I also recorded the show and I believe you made a mistake.
In my opinion, the first verse is:
"There is little place I know where a bunch of funky people..."
The song was great, nothing wrong with it.
ncc
Alric Knebel wrote:
> Jack Black was the guest host of SNL tonight. For his monologue, he
> went into that routine he does of singing melodramatic songs with
> outrageous lyrics. He said, following in the footsteps of people like
> Will Smith and Eminem, who were in movies that featured songs they had
> written and performed themselves, he had written a song for the movie
> he's currently in, KING KONG. He submitted it to Peter Jackson, he
> claimed, but Jackson turned it down. It was all part of the buildup to
> his joke, his performance of the song. Black then picked up a
> microphone and launched into it. In the very first verse, he sang the
> lyric "fucking," as plain as day. It's a live show, so what can anyone
> do? There were a few supportive hoots from the audience, and I was
> amused by it myself. But I remembered reading recently that Charles
> Rocket got into a lot of trouble in the 80s for doing exactly the same
> thing, saying "fuck" on television. I suppose all of the moral people
> will get all uptight about it, like they did with Janet Jackson's
> "wardrobe malfunction," which was a lot of nothing in a big way, since
> her nipple was covered with a kind of sunflower-shaped pastie. It was a
> scandal in the most manufactured sense, but it was all over for a couple
> of weeks, and the FCC got into the act by fining CBS some great deal of
> money. I'm wondering if NBC is going to be fined, and what the
> repercussions to Black will be. Charles Rocket got into some career
> trouble, and I think he was fired from the cast. Black can't be fired,
> but he could be, like, blacklisted or something.
>
> I happened to record the show on my DVD recorder, and as I played it
> back for a closer look, Black seemed totally indifferent to what he had
> just done, as if he was completely unaware of it. Did he perform the
> song different from his rehearsal? If he had, it seemed that someone
> would have said he can't do that. If he hadn't, his insertion of the
> change lyric would have to be intentional. Why? Did he do it to be a
> rebel? Maybe he did it as a publicity stunt, for the sake of the movie.
>
> But that movie is closer to family fare, despite its intensity, in that
> the values projected are basic and sensitive, befitting the period of
> the film. Black might suffer some repercussions from the studios, the
> opinion of studio execs being that he tainted the film at a critical
> time, its opening weekend. Sometimes the executives mistake the noisy
> voices of the offended few as MANY voices, giving them more power than
> they actually have, and offense more weight than it really deserves.
> They've been boycotting Disney for years, to no avail.
>
> This will be interesting to see, what comes of it.
>
> Alric Knebel
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