Stop trying to make "What's the dillio?" happen: Songs that hitch their wagon to slang of the moment

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7. "Whoadie" (featuring Petey Pablo)

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i'm sure in 5 years, Honky Tonk Badonkadonk will qualify.

haha, yes, Hella Good is a fantastic example!

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which came first: knockin da boots or knocking da boots?

oh and on the Hella Good tip:

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Man, remember when every parent wanted to build jokes around confusion over whether something was "bad" 'cause it was bad or "bad" 'cause it was good?

And when I say stupid, I mean stupid, not fresh.

Lol phat is a compliment

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i feel like as this thread goes on we're getting more and more into songs that invented or popularized a slang term, as opposed to actually hitching their wagon to a term already in use.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/45/Cameo-Word_Up!_(album_cover).jpg/200px-Cameo-Word_Up!_(album_cover).jpg Wagon Hitchin'

http://www.ultramagnetique.com/ultra/images/2008/february/opp.jpg The Realio Dealio

I think the Beach Boys did TONS of this - on both sides of the wagon.
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Yeah. I feel like there's got to be a bunch of pop-punk songs that do this, but I'm not well-versed in pop-punk.

...'nothe Beach Boys...
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Hello my name is Jimmy Pop and I'm a dumb white guy
I'm not old or new but middle school fifth grade like junior high
I don't know mofo if y'all peeps be buggin' givin' props to my ho 'cause she fly
But I can take the heat 'cause I'm the other white meat known as Kid Funky Fried

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"My way or the highway" certainly existed before Limp Bizkit, but it wasn't popular either...I wonder if attempting to revive hopelessly outmoded slang counts for something.

Was there ever a song based around "...NOT!" ?

Hollaback is a mild version of this.

God I can still summon that Mest song in my memory, I cannot think of a more annoying fucking song.

Was there ever a song based around "...NOT!" ?

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"Waffle King," recorded in 1990, was originally supposed to appear on "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Off the Deep End. However, by the time the recording of the parodies for the Off the Deep End album began, Al had written all the original songs that were to appear on his next album. Because he was concerned that one of the jokes from the song "I was Only Kidding" might be played out by the time Alapalooza would finally be released (A reference to the movie Wayne's World with the line "I really love you-- NOT!"), he recorded "I Was Only Kidding" and included it on Off the Deep End in place of "Waffle King". "Waffle King" was instead used as the b-side of the Smells Like Nirvana single.

The Isley Brothers--I Turned You On

Sockittome!

"Sock it to me" is all over the place - the Monkees' "Goin' Down" and "Get On Up" by the Esquires come swiftly to mind.

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not sure if that link will work but it's Kool and the Gang's "Fresh". I'm pretty sure that slang was around before the song.

even as a bad boy fan its still hard to hear rakim going "you know its jiggy when you hear the sound" on the hook to "guess who's back"

Can't find a good image for it, but Gene Chandler, "Groovy Situation"

The proverbial nail-in-your-creative-coffin.

lol @ "Waffle King"

was my way or the highway popular pre-RESERVOIR DOGS?

wasn't that a quote from patrick swayze's roadhouse?

Can't believe I forgot "Mable (She's The Bomb)" by Goldfinger.

Sk8ter Boi

Bitchin' Camaro

was my way or the highway popular pre-RESERVOIR DOGS?

"my way or the highway" was the title of a Y&T song from the mid-eighties and was around long before that.

I am pretty sure that "Bitchin' Camaro" was done ironically with the same intent as this thread!

here y'all go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzYPtNf2cG8

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hahahahahahahahahahaha omg hahahahahahahahahaha

NICE.

Must be tons of surf songs (and things from other subcultures that produce lots of bands) that do this. Pearl Jam cover some Nuggets-y song called "Gremmie Out Of Control," revolving around the term "gremmie," which I guess signifies an inept, wannabe surfer...

I am pretty sure that "Bitchin' Camaro" was done ironically with the same intent as this thread! - still counts

Seems like this is even worse when your band name is slang-derived, esp. when it is lame slang that never really caught on to begin with. Next thing you know, you're trying to release your very serious Buddhist-themed sixth album, titled The Earth, The Sun, The Rain, but your band is still named fucking Color Me Badd:

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Eddy Arnold - "Hep Cat Baby"
Edd Byrnes - "Kookie's Mad Pad"

"Trap Queen"

Jay-Z & Kanye West - "H.A.M."

"can't trust thots"

"What's the dillio?", which is my last name with one vowel changed, was a bit of a problem for me when I was substitute teaching in the early '90s.

did nobody upthread mention "Pretty Fly (for a white guy")

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"think i need a ginger ale / that was such an epic fail" (katy perry)

The Chainsmokers, "#SELFIE"

hmmm some of this slang has transcended 'the moment' tbh

this is a very embarrassing thread to look back on

Xpost sure, but nobody knows that at the moment of hitching the wagon!

i heard a middle aged white guy say "what's the dillio" recently and suddenly felt very nostalgic for the period when Busta Rhymes was hugely famous

"Trap Queen"

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, April 4, 2015 5:41 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"trap queen" is a phrase particular to that song and is treated more as a premise than a catchphrase, and "trap" has been peppered across platinum albums and hit songs consistently over the past decade with no signs of going away anytime soon, so poor example

"What's the dillio?", which is my last name with one vowel changed, was a bit of a problem for me when I was substitute teaching in the early '90s.

― clemenza, Friday, April 10, 2015 7:59 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Clemenza Whetsthedillio

Funny...Last name: Dellio. (My anonymity on here's worth about two cents.)

These guys were the worst for this in early 1998

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New Tove Lo album to thread

P.O.D. - Boom (2001) - specifically "Here comes the boom"

this is THE “here comes the boom”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlFEZir684

hard to dispute that, tbh. maybe if P.O.D. had recruited Sean Paul or Mr. Vegas, it'd be a fair fight, but DMX's commitment to the title is tough to overcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_vyyZ2efo

wow. in case of YouTube decay, that's MC Hammer's 2006 release, "Hyphy, Dumb, Buck, Krump," which is a pretty incredible title for this thread. the backing track is also very blatantly trying to get on the crunk bandwagon. great find.

he was always trying to jump on some bandwagon, but that seemed to be the closest he got to getting on one during its zeitgeist!

sorry for not labeling, thanks for jumping on that :)

dancery

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All Ears: Ten Original Songs All About C.B. 2-Way Radio

New rosalia album is borrowing and popularizing “saoko” as a word at least in meme culture, as well as “motomami” which afaik is made up.