81,898
edits
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{a|toto| | {{a|toto| | ||
<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}} |