Life's Annoying Music #6: "You Should Be Dancing"
The Bee Gees. Dear Lord in Heaven...The Bee Gees. What did we do to deserve this caterwauling family...these Gibbs who feel it necessary to vocalize their "disco" at us...this trio of banshees in shiny, white polyester and crispy chest-hair. What, O Lord, what?
Ok, maybe that's a little extreme. Like most music artists in history, I can appreciate their place in the grand scheme of things, and whatever influence they may have had on other artists. Honestly, though, I can't think of anyone who would actually admit they were influenced by the freaking Bee Gees, either with a straight face or without fear of ridicule. Anyway, I have to admit they do have a couple songs I can actually tolerate; songs in which the brothers sang with fairly normal voices, and the listener is able to comprehend most of the lyrics. That's their problem, in my opinion. They sing with those screechy, abnormal falsetto voices, and you can't understand crap they say. That's what is annoying about The Bee Gees, and never so annoying as in the song "You Should Be Dancing".
What is up with this song? Can anyone understand this? Did the Gibbs get Elton John's help in writing these indecipherable lyrics?
"Woodja-gibble-diddy-gibbledy-gibb...Yeaaaaaaahh!
Woodja-gibble-diddy-gibbledy-gibb...Yeaaaaaaahh!
You should be dancing...yeah!"
Woodja-gibble-diddy-gibbledy-gibb...Yeaaaaaaahh!
You should be dancing...yeah!"
What the fuck is this, Esperanto? Some weird language twins teach each other?
Well, anyway...that's my take on the Bee Gees, and that concludes this edition of Life's Annoying Music. I can't think of anything else to say about them, so I'm going to bed now. Later!
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 3:26 AM
5 Comments:
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Thank you so much for drudging up those nightmarish lyrics and song styling for us. I kind of hoped they had completely faded away from people's minds.
So, Morgan...you're commenting to say you're not commenting? That's...deep, man. ;-)
The Bee Gees represent an evolutionary dead end. One of the many directions rock could evolve was to become insipid dance music. Like other evolutionary dead ends, that thankfully didn't last too long. We still have Robert Plant, Elvis, Mick Jagger, and Gene Simmons... but not the Brothers Gibb and Donna Summer. Survival of the fittest (and, in the case of Keith Richards, the most pickled)
I agree with that wholeheartedly. Disco was nothing more than a fad, and it's only remembered today because music does play such a big part of people's lives, and because those people are still alive to keep reminding us about it. When they're gone, so will be disco.
If disco had become the music of choice and the direction everyone would have gone, I may have not been able to stand living. ;-)
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