Inkcap; Gathering Mushrooms

One of the problems one faces when trying to answer all of these questions that can be found in songs, is; does anyone really care about the answer? For so many of the songs, we have no actual reason to answer the question properly. What do we get in return for all this hard work? [...]

Haddaway repeatedly asked us in 1993 What is Love? It would seem that this question has gone on to puzzle years of listeners, and advertising gurus, and the song still crops up here and there (Madagascar, The Office, and an Australian milk advert, to name but a few). None of these media have attempted to [...]

I really love a singing interrogator who actually cares about me. And whilst Cerys-from-Catatonia has shown some scant concern about possible mental disorders I might be experiencing, her kindness is nowhere near that Exuberant New Romantic Glam Rocker Adam Ant. I sometimes think that he’s the only one who really cares, as he [...]

The Barenaked Ladies has left fans asking many questions over the course of their songs (the most notable of these being; Did you pick that name purely to disappoint me?), and I intend to cherry-pick at them rather a lot over the course of time. However, today we will confine ourselves to the biggest [...]

One of the best things about being a child is that you get to find out how exciting the world is, before your experience of it makes you hollow and jaded. Just watch a small person playing in a puddle at some point. Wouldn’t you love to be that enthused by a little bit of [...]

These rap artist types ask a lot of questions, don’t they? Take Timbaland, the great but uncommunicative rap artist who has made an impression on the R&B scene since the 1990s (NB. not to be confused with Timberland, who make hiking boots). He worked with Destiny’s Child on the song Get on the Bus taken [...]

I think the main, if not only, reason why The Beautiful South’s song How Long’s a Tear Take to Dry? only made it to number 12 in the UK singles chart is because they never got round to giving their poor audience an answer. This was in spite of the song having an awesome video, [...]

You remind me of the babe
What babe?
Babe with the power
What power?
Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the babe
And so on went the cyclical questioning in David Bowie’s Magic Dance, from Labyrinth. We all know how frustrating questioning loops can get (see Henry and Liza’s discourse about that godforesaken bucket), so I think it’s [...]

By 1999, Savage Garden weren’t just content to sit at the top of the Australian and US charts, steadily working their way towards selling 25,000,000 albums. Oh no, that clean-cut Austalian duo had had enough of the vacuous world of music making, and decided it was about time that they addressed some of the deep [...]

It really does break my heart that Patti Page has been waiting since 1952 for an answer to her famous question, How much is that doggie in the window? If we ignore the fact that that original dog she saw has probably popped its paws by now, we can finally answer her rather straightforward question. [...]