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Scattingnote a term which dates back to early jazz music, where the practice was especially prominent (sometimes referred to as 'vocalese') is vocalization that isn't lyrics. It is, for the most part, improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables, whistling, or even humming without words at all. It's sometimes used to mimic the sound of other instruments. Scatting gives the singer a chance to improvise their own melody and rhythm, basically creating the vocal equivalent to an instrumental solo. Rappers who do this during their songs are sometimes said to be "beat-boxing." In acapella bands, the rhythm-focused form of this is referred to technically as "vocal percussion" or "mouth-drumming". Wordless nonsense lyrics are not new; Renaissance songs from the 1400s have sections that go "fa la la la la". What is new is that scat melodies and syllables were improvised (made up) on the spot. Not to be confused with anything regarding bowel movements of animals or humans. Although the root word ("scat") is the same, the etymology is different.note The term which refers to bowel movements comes from the Ancient Greek word "skat", which means filth or dung. The musical term "scat" is probably an imitative sound, thus an onomatopoeia. Compare Indecipherable Lyrics and Word Salad Lyrics. Many Lyrical Tics are this. Doo Wop was a popular style from the 1940s and 50s that used scatting. |
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Fuka's theme in Disgaea 4 is a remixed version of a previous song ("You Go, Girl!") With Lyrics... well, sort of. More accurately, it has a lyric ("la") repeated about six hundred times or so. | |
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The Smurfs theme song's lyrics has "La, la, la la la la..." either in part (as in the Season 2 opening) or throughout, which is why it is also called "The La La Song". | |
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Much of the music in the Metroid Prime Trilogy features wordless chanting as a backing track. No words, just "Oooo-oooo-oooo-OOOOOO-ooo..." Even the regular Metroid games have it at times. |
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In a similar vein, some of the pseudo-Latin song in the soundtrack of Puella Magi Madoka Magica qualifies. The best-known example would be Credens Justitiam. | |
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In Groove Coaster, many of Shohei Tsuchiya's songs feature this. Notable examples include "Play merrily", "Just no friend", "Sleep", and "Fess up!". | |
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In Fiddler on the Roof, "If I Were A Rich Man" represents some sort of Yiddish version of this trope. | |
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David Crosby's "Tamalpais High (At About 3)". | |
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The bridge of Metallica's "The Memory Remains" is Marianne Faithfull singing nonsense syllables in a very creepy tone of voice. | |
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"Shooby" Taylor made a "career" of scatting in such a hilariously terrible way that it has to be heard to be believed. Here, start believing. | |
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"Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" from High School Musical 2 has the Hawaiian gibberish lines "maka hiki mala hini hu" and "waka waka waka niki pu pu". | |
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Biser King's "Dom Dom Yes Yes" is well-known for its "Brr skibidi dop dop dop dop yes yes yes yes" singing, which gave the name to the Skibidi Toilet Series. | |
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Peter "Everything you're about to hear is made by the human voice and mouth. And some claps." Hollens. | |
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The Four Freshmen would sometimes perform a number in wordless vocals. Examples include "Tuxedo Junction", "Satin Doll" and "Dynaflow". | |
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The chorus of "Good Morning Starshine" from Hair is practically nothing but nonsense syllables. | |
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The Aristocats featured the voices of jazz singers Phil Harris and Scatman Crothers in both speaking and singing roles. During their songs, the two would scat constantly. | |
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One case that even became internationally known is Jorge Ben Jor's "Taj Mahal", whose runtime is mostly a rhythmic "te te te te re te te", which was copiously borrowed by Rod Stewart in "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" | |
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Bradford Marsalis capped off his Space Ghost Coast to Coast appearance by leading the cast in a round-robin scat session (although Zorak had to threaten him with a laser rifle first). | |
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Much of the soundtrack of The Neverhood consists of this. To quote the liner notes of the official soundtrack: "Note to the listener: Should you choose to sing along to any of the following songs, we wish you luck. You're gonna need it!" | |
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Not a straight example, but Rock Band passes of some of the less-than-comprehensible lyrics of Disturbed's "Stupify" as this, most likely to avoid actually censoring the harsher cuss words. | |
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A scene in Jeeves and Wooster had Bertie wondering aloud about the lyrics to Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher". | |
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While Bye Bye Birdie surprisingly doesn't feature this in any of its actual songs, Rosie jokes that she knew Albert was giving up on being an English teacher when he wrote a hit song for Conrad Birdie titled "Ugga Bugga Boo." | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Springfield Up", Declan Desmond does this when Homer asks him to join in on his rock song "Satan, You're My Lady". Homer isn't impressed. | |
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The Clarissa Explains It All theme song. "Na na na-na-na na...na na na na na-na! Hey cool!" | |
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"Installation" from the soundtrack of Coraline. | |
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A number of the playable songs in Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times feature random vocals. "Cerulean" has a guy yelling "Yeaaah, behbeh!" at several points, and "Corusican Betrayal" has a wordless soprano wail in it, for example. | |
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Scatting is omnipresent in the soundtrack for .hack//Legend of the Twilight. | |
