Why does the chorus end with 'Tonight'?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Why do so many pop songs end their chorus with the word 'tonight'? Ed Sheeran, Vanessa Carlton, The Greatest Showman, Scissor Sisters, Train, Chris De Burgh, Bill Haley and Jerome Kern are all guilty of using it, so why is this habitual hook so persistent across popular music?
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Oh how the sun looks beautiful...
T O N I G H T
This needs to be the pinned comment
It would be fitting if one were to be in a part of the world in the time of year when the sun doesn't set. 😆
maybe in alaska
My dumb brain: Yes.
David is right, the TONIGHT doesn't alter the meaning the slightest bit.
This is the exact kind of really really specific rant I love.
It’s a very Larry David subject.
May I recommend: Jenna marbles’ video “some thought on avocados”
... - tonight?
@@kviiiie PROPOGANDA!
when i was an egg i ate 4 dozen lads no she has garbage dogs
Tonight is the bass drop of lyrics.
Strangely accurate
This actually made me laugh
You said what we we're all too scared to say, you brave soul
Whats a bass drop
Who Else thought
And you know i walk a thousand miles if i can just see you tonight
And
So if by the time
The bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I carry you home tonight
Was the same song?
“Nocturnal shenanigans” really is the most PG implication I’ve ever heard
No, try The Beatles: ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’.
@@thegreenmage6956 That's not even an attempt at innuendo...
That is how I want to talk to my wife "Madam, are you ready for the nocturnal shenanigans......... to-night.
My teacher would so say that 😂
obviously the songs are all about pillow fights
john mulaney's bit saying every pop song is about how tonight is the night and we only have tonight
Charlie S tonight’s no good, how bout Wednesday?
Abbie Edwards oh, you're in dallas on wednesday? lets just not see each other for 8 months and its completely fine
Charlie S it’s such 19 year old bullshit
Maria Rybakov I’m 19 and feeling attacked why that specific age 😆
@@madison-5422 Honestly it's the perfect age for this topic 'cos "sophomoric" is a really good word here and that's a typical college sophomore age. At 19 we're just getting a handle on the world and our philosophies enough to feel really aware and like we've got things figured out and know where we're going, and we're just smart enough to have that feeling but still stupid enough to be way off base with it. Hence "sophomoric" lol, just wise enough to be an idiot. So it makes sense that writing and/or listening to inspiring-sounding but vaguely shallow pop songs, especially ones about fairly shortsighted views on life and using a sense of impermanence as a rationalization for hedonism, is totally a 19-year-old sort of thing to do. :P
It's funny if you replace 'tonight' with 'for now'...
"Darling you look perfect...for now."
Lol that got me!
Oh that's great 👏👏
"Everything you do- for now"
How about "right now"
catherinespark what about “for once”
Now you know your ABCs, next time won't you sing with me...
toNIGHT~
LMFAOOOO
It actually sounds good
KillMeKillMe THAT ACTUALLY SOUNDED SO LEGIT I HAD TO SING MY ENTIRE ABCs TO MAKE SURE IT WASN’T REAL 😂😂
Twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are...
Tonight~
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave
*toNIGHT~*
Don't Stop Me Now: Starts with tonight
Everyone: Wait thats illegal
Freddy Mercury was actually creative when writing music.
"We're Young" by fun. also did that
damn you beat me to it
I get that your comment is a joke, but is it actually based on fan reactions?
Like, did people really notice "hey that's weird, it breaks the trope" ?
@M Ralte remove the "everyone: wait that's illegal"
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming...........
....tonight.
T shapedSpaceL Well, that tonight is needed lol. That’s when the guy comes, apparently
@@Jens_Gram he's coming.
It’s to town, but that works too
@@amongusamongusamongusehrh No shit, Sherlock
Wait pls actually tell me if you are joking lmao I can't tell sorry- I thought it was to town, but I must be just super dumb and not notice a joke when it is right in front of me lmao
I’m hearing and seeing “tonight” so much it doesn’t sound like a word anymore.
sEmAnTic SaTiATiOn
Thats a phenomenon called Jamai Vu
To neat?
same lmfaooo
I know right? What does it even mean anymore?
that edit of hey soul sister without the “tonight” is incredibly cursed
I hate everything about it.
Yeah, I think it worked really well for the other two songs, but it completely destroyed Hey Soul Sister
preach
I can't find it could someone pls send a link?
