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October 11, 2025 at 1:34 pm #158569

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Walter Trout.

October 12, 2025 at 1:39 am #158594

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Taking the category broadly (music).

Fun lyrics from Chuck Berry. Plus the movie clip where you heard the song.

You Never Can Tell
Song by Chuck Berry (1964)

It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, “it goes to show you never can tell”

They furnished off an apartment with a two-room Roebuck sale
The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale
But when Pierre found work, the little money comin’ worked out well
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, “it goes to show you never can tell”

They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast
700 little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz
But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, “it goes to show you never can tell”

They bought a souped-up jitney, was a cherry red ’53
And drove it down to Orleans to celebrate their anniversary
It was there where Pierre was wedded to the lovely mademoiselle
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, “it goes to show you never can tell”

They had a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, “it goes to show you never can tell”

October 30, 2025 at 4:49 am #158992

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from QUORA

The Diva Dance from the over-the-top movie The Fifth Element was designed to be impossible to sing. Like, literally impossible. The writer wanted it to accentuate the fact that the character singing it in the movie was an alien, so he tried to write something that would be outside the capability of any human singer. In the movie, they recorded a professional opera singer singing it, then used digital special effects to expand it beyond her range—or, ideally, anyone’s range. (I saw an interview where the writer said he expected no more than 50% of the main part of the song to be achievable by a human, and was surprised when the singer recording it managed about 80% of it without special recording effects.)

Yet Chinese opera singer Jane Zhang has performed it live.
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