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| Format = 7" vinyl | Label = Warner Bros. | Length = 2:37 | Released = August 13, 1980 | Writer = | Producer = Robert Margouleff | Certification = Gold (Canada, US) | Last single = "Girl U Want" (1980) | This single = "Whip It" (1980) | Next single = "Gates of Steel" (1980) | Misc = }} "Whip It" is a 1980 single by the American new wave band Devo. It appears on the album ''Freedom of Choice''. There were two 7" single releases of "Whip It", one backed with a remix of the track "Snowball" (which appears on ''Freedom of Choice'') and one backed with "Turn Around" (a song later covered by Nirvana). "Whip It" was Devo's biggest hit, peaking at no. 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, no. 11 on the Canadian Singles chart, and no. 77 on the Australian Singles chart.〔 It is ranked number 62 on VH1's ''100 Greatest Songs of the '80s'' as well as number 15 on the same channel's ''100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s''. ==Composition== "Whip It" is built on a motorik beat, similar to tracks by Neu!. The lead instrument is a Minimoog synthesizer. The bass is performed with a custom six oscillator synthesizer, custom made by Moog Music for Devo. The whip sound was made with an EML ElectroComp 500 synthesizer. On an episode of the VH1 show TrueSpin, Gerald Casale revealed that the lead guitar riff from "Whip It" is based on the riff from "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison with the beat moved to the back. Gerald Casale states that the lyrics were written by him "as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in his book ''Gravity's Rainbow''."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=722 )〕 The lyrics evoke a working class desire to pull oneself up and to overcome adversity. The song has violent undertones, and Devo has often described it as about then-President Jimmy Carter, as Mothersbaugh describes in an interview on ''To the Best of Our Knowledge''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whip It (Devo song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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