Oop found it haha
Sentences where adding tonight at the end makes a difference:
I promise I won't cheat on you.
I'd like to see you in my office.
Everything that lives will die.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
That's bullshit, I did not hit her.
I swear I haven't touched that child!
This comment is quite underrated 😂😂
@@avaneeshbharadwaj8516 I guess we could add tonight here too and the meaning is changed, because the comment is definitely not underrated now, a month later.
Replace every “tonight” with “I guess”
“You look wonderful...i guess”
Hey. That works! "Guess" is short and snappy. But "I" might destroy it.
So people will evolve it to "Ah guess" overtime.
Reminds me of Flight of the Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl.. makes jokes out of corny pop song phrases and pick up lines.
“Looking 'round the room
I can tell that you
Are the most beautiful girl in the room
(In the whole wide room)
And when you're on the street
Depending on the street
I bet you are definitely in the top three
Good looking girls on the street, yeah
Depending on the street, ooh”
.......
“You're so beautiful
You could be a part time model
But you'd probably still have to keep your normal job
A part time model
Spending part of your time modelling
And part of your time next to me
And the rest of your time doing your normal job, ooh”
@@MiuXiu, I love Flight of the Conchords. As a New Zealander, they are like our national heroes.
diulikadikaday hell yeah! I’m in the US but I loved watching them and still listen to their music. They’re great.
@@oreodimasdale3840 How about 'Sort of' When you say it with more of a softer 'd' sound instead of the harder 't' I think it'd work!
The rule in pop music has always been that, if you have two syllables spare, use "tonight" when you need the accent on the second syllable and "baby" when you need the accent on the first.
oh shit
Amusingly enough, Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" invokes both of these.
Daniel Viles what generally might decide where you would need the emphasised syllable to be?
@@elappo1824 when songwriters write the tune before the lyrics, certain notes are written to be different lengths so they fit with the instruments.
I can't get enough of you BAby
"So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home
Tonight"
I’d say yes to this but at the same time with this song the word “tonight” is integral because it connects “carry you home” to “we are young” in most of the places it’s used. So while yes it creates that same sense of urgency, I don’t think you could replace it by just instrument or another word. Yes no maybe so?
True, though that is also the pre-chorus leading into the chorus. As well as it does not follow the cadence or scale degrees that all of his examples do. Good thought tho
I was specifically thinking about the very end of the song actually, it's a more than obvious instance of the effect
Came here to mention We Are Young too
I was just about to say this one ahaha
They’ll tell the story of
T O N I G H T
Grace McDaniel was looking for this
This one’s a little different though in terms of the “tonight” being central to the meaning. Good example nonetheless.
Fellow Hamilfan, hello there
RAISE A GLASS TO FREEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM
*sobs HAMILTOOOONNNN
the most popular filler words:
*tonight*
*yeah*
*baby*
*oooh*
*ayy*
*mmm*
*LALALALALA*
*skrrt*
*aye*
cow another one is “yuh”
Ooh yeah baby, daytime you're ugly, but you're right - tonight
OP should check our Edge of Glory
You forgot Aye
Emily Zoque
More popular ones:
Na na na
Nu nu nu
Hey!
Uh
La la la
The best "tonight" ever is at the start of "don't stop me now" by queen.
I'm not sure if that even really applies since it's at the beginning of the sentence instead of the end
I´m gonna have myself a real good time...
@@ananda_miaoyin i feel ali i i iveeeee
And the world, I'll turn it inside out, yeah.
I'm floating around in ecstasy...
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight..."
Latino Sci-Fi Geek True👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
But that emphasises TOnight rather than toNIGHT
@@glitchedgirI Oh yeah, you are right. I forgot about that.
thats not the chours tho
That’s not the chorus.
"We Are Young" by fun., is of course the apotheosis of this trope. They tease you with the tonight resolution for the whole damn song.
Y e s
Now that you mentioned it, that's kind of glorious.
Someone should write a song called "Tonight" and never say the word. It should obviously be a 4/4 summer pop hit to really drive people insane when they start wondering what extra "thing" is missing because the song sounds weird.
Unfortunately, a major pop artist would have to do it, or the off-kilter quality would likely prevent it from becoming popular.
Challenge accepted 😎
I was thinking this also
I will do this in the future, just for you.
