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Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55 Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: VOA
Released: 1984

I Can't Drive 55 Lyrics

One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey!
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!
So I tried my best illegal move
Well, baby, black and white come and touched my groove again!

Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I Can't Drive 55! Oh No!

Uh!
So I signed my name on number 24, hey!
Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more...
We're gonna throw your ass in the city joint"

Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"
I said Yea!, Oh yea!
Write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive

Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55!
Oh, yea!

I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
Uh!

When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer.
And I can't get get my care out of second gear.
What used to take two hours now takes all day. Huh!
It took me 16 hours to get to L.A.

Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55!
No, no no,

I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive 55!

Writer/s: HAGAR, SAMMY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This could be considered Hagar's foray into social awareness. While some rock stars were concerned about the environment or civil rights, Hagar was upset with the lowering of highway speed limits. He had a lot of support for his cause.

In 2001, Hagar finally updated this to reflect new speed limits on American highways. He re-recorded it as "I Can't Drive 65" for the NASCAR album Full Throttle.

This was Hagar's biggest hit as a solo artist. He joined Van Halen a year after it was released.

This remains a classic rock radio standard, consistently garnering massive airplay.

The name of the album, VOA, stands for Voice of America.

This song is heard in the 1989 film Back To The Future II, starring Michael J. Fox. (thanks, Ricky - Los Angeles, CA)

One-time vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was pulled over in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska on July 23, 2014, for speeding. She was reportedly going 63 mph in a 45 mph zone in her Toyota Tundra. This song was on the radio, at the time, which may well have contributed to her fast driving.

Hagar responded to the news by tweeting at her, saying "Dear @SarahPalinUSA heard you were #GoingRogue on the gas pedal! I'll cover your ticket if you promise to do better next time? #IcantDrive55†³

Tim McGraw - Overrated

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Album: Sundown Heaven Town
Released: 2014

Overrated Lyrics

This rock we're rolling on
Is like a circus ride that don't last long
Round and round we go and then we're gone
We waste time chasing ghosts
And overlook the things that matter most
We get so caught up in the maybes
Just trying to be somebody baby
While we're slowly going crazy

Building up a stack of bones
Keeping up with the Jones
Getting us all so jacked and jaded
Baby if you're asking me
Love is really all we need
Everything else is Overrated, overrated

We amputate the heart
'Cause we can't let 'em see the broken part
Water down, unwind, and jump the shark
We build our castles tall
Just so we can have the higher walls
But it no matter where you came from
Or where it is you get your name from
We're going down if we don't change some

Building up a stack of bones
Keeping up with the Jones
Getting us all so jacked and jaded
Baby if you're asking me
Love is really all we need
Everything else is overrated, overrated

We're all running after something
But if it ain't love it's nothing

It don't matter where you came from
Or where it is you get your name from
We're going down if we don't change some
I'm talking 'bout a ball of flames, son

Building up a stack of bones
Keeping up with the Jones
Getting us all so jacked and jaded
Baby if you're asking me
Love is really all we need
Everything else is overrated, overrated yeah

Overrated, overrated, overrated

Writer/s: McAnally, Shane L / Osborne, Joshua Shaun / Rutherford, Rivers
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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This banjo-laden track finds McGraw singing about love being the most important thing in life over foot stomping rhythms.

Baby if you're asking me, love is really all we need
Everything else is overrated, overrated

The song was written by Shane McAnally (Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart"), Josh Osborne (Blake Shelton's "My Eyes") and Rivers Rutherford (Montgomery Gentry's "If You Ever Stop Loving Me").

The song is mostly about love being the main thing you need, but it also touches on working hard when not taking time to slow down and appreciate what's really important. McGraw told Taste of Country that he loves, "the drive underneath the song which says, 'It's OK to fight … It's OK to go out and try to succeed,'" He added, "'It's OK to be in the battle everyday and struggle and try to win.'"

