofalltime.” I was bored and looking to kill time, so I followed up with a couple of my own,… Continue reading She Said Songs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}