Replace it with nocturnal shenanigans
Replace "tonight" with "my guy"
Darling you look perfect....my guy
@@uyagraph exactly! it works perfectly!
Yup it totally works as a replacement for tonight hahah
this is the most beautiful thing i've ever read, i am going to go do this to every song i can think of now. thank you so much for this.
genius
I actually think Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" sounds much better without the word "tonight" at the end. That word always particularly bugged me in that song.
Totally agree, it emphasizes the perfection of the person in all times...beyond just that single moment. TBH it sounds kind of shallow.
I'd prefer "to me" rather than "tonight"
Like she just looks perfect *tonight* it cheapens it
Idk the perfect kinda hangs there too long
@@stanconnorstan4266 if you think about it tho, im pretty sure a woman would like to feel extra special on a special day like their wedding or something like that. Saying that she looks perfect on that night could really be something more beautiful than shallow with the right context, I guess it just depends if you want to look at it cynically or not.
"Tonight" is a fairly generic word tonight. You can easily add it to the end of almost any sentence, without changing the meaning of the other words tonight. As you can see in this self-demonstrating example, it can work in almost any context tonight.
Say “tonight” so much it doesn’t mean anything anymore tonight
@@fduranthesee You're right, but it doesn't matter tonight
tomorrow is used for jazz tonight
The year 1787 happened tonight.
I don't like this tonight
I can literally only think about "We Are Young" and it's not even at the end of the chorus.
Lmao same
Forte Piano when i saw the title, that’s literally the first thing that popped into my mind. idk why
Same!
How about the part that goes, "Carry me home tonight
, Just carry me home tonight, Carry me home tonight, Just carry me home tonight"
its so ironic how they do it to end the pre-chorus and indicate the beginning of the chorus. Its the embodiment of the modern problems require modern solutions meme
Hey soul sister
I don’t wanna miss
A single thing you dooooooo
*...
...
...*
That was a particularly stressful moment.
EddyThron ikr
.... HEYYYY
Which minute?
Gut wrenching
Idky but it sounded like erectile dysfunction
This was the best video I've seen.... tonight
Now you’re getting it
Very nice
HAAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Now that's the best usage
Wtf this just reminded me of what my friend and I used to do 10+ years ago. We would sometimes end our sentences with "tonight" in a singy voice when talking. I guess we were already somehow aware of this trend in songs and kinda subconciously mocked it.
Does anyone else just love...
"Nocturnal shenanigans"
It's one of the most brittish things I've ever heard
I prefer skoodely pooping.
thejintymyster withjinty “brittish”
Ok man
Personally i consider that to be a load of codswallop.
it's British you dickhead
removing tonight from perfect and a thousand miles works but removing it from hey soul sister is SCARY
I think that might be because in HSS the artist has just gone from 1 to 2 in the previous bar, and so even in this short sample your ears know what they want and they're not getting it. Perhaps the whole songs of Perfect and A Thousand Miles would be more disconcerting if "tonight" were removed.
@@nothayley also there's a big gap, no drum fill and then just empty uke chords so it sounds obviously missing. In the other ones there's enough other instruments to cover the gap so it doesn't sound as weird.
Yeah it sounds super creepy lyric - wise.
I'd say it's because he lingers on "do" for a bit too long that it feels like he's about to say something else, but he doesn't. The guy in the video essentially created an awkward silence in a song.
I think they mean the lyrics were scary, not the music
Finalllyy someone mentions this, been bugging me for years.
Same. I thought I was the only one who noticed.
Bo Horn being the only person that notices this must be torturous 😭😂
For real! I've always ragged about it and it's nice to see it discussed like this.
Same! But what is worse is when the song's title is a noun (eg 'Sledgehammer') and the chorus ends with 'like a sledgehammer'
tiny mushroom oh yeah that’s unbearable
i'm getting tonightus from hearing all of those tonights xD
@Anne Day Well... not hear
you may have to have it to get it - good job
Underrated
Ya know what sound a drum set makes falling out of the back of a truck?
Ba-dum, chick! (Joke drum beat).
hahahaha
Over the land of the freeeeEeEeEeEEEEEE
And the home of the braaAaAaAave
*T O N I G H T*
Xyzz XCancer 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Side note: It also works in other national anthems too, even those not in English. Take a look.
God save the Queen... tonight.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee... tonight.
(French) Marchons, marchons, qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons... ce soir.
