It's the tiant — and that's the nursery rhyme about it.
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" Here, she's celebrating her latest children's release, "Nursery Rhyme Parade.
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It's an homage to the old nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock.
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He said he got the idea from an old nursery rhyme.
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These are Drought 3-style bars but delivered like a nursery rhyme.
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Send us a limerick, haiku, fractured nursery rhyme, whatever strikes your fancy.
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Each picture represented a different Czech nursery rhyme featured in the orchestra's performance.
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Or change the lyrics of a song or words of a nursery rhyme?
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After the Morgans published their first nursery-rhyme video, the channel took off.
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Instead it's a fuzzbox nursery rhyme, catchy enough to be a genetically imprinted memory.
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At one point, a fan demands he tell an obscene nursery rhyme, his signature bit.
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"Where, oh where, have the smart people gone?" she sings, mimicking the old nursery rhyme.
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In the nursery rhyme, a little boy named Jack finds a plum inside a Christmas pie.
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So is Corso's "Song," an absurdist jack-in-the-box nursery rhyme, which begins: Oh, dear!
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"You just wouldn't believe the number of kids who have never heard a nursery rhyme," she said.
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"Johny" isn't the only new nursery rhyme-style song to receive this kind of treatment on YouTube.
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" The line from the nursery rhyme after "hips" that Ms. Franklin omits is "let your backbone slip.
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The "Old King Cole" British nursery rhyme was printed on the very first page of the menu.
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" [Cheering] [All singing] [Cheering] "All right, so you have the, like, sort of nursery rhyme hook melody.
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And the infant takes the cue, glancing at the screen, where a human avatar signs a nursery rhyme.
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So when you see a bright star like in the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star that's me.
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It's about the breaking of things that — as the nursery rhyme goes — can't be put back together again.
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One of the first versions of the nursery rhyme was uploaded in 2009, according to Know Your Meme.
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It's nursery-rhyme-like melody offers a tinkly condemnation of what used to be called middle-class conformity.
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Kepler injects the sweet voice of a child chanting a nursery rhyme about bunnies before each execution-style death.
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The nightmarish nursery rhyme went viral over the past week, drawing hundreds of thousands of new people into its lore.
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Wordplay Is there anyone who hasn't played the schoolyard game or sung the nursery rhyme, "London Bridge is Falling Down"?
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One day she started humming the tune of an old nursery rhyme, and I joined her in recalling the words.
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Neil told Motherboard that as these animated channels started to rise, he and Patty considered doing more nursery rhyme videos.
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So ferocious, in fact, that he became an urban legend and the subject of a nursery rhyme — while he was alive.
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Their effect feels something like a nursery rhyme, in the way that they move you and scare you and teach you.
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" The words were solidified in India, drawing surreal imagery from the 19683th century English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence.
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Little Jack Horner, who stars in a nursery rhyme, was a real steward to the Abbot of Glastonbury in the 1500s.
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Brand: GEICOYear introduced: 2010Maxwell, the third GEICO mascot to make it onto the Walk of Fame, originated from a nursery rhyme.
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In an eerie touch, the murders of the 10 strangers follow the form of the nursery rhyme hung in each room.
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The company is presumably making bank on these shoddily animated nursery rhyme videos that have no plot and teach children no lessons.
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Mr Bowie later said that this funereal nursery rhyme (only his second British number-one single) served to wrap up the 1970s.
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Jacob Stulberg brings the nursery rhyme back in an easy puzzle that will be a very nice start to your solving week.
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She now travels around the US in her bus that she cleverly named "If Wishes Were Horses," after her favorite nursery rhyme.
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Mr. Trump liked to tell guests that the nursery rhyme-themed tiles in the room were made by a young Walt Disney.
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It's like the nursery rhyme about the old lady who swallowed a fly, each new and preposterous step dictated by the last.
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It sounds like a discombobulated nursery rhyme that makes little sense, but it also speaks to the beauty of diversity on planet Earth.
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Despite the nursery rhyme-esque symbolism of the beer bottle running away with the pizza, Welsh police are taking the theft very seriously.
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Or the gorgeous poem "Ash," which is as scary and wise as an old nursery rhyme: Strange house we must keep and fill.
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His lyricism is playful and bouncy, taking the form of fucked-up nursery rhyme—shout outs to Peter Piper and Humpty Dumpty included.
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Norman sang it, though, in a small, spookily calm voice, like a child repeating a terrible nursery rhyme that he couldn't yet comprehend.
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For instance, animated nursery rhyme channel ChuChu TV has only been around since 2013, and the channel has 295 videos with 21,2100,286,2135 views.
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Like Vertigo's swirling, unnerving soundtrack , a recurring melodic theme surfaces throughout Sirens' foggy soundscapes, a "naive, childlike, almost nursery rhyme motif" according to Martin.
