MS1E4 - "Doo Wop (That Thing)" by Lauryn Hill

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ms. Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" synthesizes hip-hop with 1950s doo wop music. We trace the parallel histories of these two musical genres before our line-by-line analysis of the cautionary message Ms. Hill presents in her chart topping single. Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Join our newsletter at dissectpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect.
0:04.0	Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Cole Kushner. Today we
0:25.0	dissected to Zion on our serialized analysis of the miseducation of Lauren Hill.
0:27.0	On our last episode, we dissected to Zion,
0:30.0	a resounding triumphant expression of a mother's love.
0:34.2	As Miss Education progresses, were met with the trio of songs that confront what Miss Hill views
0:39.1	as inauthentic and contemporary society.
0:42.2	She'll address the inauthentic shallow motives of some
0:44.7	hip-hop communities on its superstar and the consequences of a greed and ego-fueled
0:49.4	desire to climb the cultural hierarchy on the song Final Hour.
0:54.0	But first, Miss Hill will hold a mirror to the gender dynamics
0:57.0	between some young men and women
0:58.9	on the album's next track, the subject of today's episode,
1:02.2	DoWOP.
1:03.0	Girls, you know you better.
1:05.0	Watch out.
1:07.0	Some guys, some guys are only about
1:12.0	sad things, bad things that thing
1:15.0	thing
1:16.0	when I think you know that thing
1:17.0	y'all
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