(Translation: March on, march on, for the impure blood will water our furrows... tonight.)
(Soviet) Lead us to the victory of communism... tonight.
😂
Mexicanos al grito de guerra... tonight.
😂
'Fun: We are young.'
I will carry you home, toniiiiiight
Exactly when i saw the thumbnail is when i started thinking about this very song.
Same but he throws tonight in at the beginning of a chorus or bridge toniiighghiiight we are yoooyuuung
weee are yoooooung
so let’s set the world on fiiiirrrreeee
@@jurgeysamuel He uses it to link the verse and chorus together. The same unresolved melody effect happens if you just sing "I will carry you home." Pretty clever, actually.
Chorus also starts with tonight
in superman: the broadway musical, the showstopper should end with the word kryptonite
Kriptonight
Underrated
BITHCHCJDJ
made me chuckle
its called holy musical b@man thanks
The pain I felt when tonight was taken from Hey Soul Sister was indescribable
Meanwile, most of the chorus of "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins is made up of the word "Tonight."
Exactly what I wanted to comment lol.
The song does the tonight trick as well. It even finishes the song...
@@charlesporsbjer2416 is it the same though? It sounds like the vocal melody is actually resolving upwards in a minor scale to what would be the relative major root and then the instrumental goes down step-by-step to the minor tonic.
And he pronounces if TOnight at times.
@@shortyrags Sounds like a Picardy third, resolving to a sense of hope.
Doesn't "tonight" also draw the listener in, as though the singer and listener were part of the same shared experience? Tonight, as in here in this moment.
Good point, it definitely gives a song a sense of _now_
That's spot on
that is one of the conclusions drawn by the article he mentioned earlier in the video.
Clever.
It also ends a chorus with a cutoff in sound
Welp, "tonight" is no longer a word
Happy semantic satiation!
What is that,
@@Jeremia1 when you repeat a word so much that it doesnt makes sense anymore
Another fun game: add tonight to songs that dont have it: "just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door tonight!"
Oh shoot that works
I'll make it through
Prove it to you
Follow me
tOnIgHt
Well the Beatles basically own the word Yesterday, so noone's gonna write about the past...
Jacob Borg
And “Annie” owns Tomorrow.
Is it fair enough to say that Oasis owns "Today"?
ZucaVliat24 no...
That's why I asked
And that's why I love them
Every single 'tonight' should get replaced with 'alright' and make all these songs significantly worse.
cozlol
Darling you look perfect...ly alright.
♫ "Darlin' you look perfectly... alright"
Let's kill alright
this happy ending starts alright
i steal everything alright
i want everything alright
Panicked! Brendon Urie At The Disco yes
Mama
Ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
as if nothing really matters
*ToNiGhT*
Tonight~
I'm gonna have myself
A real good time
@@gryla5290 Is that the real lyric/
@@RubyPiec idk what you mean but mine's from a different song of Queen's
@@gryla5290 I had to think of Don't Stop Me Now throughout the entire video. Obviously doesn't fit the theme, but starting with "Tonight" kinda does that, I guess
@@gryla5290 yeah but in that case the word is there for the lyrics first
Everibody:puts tonight at the and
Freddie Mercury: no
Removing "tonight" put my bones into attack mode
I saw an improvement each time.
@@chewycenter7690 same
@@chewycenter7690 "hey, soul sister" was cursed without 'tonight'.
Really? I quite preferred it for all the songs except Soul Sister which sounded slightly off without tonight. Probably because I feel like the tonight actually made a difference in the lyrics.
@@xLextonx without it i feel sick lol. I know these songs too well with the "tonight" and without it i feel uncomfortable lol. Also the ending note would need to change without the tonight bc I do feel the need for that resolve .
Skinner, with his crazy explanations
The superintendent's gonna need his medication
When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations
There'll be trouble in town tonight
SEYMOUR!!!!1!!
You do realize you've just added innuendo to this, by proxy.
wait but in this the melody goes up on the 'tonight'. explain.
samrossetc The melody goes up, yes, but the note still resolves in the root.
@@MooImABunny he didn't do that, whichever Simpsons writer wrote that song did
Haha i spent a good year of my life wondering what was "that song I couldn't remember anything about except how satisfying the "tonight" lyric was at the end of the chorus". Turned out it was probably a meta song i couldn't find because it was every song.
