When pop song writers get clever...

CaseOfAce

Watching the just released Lou Perlman doc on Netflix they featured one of his conveyor belt boy bands O-Town who had a massive worldwide hit in 2000 with Liquid Dreams - which features the line..

"She's a morpharotic dream from a magazine"

Morpharotic? Say what?!? Stephen Fry would be reaching for the dictionary on that one... who came up with that... or did they just get the thesaurus out in the studio that day!?

I've always been impressed Noel Gallagher came up with a song titled Acquiesce - not exactly in common usage?

got any others?

thecolourbox

In fairness that might be a fancy word but it doesn't really make sense in that sentence I don't think?

monquixote

I don't think it's a real word

Much like "I speak of the pompatus of love" from the Joker.

Litterick

Kim Wilde's View from a Bridge shares its title with an Arthur Miller play.

Come on Eileen includes the line, 'We are far too young and clever', but that is as far as it goes.

Sporky

monquixote said:

I don't think it's a real word

Much like "I speak of the pompatus of love" from the Joker.

It is almost a real word - morphotactics is about how morphemes may get placed in words.

We may therefore conclude that she is linguistically capable. 

viz

“Was it polemically sent” - Ozzy’s Mr. Crowley. I always thought it sounded a bit out of place. 

https://youtu.be/XViiUHHzYRw?feature=shared

viz

The Exploited’s “Sex and Violence” has a number of witty and clever phrases within its libretto.

https://youtu.be/TKhrQhdxjI8?feature=shared

Grangousier

Come on Eileen is still the only number one record about bukkake. 

thecolourbox

Grangousier said:

Come on Eileen is still the only number one record about bukkake. 

I was surprised that the Beatles' Come Together never made UK number 1

viz

Grangousier said:

Come on Eileen is still the only number one record about bukkake. 

https://youtu.be/45cYwDMibGo?feature=shared

“Come together, right now, over me”

RocknRollDave

CaseOfAce said:

I've always been impressed Noel Gallagher came up with a song titled Acquiesce - not exactly in common usage?

Yeah, he looked smart until he used it as a noun in another song.

drofluf

thecolourbox said:

In fairness that might be a fancy word but it doesn't really make sense in that sentence I don't think?

I worked with someone who used to regularly use long words he didn't understand to try sound clever quite often with, unintended, hilarious results.

viz

Lots of people do that, to make them sound more chromatography. 

drofluf

viz said:

Lots of people do that, to make them sound more chromatography. 

Oh feck no, you’re him aren’t you?

S56035

Busted Year 3000 "and a flux capacitor"

munckee

In a Frank Black song he has the line “I’m thalassacracy and you’re just Romanov”

thalassacracy is an empire reliant on naval power as I understand it so how it links to Romanov I’ve never worked out. 

digitalkettle

I don't know if this stuff is clever or not ;-/

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, I'm caught between Scylla and Charibdes ;-/

Roland

monquixote said:

I don't think it's a real word.

Sounds like morph-erotic to me

Roland

digitalkettle said:

I don't know if this stuff is clever or not ;-/

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, I'm caught between Scylla and Charibdes ;-/

… or as Alice Cooper sang “I can’t think of a word that rhymes”

CaseOfAce

One from Rod...

"I laughed at all of your jokes
My love you didn't need to coax"

lovely sounding word and what a great way to rhyme with jokes...

EricTheWeary

Roland said:

digitalkettle said:

I don't know if this stuff is clever or not ;-/

As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti, I'm caught between Scylla and Charibdes ;-/

… or as Alice Cooper sang “I can’t think of a word that rhymes”

I always think of Spandau Ballet's "why do I find it hard to write the next line." 

The Toto thing is basically wibble. They always knew it was wibble and seems to have seen it with some bemusement as it has been picked up by other people as having some greater meaning.