Can you tell me what “Sussudio” means?
Evidently a few fans ended up naming their daughters Sussudio. Phil Collins apologizes for that.
It doesn’t mean anything, Collins was just making up words to go along with a rhythm track, and that is what he came up with that fit. He was planning to find a real word to replace it, but ended up just keeping that lyric.
David Byrne told a similar story about the Talking Heads album “Speaking in Tongues”, saying he just made up nonsense words to the songs at first, and later replaced them with real words that fit.
I watched an interview where Phil Collins said that the word means nothing, it was just a vocalization he liked the sound of, and so he used it in the song.
My memory may be wrong, but there it is.
As soon as someone tells me what "Abacab" means.
No, but I changed the word in my own version to "Estupido" and changed the chorus to:
Just say a word....ohhhhhh
Estu-stu-stupidohhhh.
Never was that impressed with Phil Collins.