SWOD (Song of the Day/Word of the Day) #12 – Fatidic

Today’s Word

Fatidic - Prophetic

Fatidic (adj) : Prophetic

Musical Example:

Okay, let’s get the first order of business handled. The word is pronounced fuh-TID-ik. So, yeah, it is not what you are all thinking. Yet, still, I believe it is now my favorite word. Next time you want to mention that your friend made a rather prophetic statement when he foretold that you were going to procrastinate, instead say that it was a fatidic statement. Then, watch them get reasonably confused. Well, they should have read the blog.

Anyway, on to a musical example of the word fatidic. Denny Zagar and Rick Evans may have only had one hit song; but man was it a fatidic song. “In the Year 2525” was one-hit-wonder that warned people of the dangers of technology, spent six weeks as the #1 song on the Pop Chart in 1969. Well, maybe Zagar and Evans were on to something.

“You’ll pick your son
pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
In the year seventyfiveten
If God’s a-coming he oughta make it by then”

We may not have to wait that long before selective breeding in humans is popular!?!

Fun Fact: The song was #1 when perhaps the greatest technological achievement of all time happened July 20, 1969. The Moon Landing.

In the year 1969 when people can fly.