Maybe "Tonight, Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins, cuz it's like three thirds of the song, lol...
Or perhaps "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Genesis
Or "Tonight Tonight Tonight" by Beat Crusaders
Oh wait, that puts tonight at the beginning of the lines in the chorus...
We are young by fun?
I noticed this at about 4-5 years old.
English is my second language, and at that age, any preeminent and recurring word has a solid impact. After yes/no/hello/goodbye, tonight is probably the first English word I learned. I would make up songs in pretend English, and "tonight" was a strong staple.
Removing 'tonight' from the end of a chorus is the lyrical equivalent of switching to light mode
Darling you look perfect today
Darling you look perfect, _For now_
I use light mode for youtube.
ive never read anything more accurate in my life
Nef36 by using light mode, you are the living form of the sun. A cold sun. The only thing good about you is carcinogenic. You are a living eye cancer.
This reminds me of that spongebob episode where he ended everything with “at night”
I believe it's "The Hash-Slinging Slicer" one
😂😂😂
I want to meet potential architects; all night
I want to purchase urban real estate; all night
I want to study local zoning laws; all night
I want to calculate construction costs; all night
The Graveyard Shift is the name of the episode
Best comment confirmed.
I think the word "tonight" might also to be a trick to connect with people attending a concert
Good point. Guaranteed to make the couples in attendance all gooey eyed.
...tonight
Doesn’t work. I can’t afford concerts
@@xxIluvyouguysxx lmao you killed me 😂 🤣
xxIluvyouguysxx lol me
'Tonight' can give a sense of romance and excitement, making it sound like it's a special moment. If it was replaced with 'Today' in some songs, it may not have the same effect, because 'Today' suggests a longer time span, losing its 'special moment' vibe!
I did a music production degree and this is exactly the kind of overboard analysis that would have resulted in a great dissertation
Adam Harriis
This didn’t feel overboard at all, more like a close observation.
How do you know when someone has a music production degree?
@@jps76 they'll tell you (in reverb)
@@hein2790 lol
You are so right - look
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Through the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song *tonight*
I just *knew* thought this song was about nocturnal shenanigans...
Agreed 😂
It truly is. Don't drink and ride 😁
So the right word order should be... "Bells on bob-tail rings, *spirits making bright*."
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This is an exception to the rule in that the word is actually used in the rhyming- not just added after a rhyme to end a stanza
Let's add Tadaa instead.
If I could see you... Tadaa
Darling you look perfect... Tadaa
A single thing you do... Tadaa
Edit:
Jazz hands included.
Or maybe "wankers"
@@jongbong1912 "Wankers" isn't as good because the stress is on the first syllable unlike "tonight" and "tadaa" where the stress is on the second.
@@twotothehalf3725 "tadaa" has the problem he mentions, where it's not really a staccato syllable ending like "tonight" has
I don’t think it would work, because Tadaa is something said when you’re surprising someone with something, which doesn’t make sense at the end of those phrases. As my kid brother said when he heard Savage Garden “I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You” as a little kid: “this doesn’t make any SENSE!!”
@@guccideltaco r/woooosh
‘Tonight’ has now lost all meaning to me after watching this video
Great video...
tonight.
Lol
Just reminding everyone that since he used music in the video, he's demonetized. Throw him a thumbs up at the very least to show some love for him making this video
And do it ... tonight
Claimed*
I thought it was under fair use?
@@renno2679 fair use on RUclips? Funny joke
With such a great explanation and concrete evidence, not only would I give a like but also subscribe to him... Later after it gets dark.
So if "tonight" is just a filler word, does that mean people use "baby" as a filler word, too?
Baby id definitelly a filler word.
Yup. Most definitely.
Um yeas
Yes, in good ways (Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song) and bad ways (Justin Bieber - Baby)
lol rip Justin beiber
This makes me realise how creative the end of the chorus to "Let's go to the mall" is. The melody goes 8-3-1 rather than 2-1-1 AND the last word is today. Robin Sparkles broke new ground in the Canadian 90s!
What a nice RUclips recommendation....
... *ｔｏｎｉｇｈｔ～*
I need a clip of Soul Sister sans "tonight" to mess with some people. It's just the right amount of strange to drive people insane.
you are a terrifying individual
It's like... "But...but...wait! WHERE IS THE END? IT NEVER ENDS!"