The song is singled out by McGraw as the one that set the tone for the entire Sundown Heaven Town album. "I just try to find songs that move me," he told Rolling Stone Country. "Then I go into the studio and we all try to be inventive, come up with different sounds that try to fit the mood. Hopefully that falls into something that's fresh and modern, but sounds familiar at the same time."

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Déjà Vu
Released: 1970

Woodstock Lyrics

Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Tell me, where are you going
This he told me

Said, I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm
Gonna join in a rock and roll band
Got to get back to the land and set my soul free

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Well, then can I roam beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song and a celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devils bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Writer/s: MITCHELL, JONI
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Crazy Crow Music / Siquomb Music Publishing
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This song is about the famous music festival in 1969. Mitchell was scheduled to perform at the festival, but backed out on the advice of her manager David Geffen, who was concerned that she would miss a scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young did appear, playing an acoustic set followed by an electric set. They took the stage around 3 a.m. Monday morning - the festival was scheduled to end at midnight, but it ran long, culminating with a legendary Jimi Hendrix set that most people didn't stay to see.

That Tuesday, Mitchell, David Crosby and Stephen Stills all appeared on The Dick Cavett Show. Crosby has said that he and Stills were talking about the festival, and Mitchell wrote the song based on their experience there. Mitchell, however, claimed that she wrote the song before the band returned.

Joni Mitchell's no-show at Woodstock was sometimes reported as being caused by "transportation problems." A persistent rumor was that James Taylor was supposed to give her a lift up the New York Thruway from her hotel in New York City, but Taylor was in a bad motorcycle accident on Martha's Vineyard, breaking both arms and keeping him out from behind the wheel and away from the guitar for months. That was it for Joni's trip to Woodstock. (thanks, Joel - Toms River, NJ)

Joni Mitchell released this the same year on Ladies of the Canyon. It was also the B-side to her song "Big Yellow Taxi." Her version is much more basic than the CSN&Y release.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's performance at Woodstock was only their second show together. Before forming the band, Crosby had been a member of The Byrds, Nash was with The Hollies, Stills and Young were members of Buffalo Springfield. Neil Young played with the group for only part of the set.

Without Neil Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash returned to play Woodstock '94. Other acts that played both festivals include Joe Cocker, The Band, and Santana.

Neil Young is not seen in the Woodstock movie even though he was there for part of the set. He strongly disagreed with the idea of the movie, so he declined to appear in it. If he were to play any songs in the movie, he'd have to be cropped out of frame. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)

The opening lyrics are a reference to the book of Matthew in which it says, "Blessed are those who try to make peace for they will be called children of God." (thanks, Mike - New London, NH)

In the UK the best known version is the more country-rock flavored recording by Matthews' Southern Comfort, which topped the British singles and peaked at #23 in the US. Ian Matthews had been the lead singer with Fairport Convention, leaving in 1969 to form Matthews' Southern Comfort. He recalled in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner & Spencer Leigh: "I had bought Joni Mitchell's album and we had to do four songs on a BBC lunchtime show. We worked up an arrangement for 'Woodstock' and the response was so good that we put it out as a single. Crosby, Stills & Nash's record had just come out and so we waited to see what happened to that first." In 1978 Matthews had a #13 hit in the US as a solo artist with "Shake It."

Asia - Gravitas

Asia - Gravitas Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Gravitas
Released: 2014

Gravitas Lyrics

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This song deals with divorce, telling the story of a guy who is going through a split and struggling with the ordeal. All he asks is "Gravitas," which refers to dignity. In our interview with Asia lead singer John Wetton , he explained: "He's just saying, 'For Christ sake, can I come out of this with some dignity?' It's so demoralizing and so demeaning. I mean, anyone that's been through a goddamn divorce will know that. It's horrible. No good for anyone. Nobody wins. Just it's a war of attrition."

Wetton is familiar with divorce: he and his wife Jill split up after about 10 years of marriage.

