On the right tracks
I just wanted to praise Richard Porter for his over-analysis of song lyrics (column, evo 312). I laughed out loud!
As it happens, the lyrics for Feeder’s ‘Buck Rogers’ were meant to be a temporary placeholder whilst they were working the song out – but the label then insisted the band used the song with those words unchanged, much to their chagrin. So the ‘brand new car’ is probably only ‘like a Jaguar’ because it rhymes.
As for Rihanna, I believe she still keeps her old Mk3 Suzuki Jimny in her native Barbados; maybe that’d do the ‘zero to sixty in 3.5’ that she mentions in