{"id":33,"date":"2013-10-13T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csenar.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T20:23:58","slug":"4-im-so-caught-up-in-you-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csenar.com\/blog\/archives\/33","title":{"rendered":"#3 &#8211; I&#8217;m So Caught Up In You (?de Janeiro?) (.38 Special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first comment to my first post triggered a flood of thoughts on an age old problem: Singing the wrong lyrics to a song.\u00a0 This universal human trait was brought into broad daylight a few years ago in this Volkswagon commercial.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2012 Passat Commercial_ That&#039;s what he says_.mp4\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjT3fvCkjrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Several people take turns butchering the lyrics to Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; before the last guy correctly belts out &#8220;burning out his fuse up here alone&#8221;.\u00a0 Very few media creations come close to capturing the true essence of a common phenomenon.\u00a0 This commercial came darn close.\u00a0 What a great commercial.\u00a0 Everybody butchers lyrics, and it&#8217;s great that NOT knowing the words to a song\u00a0 is NOT a big deal.\u00a0 But since the advent of karaoke, google, shazam, etc.,\u00a0 people are now noticing that they&#8217;ve been getting it wrong, sometimes really wrong, with songs they would swear they knew all the words to.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this blog entry is in reference to .38 Special&#8217;s hit song &#8220;Caught Up In You&#8221; from 1982.\u00a0 For years, I&#8217;m talking almost 20 years, I never quite knew what they were saying after &#8220;I&#8217;m so caught up in you&#8221;.\u00a0 There was no internet in the early &#8217;80s.\u00a0 Looking up the lyrics wasn&#8217;t that easy.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have the album.\u00a0 I heard the song on the radio and saw the video on MTV.\u00a0 The rest was left to me&#8230;and my guess\/placeholder was &#8220;de janeiro&#8221;.\u00a0 As in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Ok.\u00a0 Hold on.\u00a0 Before passing judgement on my lyrical competence, let me explain.\u00a0 I liken this horrific misuse of the english language to the way Paul McCartney writes songs.\u00a0 Specifically, the song &#8220;Yesterday&#8221;.\u00a0 (Come on, work with me here).\u00a0 While he was working on the music, he would sing the words &#8220;Scrambled Eggs&#8221; as a filler since it fit the musical path the song was taking.\u00a0 Only when he finished the music and starting writing the lyrics did &#8220;Yesterday&#8221; make it&#8217;s appearance.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I like to think I do with most songs, and definitely was doing with &#8220;de janeiro&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 The correct lyric (&#8220;Little Girl&#8221;) wouldn&#8217;t dawn on me until the dawn of a new century.<\/p>\n<p>To end this post, I return to that blog comment that inspired this post.\u00a0 The comment came from my best friend, and if you read that thread you&#8217;ll see that he got the lyrics wrong to The Romantics best song.\u00a0 Another song, &#8220;Hey Jealousy&#8221; by The Gin Blossoms, lyrically asks a girl if he can stay at her place because he&#8217;s in &#8220;no shape for driving&#8221;.\u00a0 From 1992 until very recently, my buddy thought the singer was proclaiming his middle of the road status and telling his lady friend that he was &#8220;no sheep or dragon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is, simply, my all time favorite incorrect lyric.<\/p>\n<p>So as Dobie Gray once sang:\u00a0 Gimme the <strong>Beach Boys<\/strong>, and free my soul.\u00a0 I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and drift away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first comment to my first post triggered a flood of thoughts on an age old problem: Singing the wrong lyrics to a song.\u00a0 This universal human trait was brought into broad daylight a few years ago in this Volkswagon commercial. 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