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Helicopter” is a trap pop EDM Powerhouse song with an addictive hook that is completely in English. The song plays on the themes of curiosity and adventure by telling listeners to “fly even higher than before” on a metaphorical helicopter.
The song was immediately prohibited from being played on RTÉ stations [1] or was severely restricted, [2] sources vary. Despite that, the song sold 12,000 single records in the first week of release, taking it to the number one position in the Irish Singles Chart on 22 November 1973, and held that position for four weeks, [1] until it was replaced by Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.
The song's satirical music video, [12] directed by Vaughan Arnell and filmed on 4 June 1998, features a police helicopter hovering over Los Angeles and shadowing various people, both gay and straight, kissing, having sex or engaging in foreplay, all in public.
Derisive term for a police force predominantly full of racist white officers; British-English in origin. Woodentop Uniformed police officer. Derisory term used by British plain-clothes detectives. Woody A plastic police officer. Derisive term used for British police. Wout Dutch slang for police, meaning authority.
"Helicopter" is an indie rock [2] [3] and garage rock [4] song, written by all band members prior to their debut studio album, Silent Alarm. Composed in B minor, it was written in common time and has a quick tempo of 171 beats per minute. [5] The main riff was adapted from "Set The House Ablaze", a song by The Jam featured on the 1980 album ...
A truck driver caught by a police officer for speeding or another safety infraction. Evel Knievel: Police officer on a motorcycle (refers to the popular motorcycle stuntman). Eye in the sky Police aircraft, airplane or helicopter. Flying doughnut A police helicopter. Fox in the hen house/Smokey in a plain wrapper An unmarked police vehicle.
The song is approximately one minute, 46 seconds in length, beginning with 24 seconds of a helicopter sound effect, followed by the schoolmaster shouting, "You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!" performed by Roger Waters. Waters's lead vocal is treated with a reverse echo. The song features an electric guitar with an added delay effect and an ...
Zenyatta Mondatta also saw the band's lyrics turning towards political events, with Sting's "Driven to Tears" commenting on poverty and Copeland's "Bombs Away" referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. [8] [10] These themes became more prevalent on the Police's next album, Ghost in the Machine.