I have a song in my head and the internet is failing me.
The line I remember is something very similar to "I'm gonna be a movie star, gonna drive around in a fancy car"
I've made an approximate rendering of the tune here, although it doesn't make sense from a music theory perspective so one or both of the higher notes might be a semitone off.
I remember first hearing this song in childhood (so sometime between 1980 and 1990, although it's possible it's older). I remember the singer as being female. It may have been a song in a cartoon.
I have a vague impression that it's from Jem and the Holograms, but none of the titles on Wikipedia's list of songs from Jem and the Holograms match this song.
It is not "Drive my Car" by The Beatles or "I’m Stoned in Love with You" by The Stylistics (or any cover thereof).
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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Least important thing, but not: "although it doesn't make sense from a music theory perspective so one or both of the higher notes might be a semitone off."
You can do this? You know this? You have talents unknown to your readers!
In music theory, I memorized which note belong in which scales/keys. So when I was creating the melody in the online piano thing, I could see with my eyes that one of the notes didn't belong in that key.
But when I adjusted it to the note that does belong in that key, it didn't sound to my ears the same as the melody in my head. So something, somewhere, is likely a semitone off.
Analogy: You're looking through a document or a database or something and you see the name "Bavid". Your first thought is that seems like a typo of "David". But you see no evidence of a David anywhere else in the document or the database or your research, and the only evidence you have for it being a typo is that the letter B doesn't normally go there.
Hmm. Everyone who spends a lot of time reading and speaking English will know that Bavid is likely a typo for David, especially if it's an anglo type of name. But not everyone who listens to music would be able to recognize that a note is off in a written score. Still looks like a hidden talent to me.
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