Phenomena (song)

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"Phenomena" is a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their Show Your Bones album. The song is built around a dance beat and the refrain:

“ Something like a phenomenon ”

That refrain echoes previous uses, such as Liquid Liquid's "Cavern", Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)", LL Cool J's "Phenomenon", and De La Soul's "Ego Trippin' (Part Two)."

[edit] "Phenomena" Inaccuracy

In the Song, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs inaccurately employ the titular noun. The word phenomena is the plural of phenomenon; the chorus, which is “Something like a phenomena, baby” is grammatically incorrect, as it should read, “Something like a phenomenon, baby”.

As the prosody is “Some-thing-like-a-phe-no-me-na-ba-by”, and the accurate prosody would be “Some-thing-like-a-phe-no-me-non-ba-by”, a lack of knowledge in Greek plurality is suspected.

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