15 Words That Don’t Exist Except In Songs
Have you ever had a song with particular lyrics that stuck your head?
Sometimes you don’t even know what the words are that we’re humming. Let’s examine some of our favorite words that were just made up by musicians. Some of these nonsensical words became so widely used that they’ve been put into the dictionary.
We will also look at a couple of examples of songs that had perfectly acceptable words, but were BANNED because people couldn’t understand them.
Let’s have some fun, here we go.
15 Words That Don’t Exist Except In Songs
Californication
Californication was released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1999, In 2007, a popular cable TV show of the same name starring David Duchovny appeared on Showtime. It was very popular and ran for seven seasons.
Sussudio
Bawitdaba
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Tubthumping
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Pompatus
Pompatus was coined by Steve Miller in his 1973 song “The Joker.” It was most likely a throwback to some unique word creation for a song called “The Letter” by the Medallions in 1954.
Here is the song we believe was the inspiration behind the word.
“Let me whisper sweet words of pismotality and discuss the pompatance of love” Heard at the 1:43 point
Bootylicious
Wang Chung
Wonderwall
Da Doo Ron Ron
MMMBop
Dum Dum Diddle
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
This song made trivia history. The song is titled “In The Garden Of Eden”. During the studio recording, the band was….into the groove. Lead singer Doug Ingle slurred the words and the band went on to record a 17-minute unrehearsed jam. Most producers would have stopped the band and kicked them out. However, producer Richard Podolor just let them go. What followed is one of the most iconic and epic songs in music history.
“Louie Louie”
Now we look at some famous tunes that were BANNED because people couldn’t understand the words. Completely acceptable lyrics but radio stations refused to play them.
Lola
Banned because of the reference to Coca-Cola. It was considered as advertising for the drink. The band was forced to return to the studio and change the lyrics to “Cherry Cola” in order to get radio play.
Wake Up Little Susie
A young couple goes on a date and falls asleep. They wake up at 4 am. No sex, no implications of sex. Just falling asleep. The Roman Catholic Church of Boston was up in arms. What happened before they fell asleep? Why were they so tired? They made huge waves for this fun, innocent classic song.
Achy Breaky
To reward you for making it to the end of our list, I present to you the most irritating song of all time.
