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Title: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: danny_galaga on January 29, 2009, 02:04:47 am

ive been diligently going to the gym the last 6 months or so. about the only annoyance is that the radio is normally tuned in to one of those crap commercial stations. sometimes im the only one there so i tune it in to a station called ZZZ (true!) which is a community station ive just discovered recently. their playlist goes something like this: a 1930s bluegrass tune, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Nick Cave, Powderfinger, Lilly Allen, Badly Drawn Boy, Dresden Dolls etc. in other words, some variety.

the commercial station playlist is something like this: teen pop by a chick, teen pop by a dude, teen pop by a boy group etc. and that stupid, stupid song about a hollerback girl.

what on earth is a 'hollerback'?

is it something like this?

(http://www.supersites.ca/westcoastsportsconsignme/nss-folder/pictures/Diamondback%20BMX.jpg)

or more like this?

(http://www.geeman-headquarters.com/Greenback_front.jpg)

or perhaps most coolly, is it

(http://www.toxic-web.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/blog/avram-grant-baron-greenback.png)

and what the hell has it got to do with bananas?

 
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 29, 2009, 06:40:04 am
Australians...   ::)

hollaback:
   
1) The subordinates in a group. When there is a group of people that hang together a lot and one of those members is very dominating and controlling, other less forceful members   just tag along, do and think what they are told. Derived from high school cheerleading. The captain hollers something and all the other cheerleaders holler it back.

2) Someone who allows people to treat him/her like a doormat and walk all over him/her.

3) Someone who is inferior, low class, has to "answer back" to people above them.
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: shardian on January 29, 2009, 08:07:35 am
Yeah, but what does it have to do with banana's?
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: Malenko on January 29, 2009, 08:49:54 am
Yeah, but what does it have to do with banana's?

bananas....as in crazy.

"You want me to do the p90x with BOYAChad? Are you bananas?"
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: csa3d on January 29, 2009, 08:51:32 am
bananas provide the necessary energy to allow a few trips around the track, even if it ain't gonna happen like that

-csa
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on January 29, 2009, 10:26:50 am
One of my sons friends thought she was saying "I ain't no Harlem black girl".   :duckhunt

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: gnateye on January 29, 2009, 10:59:02 am
jkman, that is awesome, that made my morning. i love badly translated or remember lyrics 8)

and for the record that song came out years ago.....
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: shardian on January 29, 2009, 10:59:08 am
One of my sons friends thought she was saying "I ain't no Harlem black girl".   :duckhunt

J_K_M_A_N

Hehe. It does sound like she is saying that. Maybe she should be saying that - because her music sucks ass anymore. Gwen Stefani = Grand Scale Sellout.

No Doubt Tragic Kingdom is an AWESOME album. Everything after that was 'okay' or just plain crap. It just goes to show that mainstream success kills great acts. If you have any further doubt of that, just take a look at Metallica.
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: patrickl on January 29, 2009, 11:25:50 am
jkman, that is awesome, that made my morning. i love badly translated or remember lyrics 8)

Well then you should try this one:
[youtube]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo[/youtube]

I don't think she gets a word right
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: Dartful Dodger on January 29, 2009, 12:16:51 pm
The only holler back that I know is: In that holler back in the woods where the country folks got it good homebrewed, homegrown where the wild seeds 'a get sown It's a blast from the past all the cowgirls shakin' their sassafras Let out a howl if 'ya feel like 'ya gotta If you wanna go on back to the holler, holler back.
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: RayB on January 29, 2009, 12:20:17 pm
I always thought a "holla-back" girl was one of those dim-witted B****es who's all attitude and no brains... "hollering back" to try and keep face.

Anyways, this song came out like 6 years ago!
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: Ummon on January 29, 2009, 09:29:56 pm
I ain't never heard of none o this. Damn kids reducing the language to emoticons in their brain. And it all started with bad anime in the 90s.
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: shardian on January 29, 2009, 11:53:54 pm
I ain't never heard of none o this. Damn kids reducing the language to emoticons in their brain. And it all started with bad anime in the 90s.

Most of it at least. Ronin Warriors was pretty badass.
Title: Re: aint no hollerback girl
Post by: danny_galaga on January 31, 2009, 02:28:07 am
I always thought a "holla-back" girl was one of those dim-witted B****es who's all attitude and no brains... "hollering back" to try and keep face.

Anyways, this song came out like 6 years ago!


it may well have come out six years ago, but that doesnt preclude crappy commercial stations from playing it. i have heard it before, its just that somehow it got me thinking 'well, WTF is a hollerback anyway? (and what does it have to do bananayanas?)'.

six years ago i had my own courier business and i listened to the radio station that appealed the most to me. they didnt play any gwen stefani after 'im just a girl' as far as i can remember. that station had taste  ;D