BE-BOP-A-LULA
“Be-Bop-A-Lula” is a rockabilly song first recorded in 1956 by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. (More from Wikipedia)
The only song on the Filthy Fifteen that I think deserves special attention is Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop”.
The conjugation of the made-up verb “bop” that forms most of the chorus is just another way of saying, “everybody’s doing it”; it also includes a reference to the 1957 Gene Vincent hit “Be-Bop-A-Lula”, presumably where the songwriters borrowed the word.
(June 2016)
