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title: "What a Velma What a Night"

meaning: "Cartoon-funk confession: don't expect oratory: a brutish loser offers Velma a magic brownie while the hook keeps asking what a night, like the future might still happen."

year: 2017
release: "Finding $D"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/1RD1nblfKnDDT42FXZ0eZL"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/finding-%24d-remastered/1506552414"
bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/finding-d-lp"

themes: ["cartoon", "funk", "Velma", "Finding $D", "bedroom pop", "stoner"]

isrc: TCADN1849859
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I say what's ordinary
  Ordinarily
  So don't expect
  Some great long oratory
  History
  Like

  I'll tell you stories
  Of a druggy in frenzy
  So don't expect
  Some fun ole nighttime revelry
  Like I'm

  Oh I
  Oh what a
  Oh I
  Oh what a
  Oh I
  Oh what a night
  Like

  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Like

  The future

  I am a brutish man
  Who oughta kiss the aspalt
  I am a loser
  With my first upside my head

  Oh Velma
  Come and try a bit of this here brownie
  It gives you powers
  Right inside your pretty head

  Oh I
  Oh what a
  Oh I
  Oh what a
  Oh I
  Oh what a night
  Like

  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Like

  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Like

  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Oh
  What a night
  Like

  The future

draft: false

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Track one on [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/), the debut LP opener and one of its first two singles alongside *My Scoobert Snack* (instrumental; [Stereofox](https://www.stereofox.com/scoobert-doobert-my-scoobert-snack/), July 2017). Luke solo; [every song on the LP](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day. It reappears on [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/) as *What a Velma, What a Night (Quickie)*, a shorter collage cut on the 2018 lore-dump LP.

The song opens by swearing off grandeur (*don't expect some great long oratory*) and then breaks the promise, offering *stories of a druggy in frenzy*. The joke is the disclaimer; the song is the revelry it claimed it wouldn't deliver. Underneath the pop-funk chant, a self-roast doubles as a pickup line: a *brutish man* offering a brownie that *gives you powers right inside your pretty head*. The whole thing is bookended by one word, *the future*, left hanging like a thesis nobody finished.

The clownish frame buys the song permission to be sincere, weird, and rough at once ([*Finding $D* album essay](/albums/finding-d-remastered/)). Reddit's r/listentothis picked it up as pop/funk around the same era.

Pairs with [*My Meddling Kids (Hallelujah Sexy)*](/songs/my-meddling-kids-hallelujah-sexy/) on the debut, leading into the rest of the record before the lore dump on [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/) and the hip-hopera on [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/).

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