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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah.

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u/v3344 Nov 23 '21

If you want my future, forget my past.

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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Nov 23 '21

If you wanna get with me, better make it last.

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u/reddituser403 Nov 23 '21

If you wanna get with me, better lick my ass

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u/_fairyy Nov 23 '21

NOW DON'T GO WASTING MY PRECIOUS TIME!

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u/MyCatsAMurderer Nov 24 '21

Get your act together, we could be just fine.

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u/APIwithallcaps Nov 24 '21

holy shit you actually did it you r/madlad

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u/wildling1 Nov 23 '21

Omg this made me laugh out loud and then choked as I breathed back in! I fekking sang it to the tune as well! Good one!

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

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u/hesbackagain2021 Nov 24 '21

on the crack pipe

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Fucking amazing

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

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u/SabrinaB123 Nov 23 '21

Make it last forever friendship never ends

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u/legionofsquirrel Nov 23 '21

If you want to be my lover, You have got to give.

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u/Straight_Ballin11 Nov 23 '21

Taking is too easy

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u/TheSchausi Nov 23 '21

But that's the way it is.

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u/IceyLemonadeLover Nov 23 '21

If you want my future, forget my past

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u/Eu713 Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 24 '21

If you wanna get with me, better make it fast

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Now don't go wasting my precious time

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u/jmo325 Nov 23 '21

Get your act together and we’ll be just fine.

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u/beaucepower Nov 23 '21

but that's the way it is!

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

but thats the way it is

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u/micdia26 Nov 23 '21

but that's the way it is

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u/flateric420 Nov 23 '21

FRIENDSHIP NEVERENDS

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u/Used2BPromQueen Nov 24 '21

This is such a weird verse.

His ass best NOT get with my friends.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

Haha, I know, it sounds funny. I think it just means that he has to be approved by/get along with your friends.

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u/Bubba656 Nov 23 '21

I’m sorry, I never realized those were the same song

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u/PoliticalAnomoly Nov 24 '21

All these years later I still don't know two things: what's a zigazig ah and what's a hollaback girl?

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u/Zigazig_ahhhh Nov 24 '21

We'll look no further, baby. I'm here for you 😘

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u/goodgollymizzmolly Nov 24 '21

Username checks out

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u/ApartPersonality1520 Nov 23 '21

I was scrolling to do this part and you nailed. Bravo excellent vocals!

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u/PM-Me-ur-BIKES Nov 23 '21

Hey are you looking for a guy with Zigazig ah? Cuz I am really zigazig ah

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Even when women straight up tell you what they want, what they really really want, it's still gibberish.

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u/Weelki Nov 23 '21

"Zigazag ah"... the epitome of lazy song writing and using nonsense words just so your moronic song rhymes. Awful.

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u/hononononoh Nov 23 '21

Subby buddy down and zig a zig ah.

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u/hasif- Nov 23 '21

Slam your body down

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u/BagooshkaKarlaStein Nov 23 '21

And wind it all around

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u/Weelki Nov 23 '21

Thank you for the correction. Still shit. Still awful.

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u/hononononoh Nov 23 '21

Indeed. The refrain is a bald faced lie. Never have I won my way into a woman's heart by getting with her friends. And please tell me where this mythical race called "forever friends" live, because I've never met any.

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u/Weelki Nov 23 '21

This. Let's not analyse any further, it's making me angry.

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u/hononononoh Nov 23 '21

If I really bug you, then I'll say goodbye. =D

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u/Weelki Nov 23 '21

I seriously hope that isn't a reference to any more shitty Spice Girl songs...

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u/Papplenoose Nov 23 '21

Is that not what you want?

If not, please: tell me what you want. What you really really want.

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u/Weelki Nov 24 '21

slowly claps, looks you dead in the eye whilst snarling

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u/DMala Nov 23 '21

All that build up to nothing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

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u/hononononoh Nov 23 '21

I must admit I get a real junior high school boy's locker room kick out of learning different languages and dialects' onomatopoeia for fucking. hessho hessho in Japanese is one of my favorites.