The album was slated to be called Valkyrie, after another track on the album, but Carl Palmer objected, since he thought that title was too feminine. The band agreed to name it after the song they were working on next, which was this one.

The Cars - Just What I Needed

The Cars - Just What I Needed Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Cars
Released: 1978

Just What I Needed Lyrics

I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time
'Cause when you're standin', oh so near
I kinda lose my mind

It's not the perfume that you wear
It's not the ribbons in your hair
And I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time

I don't mind you hangin' out
And talkin' in your sleep
It doesn't matter where you've been
As long as it was deep, yeah

You always knew to wear it well and
You look so fancy I can tell
I don't mind you hangin' out
And talkin' in your sleep

I guess, you're Just What I Needed
I needed someone to feed
I guess, you're just what I needed
I needed someone to bleed

I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time, time
'Cause when you're standin', oh so near
I kinda lose my mind, yeah

It's not the perfume that you wear
It's not the ribbons in your hair
I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time

I guess, you're just what I needed
I needed someone to feed
I guess, you're just what I needed
I needed someone to bleed

I guess, you're just what I needed
I needed someone to feed
I guess, you're just what I needed
I needed someone to bleed
Yeah, yeah, so bleed me

You're just what I needed
You're just what I needed
You're just what I needed
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Writer/s: OCASEK, RIC
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This established The Cars as one of New Wave's leading hitmakers and helped get them a deal with Elektra Records.

Lead vocals were by bass player Ben Orr, but it was written by lead singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek. Orr died of Pancreatic cancer in 2000.

Ocasek wrote this in a basement at a commune in Newton, Massachusetts where he lived.

The 2-track demo recorded by the band became the most-requested song by a local band in the history of WBCN, a popular rock station in Boston.

This was the group's first single. The Cars evolved from a trio called Milkwood.

The group's manager took the Cars' demo tape to two Boston radio stations and got it regular airplay before the group re-recorded it and released this as a single.

Seven years after it was first released, this made its second appearance on a single - this time as the B-side of the Cars' last Top 10 hit, "Tonight She Comes." (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 3)

This song was used in the opening credits of the Oscar winning film Boys Don't Cry starring Hillary Swank. (thanks, melania - Moscow)

This was used in Circuit City ads when the electronics store used the slogan, "Just What I Needed." (thanks, Eric - Suffern, NY)

The Beach Boys - Isn't It Time

The Beach Boys - Isn't It Time Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: That's Why God Made the Radio
Released: 2012

Isn't It Time Lyrics

After it's all been said
The music spinning in our head
Can't forget the feeling of
The magic of that summer love
Ooh I wanna take you there
Do you wanna turn back the pages
Memories in photographs
The world is changed
And yet the game is still the same

Isn't It Time we danced the night away
How about doing it just like yesterday?
Every time I think of you
All of those things we used to do

Remember those nights we spent
Little did we know how the time would fly
Isn't it time, oh, oh
Isn't it time, oh, oh

The good times never have to end
Now's the time to let them happen again
We can have ourselves a blast
Good times that aren't only in the past

Isn't it time we danced the night away
How about doing it just like yesterday?
Every time I think of you
All of those things we used to do

Remember those nights we spent
Little did we know how the time would fly
Isn't it time, oh, oh
Isn't it time, oh, oh

And as the sun goes down we raise a glass to kindness
To all the good times we share
Isn't it time we get ready again
Isn't it time we go steady again?