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The song Thoughts Far Away from Lunar Silver Star Story consists entirely of "la la las". She sang a different song in the original Sega CD version, still consisting entirely of "la la la". Lucia also sings a lullaby consisting entirely of "la la la" in the remake of Lunar: Eternal Blue. |
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"Howling" by PON from beatmania IIDX. One who doesn't understand Japanese could be forgiven for thinking PON is actually singing something coherent. | |
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Country music singer Steve Wariner incorporated scat signing in a guitar solo bridge of his 1989 No. 1 hit "I Got Dreams," later reported as the first chart-topper at least in that genre to have scat singing.. | |
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City of Angels: "Prologue (City of Angels Theme)" opens with a saxophone riff in fast sixteenths, which is then repeated (after modulating up two half steps) by the Angel City Four in close-harmony scatting. The vocal group continues scatting (e.g. "Sha ba do wop") throughout this version of the Theme Tune, which includes a brief A Cappella bridge. | |
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Another Mike Patton project, Fantômas, plays this straight. Their self-titled debut features Patton singing on every track without ever uttering a single word. Suspended Animation, which came after, has him using his voice to emulate sound effects from The Golden Age of Animation. | |
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Many songs in the Dawn of War II soundtrack feature a choir singing made-up lyrics. Some (Angels of Death, Khaine's Wrath, For The Craftworld) are presumably supposed to represent the fictional languages of the 40K universe, while in others (The Green Horde Rises, The Great Devourer) it's most likely just for effect. | |
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"Pow R. Toc H." from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is mostly instrumental aside from a section of really strange scatting. | |
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In Machinarium, the song "Clockwise Operetta" has a part where a robot sings glibberish. | |
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In Abbey Road, "Sun King" segues into "Mean Mr. Mustard" with a lovely triplet of harmonically sung lines in some kind of mock-Italian. | |
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Napster Bad, in the "Sue All The World" short: | |
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Van Morrison often employs this, most notably on the intro to "Jackie Wilson Said". | |
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The above is parodied lovingly in Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! when he sings about working in a diner on an ordinary Sunday, and seeing all the "Bums, bums, bums, bums bums bums..." | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: "Komm, Süsser Tod", being inspired by "Hey Jude", has the backing chorus chanting "Ah-ah-ah-ahaaaa." Some other tracks on the End of Evangelion soundtrack feature indistinct "aaaah" sounds as well. Yes, Shinkou e no Kinkyuhinan and Hajimari e no Touhi are both based off of Splitting of the Breast from the Original Series' soundtrack. And yes, all of them involve the nonsense "aaaah" sounds, although both Hajimari e no Touhi and Shinkou e no Kinkyuhinan do have lyrics in, you guessed it, Gratuitous English! Are we forgetting the background choir in the theme song, Zankoku na Tenshi no Teize, itself? First of all, they go "aaaah" in the intro, and then, during the chorus, you're tone deaf if that "Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhh, haa-haa-haa-ah, haa-haa-haa-ah, ahhh-ahhh-ahh-ahhh-ahhhh" doesn't get stuck in your head for weeks. |
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The music for the Sesame Street segment "The Geometry of Circles", composed by Philip Glass of Koyaanisqatsi fame, consists mainly of wordless choral chanting. | |
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Discworld: The Ankh-Morpork national anthem, We Can Rule You Wholesale, has a second verse composed almost entirely of gibberish. It was written that way because the writer figured people would sing it that way anyway. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performed it. | |
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The theme song to Stay Tooned! is a blues track sung by Edgar Gresores, with the only lyrics being "fa fa fa fa". There's even a variant of this song in the game's Sound Test room. | |
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The soundtrack to Grandia II has a piece called "DangerousZone" that features a woman who sounds like she's trying to blow her voice out. There are no lyrics; this would be a true One-Woman Wail, except that it's not sad at all. Given that this track is only played in dangerous areas, it works. | |
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One part of EarthBound (1994) features a performance by the famous singer Venus, whose singing consists entirely of going "la la la". | |
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Scatting | |
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May's lullaby in Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker is just singing, "Doo-doo-doo". And gaining a Japanese accent in the process. | |
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Played with in The Simpsons Movie: as Green Day perform the Simpsons Theme Tune, the "lyrics" are shown on their prompter as a scrolling wall of "Da Da Da Da Da Da..." | |
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Rouge's levels in Sonic Adventure 2 all have this. Her theme is about half Scat, half English. Eggman's own theme also begins and ends with a few seconds of scatting. Sonic Mega Collection Plus includes a video with an early version of the Sonic Heroes theme. The words "Sonic Heroes" are in place, but everything else is nonsense. The Tidal Tempest Present theme in the US version of Sonic CD has jazz-style scatting. |
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In Warcraft 3, some parts of the Frozen Throne Human and Night Elf songs do this. | |
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"The Great Gig in the Sky" from The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. "Pow R. Toc H." from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is mostly instrumental aside from a section of really strange scatting. "A Saucerful of Secrets" from A Saucerful of Secrets. "Atom Heart Mother" from Atom Heart Mother, with the choir scatting lines that sound like choir warm-up exercises. |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, Scootaloo only communicates by scatting. She requires subtitles for anyone else to understand her. Also, during Rainbow Dash's verse in the song "At the Gala", she realizes she's not very good at improvising lyrics, so she sings gibberish to fill time for a few lines. | |
