This was a popular phrase from last year. (But I think that its message is pretty much timeless.)
My friends tell me that I should say it without the final -u (ーう) that you usually see in deshou. It gives it a more abrupt stop and sense of, I don't know, urgency maybe.
今でしょ！(Ima desho!!) = The time is now! Now's the time!
And another interpretation is "Right now." I liked these little clips. Homemade imitations of commercials.
And this one was pretty funny. I don't know why so many of these "Ima desho" videos have kids in them.
"When you gonna study?"
"We're studying now, man!"
The "right now" translations reminded me of this Van Hagar classic. Amazingly, it's now over twenty years old.
I really like a lot of the Van Halen catalogue, but this one was one of my least favorite of their singles. I'm listening to it now to see if I have a different reaction than I did back then, since that sort of thing can happen.
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