Britney dear, learn your scansion
American pop star Britney Spears and poetry's Scansion have obviously never met. Amid grinding synthesizers, overdubbed voices in two octaves, and ample distortion, the lyrics to Britney's "I've just begun (Having my fun)" are mostly good:
(9) Four years ago I had a party
(7) that was too much fun for me
But she runs into some serious trouble at 1 minute, 33 seconds:
(8) I thought at first I should go home
(8) But then fell asleep in the chair
The first line loses a syllable (which sounds alright), but the proportionate length between the first and second line has dropped to 0! Britney just rushes through that line in "I've just begun (Having my fun)," and it sounds off. Scansion, my dear.
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on October 5th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Elliot Back, I am curious as to how my parody title ended up under the heading of the following item during a ‘Google’ search. I’m not upset in any way, just curious, particularly since I didn’t post that parody piece until 09/16/2005 and your remark was posted on 09/09/2005. It looks like you are setting up some type of word parameters and then a search of some sort is done based on that. However, I do not know much about that area, so I am just guessing. Here is the exact “Google” item I am referencing:
Elliot Back >> Britney dear, learn your Scansion
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