Last Updated on: 1st September 2024, 03:47 pm
A song came on the radio yesterday that made me right this down.
I admit we were standing outside the kitchen and we weren’t totally paying attention, but after we heard a certain line, we had to stop and listen.
“What did she say? ‘You’ll keep me warm until you’re burning my oat boat?'” Steve said. “That doesn’t make any sense!”
He’s right. It doesn’t, but with that mumbly voice, that’s kind of what it sounded like. It turns out it was “You’ll keep me warm until you bury my old bones,” but it will be a burning oat boat for us forever more.
But here’s a bigger point. What is up with all the singers nowadays that sound like they’re trying to do their best impression of a squishy-faced dog while singing? Or maybe it’s a kid making a weird face while singing? They all sound like their faces are scrunched up so the words can’t get out clearly. Years ago, we went through a phase where everybody sounded like they were singing in a paint shaker. But now we have squishy-faced dog kids. This song sounds like it should be very nice, but I can’t get past the squishy-faced kid mumble.
Now that I say that, I should be able to slather this post in examples to prove my point…but specific ones won’t come…except for Miss Oat Boat up there. Wait…there is this one.
All I know is that we often turn on the radio and yell “squishy-face” at each other when we hear the singing start.
I can’t remember when I first noticed it, but once I did it was everywhere. And they all have this funny accent that no one in the world actually has. All the words sound like oy and ehh. “Oy’ve got tears in moy oyes from croyin eht noyght”…or something like that.