Looks like my hypothesis on Rihanna directly causing the rain has rung true. For the fist time in a generation there is a new song riding high at the top of the popular hit parade, the considerably more sunny Timbaland Ft Keri Hilson with the feel good sunshine mega super hit "The Way I Are". Timbaland spreads himself about too thinly for my liking. In fact if I hear a record which doesn't involve Timbaland in some respect I now feel somewhat cheated. And he always puts those Timbaland beats behind everything – do you think he is listening to one of the few records which he hasn’t produced at home, Adelina Patti perhaps, he just adds his beats to it for his own gratification?
Having a weather-neutral song at the top of the chart might avert the floods, but if number one records are quite so influential to national events, with "The Way I Are" currently the country’s most popular song I do now feel the need pray for the nation's grammar.
Why are we so pedantic with grammar, yet so bad? Signage, which one would imagine would be carefully constructed and often cross checked is a prime candidate for criticism. The number of times I have seen adverts for 'cake's' and the like. Still, its about getting the message across really. I think we could all benefit from being a good deal more fluid with such things, so as to make everything as easy to understand as possible.
What puzzles me more is our obsession with pronunciation. When talking about the popular Spanish rice dish paella, we fall over ourselves backwards to say ‘pie-ae-a’ rather than ‘pie-ella’? Yet I wonder what the capital of
I doubt Timberland is too concerned about the endemic he may cause with his slap dash attitude to naming records. I just hope no one sings a song about Foot and Mouth.
