squirrels, Janelle Monae

[darkoshi]

I watched a show about squirrels on PBS' Nature. Fascinating. Per the show, a fox squirrel can remember up to 9000 locations of where they've buried their nuts each year. Their brain grows larger while doing this, and then shrinks again by the next year.

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(Content warning on the lyrics of the following song; they contain the term 'schizo'.)

I also watched a concert by Janelle Monae on Austin City Limits. The riff on the last song (starting 42 minutes in), "Come Alive", sounds so familiar to me, I'm sure I've heard it or one very similar before.
(Dah'-duh DAH'-duh, Dah'-duh-duh) (also La'-luh La'-luh LA-luh, La'-luh-luh)
But I haven't figured out which other song that might be*. I tried humming it on midomi.com but had technical difficulties.

And then she melds in that "Ya-dee dah-dee dah-dee da" lyric from some other familiar old song (Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher, aka the Hidey-Ho song) as well. The concert version of the song is quite better, muchly expanded and with audience participation, compared to the album version of the song on YouTube.

*I think I found the song, thanks to the "Come Alive (The War of the Roses)" Wikipedia page: The B-52's - "Rock Lobster". It was one of the songs the B-52s played in their set during the Culture Club concert I went to this summer.

Now I'm wondering why the song is subtitled "The War of the Roses". I haven't been able to figure that out yet. Anyone know?

Here's another video of the song in concert, in case anyone has trouble with the PBS link: Janelle Monae Come Alive (The War of The Roses) Glastonbury 2011
I still like the Austin City Limits version better; this one doesn't have the Hidey-ho part in it.

Comments

[randomdreams]

Janelle definitely believes in referencing other material with hers.

[darkoshi]

I remembered the one song (Hidey-ho), and I think I found the other song it was reminding me of, too. I will update my post.