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It might all be nursery rhyme were it not for the foreboding "too many" anaphora and the recurring "spoil" (with its toil and trouble).
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Often, these channels make large numbers of 20+ minute "compilation" videos designed to keep kids in nursery rhyme land for as long as possible.
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The latter is a weird, hooky track, with a chorus that sounds like a nursery rhyme stuck together with dirty synth lines and electroclash beats.
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Wills has little to say but that he did care for and love Becca — they know the same nursery rhyme, and, remember, they're both nerds.
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Her vocal style is hard to pin down, rapping aggressive bars in one track, and using an upbeat, nasal nursery rhyme flow in the next.
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" Note the ambiguous ending of that nursery rhyme, though: Sure, you can row your boat merrily, yet in the end, "life is but a dream.
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Such sensitivity did not extend, however, to a racial slur used twice in a children's nursery rhyme and overdubbed for release in the United States.
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In that sense, Lizzie feels like it's designed for the current cultural moment, transforming Borden from nursery-rhyme psycho to a powerful, tragic female anti-hero.
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Or so the nursery rhyme goes... But just because we're all grown up doesn't make us hate crappy weather any less than when we were kids.
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Here, a ceramic bowl is encircled by waddling geese (evoking the nursery rhyme), and a late-18th-century tall-case clock has its own audio component.
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Yet if Ms. Franklin told you she was going to take a classic R&B song and throw in a little nursery rhyme, you'd be nervous.
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For one piece, he assigned a given sound sample to each letter in the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty," then let them all play out in succession.
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It is also fucking brilliant—a rushing, fizzy hit of pure pop excitement, the kind of nursery rhyme-simple song that sticks in your head for years.
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As Reddit user mutedsilver explains, the popular nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy" by Mother Goose isn't really describing a cohort of talking pigs' trip to the marketplace.
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Last week they released the album's first single, "A 1000 Times," which has a melody less nuanced than many a nursery rhyme, sung in a throaty gargle.
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We got KYLE at LAX and asked him what childhood nursery rhyme has a shot at following his debut single, "iSpy", to the top of the charts.
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The whole "Kill The Witch" theme is also pretty consistent with Thom Yorke's long fascination with creepy nursery rhyme imagery: wolves at the door, Hunting Bears, etc.
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" Mr. Weerakoon drew on a nursery rhyme to illustrate the likelihood of the brothers' joining hands again: "Everywhere that the Little Lamb goes, Mary certainly goes along.
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Listen: Quiet, nightmarish and nursery-rhyme catchy, Billie Eilish's new track "Bury a Friend" is matter-of-fact about mourning's connection to death wishes, writes Jon Pareles.
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Take, for example, the nonsensical modern nursery rhyme that has dominated the memescape this past week, colloquially and collectively referred to as the "Johny, Johny" or "Yes Papa" videos.
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Dressed in matching striped pajamas and polka-dotted socks, the twins sing and clap along to the classic nursery rhyme while a woman plays the tune on the piano.
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Spiders creep in and out of Us. Adelaide and Red whistle "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in the hall of mirrors, and the nursery rhyme resurfaces in their battle as adults.
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STACEY Do you think this is what Bob Dylan had in mind with his transposed nursery rhyme of a lyric: "He just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"?
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In the final story in "All That Man Is," an aging man sits in a cafe in Italy, listening to a 7-year-old girl sing a nursery rhyme.
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That reality became jarringly clear Wednesday when one parent toured her 5-year-old daughter's future kindergarten near Boston and noticed a disturbing nursery rhyme taped to the chalkboard.
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Most children are acquainted with "the itsy-bitsy spider" of nursery rhyme, but if they'd like to meet bigger and bushier varieties, this Bronx public garden is the place.
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That dissonance was seen in stark contrast in June, when a parent posted a photo of a hand-drawn lockdown "nursery rhyme" in her daughter's future classroom in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Even then, children's rights advocacy groups complained that YouTube was blatantly ignoring that many of its biggest channels were dedicated to young children, including toy unboxings and nursery rhyme compilations.
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Simply put, the melody and rhythm work together in such a strange, specific way that it becomes instantly recognizable; it embeds into your mind the same way a nursery rhyme might.
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The parent, Georgy Cohen, was disturbed by the nursery rhyme and posted a photo of it on Twitter: This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener's classroom. pic.twitter.
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Understandably so: In the toughest parts of New Orleans, some children are raised singing a nursery rhyme seemingly written to prepare them for incarceration at the penitentiary, better known as Angola.
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Although the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" is widely thought to be about the plague, Black said that was an incorrect theory created decades after the song was first sung.
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So it's a simple nursery rhyme, one that appears to have ties to India and Southeast Asia, and one that seems to be suitable for kids to understand and sing along with.