Isn't it time we danced the night away
How about doing it just like yesterday?
Every time I think of you
And all of those things we used to do

Remember those nights we spent
Little did we know how the time would fly
Isn't it time, oh, oh
Isn't it time, oh, oh

Isn't it time we danced the night away
How about doing it just like yesterday?
Every time I think of you
And all of those things we used to do

Remember those nights we spent
Little did we know how the time would fly
Isn't it time, oh, oh
Isn't it time, oh, oh

Writer/s: JOSEPH THOMAS, JAMES M PETERIK, BRIAN WILSON, LAURENCE JOHN MILLAS, MIKE E LOVE
Publisher: THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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When The Beach Boys decided to release an album of new songs to mark their 50th anniversary, they revived a song that Brian Wilson, Joe Thomas, Jim Peterik and Larry Millas started working on in 1998 called "That's Why God Made the Radio," and made that the title track.

Thomas, Peterik and Millas were thrilled, and started working on another tune. Millas came with the idea for "Isn't It Time," with the hook "Isn't it time we catch another wave." Brian Wilson and Mike Love worked on the song as well, changing that line to "Isn't it time to dance the night away," since they didn't want a surfing reference. The song was released as the second singe from the album following the title track.

Jackson Browne - Redneck Friend

Jackson Browne - Redneck Friend Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: For Everyman
Released: 1973

Redneck Friend Lyrics

Pretty little one
How has it all begun?
They're teaching you how to walk
But you're already on the run
Little one...
What you gonna do?
Little one...
Honey, it's all up to you

Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news
Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused
Little one...
Come on and take my hand
I may not have the answer but I believe I got a plan

Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line
And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine
But let me clue you in, it ain't like him
To argue or pretend...
Honey let me introduce you to my Redneck Friend

Well they've got a little list of all those things of which they don't approve
They've got to keep their eyes on you or you might make your move
Little one...
I really wish you would
Little one...
I think the damage would do you good

Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line
We're going to forget all about the battle
It's gonna feel so fine
'Cause he's the missing link, the kitchen sink
Eleven on a scale of ten
Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend

Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line
I'm going to try to swing you up into my saddle
And then we'll run but you'll think we're flyin'
Now honey don't just stand there
Lookin' like this dream will never end
Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend

Writer/s: BROWNE, JACKSON
Publisher: Jackson Browne/Swallow Turn Music/Night Kitchen Music/Open Window Music
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In this song Jackson Browne sings about letting loose his fun-loving, country side in an effort to improve relations with his lady. This alter ego was based on his real "Redneck Friend" - Gregg Allman. Browne was a huge fan of The Allman Brothers Band.

Elton John played piano on this track. He didn't have a US work permit at the time so he was credited as "Rockaday Johnny." Other musicians on the song were Doug Haywood on bass, Jim Keltner on drums, David Lindley on slide guitar, and Glenn Frey on harmony vocals. The previous year, Brown gave Frey the song that became the first single for the Eagles: "Take It Easy."

A track from Jackson Browne's second album, this was his third single.

Alt-J - Warm Foothills

Alt-J - Warm Foothills Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: This Is All Yours
Released: 2014

Warm Foothills Lyrics

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Dry dunes cater for jumping boys
From the nape of her neck he made his descent
They watched men hurl from rock to sea
Like sternum to button, lined lip pinches in between

Your foothills
Your warm

Iris swims quietly beside me
Oh the leaves and larger weeds sway and stretch themselves beneath
Blue dragonflies dart to and fro
I tie my life to your balloon and let it go

Your foothills
Your warm

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

Writer/s: Unger-Hamilton, Augustus Figaro Niso / Green, Thomas Stuart / Newman, Joe Jerome
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The song's imagery about an idyllic swimming trip are from John Bayley's memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris. The passage recounts a happy time together before the late author's sad slide into dementia.

Iris Murdoch (1909-1999) was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1997 and died two years later in Oxford.

The sunrise ballad came from the writing sessions Alt-J did for British indie film Leave To Remain.

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, Lianne La Havas, Marika Hackman and Sivu were recruited to add vocals and whistling which were then spliced to fit between those sung by Joe Newman.

