Mentirosa
I was just thinking about the song Mentirosa. In general I enjoy bilingual music (I will even confess some affection for Rico Suave), and I do like this song, but I just realized that it contains perhaps the worst rhyme in the history of hip-hop.
Él querÃa tu dirección, yeah, just your address
y antes que colgaste I heard you say “I’ll wear a dress.”
What? He rhymed “address” with “a dress.” It’s the same sounds. He is silly.
I still like it, though. Emborrachada de Bacardi, yo.
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One of the songs on one of Rachel’s Zumba CDs is called Puro Cuento. It’s the first song in this video. I’m reminded of it now, because it has “mentira” in the lyrics. It’s catchy, too.
Also, and BTW, based on a couple brief demos I’ve seen of Rachel’s moves, she’d wipe the floor with the women in this video. It’s still a mystery to me why she’s planning her new routine around Let’s Twist Again.
That’s what I call a ‘throw-away’ lyric: a line that contributes nothing to the song, and only exists because it rhymes. Once you know what they are, they will start to pop out in all kinds of songs.
I was talking to someone recently about one of my most despised rhyming couplets in all of popular music, from the Rod Stewart song “Maggie May.” It’s not the same sounds twice, but the rhyme is very forced and awkward:
“I laughed at all of your jokes / My love you didn’t need to coax”
Weird rhyme AND Yoda grammar to get the rhyming word at the end of the line = Ouch.