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"Both of us are parents, and both of us put our heart in this song, a piece which is both an homage to Bach and a nursery rhyme, a ninna nanna," says Bocelli.
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Highlight: Justin Bieber, "Mistletoe" As one of the only originals on this album, "Mistletoe" takes the crown here, even though Bieber's croon is so slick, he risks sounding like he's reciting a nursery rhyme.
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And, although it's clearly not the only influence, its imprint can be seen in the sounds of artists like iLoveMakonnen or even Lil Yachty today, who have a similar type of nursery rhyme romanticism.
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Its verses and choruses are as ruthlessly stark as a hip-hop production, mostly just drumbeats and electronic tones, behind a nursery-rhyme melody in the verse and a rhythmic chant in the chorus.
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Cohen even enlisted the help of a known gun rights advocate, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League Philip Van Cleave, to discuss the program (and sing a nursery rhyme about how to shoot).
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On January 15, 2007, from the comfort of an armchair, she gave the world this viral video: In German, this rhyme is a "singspiel" — a sung nursery rhyme — known as "Kleiner Hai" (Little Shark).
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The next day, a spokesperson for the industrial site reportedly confirmed the nursery rhyme was part of a security system and designed to act as a deterrent to trespassers in the middle of the night.
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The mother of a 5-year-old girl is outraged by this nursery rhyme she found posted in the school her daughter might attend -- a rhyme that teaches kids how to prepare for a mass shooting.
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In "All the King's Men" — the title comes from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" — there's a remarkable scene in which Stark drives to a judge's house late at night to confront him for endorsing another candidate.
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Maybe using a nursery rhyme to examine humanity's changing relationship with technology is treading too close to the abyss, but in the vast "Baby Shark" discourse, there's one moment that Gold says really caught her eye.
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" In May, downtown Wilberforce will be the starting point for the "Amazing Nursery Rhyme Race" event cache, which will see participants travel all over the municipality to complete "a gruelling adventure through the world of nursery rhymes.
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The tempos are brisk but seldom speedy as the tunes mine the nursery-rhyme and playground-chant riches of punk drone and whine, with Kory laying in guitar hooks whenever he intuits we might be getting bored.
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It's a mystery without a detective, no Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple to make sense of things — just 10 people trapped on an island, being murdered one by one per the instructions of a macabre nursery rhyme.
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The production is tactile, kinetic, carnal, but its world is interior, dark and seductive, from the moment Pollock opens with a singsong quasi nursery rhyme, standing downstage at a microphone like the host in an unseen lounge.
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Animated nursery-rhyme content factories like Cocomelon, ChuChu TV, and Little Baby Bum — whose videos seemingly no one but very young children would ever want to watch — each have total channel views between 2200 and 22017 billion.
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In fact Julia Alexander had to interview an army of experts to even begin to understand why a simply nursery rhyme (that does not rhyme!!!) has racked up billions of views across all manner of disturbing YouTube channels.
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Think back to the days of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union and the United States were locked in the ultimate geopolitical struggle — making the latest dangerous dance between Washington and Pyongyang look like a nursery rhyme.
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Heesun Byeon, SmartStudy's content director, said in an email that the company avoided "typical nursery rhyme style" and, since the barriers of genre matter little to small children, that its producers borrowed sounds from hip-hop, EDM and disco.
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The song took off (as much as a nursery rhyme could) with ChuChuTV's 2013 rendition, which portrayed a young boy named Johny who crawls out of the bed he shares with his father to eat spoonfuls of pure sugar.
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Agatha Christie's dark 1939 novel, adapted in this four-part mini-series (which originally aired on the BBC), tells the story of 10 people trapped on an island, who die one by one according to a twisted nursery rhyme.
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But consumer advocacy groups have argued that YouTube, which is owned by Google, is able to collect data on children under 13 through its main site, where cartoons, nursery-rhyme videos and those ever-popular toy-unboxing clips garner millions of views.
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From the simple nursery rhyme–like bars of Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" to the smooth East Coast flow of Notorious B.I.G.'s hit song "Hypnotize" to the speedy delivery of Kendrick Lamar's "Rigamortis," rhyming in rap music has not only evolved, it's gotten better.
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Next, you can pick the arrangement style to tweak the sound and mood of your song: The little girl in the Samsung promo video turns "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" into a ballad, and then into a nursery rhyme pumped with an R&B feel.
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There's also the phrase "dilly dilly" from a 2017 Bud Light commercial that was inspired by Game of Thrones, Turner's career-making show, as well as in a 1700s nursery rhyme, but we think we got a bit too deep into the internet at that point.
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And since Bohemian Rhapsody is like the second or third most well known song in the US of A after, like, Happy Birthday and whatever nursery rhyme your mother sang to you, you'll probably giggle a few times watching the action match up to the lyrics.
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But if you spot a group, you may be in luck, according to an old nursery rhyme that goes: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.
