Met al die Amerikaanse crap tegenwoordig is het een verademing nog eens naar Zappa te luisteren. Vandaag in de wagen: Frank Zappa – Strictly Commercial
“Bobby Brown Goes Down” is perhaps the oddest of Zappa’s successes. This colorful tale of a young man’s encounter with a dyke named Freddie” would never get airplay in the US, but it reached the top of
the charts in Norway and Austria, was Top Ten in Germany and remains a favorite in territories where English is not the primary language. Said Zappa to Matt Groening in a 1992 Guitar World interview, “I don’t think anything has outsold Sheik Yerbouti, partly because “Bobby Brown” keeps becoming a hit every ten years… I think it was back on the charts again in Norway. For no apparent reason, it was back.” [via Rykodisc Catalog]
Frank Zappa
Bobby Brown
Hey there, people, I’m Bobby Brown
They say I’m the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
I’m dressin’ sharp ‘n’ I’m
actin’ cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work ‘n’ maybe later I’ll rape her
Oh God I am the American dream
I do not think I’m too extreme
An’ I’m a handsome sonofabitch
I’m gonna get a good job ‘n’ be real rich
(get a good
get a good
get a good
get a good job)
Women’s Liberation
Came creepin’ across the nation
I tell you people I was not ready
When I fucked this dyke by the name of Freddie
She made a little speech then,
Aw, she tried to make me say “when”
She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick
I guess it’s still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick
Oh God I am the American dream
But now I smell like Vaseline
An’ I’m a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a boy or a lady…I don’t know which
(I wonder wonder
wonder wonder)
So I went out ‘n’ bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but I’m still kinda cute
Got a job doin’ radio promo
An’ none of the jocks can even tell I’m a homo
Eventually me ‘n’ a friend
Sorta drifted along into S&M
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
‘Long as I gets a little golden shower
Oh God I am the American dream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An’ I’ll do anything to get ahead
I lay awake nights sayin’, “Thank you, Fred!”
Oh God, oh God, I’m so fantastic!
Thanks to Freddie, I’m a sexual spastic
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now, I’m goin down,
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now, I’m goin down,
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now, I’m goin down.