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silversurfer250
"Whip It, like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. The lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in his book Gravity's Rainbow. He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and 'You're #1, there's nobody else like you' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. I thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I wrote down 'Whip It' one night..." http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=722
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silversurfer250
Compare to Willow with Whip My Hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U
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Sanity_Theorist
Devo is too awesome to be a "one hit wonder". [2] My favorites are Freedom of Choice and Can't Get No Satisfaction, a lot of unexplored gold for me to find yet.
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