Line #16 CaptainObvious/Music


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14	--> All examples found in songs are here!
15	* 2 Chainz. There are so many examples, but let's just go with the most famous one:
16	--> [[MemeticMutation She got a big booty, so I call her big booty.]]
17	* In Music/{{America}}'s ''A Horse with No Name'', the singer feels the need to point out that "The heat was hot."
18	* Music/DanielAmos's "Autographs for the Sick" (from ''{{Music/Doppelganger}}'') starts off with several voices speaking [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign foreign-sounding gibberish]] and an interpreter translating into English. At the end, one of the voices just sings a line in English, and the interpreter helpfully translates that, too. And then:
19	-->'''Speaker #4:''' Hahaha...\
20	'''Interpreter:''' Ha ha ha.\
21	''[three drum beats]''\
22	'''Interpreter:''' Dit dit doo.
23	* The last line of "If I Had $1,000,000" by Music/BarenakedLadies:
24	-->''If I had a million dollars,\
25	I'd be rich!''
26	* For some reason, Music/TheBeachBoys make a point of mentioning in the chorus of ''Little Saint Nick'' that "Christmas comes this time each year."
27	* Music/TheBeatles, in "Come Together", gave us such enlightening information as "He's got feet down below his knees" and "One and one and one is three". You don't say.
28	** They gained the grand prize for this trope in "All You Need Is Love", in which everything except the "all you need is love" sentiment is basically saying "anything that humans are able to do, humans can do."
29	-->Nothing you can do that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung
30	** "Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand": "Well I don't really want to stop the show / But we thought you'd all like to know / That the singer's going to sing a song." (The show in question is a ''concert''. That's right. He interrupted a concert to let everyone know that the singer would be singing. Even if it was done for a rhyme - "[[AudienceParticipationSong And he wants you all to sing along]]" and the supposed lead singer of Sgt. Pepper's band was [[Music/RingoStarr playing drums up to that point]], it's a pretty obvious line).
31	* The viral Website/YouTube video of Rebecca Black's song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0 Friday]]'' withholds any traces of instinct to take the song seriously.
32	-->Yesterday was Thursday/ Today it is Friday/ Tomorrow is Saturday/ And Sunday comes afterwards...
33	* Music/DavidBowie's 2013 single [[Music/TheNextDay "Where Are We Now?"]] features the line "the moment you know, you know you know". It makes sense, given the tone of the overall song, but still sounds remarkably obvious when its actually said aloud.
34	* ''[[AwardBaitSong Forever Young]]'' from the second ''WesternAnimation/{{Care Bears\|Movie II A New Generation}}'' movie includes the line, "You'll be with me until/The sun shines through the night./It never will."
35	* In concerts, to introduce the song "[[VulgarHumor I Cum Blood]]," [[Music/CannibalCorpse Corpsegrinder]] says "this song is about shooting blood out of your cock."
36	* Music/JonathanCoulton in "Betty and Me", on the subject of genetically engineered children:
37	-->And although it was expensive, it was legal in the states where it wasn't banned.
38	** He also does this at least once in "Madelaine":
39	--->If it doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger\
40	But if it kills you, you'll be dead
41	* The Music/CultureClub song "Time (Clock Of The Heart)", has as the first lyric of its chorus "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Because time won't give me time.]]" Ya don't ''say''...
42	* ''So Yesterday'' by Music/HilaryDuff states that "If the light is off, then it isn't on" and "You can change your clothes (if you wanna)". [[SarcasmMode No, really?]]
43	* In Music/FlandersAndSwann's parody of avant garde home decor, "Design for Living" they suggest "Why not collect little metal bottle tops and nail them upside down to the floor? This will give the sensation of walking on little metal bottle tops, turned upside down."
44	* In the chatter at the beginning of Music/MarvinGaye's "What's Going On", it sounds like someone is saying "this is a new recording". (It's actually "this is a groovy party")
45	* Music/{{Gloryhammer}} - "Gloryhammer"
46	--> Galaxies swarming behind me
47	--> Nebulas lying ahead
48	--> This can only mean...
49	--> That I have arrived into space
50	* In the music video for ''Music/{{Thriller}}'', we have Music/MichaelJackson's statement "I'm not like other guys."
51	* Music/AvrilLavigne, "[=Sk8er=] Boi". "He was a boy she was a girl/[[LampshadeHanging can I make it any more obvious?]]"
52	* The classic '60s love song ''Baby I'm Yours'' (first recorded by Barbara Lewis) has the narrator say that he/she is "yours" until a number of impossible events happen (until the stars fall from the sky, until 2+2 is 3), then helpfully elaborate "In other words, until I die/the end of time/eternity."
