If Das Racist wanted to put out a record that it could sell, on an actual label, the band probably couldn't get the necessary advance to license the sample from Billy Joel's "Movin' Out," which is so delightfully warped in "You Oughta Know," or the sample from Prince's "Housequake," which builds the chorus of "Shut Up, Dude".
You can mock the conservatism of their choices, but the Sound of awards seldom get it wrong: the minute the ballad Eyes Shut reaches its chorus, you're gripped by the certainty that the next series of X Factor is going to be crawling with people trying to escape the call centre by belting it out, while pulling pained faces and shaking their heads and doing expressive hand gestures.
Taking a drug was enlightening because it manually shut down a chorus of negative voices in my head (a thousand yappy dogs).
Those who want to fix it will have to shut out the choruses of no-amnestys and over-my-dead-bodys, sidestep the false arguments and press into the headwinds while holding firm to the core of the better solution.
I thought I was in the show and started to sing with the chorus until someone told me to shut up.
Several concertgoers said that the audience appeared to be overwhelmingly hostile to the protesters, with boos, shouts and cries of "Shut up!" countering the protesters' choruses.
It's a song that feels both buoyant and teasing — there's almost a singsong quality to the chorus, whose lyrics include "Don't try to shut me up, no no".
A chorus of cheerful greetings rang out, and the doors shut.
The doors shut again and there was a large chorus of people exhaling for the first time in minutes.
In the chorus, LaVette sings, "Mama, please," while the backup singers say, "Shut your mouth, and don't talk back".
