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  • 12
    Apr
    2012
    9:37am, EDT

    'Don't Stop Believin' as sung by famous movies

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    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    There have been a bunch of mash-up videos where a famous song is sung by carefully cutting words out of other sources and smashing a song's lyrics together. (President Obama "singing" LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" is one of them.)

    But thanks to Whitney Matheson's Pop Candy for pointing out this gem. In this video, dozens of lines from classic movies are cut together to make a fun version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'."

    Highlights include "Team America's" Kim Jong-il singing "Ronry" instead of "lonely," Han Solo chiming in on "going anywhere," RoboCop popping in with his hometown of "Detroit," and lines from Hermione Granger, Pee-wee Herman, Scar from "The Lion King" and more.

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  • 11
    Jan
    2012
    10:54am, EST

    Stop believing! Perry admits there's no 'South Detroit'

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    Journey took the midnight train going anywhere.But not to South Detroit.

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" has been everywhere in recent years -- including on "The Sopranos" finale and on the show "Glee."  But New York Magazine's Vulture column decided to delve into a glaring mistake in the second line.

    You know the words. Steve Perry belts it out beautifully: "Just a city boy, born and raised in SOUTH DETROIT!"

    But as Vulture points out, there's no area called "South Detroit." The southern portion of Detroit is called downtown and south of downtown is ... Canada.

    Vulture points out that the song could refer to the area known as "Downriver," but argue that this area was rural when Journey wrote its song, and thus a "city boy" wasn't going to be raised there.

    We'll leave the intricacies of Motor City geography to natives, but Vulture went right to the source and called Steve Perry in San Diego. Unsurprisingly, the exact details of geography weren't top of mind when Perry was writing the song in 1980.

    "I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he told the reporter. "It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."

    The singer said he was inspired to write the song while he actually was in Detroit on tour, looking out his hotel window.

    “All of a sudden I’d see people walking out of the dark, and into the light," Perry told the reporter. "And the term ‘streetlight people’ came to me. So Detroit was very much in my consciousness when we started writing.”

    Perry's far from the only songwriter to take geographic license. A few of our favorites:

    • "New York to East California, there's a new wave comin' I warn ya."  --Kim Wilde, "Kids in America" (East California?)
    • "Daddy was a cop, on the East Side of Chicago." --Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died" (Would Chicago's East Side be Lake Michigan? One commenter on the Vulture blog argues that east of the Calumet River is whar's referred to here.)
    • "Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago."  --Sade, "Smooth Operator."

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