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a song so good your spine signs the contract before your brain reads it.

means A song that's catchy and enjoyable enough to make you want to move or dance to it.

from Born from American jazz slang of the mid-20th century, where 'bop' (and 'bebop') named a fast, syncopated style — the word itself an echo of the music's punchy rhythm, possibly imitating the sound of a struck note or a bouncing beat. The slang sense of 'bop' as a great song is a much later, looser descendant, still carrying that original bounce.

jazz roots
bebop birthed the term, then it got cooler
sealife alias
a bop is also a small jellyfish nudge
head verb
to bop is to nod like the beat owns you
no skips
true bops survive every shuffle, every era
for instance

be bop — jazz music movement pioneered by charlie parker and dizzy gillespie in 1940s new york

bop it — electronic handheld game by hasbro released in 1996 with twist, pull, and flick actions

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