Template:Did you know nominations/My Mummy's Dead
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 20:03, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
My Mummy's Dead[edit]
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... that in "My Mummy's Dead," John Lennon used the tune of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" to achieve a chilling effect?
Created/expanded by Rlendog (talk). Self nom at 21:14, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
- Just in case, I moved the nomination to December 16, the day that the redirect become an article (again), just one day after the article became a redirect. I don't know whether it should be December 17, the start of expansion. --George Ho (talk) 21:27, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
- Reviewed Schlosskirche (Königsberg) Rlendog (talk) 21:31, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:54, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
5x expansion verified (starting on December 16). Long enough, well-written, well-referenced. However, I don't see the connection between the "Three Blind Mice" tune and the "chilling effect" directly stated (and referenced) in the article. The only statements that mention "chilling" talk about the "blankness of John's delivery" and how the song is "capturing the essence of psychological pain and intimating at its persistence". Yoninah (talk) 21:05, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
- Rereading the Du Noyer quote the link is not as explicit as I thought, though I may have gotten that from a quote I didn't use in the article. In any case, it may be better avoid the implication of causation by rewording the hook as:
- ALT1: ... that in "My Mummy's Dead", John Lennon used the tune of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" and achieved a chilling effect?
