Anyone see the part of the closing ceremony featuring the hand off to London? The part featuring Jimmy Page and some other British music star singing Whole Lotta Love? The song with these lyrics?
You need coolin, baby, Im not foolin,
Im gonna send you back to schoolin,
Way down inside honey, you need it,
Im gonna give you my love,
Im gonna give you my love.
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Youve been learnin, baby, I bean learnin,
All them good times, baby, baby, Ive been yearnin,
Way, way down inside honey, you need it,
Im gonna give you my love,
Im gonna give you my love.
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Youve been coolin, baby, Ive been droolin,
All the good times Ive been misusin,
Way, way down inside, Im gonna give you my love,
Im gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.
Yeah! all right! lets go!
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Wanna whole lotta love?
Way down inside, woman,
You need love.
Shake for me, girl
I wanna be your backdoor man.
Hey, oh, hey, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Keep a-coolin, baby,
Keep a-coolin, baby.
AWESOME!
Beijing may have had unimaginable scale and precision, but London's gonna give every inch of its love, possibly through the back door.
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Funny how classic rock songs are always given a pass; seems like everyone stopped listening to the lyrics long ago. That's how "Brown Sugar" can get used in soft drink commercials, how "Start Me Up" can be played all the way through to its final lyrics, and how "Who are You" can include the F word on normal radio broadcasts, etc, etc...
Seems like people only listen to the chorus, though it affects more than just classic R&R. The ubiquity of In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins (including the WHS prom when we were there) as some sort of uplifting anthem I find very annoying.
I hope that the British intend to go full out with an irreverent Olympics. Perhaps a Sex Pistols reunion (including digital stand-ins for the dead ones), on the Thames on a barge, singing God Save the Queen when British athletes win.
Agreed about the classic rock lyrics. There was this white-haired older Brit looking like some kind of character out of a Dickens novel, cranking away on a song off Led Zeeplin II.
I was trying to explain the nature of that song's lyrics to Sharon last night, and why it was such an odd choice for that diva to sing, given itse male perspective.
I was also thanking my stars that Phil Collins hadn't, somehow, foisted himself upon the IOC and gotten that gig.
They did skip the bridge instrumental, where Robert Plant has an orgasm. And they skipped, I think, the specific lines involving inches of love and the backdoor.
I'm hoping they meant it, though clearly The Beatles would have been the much more obvious choice for music, given their early periods of less explicit sexual pandering.
It's actually perhaps incredible that Imagine wasn't used come to think of it.
"Imagine" did get used in the opening of the 2006 Italy olympics, I think. Not that anyone remembers all the way back that far.
Actually - screw Phil Collins. I'm surprised Elton John didn't worm his way into this thing. That "Circle of Life" wasn't used is a true miracle.
Maybe the Chinese are really, really into Jimmy Page (just like they're, almost inexplicably, really into the NBA). It would recommend the culture about as well as anything I can imagine.
Several possibilities:
1-Pandering to the Chinese Led Zeppelin fans, originally part of Mao's 4th great leap forward, ending the reign of be-seatered folk singers in the hearts of Chinese everywhere
2-Two weeks after the opening ceremonies wasn't enough time to digitally recreate the two missing Beatles
3-Having seen the Chinese opening ceremony they just said 'fuck this' and went with the bus and lewd song
4-Elton John and Phil Collins both became mysteriously sick after the opening ceremonies and the British had to go with Plan C, kidnapping and drugging David Beckham and Jimmy Page
5-In Chinese, whole lotta love translates as 'your gymnasts are 16, really"
That was 'be-sweatered' in #1.
3 seems the most likely, though the David Beckham, standing there like some sort of bridal store window dressing gives some credence to #4. To very, very loosely paraphrase George Forman's quote about Muahmmad Ali following his torch bearing at the Athens Games: He should have kicked himself (into the torch.)
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