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Title: How Do You Pronounce "I Love to Say Da-da/Da Da/Dada"? Post by: doinnothin on April 14, 2011, 04:35:29 PM Is it dada as in Dadaism? Or as in daddy?
I've seen it written different ways, but wasn't sure what to glean from it. If it's as in daddy perhaps there's a relation to the "Mamamama" section from "Wonderful". Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: Bicyclerider on April 14, 2011, 05:29:44 PM It's hard to say how it's pronounced since the words never appear in the song! :)
Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on April 14, 2011, 07:15:26 PM Why did I JUST have this same conversation with my wife earlier? :lol
Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: CatchAWave on April 14, 2011, 10:55:41 PM I have always thought of the title as a double entendre. I believe, IMOHO, that the title is a pun on the concept of the album, as well as the whole Child is the Father of the Man lyrics of the album.
Dadaism played a major influence in Pop Art, and I believe that this is what Smile was intended to be; baroque Pop Art with a commercial slant. I don't believe that Smile was trying to evoke the spirit of true Dadaism, a rejection of all art as a concept created by the bourgeois capitalist society, but rather a pure expression of Pop Art. So I guess I believe that the title of the song is pronounced in the traditional art sense. I have no facts to back up my opinion, but I like the way the title sounds when pronounced this way. Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: Andrew G. Doe on April 15, 2011, 01:06:11 AM It's hard to say how it's pronounced since the words never appear in the song! :) But they do in "Cool, Cool Water". ::) Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: stack-o-tracks on April 15, 2011, 02:41:45 AM It's actually pronounced doo doo. :hat
Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: hypehat on April 15, 2011, 04:04:49 AM I pronounce it Dah-Dah (the art movement), but then I also say 'barth', 'grah-ss' and so on, cos I'm a (british) southerner, so that might have something to do with it ;D
Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: guitarfool2002 on April 15, 2011, 06:57:57 AM My guess is Dada as in the art movement. Has anyone asked Brian about this in the past 5 decades?
About Cool Cool Water: isn't it actually the "wah-doo" chant, as in "wah doo, wah doo, wah doo, wah doo"? I lived in Boston for some time, and "water" was pronounced what-ahh. I've never heard an accent say wah-doo for water unless it was a Subud thing... ;D Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: onkster on April 15, 2011, 09:00:00 AM There's also the da-da-da backing vox in Wonderful...and wasn't the Mamamamamama chant supposed to have originated with Wonderful?
I'm guessing there's a plethora of parent/child imagery goin' on... Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: Mahalo on April 15, 2011, 03:28:15 PM When was the vox for this recorded??
Title: Re: How Do You Pronounce \ Post by: buddhahat on April 15, 2011, 03:59:30 PM I find it interesting that the edit on Secret Smile has the musicians move into a third section that quickly breaks down. It sounds remarkably like Child (specifically the piano version with the 'woodchuck' or 'whoah child' vocals). Always make me think there might be more in the dada = dadda theory, and that LTSDD really has more in common with Child than water.
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