Be-Bi-BO-BUM (I picture Scotty Mccreery singing this)

[simonsays]

Hi Len911,
I was LOL after I read this. The context you mention didn't even occur to me.

Tricky one. The intro sets me up for something bizarre, as what Mazey says. Since I'm not really expecting fee-fi-foe-fum, I might hear it as be bi(as in sexual), more bum.

I would hope that with the punctuation I used (ie, the dashes) one would hear that as one piece, not individual words. Now I wonder how many others read it that way.

It reminds me of Frank Zappa, 'Wonderful Wino', "jam down the road you bum bum bum bum"... I kinda see what you are trying to do, however I'm not so sure about it being the chorus or the main hook without having some context.

By 'It' here, are you referring to the title "Be-Bi-BO-BUM"?
One of the title's jobs is to be intriguing. I hope my title is at least that.
Again, you make me wonder how many people might miss the Fee-Fi-FOE-FUM connection I intended!
It would be nice if others chimed in about whether they got that connection at first, or not.


Oh, and then there's another song by Frank Zappa called "Dinah Moe Humm".
I was attempting to think of examples of what you were trying to do and I kept coming up with FZ, I thought there were others but I just can't think right now of any.
I think the title sounds more like a song from Captain Beefheart than Scotty McCreedy, avant-garde, than country.

As I told Mazey ... I mentioned Scotty as a singer I could hear for this song not for his country leanings ... but for his voice. Specifically his rich deep voice.

I love both genres, FZ and the Captain + George Jones and Vern Gosdin (traditional country). The hook just sounds like the previous two artists and not country imo.

I agree that the title/hook here isn't traditional country, but I think the song does have elements of country in it. (for example; the Lord references, and taking his new love home to meet his Momma)

Thank you Len911 for your time and for your feedback. And for the laugh when I saw the alternate way the title was interpreted!

Steve (aka,SimonSays)

[mazey]

Hey there Steve, you're obviously very good with words, and quite a thorough and thoughtful lyricist. You're reply shows that you have these attributes and your lyrics reinforce this. Very imaginative, clever titles and subject matter.

lol No wasn't expecting James Bond, I just thought it may have had an interpersonal twist. I get the affect of the singer.. he's elated and in love. I think I mistakenly assumed there was a story with the "I couldn't make this up". I can see the singer jumping around like a young idiot in love.

I do get where you're going though. It was a song with the intent of honing in on Scotty's strengths with the Be-Bi-Bo -Bum, that would sound really amazing with good phrasing, as well as fun and innocent.It was a celebration of the feeling of falling in love, moreso than how they ended up there.


I read Snow WHite Succubus, and couldn't feel that, but appreciate your efforts at not settling for generic lines and topics. You obviously are someone who throws himself into a song, which is refreshing. As a personal style, I'm careful not to hyper-metaphor. I believe for me it can create a barrier to genuine emotions, but that's me.

Also I find it hard to read lyrics and get blown away. I usually hear the melody accompanying and then it falls into place for me. I look at some songs Im proud of, then just read the lyrics and go, "thank God for the melody"

[Len911]

Tricky one. The intro sets me up for something bizarre, as what Mazey says. Since I'm not really expecting fee-fi-foe-fum, I might hear it as be bi(as in sexual), more bum. It reminds me of Frank Zappa, 'Wonderful Wino', "jam down the road you bum bum bum bum"... I kinda see what you are trying to do, however I'm not so sure about it being the chorus or the main hook without having some context. Oh, and then there's another song by Frank Zappa called "Dinah Moe Humm".
I was attempting to think of examples of what you were trying to do and I kept coming up with FZ, I thought there were others but I just can't think right now of any.
I think the title sounds more like a song from Captain Beefheart than Scotty McCreedy, avant-garde, than country.
I love both genres, FZ and the Captain + George Jones and Vern Gosdin (traditional country). The hook just sounds like the previous two artists and not country imo.

lol.. So you're suggesting he call this song BI BUM?

Only if it was short for biddy biddy bum

"If I were a rich man,
Daidle deedle daidle
Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum
All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum"

I suppose "Fiddler on the Roof" is at least traditional, maybe not country.