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Eiffel 65 has the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". The lyrics are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Zombie Land Saga does this in the Image Song for Yugiri, "Saga Jihen". Specifically, it happens during the first half of the bridge section. In episode 5 of the show's second season (Revenge), we see Lily performing a song called "Little Bodda Bope", which is 90% comprised of scatting. It's done like this because its secretly a remix of a much more emotional song called "Life", which Lily was going to perform during the talent show, but her opponent manages to sing exactly that before she gets her turn. Needless to say, Lily's scatting skills are exceptionally well. |
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Journey's song "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" has "na na na na na" sung over and over at the latter end of the song, which has a sing-songy tone to it given that it occurs right after "Now it's your turn, girl, to cry." | |
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Though a more conventional drum track appears later, the first half of "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" by The Flaming Lips uses a loop of a band member beat-boxing a march rhythm instead - something like "buh-rap brap brap, buh-rap rap brap brap brap" | |
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The secret level theme of Battleblock Theater features gratuitous scatting by William Stamper. | |
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Disturbed are an interesting case - when lead singer David Draiman is writing lyrics, he listens to the band's completed track until he can imagine a tune to follow, scat-sings until his voice satisfactorily gels to the song, and then applies actual lyrics as late as possible. Basically, every Disturbed song was Scatting at one point. And in some cases, Draiman decided that any lyrics he wrote didn't have quite as much punch as the Scatting, so he left it in. Examples include The Game (Ramidi ma ma ba di ma, ramidi ma ma din do) and This Moment (Bi-ya-ta! Bi-ya-ta!note Though Draiman claims he was actually saying "Better Yet (ah!)"). In the parody video "The Greatest Hit of Disturbed, all lyrics are replaced with "yuh-muh-nuh" and variations on it. David Drainman finds the video hilarious. |
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The theme for Farscape has an alien version of this trope. | |
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Dizzy Gillespie frequently worked scat singing into his performances: "Ool-Ya-Koo," "Oop-Pop-a-Da," "In the Land of Oob-La-Dee," and so on. | |
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As The Sims characters speak Simlish, the songs heard on the radio are also sung in gibberish, in all three installments and their respective expansions. The Sims: Unleashed hired a real band (Zydeco Flames) to perform their songs in Simlish, and The Sims 2: University started the now-famous series tradition of getting a whole selection of artists to re-record their songs in Simlish for each expansion. | |
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Lamb of God's "Black Label". Even with the lyrics handy, you can hardly make out what Randy Blythe is singing there. | |
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Scatting | |
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"It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess has a refrain which combines scatting with call-and-response. | |
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Scatting | |
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Beyond Good & Evil has several BGM songs in Simlish to help create the impression of an alien world (and one in Spanish). | |
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Halo. From the moment you hit the main menu in almost every game you are treated to wordless chanting. In some parts of Halo 2, you can find holograms of the Prophets chanting the series theme in alien gibberish. |
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"Into the Ether" by The Cruxshadows solely has ominous gibberish chanting for vocals. | |
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Scatting | |
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Much of the music in Black & White and its sequel has wordless singing or chanting. | |
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Scatting | |
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Phineas and Ferb have a lot of fun with this trope when they sing "Gitchy Gitchy Goo". There's also the "Quirky Worky Song" which plays in many episodes during their invention-building montages. |
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Scatting | |
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In SHIMMER, Courtney Rush scatted The Final Countdown or its basic melody in the presence of Sara Del Rey. | |
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Scatting | |
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"Vuelie", the chant in the intro of Frozen, is based on a style of Sami singing, with the syllables having no linguistic meaning. | |
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Scatting | |
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In The Mighty Boosh, music snob Howard mocks Vince for being confused and unsettled by the formless flow of jazz. He starts scatting, which causes Vince to panic and punch him. | |
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Scatting | |
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Ella Fitzgerald's facility with scatting is legendary. | |
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Ella Fitzgerald (Music) | hasFeature |
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Scatting | |
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Enigma famously has the "Hey yai hai, oh ai yai ya" chorus of "Return To Innocence", often thought to be a Native American chant, but actually Sampled Up from the Amis Taiwanese "Jubilant Drinking Song". | |
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Super Mario Bros.: The background music to the "Secret of..." levels in Super Mario Sunshine is "Do-do-do" sung to the tune of the classic Mario theme. The choir added into the Bowser battle themes from both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 whenever Bowser takes damage. |
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Scatting | |
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Zapp & Roger songs tended to have scatting in them in the vain of 1950s Doowop groups. Examples include "Heartbreaker", "Computer Love", and "Slow & Easy". | |
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Scatting | |
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Vic and Bob use it in the theme tune for The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Vic also uses it when "singing a song in the club style" in Shooting Stars. | |
