Anybody ever wonder why billie sings "This is Seh dawning" instead of "This is the dawning"?

[xBlaydeRx]

On the song holiday, has anyone notice billie saying "Seh" instead of "The"?

Try not to be a damn asshole, it's only a question.

It almost sounds like he's saying "This is "A" dawning of the rest of our lives" instead of "This is "The dawning of the rest of our lives"

The song would of been more powerful if he added "The" instead of say "Seh dawning "

Comments??

[Todd]

Nope, just flows better I guess

[Guest]

Billie Joe has pretty much zero concept of grammar. The fact that he writes such good songs despite this is amazing.

[Penguin Puffball]

Because he doesn't know how to enunciate

[Libertine Angel]

That's not the strangest thing he pronounces - listen to Paper Lanterns.

[Guest]

That's not the strangest thing he pronounces - listen to Paper Lanterns.

"sun-sation" tho

[Maid Meringue]

This makes me cringe

[Libertine Angel]

"sun-sation" tho

Right, I forgot about that. I've been listening to their early stuff more recently.

[Chin for a Day]

I actually think he is slurring the is and the together so it is This sthe dawning instead of This is the dawning.

Have you noticed that on 21st Century Breakdown and the trilogy he almost over enunciates. Almost like he took speech therapy.

[Anaïs.]

Have you noticed that on 21st Century Breakdown and the trilogy he almost over enunciates. Almost like he took speech therapy.

AKA Broadway training.

[Chin for a Day]

AKA Broadway training.

Good point, I didn't think of that.

[Sauli]

And ironically, as the quality of his lyrics got worse, his enunciation got better. That's a shame, really. Nobody needs the lyrics of Makeout Party enunciated clearly but many of us would love to understand the lyrics on Insomniac without incessantly needing the aid of the lyrics sheets.

[klytaemnestra]

yeah the dude just does not know how to make his mouth make sounds tbh.

[Comrade]

He was probably off hit nut on crack and meth, chugging down a few beers to take the harshness off at the time, cut the guy some slack.

[Guest]

snorting cocaine off of hooker's asses, etc.

[WhiteTim]

He took speech therapy cause he read the posts in GDC making fun of him

[The Disappearing Boy]

It's just swallowing words. There's no excuse for sun-sation though.

[Spike]

These things happen when you have meth teeth.

[Trotsky]

Seh is the Hebrew word for 666 and heroin. It's a subliminal message. Also I won't be an asshole but if you continue to make threads like this, the forum will pick you apart real fast.

[Guest]

Seh is the Hebrew word for 666 and heroin. It's a subliminal message. Also I won't be an asshole but if you continue to make threads like this, the forum will pick you apart real fast.

Already happened to them once. They came back for more

[Backyard Skulls]

I think his singing is pair-ah-dice to listen to actually!

[Alan86]

AKA Broadway training.

for the Trilogy maybe, 21st Century Breakdown was recorded and released nearly a year before anything happened on Broadway and even longer than that by the time Billie started training for a Broadway performance.

[alienlifeform]

sorry but, where he speaks "sun-sation"

[nothing_wrong_with_me]

sorry but, where he speaks "sun-sation"

in Give me novacaine, "take away the sensation inside".

[alienlifeform]

in Give me novacaine, "take away the sensation inside".

oh ok, thanks