#Benny and the jets lyrics irc movie#
There’s always enough innocence in the audience to kind of let themselves go with a movie like this. I think there’s always an audience for it. Benny & The Jets lyrics performed by Beastie Boys: Hey kids, shake it loose together The spotlight's hitting something That's been known to change the weather We'll kill the fatted calf tonight So stick around You're gonna hear electric music Solid walls of sound Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet But they're so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets. People need a little joy in their lives nowadays. Hopefully, that’s swinging back the other direction. The problem was everything needed to be a little nihilistic and darker, and we got a little cynical in our ways. And I think 27 Dresses was one of them, and I’m really proud of it and would love to see that come back. We don’t have to try to make this a great film.” There’s a way to do it that still keeps it in that genre, but also you go out and make a good movie. You don’t have to just go in and go “It’s a romantic comedy. You can make a great romantic comedy that’s well-written, well-acted, well-executed. But I’ve always thought no matter what genre you’re doing, whether a romantic comedy or a musical or a serious period drama, it’s either a good movie or it’s not. We got a little careless and the idea that it didn’t have to be a good film, slap some people together and do some formulaic crap, it’s a popcorn movie, whatever. When he inducted Elton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, Rose told the crowd: “When I first heard ‘Bennie and the Jets,’ I knew I had to be a performer.MARSDEN: We got a little haphazard in our making them. This song also inspired Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose. Surprisingly, Elton didn’t think “Bennie and the Jets” would be a hit and he didn’t agree to releasing it as a single which is why he was shocked that it topped the charts – thanks to two Detroit radio stations (one of which was the black WJLB) that put it on heavy rotation.Įlton performed the song on Soul Station and he was the first white rock act to appear on the show on – ahead of David Bowie by around six months. Elton John gives Benny 'The Jet' Zobrist his walk-up song approval. According to Esquire, Taupin intended Benny and the Jets to be like 'automatons.' In fact, Taupin thinks that John's decision to stutter in the chorus is what made the. Producer Gus Dudgeon wanted a live feel to it so he used audience claps and whistles from an Elton John concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall and layered the effects. According to Society of Rock, when John saw the lyrics, he wanted the music to be 'off the wall.' The slow, robotic beat is intended to echo Taupin's vision of a futuristic band. Neither of which I had anything to do with.” I think those two things are what probably made that song so popular. Bennie and the Jets tells the story of a 1970s band and their flamboyantly dressed lead. The song writing duo of Bernie Taupin and Elton John has become legendary. 'She's Got Electric Boobs, a Mole Hair Suit' Sir Elton John. That and that wonderful big chord at the beginning. She's Got Electric Boobs - Mistaken Lyrics Pint Glass. Taupin admitted, “That’s a little quirk of the song which I’m sad to say I had nothing to do with. The stuttering was also Elton’s idea and Taupin liked it because it suited the futuristic and somehow, robotic vibe of the lyrics. The whole thing is very weird.”Įlton wrote the music and it served as his tribute to glam rock. The audience sounds were taken from a show we did at the Royal Festival Hall years earlier. He also said, “I knew it had to be an off-the-wall type song, an R&B-ish kind of sound or a funky sound. He wanted it to be futuristic and as what he told Esquire, “a prototypical female rock ‘n’ roll band out of science fiction.”Įlton told Rolling Stone, “I saw Bennie and the Jets as a sort of proto-sci-fi punk band fronted by an androgynous woman, who looks like something out of a Helmut Newton photograph.” Taupin drew inspiration from comic books and movies. It all began with Elton seeing Taupin’s lyrics while he was writing songs for GYBR.
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