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Scatting | |
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Most of the musical score of Winged Migration is Scat... sometimes it's even hard to distinguish from percussions. The trailer. The composer, Bruno Coulais, also did the Coraline soundtrack. | |
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Scatting | |
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The original Aria di Mezzo Carattere from Final Fantasy VI. Technically it has lyrics—it is part of an opera, after all—but the SNES couldn't really handle extended voice recordings, so they're displayed as subtitles while the MIDI voice synth goes "ooo-OOOOO-ooo-OOOO". |
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Scatting | |
Scatting / int_89c084b2 | comment |
The Rolling Stones had a couple: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" from Goat Heads Soup, which had those six "doos" in the song along with the lyrics about street life and the police in The Big Rotten Apple. And "Miss You" had it's "woo-oo WOO-oo woo-oo-oo" line between the verses. |
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Scatting / int_89c084b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_89c084b2 | featureConfidence |
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The Rolling Stones (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_89c084b2 | |
Scatting / int_89c52fdd | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_89c52fdd | comment |
There's a scene in The Muppet Christmas Carol in which Kermit/Bob Cratchett (Steve Whitmire) and Robin/Tiny Tim (Jerry Nelson) scat "One More Sleep To Christmas". | |
Scatting / int_89c52fdd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_89c52fdd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Muppet Christmas Carol | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_89c52fdd | |
Scatting / int_8ee278fb | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_8ee278fb | comment |
The ChalkZone song "Scat", which consists mainly of the main trio singing scat. | |
Scatting / int_8ee278fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_8ee278fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ChalkZone | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_8ee278fb | |
Scatting / int_9096767e | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_9096767e | comment |
"Girl" from Rubber Soul has a rather amusing background harmonic vocal accompaniment of 'tit tit tit tit' appear before the chorus. | |
Scatting / int_9096767e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_9096767e | featureConfidence |
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Rubber Soul (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_9096767e | |
Scatting / int_90f7114 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_90f7114 | comment |
In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Judge Turpin hums "Ladies In Their Sensitivities" while waiting to be shaved by Sweeney Todd. | |
Scatting / int_90f7114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_90f7114 | featureConfidence |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_90f7114 | |
Scatting / int_91209b29 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_91209b29 | comment |
Xenosaga episodes 2 and 3 had plenty of songs with nonsense words. It's a preferred style of Yuki Kajiura, a composer for both games. | |
Scatting / int_91209b29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_91209b29 | featureConfidence |
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Xenosaga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_91209b29 | |
Scatting / int_914ba844 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_914ba844 | comment |
The March of the Winkies from The Wizard of Oz: "Oh eeh uh, yo ah", and repeat. | |
Scatting / int_914ba844 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_914ba844 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Wizard of Oz | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_914ba844 | |
Scatting / int_938e19ec | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_938e19ec | comment |
The ending credits to Fraggle Rock starts with Gobo (Jerry Nelson) and Wembley (Steve Whitmire) scatting, before the other Fraggles join in for the words. | |
Scatting / int_938e19ec | featureApplicability |
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Scatting / int_938e19ec | featureConfidence |
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Fraggle Rock | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_938e19ec | |
Scatting / int_93aab187 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_93aab187 | comment |
Jaga Jazzist: "Swedenborgske Rom" has an a cappella lyricless interlude. And "All I Know Is Tonight" has lyricless singing in unison with the main horn riff. | |
Scatting / int_93aab187 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_93aab187 | featureConfidence |
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Jaga Jazzist (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_93aab187 | |
Scatting / int_93e3f14e | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_93e3f14e | comment |
Tarzan has a sequence where Terk and the other animals singing in gibberish as they obliviously break everything in the camp as the noise of things breaking make up the music. | |
Scatting / int_93e3f14e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_93e3f14e | featureConfidence |
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Tarzan | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_93e3f14e | |
Scatting / int_9401e4b4 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_9401e4b4 | comment |
The refrains of many Eurodance and Bubble Gum Dance songs used this, such as "oh la oh la eh" (La Bouche's "Sweet Dreams"), "iai iai iai" (Smile.dk's "Butterfly"), "na na na na way-oh" (Alice Deejay's "Will I Ever"), "li da di da di da di" (Amber's "Sexual"), etc. | |
Scatting / int_9401e4b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_9401e4b4 | featureConfidence |
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Smile.dk (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_9401e4b4 | |
Scatting / int_967347ea | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_967347ea | comment |
"Rose and Release" from Revolutionary Girl Utena is a version of the Opening sung entirely in "la-s". A borderline example is the ending of the song "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku", which consists of the jumbled syllables of "Mokushiroku" ("Apocalypse"). |
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Scatting / int_967347ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_967347ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Revolutionary Girl Utena | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_967347ea | |
Scatting / int_99bab75a | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_99bab75a | comment |
