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- Song Found On:
Beach House On The Moon,
1999
- Jimmy Buffett has created a moneymaking
empire of CDs, books, music videos, specialty clothing lines, and concert
tours that place him on Fortune Magazine's list of highest earning
entertainers. Despite his overall success, many have called this particular
school-related song the worst song of his career; others refer to it as absurd
and juvenile. Yet, a number of other people like the song and identify with
it. Despite the "nonsensical" nature of this song, Jimmy struck a cord with
many of his audience. Is he on to something teachers should consider?
- Nicole Cunningham, a YSU math major and student
in Found 3708, created a reverse parody (i.e., a positive alternative) adapted from Buffett's
lyrics. Click here take a look at MATH ROCKS!
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MATH
SUKS
by Jimmy Buffett
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Lyrics:
If necessity was the mother of invention
then I'd like to kill the guy who invented this
The numbers come together in some kind of third dimension
A regular algebraic bliss
Let's starts with something simple
like 1 and 1 ain't 3
any 2 plus 2 will never get you 5
there's fractions in my subtraction
and x don't equal y
but my homework is bound to multiply
Math suks (math suks), Math suks (math suks)
I'd like to burn this text book
I hate that stuff so much
Math suks (math suks), Math suks (math suks)
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
but math suks
I got so bored with my homework
I turned on the TV
the beauty pageant winners were all smiling through their teeth
and they asked the new Miss America
Hey babe can you add up all those bucks
she looked puzzled then just said "Math Suks"
Math suks (math suks), Math suks (math suks)
You don't even have to spell it
All you have to do is yell it
Math suks (math suks), Math suks (math suks)
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
But math suks
Geometry and trigonometry and if they don't tax your brain
there are numbers to big to be named
Numerical precision is a science with a mission
and I think its' gonna drive me insane
Parents fighting with their children
and the congress can't agree
teachers and their students are all jousting constantly
management and labor keep rattling old sabres
quacking like those Peabody ducks
Math suks (quack quack), Math suks (quack quack)
You don't even have to spell it
All you have to do is yell it
Math suks, that's right, Math suks, you got it
Sometimes I think that I don't know that much
but Math suks
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