I swear I'll make you walk the plank to right the wrong you did!The day you mess with Skurvy, arrh, you'll wish you were never born!When the Coconut is mine, then you'll feel this pirate's scorn! SKURVY: He hid it in an idol where it stayed for many yearsBut the eye of ...
It's a recording trick known as backmasking, whereby words and phrases are reversed and inserted into songs, so that when played backwards the secret messages with hidden meanings can be heard. Backmasking was "exposed" by right-wing Christian groups in the '60s, '70s, and '80s as an at...
It's a recording trick known as backmasking, whereby words and phrases are reversed and inserted into songs, so that when played backwards the secret messages with hidden meanings can be heard. Backmasking was "exposed" by right-wing Christian groups in the '60s, '70s, and '80s as an at...
While having a relatively high number of unique words at 97, “One Time” by Justin Bieber is still relatively simple, with everyday vocabulary that intermediate English speakers can understand. It also offers opportunities to learn common idioms such as “butterflies in my stomach.”I’m a Bel...
the members of Red Velvet are women scorned who swear to never fall in love again. The track is both a bruising kiss-off to an ex-lover and to a past version of themselves that fell for those lies in the first place, delivered with a sweet, incisive "bye, babe." The real highlight...
Our look back at 40 Classic Rock Songs With #$&%-ing Curse Words comes from a time when some of the most well-known bands from the period could still create a buzz by singing the odd obscenity. 1. "Who Are You?" From:The Who'sWho Are You(1978) ...
No. 28: John Michael Montgomery, "I Swear" Atlantic Records No. 28: John Michael Montgomery, "I Swear" John Michael Montgomery became the king of romance in the early '90s, earning a string of No. 1 country songs with beautiful love ballads, including the chart-topper "I Swear." The ...
As fans relive the exhilarating spectacle of Lady Gaga's 2022 stadium tour with a new HBO Max concert film, 'GAGA CHROMATICA BALL,' jam out to 15 of her signature songs, from "Poker Face" to "Rain on Me."
Once upon a time, Costello sang, “Forever doesn’t mean forever anymore,” seeming to swear off the idea of a lasting or eternal love. But he changed his tune later on — the goddess Diana will do that to a guy — and he’s written some corker love songs in the latter part of ...
It begins with what might be one of the most descriptive opening verses in the country-folk canon: “Living on the road my friend/was gonna keep you free and clean/now you wear your skin like iron/your breath as hard as kerosene.”“It’s hard to take credit for the writing,” Van...