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04 Sep 2020, 9:42 am

A lyric in "ice ice baby" is "if there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it."

How can you solve a problem that no longer exists?



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04 Sep 2020, 9:45 am

Space50 wrote:
A lyric in "ice ice baby" is "if there was a problem, yo, I'll solve it."  How can you solve a problem that no longer exists?
By signing an executive order to do the things that have already been done, thus taking credit for someone else's work.



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04 Sep 2020, 10:23 am

My interpretation of this phrase is, "If a problem comes up, I'll solve it." Even though "was" is technically past tense, I believe it can be taken here as referring to a problem arising in the present or future. It's like an informal way of saying "If there were to be a problem," which sounds pretty stuffy for the genre. :mrgreen: I'm pretty sure I have heard "if there was" instead of "if there were to be" in actual speech.


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04 Sep 2020, 12:38 pm

You are not anything OTHER...than a hound dog! Crying all of the time. You have never caught a rabbit. And you arent any friend of mine.

I can not get any ...satisfaction!

No one is aware of the difficulties that I have observed.

That old man river. He must know something, but he never says anything!

Come over here! Come over here. Oh lord...come over here!



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05 Sep 2020, 8:19 am

Vanilla Ice was accused of plagiarism because the beginning of "Ice Ice Baby" sounds similar to "Under Pressure" which the makers of Under Pressure weren't given credit for.



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05 Sep 2020, 9:13 am

he eventually went to Brian May and bought the song

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because owning the publishing rights worked out to being way cheaper than battling both Queen and Bowie in court.


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05 Sep 2020, 12:38 pm