ebony and ivory poll

I am black and you are white
You are blind as a bat and I have sight

Side by side you are my amigo negro
Let's not fight

Just the enunciation of py-ah-no

the use of the phrase "piano keyboard" is kinda awkward, like many things in this song

landslide on this one...

i don't care if you're ebony, ivory, purple......

I'm with Momus on this one.

I'm ivory btw.

Life's an Eskimo Pie, let's take a bite

that momus post is a kind of conceptual art piece on the concept 'tl;dr'

No fewer than four totalising, reductive tropes appear in that introductory statement: 100% of us know that 100% of us are 100% the same in 100% of the world.

(xxxpost) Classic Momus pedantry...

that momus post is a kind of conceptual art piece on the concept 'tl;dr'

It's not as bad as "My Love," the hit Stevie Wonder had in duet with Julio Iglesias in 1988, lyric apparently written by Hongro, G:

"My love is warmer than a smile
My love gives to every needing child
If anyone should ask you who's my true love
Tell them my love true is ever letting all their love come through."

Yes but how exactly do you sit side by side on a piano keyboard?

... which appears to be the avowed intention of Steveland and Macca after all

And predictably I have Babelfished the Iglesias/Wonder epic into Spanish and back to find:

"My love is hotter than a smile
My love gives each boy of necessity
If any person requests who' to him; s my true love
Dígales that my love truth never is leaving all their love arrives."

Obviously Macca didn't feel that this duet was awkward enough, so he sang "The Girl Is Mine" with Jacko...
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detestable cover

"The Girl Is Mine But You Can Keep the Prepubescent Boy"

but redeemed it with Say Say Say!!

Think Paul I that i you I'? ; that is explained A? agreeable m one by one no fighter.

I'm looking at that record cover and I'm seeing a subliminal cat's face on Jacko's crotch. Is anyone else seeing this?

It's really quite disturbing.

I obv. haven't spent as much time as you staring at Michael Jackson's crotch

You wanna come pet the kitty son?

Wasn't that the name of a Gary Glitter B-side?

No llamas no credibility

it saddens me that i can't vote for "At the simplest level, the song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony on a deeper level."

i genuinely love this song. i know this is unforgivable. also, all the perinent parts of the eddie murphy/joe piscopo SNL version have been quoted, so i have nothing to add.

Nothing from the Culturcide version yet, though.

By the way, great to have you on ILM, Mr Wonder.

The song is better than its current reputation, yet one of the weakest tracks on the otherwise excellent "Tug Of War" album.

"We all know that people are the same where ever we go" is terribly banal, but also quite true.

If only the ebony barbarians had not wrecked music by ignoring ivory classicism melodics in favour of amelodic rhythm dominate hip op beats...

Welcome back, Comstock!

I have never seen so many people at a concert simultaneously get up to go to the bathroom as when Paulie pulled this one out on the Flowers in the Dirt tour.

As long as people don't launch from this into a needless assault on "Say Say Say," s'all good.

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"Ebony & Ivory" > "The Girl Is Mine" >>> "Say Say Say"

this is one of the worst songs of all time

My husband and I have changed the lyrics of this song in order to make it about our cats.

Why didn't you just name your cats "Ebony" and "Ivory"?

or testicles?

One is black, the other's orangy.

I don't care if you're white, black, orangy...

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