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Move

This page ought to be moved to Word Up! (Melanie B). There are other versions: Word Up! Word Up! (Korn)

Word Up! is about the Cameo album. This article should be expanded to include the Cameo version of the song, and the Korn version should be merged here. Articles about songs should be about all versions of the song, other versions should not be given their own articles. — AnemoneProjectors (talk) 22:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gun version

Shouldn't Gun's 1994 cover of this song be mentioned more prominently here? The single was a top 10 hit in the UK and a big hit in many other countries, and their version is probably better known than any other version bar Cameo's original. 217.155.20.163 01:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely pathetic that Gun's version isn't given more prominence. It was Top Ten in the UK in the 1990s, but it's only given ONE line! What's with Mel B's multiple mixes getting all the limelight? It only had a brief flirtation with the Top Twenty before dropping like a stone. There's even more about that than there is about Cameo's original version! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.49.141.100 (talk) 04:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Truck Commercial

Who did the one used in the truck commercial? 76.126.29.36 (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KoRn

The KoRn version sounds identical to the original. 169.233.59.119 (talk) 18:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Origins and meaning of the phrase "word up"

Someone please add section about the origins and meaning of the phrase "word up". Karl gregory jones (talk) 01:51, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additional version

A lesser-known version of the song can be found on Rich Hopkins & Friends' LP "Los Monstros del Tucson Rock" (San Jacinto Records, 2004), with Greg the homeless guy on bass & vocals. Bgungle (talk) 01:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Exclamation Point

Actually, only the album is called "Word Up!" The song is just "Word Up", no exclamation point. Here's the single's label and here's the album's back cover. Accordingly, I am editing and moving this.—Chowbok ☠ 20:48, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the edit is incorrect: the single is calles "word up!" with an exclamation mark, see front and rear cover of the single. you have conveniently taken a dutch pressing and the back insert of the album cd release, while ignoring the original release.

front cover: [1] back cover: [2] - esse quam videri - to be rather than to seem (talk) 01:31, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's the label that determines the song title, not the sleeve. I didn't realize the image was of the Dutch label (and was the "conveniently" really necessary? Way to AGF), but here's the American: [3].—Chowbok ☠ 01:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

cheers. it's the cover that determines the song title, however -- i shall add further sources from printed media once i dig them out. - esse quam videri - to be rather than to seem (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Verse melody

Consider the origins of the verse melody Double_Dutch_Bus

http://www.whosampled.com/Frankie-Smith/Double-Dutch-Bus/ Meloday starts at ~ 0:014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.194.165.41 (talk) 15:07, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use of notable cover version single cover

Since the images, File:GunWordUp.jpg, File:Wordupcover.jpg, and File:Word_Up!.jpg have been removed by one editor citing WP:NFCC and reverted by three other editors also citing WP:NFCC, I am starting a discussion here so that the images is not deleted simply for being orphaned.

The single covers for the Gun, Melanie B and Korn cover versions pass the points of WP:NFCC. WP:NFCC#3 is met because the single covers is used for identification its respective versions and Cameo single cover cannot convey equivalent significant information and/or identification of the cover versions. WP:NFCC#8 is met because the single covers are used for identification and the images increas readers' understanding and not having them would be detrimental to the understanding of the cover versions. The single covers passes the first example of acceptable use of fair images at WP:NFCI: "Cover art: Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary)."

The current consensus for single covers in section infoboxes to represent notable cover versions are that they pass WP:NFCC and WP:NFCI. Since WP:SONGCOVER says notable cover versions should be covered in the article about the song and not have its own article, but if they had their own articles, the images would be acceptable there, so they are acceptable in the sections of the song article. The single covers are not alternate covers for Cameo cover, it is the primary cover for the cover versions and should be treated as such. If it is felt that the images should still be removed than the images should be taken to Wikipedia:Files for deletion instead of simply removed from the article. Aspects (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP: They are single art covers for notable cover versions.--SuperHotWiki (talk) 00:36, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Word Up! → Word Up! (album) and recreate Word Up! as a redirect to the disambiguation page at Word Up. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Word Up! (song) → Word Up!
Word Up! → Word Up! (album)

– Like ...Baby One More Time, Blurred Lines and Oops!... I Did It Again, this is one of those cases where the song's more notable than the album. Unreal7 (talk) 16:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment compare Word Up! (magazine) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.175.135 (talk) 20:23, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Defunct magazine. Unreal7 (talk) 22:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - note Talk page and article page have got separated (song)/(funk song). This seems borderline - Word Up! Greatest Hits – Live Word Up! (album) Word Up! (song) wouldn't suffer from being clearly titled. Cameo also didn't coin the phrase "Word Up"; it was already in use, as example title of Legacy (soul group) single four years earlier. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Alternate Word Up! should redirect to the disambiguation page Word Up, the album should be moved as proposed, but the song should not be moved as proposed. -- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 04:47, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Alternate proposal = Word Up! should redirect to the disambiguation page Word Up listing Word Up! (album) Word Up! (song). In ictu oculi (talk) 04:50, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support The magazine is no contest; the song certainly seems primary topic. --BDD (talk) 20:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move section to a new page

I don't know if it would be a good idea, but I thought about moving the section of the Little Mix version into a new article. I don't know how it would be named maybe just "Word Up! (Little Mix song)" but since it's not their song I'm not sure about it. I have moved the section to my sandbox to preview it and it looks pretty good. Here is the preview.

Dimitris talk 21:24, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]