![]() It's not like back in the day when they would have to tape this whole thing back together. Now we have digital, so they can just erase the cuss and keep the crap. So I started doing this stupid thing when I was really young: if I sang something that I hated, I would cuss in the track, that way they would have to erase it. Here's how she told us it happened: "I used to do this thing where I would curse into the mike because as a musician, many times the producers will use the worst vocal. ![]() But I'd just ask them through the booth, I was like, Hey, how do you say 'oops' in German? And they said, 'Opala.' And so I said, 'Everybody say oops up side your head, say oops upside your head, somebody say opala.' And it's a big frickin' hit."Īt the end of this song, Penny Ford does a dirty nursery rhyme taken from an Andrew Dice Clay bit. When it came to "Ooops Up," she told us: "on "They had the 'Oops upside your head' sample, which was ironic, because I started out with the Gap Band, so I know a little something about that. Penny was improvising the words as she went along. I just sang the first thing that came off the top of my head, because I didn't understand that music, and I didn't think I'd ever have to hear it again." ![]() Penny spent 3 days working with the producers, and she described the experience to us: "It was more or less them picking me up by the scruff of my neck like a pit bull and throwing me in the booth with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of champagne and turning the mike on. Snap! was the German producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti, who in 1989 recruited the American singer Penny Ford to add vocals to the beats they had assembled. Penny sang backup with the Gap Band earlier in her career, but she wasn't the one who picked this song. "Ooops Up" is based on a 1979 song by The Gap Band called "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)," which is commonly known by its refrain "Oops Upside Your Head." Penny Ford, who was the original female vocalist in Snap! and rejoined the group in 2006, sang on this track and came up with many of the lyrics. ![]()
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