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Show 939 Friday 16 January Watch today’s show at YouTube or BlipTV.
Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today we’re studying a song by an American pop group called the Jonas Brothers.
They’re pretty famous – and popular in the United States. They have over 400,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel which is pretty impressive. I’d seen their name a lot in the entertainment sections of news websites … but I’d never heard their music, so I decided to check it out. And I thought it was pretty disappointing. I thought if their music was crappy they’d at least be really good-looking. But …
Anyway, I think lame pop songs can be very good to study, if you don’t mind listening to them because they’re very easy to understand. And they’re full of cliché’s, very unoriginal phrases … which are good to learn if you don’t know them already, because they’re used so often.
I chose a song S.O.S, which is their most popular song on their YouYube channel.
S.O.S is, of course, a message for help. And the song is something about the end of a relationship.
This is the chorus: Oooh this is an S.O.S.Don't wanna second guessThis is the bottom lineIt's trueI gave my all for youNow my heart's in twoAnd I can't find the other halfIt's like I'm walking on broken glass
There are many words there you might not know.
Firstly, second-guess has a couple of meanings: to guess what sb will do before they do it. And: to criticize sb after a decision has been made.
I’m not sure which one he means in this song – maybe the first one.
The bottom line is the underlying and most important factor.
Your all is an idiom which means: everything you have.
I gave my all for you means something like: I tried my best in the relationship or I was very nice to you. But now his heart is broken and he can’t find the other half.
STICK NEWS
Kia Ora this is Stick News. Yesterday in the United States of America a plane landed in a river after flying into a bird.
Flight 1549 was on its way from New York to North Carolina with 155 people on board. Less than three minutes after take-off the pilot called air traffic controllers to say he had experienced a bird strike and declared an emergency. He then landed the plane in a river. No people died in the accident and the president said he was impressed with the skill of the pilot.
And that was Stick News for Friday the 16th of January. Kia Ora.
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