It's an earworm thing
So I listen from time to time to a radio program called "Jewish Moments in the Morning", otherwise known as JM in the AM. They've introduced me to a Jewish a cappella group called The Maccabeats. Said group are very fond of, among other things, taking currently popular songs and -- essentially -- filking with them.
The one I heard the other day was a Chanukah song. "Cause it's all about the neis". Neis means "miracle" and rhymes with "bass" (the lowest voice part, not the fish) in this context. The chorus was "Cause it's all about the neis, 'bout the neis, no oil...."
Oy! Bad enough that one can get easily ear-wormed with original ("It's All About the Bass" by Malena Llewelyn)... now I have to be running around singing Chanukah songs until I can't sleep, too?!?
(though I have to say I'm grateful for the dreidl... all of a sudden "gadol" makes a lot more sense in various contexts and I doubt I'd know the word for miracle without it!)
They aren't the only ones out there doing this sort of filking, of course... I heard a Madonna song used for a prayer once (wish I could remember which of each; I googled it frantically when I got home that day but could't find it), and Avicii's "Wake Me Up" has been used also. What's so interesting, of course, is I wonder if it would occur to non-secular Jews that these songs are not at all original... *ponder*
The one I heard the other day was a Chanukah song. "Cause it's all about the neis". Neis means "miracle" and rhymes with "bass" (the lowest voice part, not the fish) in this context. The chorus was "Cause it's all about the neis, 'bout the neis, no oil...."
Oy! Bad enough that one can get easily ear-wormed with original ("It's All About the Bass" by Malena Llewelyn)... now I have to be running around singing Chanukah songs until I can't sleep, too?!?
(though I have to say I'm grateful for the dreidl... all of a sudden "gadol" makes a lot more sense in various contexts and I doubt I'd know the word for miracle without it!)
They aren't the only ones out there doing this sort of filking, of course... I heard a Madonna song used for a prayer once (wish I could remember which of each; I googled it frantically when I got home that day but could't find it), and Avicii's "Wake Me Up" has been used also. What's so interesting, of course, is I wonder if it would occur to non-secular Jews that these songs are not at all original... *ponder*