In Macross Plus, Some of Sharon Apple's songs are in a made-up "language" of nonsense words chosen only for their sound and the emotional tone they conveyed. | |
Scatting / int_99bab75a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_99bab75a | featureConfidence |
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Macross Plus | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_99bab75a | |
Scatting / int_99cce983 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_99cce983 | comment |
Popeye has a habit of scatting to himself as he hoes about his business. | |
Scatting / int_99cce983 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_99cce983 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Popeye (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_99cce983 | |
Scatting / int_99d0c794 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_99d0c794 | comment |
Phil Harris also sang some scat with Louie Prima toward the end of "I Wanna Be Like You" in The Jungle Book. Harris also does this when he makes his first appearance in the movie. | |
Scatting / int_99d0c794 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_99d0c794 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Jungle Book (1967) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_99d0c794 | |
Scatting / int_9b9fe785 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_9b9fe785 | comment |
Common in Yoko Kanno's soundtracks in general. She's done the same thing in Earth Maiden Arjuna, Cowboy Bebop and The Vision of Escaflowne. In a similar vein, some of the pseudo-Latin song in the soundtrack of Puella Magi Madoka Magica qualifies. The best-known example would be Credens Justitiam. |
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Scatting / int_9b9fe785 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_9b9fe785 | featureConfidence |
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Earth Maiden Arjuna | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_9b9fe785 | |
Scatting / int_a183d57f | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama uses this behind the scenes. Bender's singing is almost always John DiMaggio scatting. Frequently mentioned (and demonstrated) on the DVD commentaries. | |
Scatting / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Futurama | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a183d57f | |
Scatting / int_a309c5a5 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a309c5a5 | comment |
Many of the musical cues in Hannah Montana are of Miley scat-singing whoa-ohs and yeah-yeahs for a line or two. | |
Scatting / int_a309c5a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a309c5a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hannah Montana | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a309c5a5 | |
Scatting / int_a535581a | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a535581a | comment |
In The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk scats his own spy-movie-esque "danger music" when he's sneaking through town with llamafied Kuzco in a sack. Worth particular mention is the "tense moment" segment where two villagers approach; Kronk flattens himself against a wall and softly croons "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" on a sustained high note until they're past. | |
Scatting / int_a535581a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a535581a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Emperor's New Groove | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a535581a | |
Scatting / int_a66b3bbc | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a66b3bbc | comment |
A few DanceDanceRevolution songs break into this. "Golden Sky" earns bonus points for the lyrics devolving into "la de da" at two separate points in the chorus. "Wild Rush", whose vocal samples are also used in "Genom Screams" and "Paranoia Survivor", as well the "Lavande Bleu" music in RayCrisis and the outdoor shooting range music in Silent Scope 2. The "sharara shaara" part of TËЯRA's "Flowers" after the Truck Driver's Gear Change. "Howling" by PON from beatmania IIDX. One who doesn't understand Japanese could be forgiven for thinking PON is actually singing something coherent. The refrain of "Dam Dariram" by Joga. |
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Scatting / int_a66b3bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a66b3bbc | featureConfidence |
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DanceDanceRevolution (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a66b3bbc | |
Scatting / int_a6992283 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a6992283 | comment |
Wasn't the entire point of The Urbz to build a game around The Black Eyed Peas Scatting? | |
Scatting / int_a6992283 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a6992283 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Black Eyed Peas (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a6992283 | |
Scatting / int_a6bbf758 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a6bbf758 | comment |
Many had wondered what were the lyrics behind Hellsing opening theme World Without Logos. When the official soundtrack included nonsensical lyrics where half of the words weren't actually English, people started realizing something. It was, however, obvious from the outset that "Shubidubidu, shubidubidu, shubidubidu turu" was supposed to be scat singing. |
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Scatting / int_a6bbf758 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a6bbf758 | featureConfidence |
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Hellsing | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a6bbf758 | |
Scatting / int_a9f06cb6 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_a9f06cb6 | comment |
The VeggieTales song "I Love My Lips". | |
Scatting / int_a9f06cb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_a9f06cb6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
VeggieTales | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_a9f06cb6 | |
Scatting / int_ab60e67e | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_ab60e67e | comment |
In Chapter 22 of Origin Story, Alex is so caught up in the absolute awesomeness that is being a superhero that she scats an iffy, top-of-her-lungs version of John Williams classic "Superman Theme" while lifting a sinking cruise ship out of the water and flying it back to the Port of Miami. A couple of the people she is rescuing manage to catch the "performance" on their iPhones, and it goes viral almost immediately. | |
Scatting / int_ab60e67e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_ab60e67e | featureConfidence |
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Origin Story / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_ab60e67e | |
Scatting / int_ac03a2dd | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_ac03a2dd | comment |
"Da Doo" from Little Shop of Horrors has the Greek Chorus mostly doing this under a spoken word monologue. | |
