Talk:The Loco-Motion

message: Which version is the one starting with "The locmotion, the locomotion..."? The post SAW?
Also who are the other girls in the video? The one with the fringe is Tania Lacy, but what about the other blond girl and the brunette in a gray dress, similar to that of Kylie?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.130.136.199 (talk) 23:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Ritz version was also a #12 hit in Australia.Nqr9 (talk) 10:38, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Versions

message: Has anyone noticed that, although the various recordings have been extremely popular, the lyrics are basically instructions for doing a line-type dance that never became popular at all (as best I remember, having turned 17 in 1962 when the original US version was released). Dick Kimball (talk) 13:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics 

message: The single was actually released on Monday, 20th July 1987 and entered the charts the following week on Monday, 27th July 1987 on the Kent Music Report - ARIA started in mid-1988.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdl1976 (talk • contribs) 13:36, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was actually released on the 13th. There was a 2-week lag time back then between release dates and chart debuts (if a release entered the chart after one week of sales). I've now corrected this, and added a reference for it.Nqr9 (talk) 00:54, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kylie's Aussie Release Date Confusion 

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message: From the entry on "Bubblegum Pop," it appears that the genre didn't begin until 1967, five years AFTER the first appearance of "The Loco-Motion" (by Little Eva) in 1962.
On the other hand, the song's main characteristics -- (1) Rock music, (2) clearly aimed at kids and young teens, (3) employing an upbeat theme, (4) including romantic love ("Do it holding hands until you get the notion"), and (5) using a repeated, catchy musical hook ("C'mon baby, do the Loco-Motion!") would seem to place it solidly within the "Bubblegum" genre; indeed, in my opinion one would be very hard-pressed to find a more "Bubblegummy" (to coin a term) song than "The Loco-Motion."
Yet according to the "Bubblegum Pop" article, "The Loco-Motion" at no time falls within the "Bubblegum" genre's timeframe.
What is one to make of this? Is "The Loco-Motion" Bubblegum, or not?
Discussion? Debate? Rebuttal?
--The Grand Rascal. The Grand Rascal (talk) 20:05, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia does not work this way. We do not, for example, decide whether or not NASA landed astronauts on the Moon, whether or not someone is a white supremacist or much of anything. Instead, we report what independent reliable sources say. If sources say the song is bubblegum, Wikipedia says it is bubblegum. Different sources will give different genres for the same song, so we use WP:WEIGHT to help sort it out. So, if a marginally reliable site says the song is "melodic Viking death metal" while Rolling Stone says it is "bubblegum pop", Rolling Stone will carry the day. (Similarly, various sources will give different dates to the beginning of "bubblegum pop", as it is unlikely that a completely original genre arrived one day that was clearly different from everything that come before it. It's more likely to evolve.) - SummerPhDv2.0 19:33, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can "The Loco-Motion" Be Classified As Bubblegum Pop (Or Dance)?