Worst line in "Where Do You Go To My Lovely?"

"And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh ha-ha-ha" will win, obviously, but it'll be nice to see what comes second.

for a laugh ha-ha-ha

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It's really laughable a ha-ha haha haaa....

And remember just who you are
Then go and forget me forever
But I know you still bear
the scar, deep inside, yes you do

^^^these are probably the most hateful lyrics ever in a number one single.

And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh ha-ha-ha = probably not the worst line, just the most irritating

"To shake off their lowly brown tags, they try"

I don't know what this means

"To shake off their lowly brown tags, they try"

- come again?

Ha ha, xpost

I don't know what this means

It means he can't find a rhyme for rags

It's an incredible lyric, really, as evocative as they come. The one line that sticks out as not-quite-good-enough is "your loveliness goes on and on", which is a little mundane in such illustrious company.

I think he meant "lowly BORN tags."

"lowly born fags" more like

Lowrie reichstag

Has to be "sip your Napoleon brandy," subsequently parodied by Gilbert O'Sullivan ("when I'm drinking my Bonaparte shandy").

But you never get your lips wet, no you don't

^^^what does this mean? Is it an oral sex zing?

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xpost she uses a straw because of all that lipstick.

The whole song is a kind of cross between "Positively Fourth Street" and "My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe."

I prefer his rent boy song, "The Boys Lazed on the Verandah"

The 'lowly brown tags' makes me think of those brown tags that evacuees had on their suitcases with their names on during the war. Maybe it's a reference to that, or maybe I've watched "Goodnight Mr Tom" too many times.

I'd never really thought about the lyrics to this before, and I quite like them now I've read them in full.

With your carefully designed topless swimsuit

So, that would be just the pants, then. A masterstroke!

i thought this thread was going to be about 'where do you go' by no mercy.

in fact it's about that terrible shit wes anderson has probably made an hit among ipod dbags.

^^ I thought this too. Sorely disappointed.

doesn't that no mercy song only have like two lines in it?

this song is pretty creepy

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i like the welfare heroine version of this song.

britishes class consciousness -- and american head-scratching about same -- raises its head yet again.

I love this song you heartless bastards.

"You get an even suntan - on your back and on your legs" is funniest.

i thought this thread was going to be about 'where do you go' by no mercy.

me three

I've always found the way he says "Picasso" the most annoying part of the song. Peeek-ass-oh. Hateful!

Plus obviously the whole song has this smirking and hypocritical thing quasi hippie resentimment going on, in which bog-standard HELLO! magazine lipsmacking about uberwealth rides alongside faux-deep "i see thru it alllll" superiority about same.

John Peel would often go on about the hatefulness of this song.

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This fucking song.

RIP

ha ha haa