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the heartbeat the universe stole and put inside a kick drum
means To strike repeatedly, to defeat someone, or the steady pulse of rhythm in music — and as an adjective, utterly exhausted.
from From Old English 'bēatan,' to strike or pound, with cousins across the old Germanic tongues. The word stayed close to its fists for centuries — you beat a drum, beat an enemy, beat eggs — before drifting into rhythm and pulse, the regular thump of one thing hitting another over and over. The 'exhausted' sense (utterly 'beat') is a much later, informal stretch — as if life itself had been doing the striking.
- first instrument
- Percussion predates melody by tens of thousands of years
- police origin
- A cop's 'beat' meant the route walked on patrol
- tempo limit
- Brains struggle to dance past 200 beats per minute
- beatnik root
- The 1950s movement borrowed the word from jazz slang
- silent power
- A dropped beat hits harder than the note itself
beat generation — literary movement of 1950s america led by jack kerouac, allen ginsberg, and william s. burroughs
the beat — famous drum pattern in motown records productions, created by the funk brothers in detroit
beat bobby brown — r&b artist whose 1988 album "don't be cruel" popularized the new jack swing beat