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Hi everybody

I see everywhere on the web that the first words of the song are:
"I took my baby on saturday bang"

But in the following movie "acapella version"
We can hear another words like:

"I take my baby gone a saturday deal"

Do you think this is correct ?

Thank you

 
To me, what comes after "I took my baby on a Saturday" just sounds like some mumbling :)
 
Nope, he's definitely saying "I took my baby on a Saturday..." in that clip. The last word sounds like he's mumbling it a bit... 'Saturday bang' does fit with the rest of the lyrics though.

It's also the same take as used in the studio version, not an alternative version.
 
I took my baby on a Saturday bang, but Michael's speaking Jacksonese so it's never the same word twice. lol
 
Well,.....Bill Botrell said that he recorded demo/scratch vocals, and those same vocals were left intact on the released version....
 
JEMFTV said:
Well,.....Bill Botrell said that he recorded demo/scratch vocals, and those same vocals were left intact on the released version....
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When did he say this? I think that is incorrectt. They said that Michael recorded many vocal takes for this song, as he always does for good measure, but they ended up using the first take on the album.

doesn't sound like "Bang" or "Deal" to me. Sounds like jacksonese,lol
 
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''I took my baby on a Saturday dale...'' ;)
 
"I took my baby on a Saturday dan" that's what I hear. I think it's Jacksonese for either I took my baby on Saturday dance (Without saying ce) or I took my baby on a Saturday dand (instead of singing and)
 
If he is singing dale, Pitbull sometimes says ''dale'' in his song's and this is what people say it is to mean.

''Dale, like so many words and expressions in Spanish, has a fluid definition that varies among countries and cultures. Pronounced "Dah-lay," it essentially means "give it" or "go ahead" in English. It can be a nod of encouragement or a forceful demand. It's also flirtatious, a warm coo of a sexual invitation. It has always been popular in Latino culture.''
 
I took my baby on a saturday ddeeuuuuhhhh.... wha? Leave it in!! haah
 
I've always thought of it as ''Saturday bang''.. but now i'm certain it is ''Saturday Dah-lay"
 
In fairness, some of the lyrics in the Dangerous booklet are wrong- Jam for example
 
It's Saturday bang. I've listened to that song over and over, and with head phones over and over. I'm 110% positive it's bang.
 
When I first heard it during premiere I heard "Saturday dance" til I read the album lyric sheet. But this sounds more like dan (dance) than bang to me.
 
Not sure what this is all about, Black or White is one of the few songs where I can understand every word quite clearly!!!

Now if someone can explain what 'I ain't fraid of no sheets' means, then I'll be happy!
 
Tony R said:
Not sure what this is all about, Black or White is one of the few songs where I can understand every word quite clearly!!!

Now if someone can explain what 'I ain't fraid of no sheets' means, then I'll be happy!
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Pretty sure he's referring to members of the Ku Klux Klan, whose uniforms look like white sheets:
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^ good call.

I always presumed he meant ghosts, as in ghosts of your past.
 
I have always heard it as Saturday Bang

Don't know what that means exactly... :)
 
Hess said:
I have always heard it as Saturday Bang

Don't know what that means exactly... :)
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I hear it as ''dale'' now, i was surprised when i watched back the Munich concert and i heard ''dale'' especially after finding some meaning's of the word
 
Spyce said:
Nice interpretation... never thought of it in that way before. It could work, though he is talking about the KKK.
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I was reading Tony's post this morning, and I actually thought it was sarcasm at first, because I had always just known it was the KKK. BUT then I started I started thinking about it, and thought maybe it's because I'm from the US and from Michael's generation and was a little kid during the Civil Rights Act, etc. So of course I would know-but there are people (especially born later on or from other countries) that don't.

And that made me think about the "I don't Care about Us" and did people really misunderstand the "kxxe" word in that song-and didn't understand that it was used expressly against prejudice, not to promote it.

But I think I'm wrong there-I still think they deliberately misunderstood the words of that song-and twisted it quite deliberately-too many people (Diane Sawyer, the New York Times critics, etc) are older(and better educated) than me, so if I got it-I know they did.
 
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barbee0715 said:
I was reading Tony's post this morning, and I actually thought it was sarcasm at first, because I had always just known it was the KKK. BUT then I started I started thinking about it, and thought maybe it's because I'm from the US and from Michael's generation and was a little kid during the Civil Rights Act, etc. So of course I would know-but there are people (especially born later on or from other countries) that don't.

And that made me think about the "I don't Care about Us" and did people really misunderstand the "kxxe" word in that song-and didn't understand that it was used expressly against prejudice, not to promote it.

But I think I'm wrong there-I still think they deliberately misunderstood the words of that song-and twisted it quite deliberately-too many people (Diane Sawyer, the New York Times critics, etc) are older(and better educated) than me, so if I got it-I know they did.
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Believe me, in other countries we still know about the civil rights movement and the KKK. We tend to be quite good at studying other country's history.
 
It's bang, he just doesn't do the strong "B" pronunciation to fit with the flow of the song. This way it flows smoother for an opening line.
 
Tony R said:
Believe me, in other countries we still know about the civil rights movement and the KKK. We tend to be quite good at studying other country's history.
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Oh, I apologize to you, profusely. I certainly didn't mean you literally, or probably anybody else on this board.

But it got me to thinking (and probably over-thinking) about America here in general, and the different generation gaps and how, for instance, we have all this controversy over the "N" word-kids take it in stride because of rap and hip-hop and don't realize how hurtful it is for other generations.

America has never been great with our own history-I'm sure that's why we still have and NEED Black History Month and the NAACP Image awards, the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League etc. etc. You should read all the griping comments I read on the news aggregate sites. We're more racist than ever. Again, I am sorry.


Back on topic-maybe "bang" means "shebang"-like the "whole shebang", a blast, a party, celebration kind of thing
 
barbee0715 said:
Oh, I apologize to you, profusely. I certainly didn't mean you literally, or probably anybody else on this board.

But it got me to thinking (and probably over-thinking) about America here in general, and the different generation gaps and how, for instance, we have all this controversy over the "N" word-kids take it in stride because of rap and hip-hop and don't realize how hurtful it is for other generations.

America has never been great with our own history-I'm sure that's why we still have and NEED Black History Month and the NAACP Image awards, the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League etc. etc. You should read all the griping comments I read on the news aggregate sites. We're more racist than ever. Again, I am sorry.


Back on topic-maybe "bang" means "shebang"-like the "whole shebang", a blast, a party, celebration kind of thing
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Appreciate the post.
 
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