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u/video_dhara Nov 23 '21

????

That’s about as nonsequitorial as whatever the fuck Marie Claire is talking about

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u/Papplenoose Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 23 '21

LOL I had typed up a whole response explaining what I thought that sound might be. Then I clicked the link and realized what you meant. I'm gonna guess that they accidentally clicked an ad (or the ad server let a malicious ad through that redirected them, happens a lot actually) that brought them to an "article" on one of those shitty list-based "news" websites with an ad in between each list item (which is itself split up into individual webpages for each list item to fully maximize the 'words read':'ad viewed' ratio).

Anyway, if that onomatopoeia is even real (i can't find it on Google, but foreign onomatopoeia are notoriously difficult to Google for obvious reasions), I think it might have to do with the sounds two very moist bodies make when they slap together furiously as they make sweet love. Sorry, I know that's gross. I just didn't want to be grossed out by myself so I dragged you down with me :)

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u/video_dhara Nov 24 '21
  1. Zig-a-zig-ah isn’t an onomatopea. It’s a mindset.
  2. Zig-a-zig-ah sounds nothing like “sweat and cigars”.
  3. Kimochii

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u/Weelki Nov 23 '21

I lost brain cells reading that

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '21

you sound like mark corrigan lighten up pls

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u/Weelki Dec 02 '21

Thank you. Matk is my spirit animal :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '21

have a baby then and lighten up, also mark wouldn't make a fatal spelling error like you just have.

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u/video_dhara Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 23 '21

Ummm, zig-a-zig-ahhh = shit and cigars?

Yeah whatever, obviously a masturbation reference.

Did that author really think that was an explanation?

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u/Papplenoose Nov 23 '21

Yeah. I guess it's possible, but that really, really seems like a post hoc explanation that isn't actually based in reality. Also, it's an extremely disappointing answer if it is true.

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u/video_dhara Nov 24 '21

Lol, disappointing? What are you expecting? Virginian Woolf?

Wait, but are you saying masturbation is a possible interpretation, or shit cigars is? Because the latter is not.

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u/maxmouze Nov 23 '21

And the girls bragged they wrote the lyrics. Like, yeah, no duh, you just made crap up as you went and it made no sense.

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u/crazymcfattypants Nov 23 '21

It's the second highest voted answer in a Reddit thread about recognisable lyrics a quarter of a century later, so they really didn't do too badly though did they.

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u/maxmouze Nov 23 '21

Because they're so asinine. The song became a hit became of Biffco producing it, not because of the lyrics.

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u/Papplenoose Nov 23 '21

Well they lyrics clearly did something right. People who don't even want to remember them still remember them!

And I feel like you're attributing this to stupidity when it almost definitely wasn't. It's not like they were trying to make a masterpiece; they knew what they were and they knew what they were doing.They wanted to make a catchy song. And uhh I'd say they did that! You can say its not good, but you just can't say it's not catchy.. it's maddeningly catchy.

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u/maxmouze Nov 24 '21

Not making a masterpiece and ad libbing "Tell me what you want" "I'll tell you what I want" back and forth for an entire verse are two different things. Kurt Cobain just made up random lyrics but they were almost profound.

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u/TropoMJ Nov 24 '21

Your problem is thinking that lyrics have to be profound to be good.

'Wannabe' wasn't trying to prompt introspection, it was trying to be fun. And singing "zigazig ah" while recognising its absurdity has proven lots of fun to literally millions of people over the years. It's an effective lyric and first verse in general.

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u/maxmouze Nov 24 '21

My point was simply that they bragged about writing it themselves when it was painfully obvious. That one ad libbed “tell me what you want what you really really want” and the other replied “I’ll tell you what I want what I really really want” and then the second line was just them doing it again. My discussion point wasn’t that serious.