Baggy Trousers

"Baggy Trousers" - Madness

Un video que siempre me ha encantado, como la gran mayoría de las cosas que hicieron a principios de los '80 la banda británica llamada Madness :)

Además, la letra de la canción es genial.

Naughty boys in nasty schools
Headmasters breaking all the rules
Having fun and playing fools
Smashing up the woodwork tools
All the teachers in the pub
Passing round the ready-rub
Trying not to think of when
The lunch-time bell will ring again.

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.

Headmasters had enough to-day
All the kids have gone away
Gone to fight with next-doors school
Every term, that is the rule
Sits alone and bends his cane
Same old backsides again
All the small ones tell tall tales
Walking home and squashing snails.

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.

Lots of girls and lots of boys
Lots of smells and lots of noise
Playing football in the park
Kicking pushbikes after dark
Baggy trousers, dirty shirt
Pulling hair and eating dirt
Teacher comes to break it up
Back of the ead with a plastic cup.

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.

Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers
Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers





Anuncio de Colgate de los años '80

En México también tuvimos una versión de este anuncio que decía más o menos así: "¿Con qué te vas a cepillar? Prueba Colgate Junior, prueba Colgate Junior", hahahaha.

A mí me encantaba por el homenaje a Madness, que si bien utilizaban como base la canción Baggy Trousers, la coreografía tan clásica de los británicos la habían copiado del video One Step Beyond, clásico entre los clásicos de Madness.