Pat Benatar - Promises in the Dark

Pat Benatar - Promises in the Dark Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Precious Time
Released: 1981

Promises in the Dark Lyrics

Never again, isn't that what you said?
You've been through this before
An' you swore this time you'd think with your head
No one, would ever have you again
And if taking was gonna get done
You'd decide where and when
Just when you think you got it down
Your heart securely tied and bound
They whisper, Promises in the Dark

Armed and ready, you fought love battles in the night
But too many opponents made you weary of the fight
Blinded by passion, you foolishly let someone in
All the warnings went off in your head
Still you had to give in

Just when you think you got it down
Resistance nowhere to be found
They whisper, promises in the dark

But promises, you know what they're for
It sounds so convincing, but you heard it before
Cause talk is cheap and you gotta be sure
And so you put up your guard
And you try to be hard
But your heart says try again

You desperately search for a way to conquer the fear
No line of attack has been planned to fight back the tears
Where brave and restless dreams are both won and lost
On the edge is where it seems it's well worth the cost
Just when you think you got it down
Your heart in pieces on the ground
They whisper, promises in the... Dark

Writer/s: PAT BENATAR, PAT GERALDO
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Benatar wrote this song with her guitarist and future husband Neil Giraldo. The song deals with trials and tribulations of past relationships and how they affect the one you're in now. Haven't we all had to tend the emotional scars left behind from whoever got there first? In the case of Giraldo and Benatar, things worked out quite well: they got married in a cow pasture in Maui in 1982, and have been married ever since. They've also continued their musical partnership as well, with Giraldo producing all of Benatar's next albums.

Giraldo and Benatar were dating when they wrote this song, which was early in their musical partnership. In our interview with Neil Giraldo , he explained: "That was a song that Patricia started first. I mean, I start probably 93% of them, and she'll jump in after I get it started. But she actually started writing that on an airplane. And then she put some words together, and she said, 'Here, try to do something with this thing.'

Actually she slipped the words under the door of our music room in this little house we had. We wrote that I think in 1980. Even though we could have put it on Crimes of Passion, we ended up putting it on Precious Time instead. But she put the words under the door because she was too embarrassed to let me see the words face to face.

Then she had a little bit of an idea of a melody, so I took a little bit of what that was, and I wrote it on piano in our little music room. My favorite guitar I had in the room at the time fell and busted while I was writing, and busted the top of the neck off it. So that was like a curse. And then when we went to record it, we had everything but the last verse, and then I just wrote the words for the last verse in the studio while we were recording it. So that's how that one goes."

Precious Time cracked the #1 spot on the US albums chart for a week, and helped establish Benatar as an '80s icon. A former bank clerk and singing waitress, she was a classically trained singer who could rock the spandex and big jewelry, making her an MTV favorite as well as a mainstay on Pop radio.

Hinting at the personal nature of this song, Benatar told Songwriter Connection magazine in 1984: "Sometimes I really hate singing in the first person - it's so personal sometimes... I do mostly observational lyric but if it's directly from something that happened, I can't stand to sing it in first person. I'd rather sing it as we or they or you, or something else."

Neil Giraldo tells us that he knew early on that this song had hit potential. He explained: "I thought it was deep in a really good way. I think that it was a commercial hit, but I love the expression of the melody. It gave a lot of room for the vocal to be powerful. And then when we rehearsed the song, that's where I came up with that little guitar riff, which is the signature to that break between the slow part and the fast part. When I hit that in rehearsal and I put the song way up tempo - because the song was a ballad - I found I hit that, then I knew, I went, 'Oh, we got something now. This is going to work.' I knew it right then we had it."