Great Scott, this is going to be my next April Fools joke. Just a straight upload of this song with the "tonight" removed.
I want to hear it changed to "today". It rhymes with "hey"!
This is brilliant. I think I'll just start adding it to random songs to mess with people.
Oh I believe in yesterday. Tonight.
Shake it off, shake it off. Tonight.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Tonight.
"tonight" could be the new "in my pants" - a generic phrase you can just add to everything tonight.
@@stephenderry9488 Now that's an idea in my pants tonight.
Why do i find this comment hilarious😂😂
The tonight in Hallelujah is incredibly terrible >_
@@stephenderry9488 Reminds me of Spongebob Squarepants when he starts saying "at night" after everything
Please do a video on the hundreds of songs that say "down, down, down..."
I will sing no requiem...
Tonight.
Faded o shit i didn’t even think of that
(Also im crying now thanks
@@horrorterrorharvey oh nooo sorry!
I kept thinking about the story of tonight lmaooo
nooooooo
I actually think this one actually adds to the meaning though. As if to say whilst she isnt mourning Connor right now she knows she will
In that Hey Soul Sister one, the removal of tonight actually makes a huge difference. 'I don't wanna miss a single thing you do' has way different implications to 'I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight'.
I think we are just super conditioned with Hey Soul Sister. It's probably the most known of those 3 songs and there is quite a lot of emphasis
on the "Tonight". Especially because the "do" is so drawn out. You just need something to finish that long "do".
@@TheMastermilch Nah. "I don’t want to miss a single thing you do" is quite stalkerish. Adding "tonight" (or *any* temporal or other limitation to the statement) makes it nigh infinitely less stalkerish.
@@FresoVODs If you take the line by itself, sure it's quite creepy. In context of the whole song, this line isn't too creepy in my opinion.
The point was that the lyrics still made sense despite removing “tonight.” The melody sounds terrible without that resolution but the message still gets across
Adventures of Freso see: Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing, Every Breath You Take, etc. No time limit put on these sentiments, definitely more stalkery.
This is super similar to queens We are the champions where he says ‘of the world,’ some people still sing it on the wrong verses
i think that's because freddie did sing the "of the world" at the end of the song at live aid, which is undoubtedly their most popular performance. so people who don't usually listen to queen and dissect/memorize their lyrics are most familiar with the song going that way, even though it's not really like that
As far as I know, he doesn't sing it, at all...isn't that a popular example for the Mandela Effect (which is utter bullshit)? Seriously, like I'd ever listened to this song, for real.
@@Brax1982 nah he sings it after the first verse
@@Brax1982 he does say it at least once, the Mandela effect is that some people mistakenly think he says it after the last iteration, but "champions" is the last word.
@@viennekemper188 I completely agree. I grew up listening to the live aid version moreso than the studio version.
“Tonight I’m gonna rock you tonight” - Spinal Tap
Everyone: Ends chorus with Tonight
Freddie Mercury extra™: Tonihight... I'm gonna have myself...a real good time
Toniiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiight!!! We are young!
-that tonight’s ‘gonna be a good night!
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 аnd it ends with tonight
Fun (I think that was their name)
Tonight, we are young
Allison miller I feel aliii iii iii iiiiive
Brian May: Give me all your love toooooniiiiiiiiight
The anti-"Tonight"-trick example is "Tonight Tonight Tonight" by Genesis.
The CHORUS goes "Tonight Tonight Tonight" and resolves to "Oh ohhhhhhhh".
Brian Shensky I thought of that one too. Love genesis.
This made me think of Tonight Tonight Tonight by Beat Crusaders
Semantically it's the same as "Tonight, tonight," without the last tonight though, so that backs up his point.
You're awesome and so is Genesis 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
What if they had ended it with tonight, though?
"Tonight, tonight, tonight..."
"TONIGHT."
He should of ended the video with “tonight”. 😂
Should have.
At 4:51 i was convinced he was going to add tonight haha
Missed opportunity
A thousand miles and we are young has the same tonight melody. OMG!
Should of?
It’s used in Hamilton too, in Story of Tonight and Laurens Interlude
I noticed this years ago. Lots of words rhyme with the 'ight' sound. Light, bright, night, right, fight, might, sight etc. All quite emotive words found frequently in pop songs.
gomey70 shite
terraria shit
Then Dancing in the Moonlight will blow your mind.
