This kind of neologistic wordplay is considered by psychologists to be indicative of psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia, or a sign of a severe brain injury. Since rock ’n’ roll performance is both celebration and playacting of irrational, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, and other “crazy” behavior (James Brown’s “I’ll Go Crazy,” Buddy Guy’s “Crazy Love,” the Shirelles’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”), this mimicry of mental illness/military linguistics is no coincidence.