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In the complaint that will be filed on Monday with the commission, the advocacy groups say YouTube is able to collect data on children under 13 through its main site, where cartoons, nursery-rhyme videos and those ever-popular toy-unboxing clips garner millions of views.
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But if you spot a group, you may be in luck, according to an old nursery rhyme that goes: One for sorrow,Two for joy,Three for a girl,Four for a boy,Five for silver,Six for gold,Seven for a secret never to be told.
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In honor of this special day, Fetty Wap has put out a new summer breezy track in the form of "Wake Up." Much like everything Fetty does, this song is light-hearted and bright as he sings in nursery rhyme fashion about getting as high as Wiz Khalifa.
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The BBC recording, made some time later the same year, included not only the National Anthem but also an endearing, if rather brash, rendition of the nursery rhyme 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' as well as a reedy and wooden performance of Glenn Miller's famous hit 'In the Mood'.
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Lil Yachty is a reliable lightning rod in the hip-hop community for any number of reasons—his lack of historical knowledge of the genre, his nursery rhyme delivery, his goofy shade of red hair—that basically boil down to people thinking his music is dumb and moreover infantile.
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We all seemed to have heard the nursery rhyme that starts "Lizzie Borden took an ax / And gave her mother forty whacks," and teachers built on that, using the Borden case to push critical thinking about evidence, law and the societal factors that might lead people to violence.
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The sequence is only 45 seconds long but it displays the multiple complex movements of the four elements: The leaf's trembling, the fairy's twitching wings and arching neck, the lily's opening, the butterfly's rising and, finally, the fairy's falling back asleep — all heralded by clear, nursery-rhyme-like chimes.
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Propelled by his signature nursery rhyme lyricism, Thaiboy Digital owes the song's deceptive simplicity to his globe-expanding influences: He was born and raised in Thailand where he lived until he was eight, and later moved to Sweden, where he fell in with a music collective called Drain Gang.
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As the producer wrote in a statement shared by FACT, "Under the Sun" revolves a looping sample of Andrews singing the Mother Goose nursery rhyme: Pritchard, along with the album's visual artist Jonathan Zawada will present the album as an audio-visual installation at the Red Bull Music Academy next month.
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Strangers with various motives are watching all of these videos for various reasons and that's not OK. Even if one child enjoys one nursery rhyme, there is so much content that is both ridiculous and dangerous lurking under the surface of the service that you're almost guaranteed to step on a content landmine.
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One of the most lowkey relatable songs on the subject, though, came from an unlikely source: Kate Nash, a then 20-year-old indie kid from Harrow via MySpace who wore floral dresses and a choppy fringe and released what is essentially a semi-iconic modern nursery rhyme set to some piano plonks called "Foundations".
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Other video makers I spoke with declined to share details about their earnings, but for nursery-rhyme animation channels with views in the dozens of billions — like Cocomelon — monthly revenue could be anywhere between $0003,000 and $9.4 million, according to Social Blade (it's impossible to calculate exact ad revenues without more information about each individual video).
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All of the children's content creators I spoke with mentioned that they make certain videos based off what's trending on YouTube — "Finger Family" videos, endless nursery-rhyme songs — knowing they'll be less interesting or educational than the rest of their work but hoping it'll get kids to visit their pages and watch some of the "more nutritious" content.
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But they have also spawned real memes, like these clearly ironic takes on the "Johny Johny" nursery rhyme: (Please note that the obvious irony here doesn't make them any less creepy.) Since Billion Surprise Toys' "Johny Johny" video has gone mainstream, it's generated a number of fairly mainstream reactions that celebrate its lighter aspects and mashes them together with other memes — you know, typical meme fare. pic.twitter.
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To giggle at the placid pitterpatter of "Snowdin Town," or the frantic, crackling swagger of "Bonetrousle," or the nursery-rhyme bells of "Your Best Friend (Flowey's Theme)," played four times, each time a little slower and lower in pitch, is to feel a twinge in the heart, moments later, at how wonderful it is to have assembled before you so many giggleworthy textures and tunelets in one place.
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It also includes, as part of "Corpus Hermeticum: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres," one version of perhaps his most famous single poem (also published as "ACAB: A Nursery Rhyme"): for 'I love you' say fuck the police, for 'the fires of heaven' say fuck the police, don't say 'recruitment' don't say 'trotsky' say fuck the police… …don't say 'here are the steps I've taken to find work' say fuck the police don't say 'tall skinny latté' say fuck the police, for 'the earth's gravitational pull' say fuck the police, for 'make it new' say fuck the police There are scores of young Britons who have "for 'I love you' say fuck the police" tattoos, but the poem shouldn't be taken as representative of Bonney's writing any more than the pub- and frat-favorite "Tubthumping" represents the many records by the genre-subverting anarchist band Chumbawamba; it's simply a chart-topper.
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