{"id":1614,"date":"2008-08-06T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T09:50:15","slug":"creepiest-lyric-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/creepiest-lyric-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepiest Lyric Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IBQbpm9rPpo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Townsman Mac<\/strong> has suggested the following thread, which I think you&#8217;ll agree is worthy of our consideration:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Creepiest lyric ever.<\/strong>  This came to me while listening to <em>Blood and Chocolate<\/em>, an album by a man who has written many a creepy lyric. The persona (or self portrait) Costello creates is one of the creepiest ever. I would save my favorite creepy lyric from that album for the thread, but as an example: <strong>E<\/strong> from <strong>Eels<\/strong> sings on the song &#8220;Going Fetal&#8221; (which is done in the tradition of &#8217;50s dance crazes):  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone is going fetal.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the dance the kids all feel.<br \/>\nJust get done under your desk.<br \/>\nFeels like your momma&#8217;s nest, alright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is hi-larious, but downright creepy.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder in a head to head who the creepiest lyricist would be:  Costello or Waits?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The long interview clip I&#8217;ve set at the top of this thread provides another example, one that <strong>Townsman Chickenfrank<\/strong> and I have had many a laugh over. Now let&#8217;s creep Mac out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Mac has suggested the following thread, which I think you&#8217;ll agree is worthy of our consideration: Creepiest lyric ever. This came to me while listening to Blood and Chocolate, an album by a man who has written many a creepy lyric. The persona (or self portrait) Costello creates is one of the creepiest ever. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/creepiest-lyric-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}