What song is playing on this annoying kid toy?
June 8, 2015 7:52 PM   Subscribe

Toddler Mouse's great-grandparents gave him a toy that loudly plays music when a button is pressed. Can anyone make out the lyrics or identify the song?

The plastic toy looks like a soccer ball encased in a spherical orange cage. When a button a pressed, it lights up, shakes, and LOUDLY plays the same few-second loop over and over. We can't make out the lyrics but it sort of sounds like it could be a clip from a real song. Toddler Mouse of course loves this toy, so the grown-ups in the house are hoping it will become slightly less irritating to us if we can replace the gibberish we're hearing with actual words (long shot, I know).

And no, we don't know why the great-grandparents apparently hate us.
posted by mouse noises to Media & Arts (6 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
This is an absolute crack guess, but I swear to god that's Toybox -- Best Friend.
posted by Hermione Granger at 8:02 PM on June 8, 2015


Huh, it almost sounds like an Aqua song. Reminds me of this.

Child survival protip: if you've got some playdoh sitting around you can rub it into the sound holes to dampen out the racket.
posted by phunniemee at 8:02 PM on June 8, 2015 [11 favorites]


It looks like it's a Self-Bouncing Fusion Ball by Lanard, if that helps in the search.
posted by Dragonness at 9:27 PM on June 8, 2015


Best answer: Hermione Granger I think you've hit the nail on the head with the artist, but I'm pretty sure the song is "Toy Box - Tarzan & Jane".

I've listened to this song enough times in high school to recognize the identifying lyrics "I will take you for a swing."

It's a weirdly awesome song, hope it helps with tolerating the toy.
posted by blueberrypuffin at 10:20 PM on June 8, 2015 [4 favorites]


I'm just happy to live in a world where there's enough room for more than one Scandinavian bubblegum dance pop group.
posted by phunniemee at 7:25 AM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: Thanks, blueberrypuffin, I can totally hear the "come baby come I will take you for a swing," though I'm still having trouble making out the other lyric (the one I'm assuming is sung by "Jane"). Off to try to match that one up but at least now I have the lyrics and music on hand!

And oh hey, look at all this playdoh we have around here...
posted by mouse noises at 9:30 PM on June 12, 2015


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