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TV On The Radio's Jaleel Bunton - Will Do
电视电台乐队鼓手杰里·邦顿 (Jaleel Bunton) 教唱歌曲“Will Do”

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• catchy
• howdy
• acquiescence
• repercussions

• soul
• jazz
• will do
• obedient

• order

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TV On The Radio breaks all the rules. They are a rock band that also uses electronic sounds and elements of soul and jazz. You never know what they will do next.

So TV On The Radio fans must have been surprised to see a song called “Will Do” on the band’s new album, Nine Types of Light. “Will do” is a phrase associated with obedience. You say it when you accept an order. In the song, the speaker is saying he will submit to his love. The chorus, “Anytime will do,” means, “Anytime is OK.” If you add “will do” to the end of a sentence, it means whatever you’re talking about will be good enough. But on its own, saying “will do” means, “Yes, I will do that.”

We recently found TV on the Radio drummer Jaleel Bunton out at a bar in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives. We asked him to tell us a little bit more about this song and this phrase, and he said, “Will do!”

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jason

Jaleel

Jason:  Welcome to English, baby! I am Jason, here with Jaleel, the drummer for TV On The Radio.

Jaleel:  Howdy.

Jason:  I was hoping you could teach us an English phrase today, and one of your song titles on your most recent album is “Will Do.” Can you tell us about that song?

Jaleel:  That is a catchy phrase. The song is about acquiescence, right? It’s about agreeing to anything no matter what the circumstances or what the repercussions. If I say something, you say, “Will do.”

Jason:  OK.

Jaleel:  If I said, “You wanna come over and we’ll go out and get some pizza pie?”, you’d be like, “Will do!” And then you come on over, and we go and get some pizza pie, and it’s a good time.

Jason:  Alright. So it’s basically something you say when you agree to something.

Jaleel:  Sure.

Jason:  When you agree to do something, specifically.

Jaleel:  Yeah, when you agree to do something.

Jaleel:  English, baby!

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