Talk:Hey There Delilah

Review
Great Song, i have just heard it. Realy great! --Бардюк Олег Юрійович (talk) 20:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Parodies Section
Is it just me, or are the parodies in this article noteworthy enough to be included in this article?


 * I'm not sure it should be included. It needs to be at least retooled  Since the professionalism decreases as you go through the section.  We don't need to include every parody.  Espcially since thats slowly going to increase  and be longer than the article itself.  I vote for keeping the top two or three, and mentioning that many more exist.  Smashmore (talk) 15:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * AgreeMathwhiz 29 (talk) 23:21, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Until someone wants to defend it or it's notability I took it out. --Capi crimm (talk) 06:29, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * "Hey There Delilah" has been parodied so many times that the article would be incomplete without referencing this. Thus, I restored the Parody section on 26 March 2008, stating that the song has been the "target of numerous parodies" and citing "one representative example" that is also noteworthy. This section is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all "Delilah" parodies; such a list, as Smashmore points out above, would be longer than the article itself. Shakespeareanpie (talk) 14:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Inspiration and composition
This section does not site any sources. I added a tag to it, someone needs to verify all that or get rid of it. 58.161.91.37 03:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Needs Work
I'm not sure how this artical could possibly be improved, but it no doubt needs some work. Maybe a full summary of the music video could help(although, very simple). It being such a popular song, you'd think a fan or two would try and add some life to the artical, but as I said, I'm not sure how this could be made better. I might just have peices remain a stub for the time being. -FallingSkies 19:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

This page is pretty ridiculous. It's entirely subjective and personal opinion and I hereby propose it be at least merged or possibly deleted. --DaveyE 06:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

The Music video sectional really needs to be expanded. ~mthefool

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Inspiration section contradicts itself
It seems someone added a comment in response to the writing above.

CD was released in 2005
The CD was released in 2005. I do not know why someone changed the article to say it was released in 2007. It was rereleased with their 4th album in 2007, but the original release date, as the Wikipedia article on the album states, was 2005. Therefore, it also stands to reason that the song did indeed have an late increase in popularity, over 2 years after the initial release.

This song is a cover
This article mentions nothing of the fact that it is a cover of a very creapy older song, which also disputes the whole inspiration section of this article. I don't know enough of the original to correct the article, but i feal it needs researching and correcting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.133.206 (talk) 09:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...I'll research it, but I highly doubt that. DrowningInRoyalty 23:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It's not a lyrical cover, but I recently heard a song that had a nearly identical melody. I'll get back to you with an artist and title. --Haizum   μολὼν λαβέ 01:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

AH HAAAAA! "FEELIN' GOOD AGAIN" BY ROBERT EARL KEEN! BLATANT RIPOFF! --Haizum   μολὼν λαβέ 01:49, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you're right. Strange. 12.26.115.28 03:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's a cover in the same way "Connection" by Elastica is a cover of "Three Girl Rhumba" by Wire Doc Strange 17:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, no.

Nice song... but so NOT a cover. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.123.238.98 (talk) 22:21, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Napoleon Dynamite
Did this song feature in Napolean Dynamite at the beginning of the film? Or was that the older version? Who wrote this first version SineBot is talking about? A.J.Chesswas 20:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


 * That was "You and I Are Going To Be Friends" by the White Stripes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.194.27.58 (talk) 04:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Actual title of the song is "We're Going to Be Freinds", which on the White Stripes 2001 record White Blood Cells Doc Strange 17:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Bringing back Inspiration and Composition section
I believe the Inspiration and composition section needs to be brought back. It explained a great deal about the song and let readers know that the song is about a real person and what the relationship was between the two people (since most think it was a romantic relationship). It could be labeled as background, or something similar. If you go back far enough in the history of this article you will find versions that have references in the inspiration section, therefore it does site at least one source. sirgregmac 20:12, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Well if you can find sources that are up to Wikipedia standards, (see WP:VERIFY ), then by all means bring it back. 58.161.90.38 02:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of References
Apparently the edits made by 67.116.236.200 on 28 October 2007 resulted in the deletion of the References section. I'm unsure how to restore the references. Anyone? Shakespeareanpie 23:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey There Khalilah
I Think this should be included in the Parodies section It's Brilliant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.6.101.154 (talk) 16:58, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Plagorism?
Has anyone listened to the "plagarism" clip? They sound almost nothing alike. How ridiculous that this should make in on an encyclopedia. Get rid of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.51.29 (talk) 05:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

A blog article contains the Inspiration/Composition  section verbatim.

Thus it would appear that either the section of this WP article is a plagarism or the blog entry in question is a GFDL violation

Should someone investigate this?

--Phoenix9 (talk) 22:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

"Fabricated"

 * the revelation that its central relationship was fabricated

What does "fabricated" mean here? I read it as meaning that at the end of the song you discover that he made Delilah up, which would admittedly have been rather an awesome end to the song, but isn't anywhere in the actual lyrics. Is it a reference to how Higgenson wrote the song to a real Delilah but they were never in a real relationship? I don't think most people assume that relationships which get sung about actually happened in real life. Marnanel (talk) 22:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes to your second question. Shakespeareanpie (talk) 15:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see how it's at all clear that the speaker is singing to someone he's in a relationship with. Knowing that Higgenson didn't actually have a relationship with the person he wrote the song about, the song's lyrics seem creepy and stalkerish, but there's nothing specifically dishonest or fabricated about them. john k (talk) 22:04, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Must the automatic assumption be that all songs are accurate accounts of actual events unless stated otherwise? Taken to the extreme, John Lennon was actually a walrus, Johnny Cash is a murderer, and Frank Zappa is an eskimo. I doubt you'd call John Lennon a liar for singing I am the Walrus, though.66.87.8.12 (talk) 08:57, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Delilah's In The Olympics?
I saw a reference in TIME/Newsweek that the subject of this song had made the US Olympic Team and was heading to Beijing. Is this "honest to blog" and, if true, worth putting up on Wikipedia? One Mississippi (talk) 06:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

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Genre change?
I've been adding emo as a genre, as that seems to be the general consensus among the public, and it keeps getting removed. They view "Hey There Delilah" as an emo song, not a folk-pop song, for a good reason. Just because a song has an a acoustic guitar base doesn't make it folk. This song has a lot more emo characteristics, such as emotionally-charged lyrics, "twinkly" guitar tones, and slightly wistful vocals. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owenmpowell (talk • contribs) 23:29, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * You can't just listen to it and say it's an emo song, you have to cite a reliable source. 183.171.113.19 (talk) 04:59, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Billboard says "emo(tional) coffee shop ballad" does not mean an emo song. 183.171.112.62 (talk) 07:31, 25 October 2018 (UTC)