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December 9

Identify a song lyric: madness in groups, recover sanity individually

I saw a quote from Charles Mackay's book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

I seem to recall a rock song lyric that was essentially a paraphrase of that statement, but I can't remember what it is. (The artist that first comes to mind is Simon & Garfunkel, but I have no idea if that's accurate.) Does anyone remember a song like that? I think that the lyric in question might have come at the very end of the song. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:53, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

• Never mind, just as I was signing the prior message, I remembered it: "Men go crazy in congregations / But they only get better / One by one." It's from "All This Time" by Sting. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:55, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Lady Gaga's Bad Romance & Bach

Lady Gaga's song Bad Romance uses an introduction, sampling Johann Sebastian Bach's fugue in B minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier. But is also the song's hookline ("Rah rah ah-ah-ah! Ro mah ro-mah-mah! Gaga ooh-la-la!") based on a Bach piece? Some musical mashups made me think so, e.g. these Italian a cappella Singers, or those piano practitioners playing "Bad Romance based on a Bach fugue". But so far I failed to find out which Bach piece this is, if it is one?! --KnightMove (talk) 20:10, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

It doesn't sound Bach-like to me. It does sound kind of familiar, like some old disco thing or whatnot. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:58, 13 December 2018 (UTC)