BE-BOP-A-LULA 
The only song on the Filthy Fifteen that I think deserves special attention is Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop”. The conjugation of the made-up verb “bop” that forms most of the chorus is just another way of saying, “everybody’s doing it”; it also includes a reference to the 1957 Gene Vincent hit “Be-Bop-A-Lula”, presumably where the songwriters borrowed the word. (June 2016) |