Scatting / int_ac03a2dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_ac03a2dd | featureConfidence |
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Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_ac03a2dd | |
Scatting / int_ad7f9157 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_ad7f9157 | comment |
John Zorn's famous Jazz deconstruction band Naked City featured Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms and Mike Patton (see above) doing everything except singing: screaming, crying, babbling, gurgling, screeching, howling, gargling, barking, snarling, croaking, growling and generally sounding like men possessed by demons. | |
Scatting / int_ad7f9157 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_ad7f9157 | featureConfidence |
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John Zorn (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_ad7f9157 | |
Scatting / int_ae050a9f | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_ae050a9f | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask use this for the singing of Malon and Lulu, respectively. Use of this trope goes back to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, where Marin (of whom Malon is an Expy) sings "The Ballad of the Windfish". | |
Scatting / int_ae050a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_ae050a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_ae050a9f | |
Scatting / int_afe3a134 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_afe3a134 | comment |
Lucia also sings a lullaby consisting entirely of "la la la" in the remake of Lunar: Eternal Blue. | |
Scatting / int_afe3a134 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_afe3a134 | featureConfidence |
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Lunar: Eternal Blue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_afe3a134 | |
Scatting / int_b0bcb64b | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b0bcb64b | comment |
LocoRoco used this for all its music in order to have a universally accepted soundtrack that wouldn't need translating. The nonsense sung by the Rocos sounds uncannily like real language due to the way it's structured, but it's just cute-sounding gibberish. | |
Scatting / int_b0bcb64b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b0bcb64b | featureConfidence |
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LocoRoco (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b0bcb64b | |
Scatting / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
In the Saturday Night Live sketch "Singing Sisters", the 1940s-style Christmas carols that the Dundee Sistersnote played by Cecily Strong as Helen, Kate McKinnon as Eileen, and Amy Adams as Frebecca perform essentially consist of nonsense with a few English words and Santa's name thrown in. | |
Scatting / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b0fc9724 | |
Scatting / int_b259e9bb | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b259e9bb | comment |
Rocked shows a disdain for these - and the albums showcased on Regretting the Past have them often! - and even highlights it by playing the Homestar Runner clip from the folder above. | |
Scatting / int_b259e9bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b259e9bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rocked (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b259e9bb | |
Scatting / int_b2fba3e0 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b2fba3e0 | comment |
Various Ultra Series, Mirrorman, and Fireman all feature a variation of the scat chant "Wandabadadbada, Wandabadadabada" featured for the Science patrol teams. | |
Scatting / int_b2fba3e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b2fba3e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ultra Series (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b2fba3e0 | |
Scatting / int_b34d789e | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b34d789e | comment |
In the Looney Tunes short Book Revue, Daffy Duck, while in the middle of singing "Carolina In The Morning", notices that Little Red Riding Hood is walking towards her grandmother's house where the Big Bad Wolf is, of course, waiting to trick her. He immediately runs up (or, rather, turns into rocket fire except for his head) to her and tries to explain the situation to her using scatting. She, predictably, doesn't understand what he's saying until she notices the Wolf sprinkling salt upon Daffy's leg while he's explaining her being eaten. | |
Scatting / int_b34d789e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b34d789e | featureConfidence |
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Book Revue | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b34d789e | |
Scatting / int_b55a983a | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b55a983a | comment |
Cartoon Planet's aptly-named musical number, "Scat Sandwich." | |
Scatting / int_b55a983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b55a983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cartoon Planet | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b55a983a | |
Scatting / int_b6130933 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b6130933 | comment |
The instrumental version of Cake's "Arco Arena". No real lyrics, just John McCrea occasionally muttering something or interjecting with his usual Lyrical Tics ("Yah!"). | |
Scatting / int_b6130933 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b6130933 | featureConfidence |
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CAKE (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b6130933 | |
Scatting / int_b616e19b | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b616e19b | comment |
If vocal bridges qualify under this trope, then Korn's "Freak on a Leash" definitely fits in. "Seed', "BBK", "Twist" (which aside from the title is nearly all scatting!), "Ball Tongue" and "Worst Is on Its Way" are a few examples. |
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Scatting / int_b616e19b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b616e19b | featureConfidence |
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Korn (Music) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b616e19b | |
Scatting / int_b87de35b | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b87de35b | comment |
The background music to the "Secret of..." levels in Super Mario Sunshine is "Do-do-do" sung to the tune of the classic Mario theme. | |
Scatting / int_b87de35b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b87de35b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b87de35b | |
Scatting / int_b9cf766a | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_b9cf766a | comment |
Impractical Jokers: Joe does this as an apparent attempt to distract diners that he's stealing food from their plates. It doesn't work. | |
Scatting / int_b9cf766a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_b9cf766a | featureConfidence |