DUUUUUDE! I think you just wrote a Rap tune!
your love light is shining bright
so this night let's make it right
no need to fight 'cause we might
just loose sight of things we feel......................
tonight!
When you cut out “tonight” on those three sample songs it makes sense but it’s just... cursed. Especially Hey Soul Sister that didn’t make me feel good
toNIGHT
I preferred it
Honesty, with soul sister, it just sounds creepy. He doesn't wanna Miss a SINGLE thing you do.
yes, i mean talk about cursed things. how can i unhear that... help
He did mention that the song leaves you kinda hanging and you want it to resolve back to the root note. Because that is missing, it feels weird.
Maybe if you pull the other note down to the root, but it might be a bit big of a jump. Not sure
It’s really only soul sister that felt wrong, the rest I preferred actually
TONIGHT
TONIGHT
YEAH A ROOF TOP PARTY ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD
TONIGHT
TONIGHT
uh AND WERE DANCING ON THE ESGE OF THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
dunno if I'll make it
But watch how good I'll fake it
iTS ALRIGHT
ALRIGHT
TO IGHT
TONIGHT
Lol
Sirius Black literally the first song that came to mind when he mentioned other songs with “tonight“ in the lyrics. It’s still my jam to this day!
The one that comes to mind is "We Are Young"
"So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down... I'll carry... you home.... toniiiight".
It’s really interesting how it starts the chorus too
We are yooooonnnnggg!!!
Funny, I've never heard the end of that song. Don't have the stomach for it
There is Requiem from Dear Evan Hansen:
I will sing no requiem... Tonight.
oh that is such a good example this!
Leaving off "tonight" actually adds a perfect sense of non-resolution to the melody that fits so well with the theme.
So this is the power of requiem
yes i needed this in the comment section ♥
I'd say Story of Tonight gets a pass for this, seeing as it has literal lyrical significance, and it isn't really used in the same way as the others in this video.. i guess??
One Direction:
Shot me out of the sky.
You're my kryp *tonite*
if thats intentional thats hella clever
Can we change the word tonight to "LMAO"
"Darling you look perfect, LMAO"
Darling you look perfect
Sike.
Damnnn 😂😂😂😂
LMAO we are young
Got the whole squad laughing
or jk
Japanese songs, especially ones from Idol Groups, like to use 「君と」very often, which on its own means "You too" or "With you" as if to include the listener into the group of very cute singers.
It also seems to be the standard version of saying You in songs, though あなた is still used often, even though it's not used in speech nearly as often.
君と め로ぢ
@@ADeeSHUPA Why did you type one single Korean character in the middle of that?
@ADee SHUPA Are you going for "meroji"? It can be written as メロディ in Japanese, and is how you make a "Dee" sound (de + small i)
Missed opportunity for not including The Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight"
Also in Rocket "The stars invite I think I'll leave tonight"
You should check Tonight by the Afghan Whigs
I was thinking of this the whole video
Also not mentioning Iggy Pop and David Bowie's "Tonight" - practically a song written about ending a song with "tonight".
In this case, the whole chorus is tonight.
Also The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls
Honestly the versions without "tonight" sound more interesting to me
My thoughts exactly. I think without the “tonight” it leaves me in the moment.
Katie Liggin it really does! Makes you wonder why people would use this trick at all
honestly, the ed sheeran version sounds less shallow while the original says the girl only looks perfect tonight, but if they are perfect, wouldn’t they look perfect everyday?? so the song actually makes more sense without the tonight.
I think this song was made to be suitable for wedding's first dance. Lyrics "you look perfect tonight" work perfectly in this case
daniella vlogs . I always thought it said “to me”, which would work all the time
Good video, I never realized the extent to which so many songs end with the word "tonight" at the root lol
"Tonight" makes the song resonate with nocturnal situations. You're gonna listen to a lot of these songs at parties or in clubs, often at night. Setting the song at a specific time creates a specific emotional context for the music. Plus "tonight" rhymes with so many things.
Hmm, it DOES! Spite, Trite, Ignite, Plight... dear god why can't I think of any happy words?! The hell is wrong with me.... tonight?
For the "How I met your mother" fans here, the song "Let's go to the mall" by Robin Sparkles has this kind of hook at the end of the chorus, but with the word "today". That song is legendary.