Chris Brown - Add Me In

Chris Brown - Add Me In Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: X
Released: 2014

Add Me In Lyrics

Your body's an isosceles
And I'm just tryna try angles
Your love is trigonometry
Just tryna solve the whole equation

What's it about you (about you) I wanna love you
Picking you up, picking you up, so I can touch you
Should we do that? Can I do that? (baby)
Answers are usually in the bed

Substitution, Add Me In
Multiply my love, is that too much?
Substitution
What's the problem, girl? Add me in (yeah)

Baby just add me, baby just add me in
Baby just add me, baby just add me in

I'll calculate her home invasion (girl, add it up)
Divide your legs and count to 3 (3, 2, 1, come on)
He's just not the answer baby
And that's just my hypothesis (real talk)

What's it about you (about you) I wanna love you
Picking you up, picking you up, so I can touch you
Should we do that? Can I do that? (baby)
Answers are usually in the bed

Substitution, add me in
Multiply my love, is that too much?
Substitution
What's the problem, girl? Add me in (yeah)

But if I said I loved you, (baby pick me) I need you
Would you care?
So many things that I could learn
Baby if we do the math, it will equal up to me!

Substitution, add me in
Multiply my love, is that too much?
Substitution
What's the problem, girl? Add me in (yeah yeah, ooh)

Substitution, add me in (add me)
Multiply my love, is that too much?
Substitution
What's the problem, girl? Add me in, add me in oh

Baby just add me, baby just add me in (baby just add me in)
Baby just add me, baby just add me in

Baby just add me, baby just add me in
Baby just add me, baby just add me in

Writer/s: BELLINGER, ERIC / HILLS, NATHAN / YOUNGBLOOD, LEON / ARAICA, MARCELLA / BROWN, CHRIS / JOHNSON, NIEMAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, THE ADMINISTRATION MP, INC., RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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This Danja-produced track has Brown drawing on mathematics metaphors to attract the interest of a girl:

Substitution, add me in
Multiply my love
Is that too much?
Substitution
What's the problem, girl?
Add me in

The mathematics-as-a-metaphor-for-love lyrical trick is not a new one, It was famously utilised by Sam Cooke in his 1960 hit "Wonderful World."

Don't know much trigonometry.
Don't know much about algebra,
Don't know what a slide rule is for.
But I do know that one and one is two,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be

The song was produced by Nate "Danja" Hills, who previously collaborated with Brown on "Till I Die" from his Fortune album. Breezy described the tune to MTV News as being "old-school with a new-age feel."

Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2

Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2 Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Glitter
Released: 1972

Rock And Roll Part 2 Lyrics

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This is better known as the "Hey" song because of the chant in the chorus... "da da da da da da da, Hey!" It's probably the greatest example of "Glam Rock," which was characterized by male lead singers dressed in outrageous, usually feminine clothes. Glitter was known more for his appearance than his music.

Glitter wrote this song with his producer, Mike Leander, who came up with a key element in the song: the compressed, metronomic drum sound that would later be copied by Sweet and various other Glam acts. Along with the drums, Leander layered big guitar riffs, lots of handclaps, and the vocal "Hey"'s performed by Glitter and his friends.

Glitter had a role on a TV show in England called Ready, Steady, Go. This is where he met Mike Leander, who used some studio time when a singer named David Essex ("Rock On") didn't show up for a session. He had Glitter and a bunch of their friends improvise different sounds over a beat he had from a song called "Shag Rag, That's My Bag." They ended up with a 15-minute dance song, which they edited some more and called "Rock And Roll Parts 1 And 2."

There is a "Rock And Roll Part 1," with lyrics that repeat "Rock And Roll" instead of "Hey." It was on the same album and released as the flip side of the single. Glitter and Leander didn't know which one to release as a single, so they released it as a double A-side and let radio stations pick.

Glitter's real name is Paul Gadd, and he previously recorded as Paul Raven. He had been recording since 1958, had been dropped by three record labels, and still did not have a hit until he came up with this song. It was his first release as "Gary Glitter," a name he took in homage to the "Glitter Rock" sound he was using. Glitter, who was overweight and in his mid-30s, went over the top with his outfits to promote this song, creating maximum spectacle with makeup and accessories. For a while, it looked like this song would flop along with Glitter's career, but it slowly caught on in Europe and gradually became very well-known, helped in large part by Glitter's image gimmick.