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Impractical Jokers | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_b9cf766a | |
Scatting / int_ba366aa8 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_ba366aa8 | comment |
Several songs from Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, which was soundtracked by Azam Ali, have this type of vox. | |
Scatting / int_ba366aa8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_ba366aa8 | featureConfidence |
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Syphon Filter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_ba366aa8 | |
Scatting / int_bac5fe89 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_bac5fe89 | comment |
After the opening, the first piece of music heard in Armed & Delirious is a slow blues tune with a man and woman singing in gibberish with it. | |
Scatting / int_bac5fe89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_bac5fe89 | featureConfidence |
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Armed & Delirious (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_bac5fe89 | |
Scatting / int_bbd1c54b | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_bbd1c54b | comment |
Cows' version of the Midnight Cowboy title theme substitutes the string part of the original with vocalist Shannon Selberg singing "ooh". | |
Scatting / int_bbd1c54b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_bbd1c54b | featureConfidence |
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Midnight Cowboy | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_bbd1c54b | |
Scatting / int_bca72091 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_bca72091 | comment |
In Animal Crossing, K.K. Slider's singing consists of "we" "oh" and other such sounds. His voice is even an instrument in Wii Music. | |
Scatting / int_bca72091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_bca72091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
AnimalCrossing | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_bca72091 | |
Scatting / int_bfb483af | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_bfb483af | comment |
In Splatoon, most of the background music heard during battles has lyrics in the in-universe languages (mostly Inkling), which aren't actually well-defined Conlang, but is simply the real-life musicians singing nonsense syllables and then running it through some audio distortion filters to give it a more wet and burbley sound befitting people evolved from squid, octopus, and other marine life. | |
Scatting / int_bfb483af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_bfb483af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Splatoon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_bfb483af | |
Scatting / int_c0c416fb | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_c0c416fb | comment |
In concert film The Last Waltz, Van Morrison does this during "Caravan" right before the horns cut in. Then he screams "TURN IT UP NOW!", and the horns go bananas. | |
Scatting / int_c0c416fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_c0c416fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Last Waltz | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_c0c416fb | |
Scatting / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
Team Fortress 2: One of Heavy's quotes as he destroys a building is him singing the Sabre Dance melody with the lyrics "Ya ta ta ta!"... | |
Scatting / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_c0d295c4 | featureConfidence |
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Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_c0d295c4 | |
Scatting / int_c2463c55 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_c2463c55 | comment |
Final Fantasy X has a really cool version of this. The Hymn of the Fayth sounds like Japanese, but it's actually nonsense syllables. However, when you rearrange the syllables into a square, and read them from top to bottom, it actually does spell out words in Japanese. They roughly translate into "Praise be to Yevon". Into a Square, you say? |
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Scatting / int_c2463c55 | featureApplicability |
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Scatting / int_c2463c55 | featureConfidence |
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Final Fantasy X (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_c2463c55 | |
Scatting / int_c5637317 | type |
Scatting | |
Scatting / int_c5637317 | comment |
During its first season, the closing theme of Muppet Babies was basically the opening theme with its lead vocals mixed out - leaving just the scatting in the background. | |
Scatting / int_c5637317 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Scatting / int_c5637317 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Muppet Babies | hasFeature |
Scatting / int_c5637317 | |
Scatting / int_c7d47d93 | type |
Scatting | |
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Central Park: In Season 3 "Paige's Next Chapter", with Bitsy's piano lounge player's arm broken, he has his wife, Devora, fill his spot as the lounge singer. But once she starts performing, all she does is scat the whole time saying any letters or syllables she can think of. Despite how long it goes on, the audience is actually impressed by it, especially after Helen accidentally gets roped into the performance. | |
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The Smurflings in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story adaptation "The New Smurfs On The Block" do this with an anachronistic Smurfing parody of a Hanson song: "Smurfbop, smurf a bop, I smurf a bop, smurfy smurfy do wop, smurfbop, smurf a bop, I smurf...yeah, yeah". | |
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The song "Rainy Rose" and its remix "Poison Queen" from the God Hand soundtrack (Shannon/Demon Shannon's boss themes, respectively) are entirely sung in "nya"/"nyo" sounds. | |
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On Katamari Damacy's pre-game tutorial level, there's a version of the theme song that just has the "na na na na na na na" for vocals, on top of the backing beat from the NES version of Lode Runner. | |
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The Rhinemaidens from Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle engage in this frequently. Weia! Waga! Wagala weia! Also, anyone listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" in its original context for the first time may be surprised to hear that the Valkyries are singing "Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha! Hojotoho! Heiaha!" over the music. This is usually left off when the piece is played by itself. | |
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Aerosmith: even when Steven Tyler isn't actually trying to sing the drum parts ('Heart's Done Time", "Livin' on the Edge") he's quite happy to go off the end of the lyric sheet ("Rag Doll", "Livin' on the Edge", many others). | |
