Talk:Word Up! (song)

Move
This page ought to be moved to Word Up! (Melanie B). There are other versions: Word Up! Word Up! (Korn)


 * Word Up! is about the Cameo album. This article should be expanded to include the Cameo version of the song, and the Korn version should be merged here. Articles about songs should be about all versions of the song, other versions should not be given their own articles. &mdash; AnemoneProjectors (talk) 22:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Gun version
Shouldn't Gun's 1994 cover of this song be mentioned more prominently here? The single was a top 10 hit in the UK and a big hit in many other countries, and their version is probably better known than any other version bar Cameo's original. 217.155.20.163 01:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely pathetic that Gun's version isn't given more prominence. It was Top Ten in the UK in the 1990s, but it's only given ONE line! What's with Mel B's multiple mixes getting all the limelight? It only had a brief flirtation with the Top Twenty before dropping like a stone. There's even more about that than there is about Cameo's original version! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.49.141.100 (talk) 04:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Truck Commercial
Who did the one used in the truck commercial? 76.126.29.36 (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

KoRn
The KoRn version sounds identical to the original. 169.233.59.119 (talk) 18:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Origins and meaning of the phrase "word up"
Someone please add section about the origins and meaning of the phrase "word up". Karl gregory jones (talk) 01:51, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Precisely.
 * What does this weird expression mean? 99.247.1.157 (talk) 00:07, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Additional version
A lesser-known version of the song can be found on Rich Hopkins & Friends' LP "Los Monstros del Tucson Rock" (San Jacinto Records, 2004), with Greg the homeless guy on bass & vocals. Bgungle (talk) 01:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Exclamation Point
Actually, only the album is called "Word Up!" The song is just "Word Up", no exclamation point. Here's the single's label and here's the album's back cover. Accordingly, I am editing and moving this.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  20:48, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * the edit is incorrect: the single is calles "word up!" with an exclamation mark, see front and rear cover of the single. you have conveniently taken a dutch pressing and the back insert of the album cd release, while ignoring the original release.

front cover: back cover:  - esse quam videri - to be rather than to seem (talk) 01:31, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It's the label that determines the song title, not the sleeve. I didn't realize the image was of the Dutch label (and was the "conveniently" really necessary? Way to AGF), but here's the American: .&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  01:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * cheers. it's the cover that determines the song title, however -- i shall add further sources from printed media once i dig them out. - esse quam videri - to be rather than to seem (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Verse melody
Consider the origins of the verse melody Double_Dutch_Bus

http://www.whosampled.com/Frankie-Smith/Double-Dutch-Bus/ Meloday starts at ~ 0:014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.194.165.41 (talk) 15:07, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Fair use of notable cover version single cover
Since the images, File:GunWordUp.jpg, File:Wordupcover.jpg, and File:Word_Up!.jpg have been removed by one editor citing WP:NFCC and reverted by three other editors also citing WP:NFCC, I am starting a discussion here so that the images is not deleted simply for being orphaned.

The single covers for the Gun, Melanie B and Korn cover versions pass the points of WP:NFCC. WP:NFCC is met because the single covers is used for identification its respective versions and Cameo single cover cannot convey equivalent significant information and/or identification of the cover versions. WP:NFCC is met because the single covers are used for identification and the images increas readers' understanding and not having them would be detrimental to the understanding of the cover versions. The single covers passes the first example of acceptable use of fair images at WP:NFCI: "Cover art: Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary)."

The current consensus for single covers in section infoboxes to represent notable cover versions are that they pass WP:NFCC and WP:NFCI. Since WP:SONGCOVER says notable cover versions should be covered in the article about the song and not have its own article, but if they had their own articles, the images would be acceptable there, so they are acceptable in the sections of the song article. The single covers are not alternate covers for Cameo cover, it is the primary cover for the cover versions and should be treated as such. If it is felt that the images should still be removed than the images should be taken to Files for deletion instead of simply removed from the article. Aspects (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * KEEP: They are single art covers for notable cover versions.--SuperHotWiki (talk) 00:36, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Word Up! → Word Up! (album) and recreate Word Up! as a redirect to the disambiguation page at Word Up. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

– Like ...Baby One More Time, Blurred Lines and Oops!... I Did It Again, this is one of those cases where the song's more notable than the album. Unreal7 (talk) 16:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Word Up! (song) → Word Up!
 * Word Up! → Word Up! (album)
 * Comment compare Word Up! (magazine) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.175.135 (talk) 20:23, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Defunct magazine. Unreal7 (talk) 22:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment - note Talk page and article page have got separated (song)/(funk song). This seems borderline - Word Up! Greatest Hits – Live Word Up! (album) Word Up! (song) wouldn't suffer from being clearly titled. Cameo also didn't coin the phrase "Word Up"; it was already in use, as example title of Legacy (soul group) single four years earlier. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Alternate Word Up! should redirect to the disambiguation page Word Up, the album should be moved as proposed, but the song should not be moved as proposed. -- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 04:47, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Alternate proposal = Word Up! should redirect to the disambiguation page Word Up listing Word Up! (album) Word Up! (song). In ictu oculi (talk) 04:50, 21 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support The magazine is no contest; the song certainly seems primary topic. --BDD (talk) 20:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move section to a new page
I don't know if it would be a good idea, but I thought about moving the section of the Little Mix version into a new article. I don't know how it would be named maybe just "Word Up! (Little Mix song)" but since it's not their song I'm not sure about it. I have moved the section to my sandbox to preview it and it looks pretty good. Here is the preview.

Dimitris talk 21:24, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Why would the cover version get it own article?--SuperHotWiki (talk) 07:57, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I think it can be expanded enough to have its own article. But if not, they it's okay. It's just a suggestion Dimitris talk 13:00, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, forget it. It was not a good idea at all. Dimitris talk 13:58, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Similarity to Single Life
As pointed out, both songs have the beginning notes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in their opening, but that's not all. Many phrases from the rhythm of Single Life can be found in Word Up. Basically the latter can be considered a remix of the first. 78.96.82.137 (talk) 19:24, 18 November 2016 (UTC) Mike GH

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Orphaned references in Word Up! (song)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Word Up! (song)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "GER": From Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Korn album): Peak chart positions for Korn in Germany: From Follow the Leader (Korn album): Peak chart positions for Korn in Germany: From The Path of Totality:  
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Possible hack on Gun chart history?
The German charts part is red and in caps and makes no sense so needs updating. Alanjbint (talk) 07:55, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It's not a hack, it's simply because the way Offizielle Deutsche Charts has reconfigured its website, a songid parameter is now necessary, and this is what the template can't locate and says is missing. We're trying to fix the 2000+ songs that this affects as soon as we can. Richard3120 (talk) 13:12, 13 February 2019 (UTC)