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"Nature" is a 1969 single by New Zealand band The Fourmyula. The song peaked at number one in the New Zealand singles chart in 1970, won the APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award the same year, and in 2001 was voted the top song in APRA New Zealand's Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time .
The lyrics of the song relate to a 1940s Los Angeles–based group called "Nature Boys", a subculture of proto-hippies of which Ahbez was a member. [2] "Nature Boy" was released during the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) ban of 1948.
The lyrics were written by a young Lene Lovich, though she was not credited. [2] The song features an environmental theme, imagining a future where the use of artificial chemicals in agriculture has caused "creatures down below" to emerge and "take their sweet revenge" against mankind. The lyrics were inspired by The Island of Dr. Moreau. [5]
Jones then brought in songwriter John Bettis to rewrite the verses, whose lyrics are about a passerby in New York City. [8] The song would ultimately replace the track "Carousel", which had been already recorded for Thriller. [9] "Human Nature" was released as a single on July 4, 1983.
Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan later released versions of the song. Ahbez faced legal action from a Yiddish music composer, Herman Yablokoff, [14] who claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from one of his songs, "Shvayg mayn harts" ("Be Still My Heart"). Ahbez claimed to have "heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains".
The song would later appear on both of the group's compilation albums, 1999's Nature's Finest: Naughty by Nature's Greatest Hits and 2003's Greatest Hits: Naughty's Nicest. It was rerecorded for the 2011 release, Anthem Inc. The song's chorus is derived from Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry". [1] [2]
"O.P.P." is a song by American hip hop group Naughty by Nature, released in August 1991 by Tommy Boy as the lead single from the group's self-titled second album (1991). It was one of the first rap songs to become a pop hit when it reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart .
"V.A.N" (an acronym for "Violence Against Nature") [1] is a song produced by American band Bad Omens and sung by American singer Poppy from the band's reissue album Concrete Jungle [The OST] (2024). It was released by Sumerian Records on January 25, 2024, as the lead single from the album.