Finish the Lyrics
In “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” Fergie sings, “I’m gonna miss you” like this.
A child misses their blanket
One of our favorite conspiracy theories from April 2020 was the disappearance and possible death of this person.
Kim Jong Un
Apple Music, Uptown Funk, Left Shark, the Mannequin Challenge, Hamilton
2015
James K. Polk- Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
Go to Lolly’s if you want these.
Adverbs
In “Forget You,” Cee Lo compares himself and another guy to video game devices in this line:
I guess he's an X-box, and I'm more an Atari
In March 2020, Gal Gadot organized a group of celebrities to participate in a virtual cover of this song.
Imagine
Dolly the Sheep is cloned, Princess Diana dies, Ellen comes out
1997
Benjamin Harrison - Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Mister Morton knew just one girl
Mister Morton knew
Mister Morton grew flowers for the girl.
And she was who?
Pearl
“When I Grow Up,” Nicole Scherzinger sings, “I wanna see the world, drive nice cars” and have these- though it sounds like she’s saying something else.
Groupies
This initiative was started by a few New York Times writers, seeking to offer an alternate interpretation of American history. Some took offense to it, leading to contentious debate in 2020.
The 1619 Project
March on Washington, Blowin in the Wind, The Feminine Mystique
1963
Andrew Jackson - William Henry Harrison
Martin Van Buren
In Mother Necessity, a woman in a rocking chair sings, “Elias, can you help me...?”
Who’s Elias and what does he invent?
Elias Howe, the sewing machine
Bruno Mars sings in Grenade that he "shoulda known you was trouble from the first kiss.” Why should he have known?
Had your eyes wide open. WHY WERE THEY OPEN?
In September 2020, several hundred boats participated in an event called the Lake Travis Trump Boat Parade. The event made national news. Why?
The large number of boats moving together caused choppy water, and several of the boats sank.
Challenger Disaster, Chernobyl nuclear accident, Top Gun
1986
Rutherford B. Hayes - Chester Alan Arthur
James Garfield
Finish the lyric:
Interjections are generally set apart from a sentence by an explanation point, or …..?
By a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.
Pharrell Williams tells us in the song, “Happy,” to clap along if this.
You feel like a room without a roof.
Trump delayed the delivery of $1200 stimulus checks for this reason.
He wanted his name to be printed onto the checks.
Steamboat Willie, Alexander Fleming, Ty Cobb retires, birth of Bobby Kaplan
1928
Theodore Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
A Schoolhouse Rock song about American expansionism states that everybody needs some of this.
Elbow room