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> I'm guessing I was wrong in thinking the lines could be cause-and-effect This is the root cause of why everyone is arguing with you. For some reason, TFA quo
by hunter2_ 4y ago
> I'm guessing I was wrong in thinking the lines could be cause-and-effect
This is the root cause of why everyone is arguing with you. For some reason, TFA quotes the defrag line and the RAM line as if they are somehow paired, which you've also latched onto, but it makes no sense to consider them as a pair. Many lines in this song are to be interpreted as their own complete thought. And if we really want to pair up consecutive lines, wouldn't we use lines that rhyme to do so?
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Nine to five, chillin' at Hewlett Packard? // Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills // Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM // I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house // Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
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- nocman 4y agoYeah, that's fair. As I said before, this is not one of my favorite Weird Al songs (many of which I could sing along with word-for-word from memory). I was never crazy about the song, so I am not surprised that I didn't know the surrounding context (which the original article left out). Still, I don't think you can exclude the possibility of a cause-and-effect relationship spanning the middle of two rhyming lines (perhaps particularly, in rap music), but after seeing and hearing the lines in context, I don't think that was Al's intention here.