This got a big boost when Glitter was asked to perform it on the British TV show Top Of The Pops. For the show, Glitter had to put together a band, but since the performances on the show were lip-synched, they didn't need anyone to actually play. Glitter and Leander found a bunch of people to hold instruments and pretended to play during the show. They were called The Glitter Band.

In the '80s, Glitter went through bankruptcy and was arrested for drunk driving, but his downfall came in 1997 when he took his computer in for repair and the technician found kiddie porn on the hard drive. Glitter was arrested and sent to prison, where he served 2 months starting in November, 1999. After his release, he lived in Cuba and Cambodia. He is a very controversial figure in England, and could face great harm if he ever returned.

This is commonly used as a rallying cry at sporting events, including many hockey game venues as goal songs. When Glitter was arrested on child pornography charges in 1997, many stadiums stopped playing this.

This is the only song Glitter is known for in America, but he was very popular in England, where he had 10 more similar sounding Top 10 hits from 1972-1974, including "Hello Hello I'm Back Again," and "Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)." His career started to slide in 1975 when he took on a Disco sound.

This has been used in a lot of movies, including The Full Monty, Bedazzled, Duets, and D2: The Mighty Ducks.

In 1987, Glitter released "Rock And Roll" parts 3 through 6. They were produced by Trevor Horn, who was a member of the Buggles.

In the UK, various Gary Glitter imitators cropped up, including the rather ludicrous Larry Lurex and Alvin Stardust.

In 1988, a group called The Timelords released a song called "Doctorin' The Tardis" that sampled this. The song went to #1 in England and made Glitter a lot of money, which he needed for legal bills and an extravagant lifestyle. The Timelords later became The KLF, who had a hit with "3AM Eternal."

This song's influence can be heard on many disco and glam rock tracks, but it also made an impact in the realm of metal: Iron Maiden's first single, "Running Free," was based on this song's beat.

Chris Brown - Stereotype

Chris Brown - Stereotype Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: X
Released: 2014

Stereotype Lyrics

Why are my hands,
Bleeding, I think I know why
I've been holding on
To the words from your every lie, why
Fool me once
Shame on you, baby
Fool me twice
Should have know that there would be
Problems girl, with you
But I thought

You were different, my baby
Now I see you're just like the rest
Thought you were different, my baby
You've become my biggest regret

I really hate to label you but you're a Stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype, ay ay ay

Stereotype, stere-stereotype
Stereotype, stere-stereotype
Stereotype, stere-stereotype
Stereotype, stere-stere-ere-ere-o

Can't blame you
You were only being yourself
I fell in love with someone that I barely knew, why?
Fool me once, shame on you, baby
Fool me twice
Should have know that there would be
Problems girl, with you
But I thought

You were different, my baby
Now I see you're just like the rest
Thought you were different, my baby
You've become my biggest regret

I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype, ay ay ay

Stere-stere-stereo
Stere-stereo
Girl you're nuttin' but a stereo
Nuttin' but a stereo
Stereotype, stere-stereotype
Stereotype, stere-stere stereo

You were different, my baby
Now I see you're just like the rest
Thought you were different, my baby
You'd become my biggest regret

I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype
I really hate to label you but you're a stereotype, ay ay ay

Writer/s: BELLINGER, ERIC / HILLS, NATHAN / YOUNGBLOOD, LEON / ARAICA, MARCELLA / BROWN, CHRIS / WHITMORE, DEWAINE / JOHNSON, NIEMAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, THE ADMINISTRATION MP, INC., RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Stereotype Song Chart

Brown sings here about a girl whom he thought was different from the rest but turned out to be like all the others The swirling track was written by singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger, who has also penned songs for such artists as Ashanti and Justin Bieber. Bellinger helped write two other X cuts, the single "Fine China" and the album track "Add Me In."