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Bloody hell, the grammar in Babooshka!

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 12:44

‘She could not have made a worst move’?
‘Before she freezed on him’?

Freezed?? Come on, Kate!

Was everybody distracted by the bikini in the video?

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 21:25

While I’m picking on Kate, I don’t like the lyric in the otherwise-gorgeous ‘This Woman’s Work’ that goes ‘Ooh, it’s hard on the man.’

Yeah? Crowned lately, Colin?

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HerBigChance · 08/09/2019 21:30

Pinkarsedfly - good point re Band of Gold.

I've also thought Babooshka and Pina Colada Sing have similar plot devices.

ScrambledSmegs · 08/09/2019 21:51

To be fair This Woman's Work is written from the point of view of Kevin Bacon's character in She's Having a Baby - 'ooh it's hard on the man' is about him realising he's basically useless while his wife is close to dying in childbirth.

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 21:54

Ooh I forgot about that film.

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ScrambledSmegs · 08/09/2019 22:03

I didn't like the film at all, Kevin's character is a completely self-obsess man-child, but that song - oh, chills.

I sing 4 o'clock in the morning too. Loudly and pointedly. In much the same way as I sing 'I really MUCKED it up that time' to Little Lion Man because I never want to accidentally sing the real lyrics in front of my kids Shock

HopeClearwater · 08/09/2019 22:10

Live and Let Die
‘... if this world in which we live in’ is soooo annoying, but you can see why McCartney had to do it instead of stretching the ‘li-ve’ over two notes.

NeverSayFreelance · 08/09/2019 22:17

God I hate that song. Can't stand Kate Bush 🙉

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 22:30

Hope I always sing ‘this ever-changing world in which we’re living’.

Much better Wink

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Violetflowerxo · 08/09/2019 22:32

I’m telling you OP, it’s 1000% worst that Kate sings

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 22:37

Violet it is, isn’t it?

Very clunky.

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Pinkarsedfly · 08/09/2019 22:40

Ooh, another one! The Eagles, Hotel California.

‘So I called up the captain (?)
Please bring me my wine,
And he said ‘we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.’

Wine’s not a spirit. What a shit lyric Hotel.

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MorrisZapp · 08/09/2019 22:42

4am in the morning is a perfect lyric and absolutely how people speak. What time do you call this! It's 4am in the morning!

I can't be doing with pedantry like this. It's perfectly normal to say words in a sentence that are technically unnecessary. It's a lovely day today! Ooh well it's hardly going to be a lovely day YESTERDAY is it?

It's not a clever gotcha, it's just pointless one uppery over people who use words when talking.

Violetflowerxo · 09/09/2019 09:08

It's not a clever gotcha, it's just pointless one uppery over people who use words when talking
Bore off 🙄 it’s just a bit of fun

PuppyMonkey · 09/09/2019 09:15

I don't like Elton John singing “well if our love was just a circus, you’d be a clown by now.”

WTF does that even mean? Hmm

MockersthefeMANist · 09/09/2019 09:24

She's Kate Bush. She writes what she likes.

To the tune of the Harry Kane Song?

MockersthefeMANist · 09/09/2019 09:29

Is anyone going to bring up Live & Let Die? Because it's not

"But in this ever-chaing world in which we live in..."

It's

"But in this ever-changing world in which we're living..."

prampushingdownthehighst · 09/09/2019 09:31

I am pretty well known for mis hearing lyrics but I've never understood the confusion over Shania Twain
Kiss his car goodnight being heard as cock?
It's not pronounced cark is it?
Anyway sorry to derail.

Babdoc · 09/09/2019 09:32

Can I add Neil Diamond’s “Play me”. It’s a gorgeous song, except I cringe at the line “Songs she sang to me, words she brang to me”
Brang??!!

MockersthefeMANist · 09/09/2019 09:35

...Neil Diamond aka the Reverend Blue Jeans.

And Peter ad Bjorn:

"Usually when things has gone this far..."

(Which is maybe OK in Swedish?)

AvengingGerbil · 09/09/2019 09:36

I learned this summer at the fabulous Evening Without Kate Bush that the worst sin in this song is the pronunciation - the stress falls on the first syllable, not the second. So BAboushka, not BaBOUSHka! Now try singing it!

AvengingGerbil · 09/09/2019 09:38

Also, unrelatedly: ‘Are we human or are we dancer’. Just unforgivable.

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Pinkarsedfly · 09/09/2019 10:54

Babdoc I forgot about that. Or maybe I blanked it out.

Brang. Ffs.

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PuppyMonkey · 09/09/2019 11:02

God yeah, Live and Let Die, I always shout at him the idiot.

And the whole of Angels by Robbie Williams. What the hell is he actually on about in that song? The lyrics are nonsense.

CoolCarrie · 09/09/2019 16:06

AvengingGerbil, Sarah - Louise performed a wonderful tribute to Kate, she was brilliant! And very funny, I loved how we all joined in the singing , howling and barking, and the Russian version of BAbouska was great, saw her three times, in Edinburgh, only saw Kate once five years ago now!

Babdoc · 09/09/2019 17:05

John Denver also committed grammatical atrocities in Merry Christmas little Zachary.
There’s a verse
“Christmas time when I was young.
The magic and the wonder.
The colours dull and candles dim
And dark my standing under”

I think he means “ understanding”, but you really can’t split it like that and still make sense!