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Upon careful listening of Nat King Cole’s hit song “L-O-V-E,” melomaniacs have announced that “V is very, very extraordinary” is a really lazily written lyric when you think about it.
“He’s had us all fooled for ages because of that clever acrostic setup,” exclaimed audiophile Alex Story after listening to the hit single. “But the jig is up. You’re trying to tell me V for Very was really the best thing he could come up with?”
“Look at how he’s not even ashamed about using the word. It’s literally in the lyric twice,” continued Story, noting that by Cole’s logic, the lyric could have just as easily been ‘Very Very Bad.’ “I don’t know why he couldn’t have checked a dictionary just once to use literally any other word, because I’m pretty sure those existed in the 1960s.”
“He’s lucky that no one really remembers past the letter O anyways,” concluded Story spitefully, recalling how the words valuable, vibrant, vivid, vivacious, vital, venerable could have also worked in the song. “He’s such a copout.”
At press time, Billboard’s number one hit pop song had the same chord progression as the other nine songs in their top 10 ranking.
