Song #803: "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston.
Song #258: "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" by Be.Song #30: "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" by Connie.Song #661: "Together Forever" by Rick Astley.Song #985: "OMG" by Usher (featuring will.i.am).Song #7: "To Know Him, Is To Love Him" by The Tedd.Song #324: "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" by M.Song #84: "Walk Right In" by The Rooftop Singers.Song #920: "Grillz" by Nelly (featuring Paul Wall.Song #961: "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry.Song #301: "Touch Me In The Morning" by Diana Ross.Song #595: "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer.Song #311: "Top Of The World" by Carpenters.Song #978: "Whatcha Say" by Jason Derulo.Song #155: "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" by N.Song #467: "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward.Song #110: "Chapel of Love" by The Dixie Cups.Song #765: "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.It goes on and on long after it's run out of ideas, none of which were any good in the first place. Hearing her sing "Ring my bee-eee-eel" grates on my ears, and it's over and over and over again in this song. Here is where the song needs to explain it, at least via metaphor.Īnd on top of all that, Anita Ward isn't even a very strong singer. So what is the bell that's being rung? Maybe it's a euphemism, but I don't get the etymology of it. That doesn't sound like a booty call, it sounds like a couple who lives together and knows the chores need to get done. "I'm glad you're home." Not "here," but "home." "Lay back and relax while I put away the dishes." Sure, put off the romantic mood until a household chore is done. But the rest of the lyrics make it sound like they live together. The most obvious interpretation is that the singer is inviting somebody to ring her doorbell so they can get together for some loving. And I don't even get what that's supposed to mean. Most of the song is just "You can ring my bell" over and over and over again. And there's the fact that a song called "Ring My Bell" uses a really weak and wimpy bell sound. There's the overactive background singers, who manage to interfere with any sense that the song will tell a personal story. She is best known for her 1979 million-selling chart-topper ' Ring My Bell '. Anita Ward (born December 20, 1957) is an American singer and musician. There's that weird space-age "pew" sound that overwhelms everything at the start. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. The worst part of the song is the music and the choice of instruments. It's not a universally bad genre.īut then I run across the songs that remind me why I have that prejudice in the first place.
However, I've heard a few disco songs now that I actually kind of like. One of the biggest was that disco was bad. After a few hours of shouting your question at an interactive voice response computer, we’re sure you’ll get confirmation of this backstory.Doing these reviews has certainly challenged many of my musical prejudices. So whip out your ding dong, call AT&T, and ask their customer services department about the origins of this track. This title adjustment worked as planned and the public now think Ward is singing about her erogenous zones but listen to the song once more: Anita is actually singing “You can ring Ma Bell”. The folks in charge of The Bell System didn’t want that sort of reputation for their cosy monopoly so the song title was changed to prevent people calling Mother Bell for lewd and perverted reasons. “Well lay back and relax, while I put away the dishes (put away the dishes), then you and me can rock a bell” The operator then offers to turn off the satellite relay dishes so that they can privately engage in a bit of one-to-one phone sex: “I’m glad you’re home, now did you really miss me?”
Upon receiving a call, the operator begins to flirt with her customer: Did you know that Anita Ward’s disco hit “Ring My Bell” is incorrectly titled? If you listen closely, you’ll realise that this song is from the perspective of a sexually frustrated Bell Telephone Company operator.