Saturday, October 14, 2017

Bonus! Song o' the End o' the World

Pennywise, "30-Seconds Till the End of the World" from Short Music for Short People (The Last Angry Man)

Commentary: The title "30-Seconds Till the End of the World" makes little to no sense. What is the point of the hyphen? A hyphen would be appropriate in the phrase, " a thirty-second song"—which this is, as are all the one hundred one tracks on Short Music for Short People—but the title of the song should be "Thirty Seconds Till the End of the World." Heck, even "30 Seconds Till the End of the World" would be relatively unobjectionable.

Bonus! Song o' the Objection
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "Word Crimes" from Mandatory Fun (The Last Angry Man)

Commentary.
"You should never write words using numbers,
Unless you're seven, or your name is Prince…"

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