Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
Perhaps burned by mendacious agents and conniving record companies, Mr. Wonder enjoys discussing formalities of legal contracts in his music, and there is no finer example than his R&B standard Signed, Sealed, Delivered, which addresses not only exchange traded derivatives but also the formalities of correctly creating documenting them as obligations under a deed[1].
- We got [a] future, future, baby[2]
- Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours
- Here I am, baby, whoa-oh
- (Signed, sealed, delivered) I’m yours
- etc etc etc
See also
- Pop songs and the law
- signed, sealed, delivered — in the sense of the actual legal formalities thereof, rather than their use in a pop song
- Futures
- Physical settlement
- Contract of Love, also by Stevie Wonder, also concerned with formalities of contract formation.
References
- ↑ Let is park for now that one wouldn't normally document ETDs as deeds — that's a bit of a ninja point and I don't think it’s reasonable to expect a pop star to have that deep a knowledge of the market conventions for ETD. Hardly anyone who works in the industry does, after all.
- ↑ Not clear what the underlying is, though reference to "Here I am Baby" suggests physical and not simply cash settlement.