53	* Music/LilWayne seems to like being Captain Obvious. For example, in ''I Can Transform Ya'' he says, "I Can Transform Ya/ Like a Franchise/{{Transformer\|s}}". In ''Mrs. Officer'' the guy singing the chorus sings, "I can make you say, Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee, Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee" and Lil Wayne chimes in with, "Like a cop car".
54	* Los Bravos helpfully informs us, "Black is Black".
55	* The background singers in Music/ManfredMann's "The Mighty Quinn" at one point carol, "We're singin' a song!"
56	* Martin Pearson's parody of "The Gambler" presents the gambler's advice as this:
57	-->He said every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser,\
58	And every card's a good card, except when it is not.\
59	Some of them got pictures, and some got little dots on,\
60	Some have got a couple, and some have got a lot.\
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62	And cards are made of cardboard, with slightly rounded edges,\
63	There's fifty-two plus jokers and a spare one in each pack.\
64	And if you think about it, you can see I'm talking bullshit,\
65	But I spat on your cigarettes and you can't have them back!
66	* The Postal Service's "We Will Become Silhouettes:"
67	--> "Until our shells simply cannot hold / All our insides in, and that's when we'll explode... / And it won't be a pretty sight."
68	* In Music/{{Radiohead}}'s [[Music/AMoonShapedPool "The Numbers"]], Thom Yorke tells us "the future is inside us/it's not somewhere else".
69	* The Music/SimonAndGarfunkel song "The Boxer", when performed in concert, usually includes an extra verse that contains the line: "I'm older than I once was and younger than I'll be. ''That's not unusual.''" Is this a lampshade or an intensifier?
70	* Music/SongsToWearPantsTo wrote a [[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/captain-obvious-theme theme song]] for this character: "CaptainObvious to the rescue! / CaptainObvious: he will state the obvious".
71	* Johnny Standley's 1952 novelty record "It's In The Book" takes the story of Little Bo Peep and lampshades the hell out of the poem's obviousness:
72	-->It says here "Little Bo Peep," who was a little girl, "has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them." Now that's reasonable, isn't it? It's reasonable to assume that if Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep, it's only natural that she wouldn't know where to find them.
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74	-->So, "Leave them alone." Now, that overwhelms me. Completely overwhelms me. The man said she lost her sheep, turns right around and boldly states that she doesn't know where to find them, and then has the stupid audacity to say "Leave them alone." Now, think for a moment. Think. If the sheep were lost and you couldn't find them, you'd have to leave them alone, wouldn't you?
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76	-->"They will come home wagging their tails." Pray tell me, what else could they wag?!
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78	-->They will come home wagging their tails. "Behind them." "''Behind them.''" Did we think they'd wag them in front?!
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80	* In "Total Trash," Thurston Moore from Music/SonicYouth insists "it's a natural fact that I'm not no cow."
81	* The chorus of ''Bowling Ball'' by Superchic[k]: "You need that boy like a bowling ball dropped on your head, ''which means not at all''."
82	* Music/TalkingHeads' lyrics tend to be full of this; it ends up working to their advantage in some weirdly inexplicable way. Are you aware, for instance, that [[Music/OnceInALifetime "there is water at the bottom of the ocean"]]?
83	* "Older" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants. The whole song, but epitomized in:
84	-->Tiiiime! [Boom! Boom!] Is marching on! [Boom! Boom!] And tiiiime! [Boom!] [{{Beat}}] Is still marching on!
85	* Music/{{Turisas}}'s "To Holmgard and Beyond" gives us this enormously helpful elaboration in the spoken-word bridge:
86	-->Threads of different lengths. Some longer, some shorter.
87	* In "Bad" by Music/{{U2}}, Bono sings at the top of his lungs, "I'M WIDE AWAKE! I'M WIDE AWAKE! I'M WIDE AWAKE!" then softly croons the brilliant corollary, "I'm not sleeping."
88	* The song "All or Nothing'' by Music/{{Whitesnake}} includes the line "My heart is burning/And the fire is hot".
89	* Music/LeeAnnWomack's song "Liars Lie", after catching her lover trying to lie, the narrator sings:
90	-->"Losers lose, winners win/ Cheaters cheat, sinners sin/ Dreamers dream, cryers cry/Fools believe, and Liars Lie"
91	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Albuquerque".
92	-->[[ShapedLikeItself That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!]]\
93	Hey, you got weasels on your face.
94	** That's when I knew it was true love!
95	** Likewise, his song "You Don't Love Me Anymore", in which he expresses that he gets the impression his significant other, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin doesn't love him anymore]], citing reasons for his suspicions such as poisoning him, holding up a knife, putting piranhas in his bath ''again'', etc.
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Context CaptainObvious / Music