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Related: "na-na na-na na-na"

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/na-na_na-na_na-na

I always wondered if anyone else noticed, how the Jackson 5 smuggled it into ABC.

https://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U?t=01m24s

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Have you heard it in Queen's "We are the champions"?

"No time for losers, for we are the Champions" ... etc

Queen has to be one of the winners in terms of shortness of the message required, you can probably get by with just a STOMP-STOMP

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I noticed that and asked a friend, and they didn't see it. To me, when you consider both how it sounds and the theme of the song, it has to be intentional.

In French it's "na-na na-na nère"

“Batman!”

No, Batman is an ostinative "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na". Completely different from the melodic "na-na na-na na-na".

What we really need is a "na na" railroad diagram [0]

  (na na)+ [two bits|Batman!|(hey ){3} goodbye]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram

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