Petition to change every song’s “tonight” to “today”
BlindIcon In other words: petition to Kidzbopify every song
@New God Today is the greatest... day-ay.. i have ever really knooooown.. tonite.
Candle by Sonic Youth: "tonight's the day".
Let's kill today!
Kill today!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type!
You _killed_ the rhyme _tonight._
What about "Next Thursday"?
"Oh, say, does that star-spangled
Banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Tonight."
Then add the piano riff from A Thousand Miles. 0:29
Someone has to do this...
... tonight.
We were victims of the night,
Chemical physical
krypTONITE
Maaaaaaan, so dope!)
Then 3 Doors Down didn't even need a filler:
Kryptonite
Yeaaaaaaaaah
Very underrated comment!
hahahahahahahaha witty!! 😂😂
My chemical physical
The Story of Tonight: ;-;
If you removed the word “tonight”: They’ll tell the story of-
I've been searching for a Hamilton fan in this comment section
@@gametheorybackpack and I’ve found them
someone needs to make this
Let’s have another round -
@@Pl-iNK-well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr, sir! I didn’t think that you would make it (reprise)
How about the Spinal Tap song: "Tonight I'm Going To Rock You Tonight"?
Yeahh Spinal Tap
And the award for the most redundant "tonight" goes to...
Guest/McKean/Shearer are so great about recognizing and parodying song tropes. Note in this song the pedophilia overtones made entirely too clear, and the euphemism of "rock" for "f**k." "You're sweet but you're just 4 feet/and you've still got your baby teeth/You're too young and I'm too well hung/but tonight I'm gonna rock you/Tonight I'm gonna rock you/Tonight!"
Bro even musical theatre does this
And that my world has gone dark
Without your light
I will sing no requiem
Tonight
Best song in the musical tbh
i think that’s because pasek and paul write pop songs. they wrote greatest showman and deh which are considered pop songs
and in hamilton they sing the “story of tonight”
Kate Easton
We'll tell the story of ........
.....
.....
Tonight
Y'all, West Side Story has a song literally called "Tonight"
"Tonight Tonight" from Hot Chelle Rae
Kidna cheaty because you can't really leave it away.
Étoine de Vries tonight, tonight by smashing pumpkins LOL
This evening, this evening, let’s engage in nocturnal shenanigans atop the apex of a building
This evening, this evening, let’s engage in nocturnal shenanigans atop the apex of a building
Genesis’ 1987 single “tonight, tonight, tonight”
Meanwhile Queen start their song with "Tonight"
(Don't stop me now)
"I'm breaking the habit tonight" - Breaking the Habit, Linkin Park
😳
Like James Murphy sings in 'LCD Soundsystem - tonite': "Everybody's singing the same song, it goes "tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight" "
I love them so much
Totally! Love how he mentions the 'night' always being emphasized ( 'toNIGHT', not 'TOnight'), when Murphy makes a point to sing 'TOnite, TOnite, TOnite, TOnite...' He must've noticed it too!
Florian my man
Maybe it's just because you just heard a dozen choruses that ended with tonight and got bored/annoyed.
I can't believe this is the only comment that mentioned the LCD song. Needed to be in the video!
Because the world sells the lie that your romantic hopes and dreams can only happen on a Friday or Saturday night.
It's what humans inherently believe. The "world" then catches up and sells you that.
Makes a vídeo about how the word TONIGHT is used to end a chorus in pop music and does not mention “tonight, tonight”
I also want to throw in that the long "i" sound in "tonight" can be one of the prettiest/most powerful vowel sounds to sing, which makes it nice if you want the chorus to end soft and sweet, or on a big, belty power note. Another good reason to drop it into your lyrics.
Or it can sound really horrible!
Me who literally has a song whose hook and power note is the I in tonight 💀
Um why has the video been claimed by several music companies??? His content seems transformative to me :/
They still gonna strike it, they don't care about content, they care about money
How do you know about it?
Seems like an awful thing to do tonight
The law is there to protect the publishers' money, not to encourage creativity; that's just the fable they tell children.
How can you tell it's claimed?
Because “this morning” doesn’t sound good😆
"To Day" sounds better; unresolved as opposed to conclusive.
You're not wrong
@@georgeliv8021 It's not as romantic xD
Hot Chelle Rae, “Tonight, Tonight.”
honestly, it's been a really really messed up week
Seven days of torture seven days of bitter