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<youtube>https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY?t=118</youtube>}}{{quote|''“You ever seen the dudes in the band [[Toto]]? Those dudes shouldn’t be singing about [[Africa]].”''
<youtube>https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY?t=118</youtube>{{africapics}}}}{{quote|''“You ever seen the dudes in the band [[Toto]]? Those dudes shouldn’t be singing about [[Africa]].”''
:—Mike Tyson}}
:—Mike Tyson}}


Is this line, from [[Toto]]’s monster 1981 hit, ''[[Africa]]'', the ''worst'' lyric in all of rock ’n’ roll history? Or the ''best''? It has, after all, an Ed Woodesque quality to it: it is so bad it’s good. No mere mortal could massacre the principles of metre, cadence and basic common sense as systematically as this:{{totoafrica}}
Is this line, from [[Toto]]’s monster 1981 hit, ''[[Africa]]'', the ''worst'' lyric in all of rock ’n’ roll history? Or the ''best''? It has, after all, an Ed Woodesque quality to it: it is so bad it’s good. No mere mortal could massacre the principles of metre, cadence and basic common sense as systematically as this:{{totoafrica}}

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