Has the world of music been made a better or worse place by the existence of "Lady Marmalade" in its many versions?

Someone finally translate that line please!

"would you like to couch with me?" or something?

LaBelle's version made the world a better place. Everyone else's made the world plunge into a thousand decades of lamentably abject lameness.

Hotlinked picture was of a golliwog. Get it? "Lady" "Marmalade".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otpMxEG9No&feature=related

The Sugababes do a cover exhibiting all the wanton sluttishness of a logistic firm's AGM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ClGcjYObDc

Apparently it's illegal to cover this song if you don't own a corset top.

Who the Hell is Shanna Crooks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vwrkU6KVY

Leona Lewis disinterestedly fills in one of the weeks on The X-Factor

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mytu_jsimpson-plabelle-clauper-lady-marm_music

Hey, if you want sexy, and you want great cover versions, two words are synonymous with both those terms: Jessica Simpson

better for the original
worse for the covers

Could we maybe clear up here the question of what lady marmalade actually is?

She's a prostitute, obviously.

wau, people

best bit of jacob's ladder = when this song is playing

I'm assuming you're saving the Tom Jones and REM versions for some sort of horrific big reveal?

I would like to say that the Nanette Workman version of this is easily the best, but hilariously it appears that nobody wants to put the actual good version of this online.

Christina/Kim/Pink/Mya versh works for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mp115afFIA&feature=related

Pretty sure there'd be world peace by now if Eve had never existed.

Someone finally translate that line please!

"would you like to couch with me?" or something?

I don't know any French, but a friend of mine who does said it translates to "Would you like to sleep with me tonight?".

See also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLh2d-EwzGI

The world has obviously been vastly improved by this song, and the attempts of perpetrators to diminish its magnificence are of no consequence.

Literal: "Would you like to have some coochie with me, this evening?"

Labelle yes
All Saints yes
Christina n' Pink n' Eve n' Lil' Kim NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

wtf is up with multiple people on this thread not being able to tell the difference between Eve and Missy Elliott

pretty sure the french means "fremma neppa venette"

wtf is up with multiple people on this thread not being able to tell the difference between Eve and Missy Elliott

Except that neither Eve or Missy Elliott appear on this song, the rap is by Lil' Kim. According to Wikipedia Elliott co-produced it though.

Missy introduces the song in the video.

IT'S MYA, FOR FLIP'S SAKE

Worse, obv. Don't even like the original much, and the cover versions are all awful.

Worse, it's just about the only thing I know in French, and I have the idea it probably isn't the wisest thing to say to the first person you mean on the street in Paris...

meet even

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