Recently, Adams evoked the nonsensical nature of the lyrics of many popular songs, including those of the Beatles. He went on to suggest a collective experiment in song-writing. To start the ball rolling, Scott proposed two delightful lines of nonsense:She had runaway eyes and marshmallow kittens.
My heart heard a dream like ten thousand mittens.
Then he asked his blog readers to submit similar couplets of amusing gibberish, to complete the lyrics for a song. Scott weeded through all the stuff that reached the blog in the form of comments, and ended up with plausible lyrics [display]. A few days later, a German group named Rivo Drei composed music for these lyrics, and recorded the song. As of today, there's even a music video:
Personally, I'm highly impressed by the style and outcome of this amazing song-writing experiment... even though it's imperfect. I'm convinced that it proves something, but I'm not quite sure what.
Indeed, what a weird experiment! I'm afraid, it works only in English, French lyrics would just sound stupid. But maybe, it's me: I was brought up in Germany with Anglo-Saxon songs - French songs sound stupid to my ears.
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