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"Atom Heart Mother" from Atom Heart Mother, with the choir scatting lines that sound like choir warm-up exercises. | |
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"Columbine" by SKYND uses the line "Ra-ta-ta-ta-Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta" repeatedly in the pre-chorus to simulate a machine gun. Given the song's subject matter (hint: look at the title), it's actually very creepy. | |
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Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil has a snowboarding level with a very catchy song. Sung by Klonoa. In Phantomilian. Check out the lyrics. | |
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Hideki Naganuma loves incorporating this into almost any song he composes, with one of the most notorious examples being "Ethno Circus" from Sonic Rush. For anyone curious, the "lyrics" are a cut-up vocal sample of a woman rapping something to the effect of "Trish the track attacker we grab a mic, I spec, I smack a spectator kidnapper". | |
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In some parts of Halo 2, you can find holograms of the Prophets chanting the series theme in alien gibberish. | |
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The Grox Empire's anthem in Spore. | |
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The Sam and Friends sketch "Visual Thinking" shows what happens when you combine scatting with Painting the Medium. It's not pretty. | |
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In some entries in the MySims series, some songs have Simlish vocals. There's a lovely example in My Sims Kingdom, which plays on The Royal Academy island. Also, in My Sims, a Sim can activate a karaoke machine, and sing the song in his or her particular voice. | |
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Ylvis: "What does the fox say? Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding gering! Hatty-hatty-hatty-ho! Jacha-chacha-chacha-chow!", etc. | |
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Yoshi's Story has the eponymous dinosaurs singing in an incomprehensible chatter that would become the establishing voice of Yoshi forever on. | |
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The last twenty or so seconds of "Bloodsucker" from Deep Purple in Rock, where Ian Gillan starts screaming incomprehensibly. | |
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The main theme of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is mostly composed of children going "La la la la la la la lalala..." and occasionally misspelling the game's tagline ("G-I-N-T E-G-G"). The credits are accompanied by a version of this song with actual lyrics. | |
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Robbie Williams' song "Road to Mandalay" has a refrain consisting of him going "dah duh duh dum, da, duh, dum dum" a few times. | |
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Pretty much all of the vocalizations on Damo Suzuki-era Can albums are wordless. | |
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Parodied in Homestar Runner, where Strong Bad includes "Songs that try to pass off na-nas, la-las and doot-doos as legit lyrics" in his Bottom Ten. As an example, he plays a track from the fictional Limozeen album "Feed the Childrens", which meets this description to the letter. | |
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The post-chorus hook of Peter Schilling's "Only Dreams". | |
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Most of the music in NieR is sung in a made up language, stated to be a "possible future evolution of our current languages" by the composer. There's several versions of the ending theme depending on the ending and at least 1 of them is in English though. | |
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"A Saucerful of Secrets" from A Saucerful of Secrets. | |
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In Shadowverse, one of Mordecai's potential thinking lines has him break out is a short scatting tune, clearly getting a little bit impatient. | |
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75% of the background music in the Nickelodeon version of Doug. | |
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The refrain of "Cha La Head Cha La" from Dragon Ball Z. | |
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In Closer Than Ever, "Miss Byrd" and "Back on Base" both have jazzy codas which the singer (originally Sally Mayes) is encouraged to improvise in her own style. | |
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Even the regular Metroid games have it at times. | |
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The Grand Fonic Hymn from Tales of the Abyss, made up of seven short verses, uses single-syllable words that don't come from any particular language, used to explain why only the first verse works like a magic spell. Each verse apparently has a "deeper meaning" that must be learned before its magic can manifest. | |
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The opening theme to The Tick. Bop TWEEE-dot-dot-dot TWEEE dah! | |
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Projects related to musician Mike Patton almost always feature at least a little bit of this. As the title might suggest, Mr Bungle's "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz". "Chemical Marriage" off of the same album is just scat singing. At one point in time you could have sent two dollars to a P.O. box listed in the Disco Volante liner notes to get some stickers and the "lyrics" to "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" and "Chemical Marriage." Another Mike Patton project, Fantômas, plays this straight. Their self-titled debut features Patton singing on every track without ever uttering a single word. Suspended Animation, which came after, has him using his voice to emulate sound effects from The Golden Age of Animation. Patton also released two solo albums, one of which is just him making sounds into a tape recorder with his voice in various hotel rooms. The second one is a series of songs based off of bizarre recipes from an Italian Futurist cookbook. Yet another Patton project with saxophonist John Zorn has him blabbering nonsense in the vein of Crowleyist high-magic. |
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"Remember the Time" in particular features one of Jackson's more iconic examples of scatting towards the end, while he is repeatedly asking "do you remember?" | |
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From time to time in Sunday in the Park with George, Georges hums "Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum..." The above is parodied lovingly in Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM! when he sings about working in a diner on an ordinary Sunday, and seeing all the "Bums, bums, bums, bums bums bums..." |
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