Sunday, January 09, 2005

You Know You're Doing Some Hot Blogging When You Reference Roger Miller In Two Of Your Last Five Posts

For years I thought that Prince was ripping off Bon Scott with the grammatically-incorrect-but-sounds-cool lyrical trick of rhyming "star" with "I are".

AC/DC's "Rock & Roll Star":

Gonna be a rock 'n' roll singer
I'm gonna be a rock 'n' roll
A rock 'n' roll star
Yes I are


Prince's "Baby I'm A Star":

Baby yes I are
I'm a star


Turns out they are both ripping off Roger Miller from "Kansas City Star":

Kansas City star
That’s what I are