There are really too many oddities to count,but let me try, you tell me if I missed any. Just the motley crue of characters makes the set up ridiculous on its own: some cowboy and cowgirls, futuristic turtleneck-wearing, flower pot hat musicians, a live-action mannequin and a matronly lady. What’s up with the log cabin and the hay, it’s so obviously a sound stage. The cross-eyed Asian woman trying to shoot a beer can out of a guy’s hand is hilarious, probably a little because that kind of joke totally wouldn’t fly with in today’s ultra politically correct society. (Americans don’t even use the word fat anymore.) The subtitles are funny too, all #TWSS- worthy. One says, “ride’em cowboy” and the older lady holds a big bowl of white cream and says “come and get it.” That says enough. The video ends with the drummer, who has been playing with only one drumstick the entire time, runs off the set like there’s a fire, for no reason. Odd.
Just hearing this song makes me want to watch Krush Groove and start break-dancing.
Boy oh boy was fashion crazy in the 80s, they look like a cross between a Psychedelic Village People and the 80s Hood Clingons from a galaxy far far away. I think my mother was in this concert.
When I was writing last week’s hype post it made me think of this song, but like with the Slick Rick’s “Mona Lisa,” the intro is the best part and that’s something you can’t find with video. So play the audio, PLAY I SAID!!
“…Now wait a minute y’all, this dance ain’t for everybody, only this sexy people. So all you fly mothers get on there and dance…DANCE I SAID!!…”
This concert/video is a classic: the hair, the low-impact dance moves, the clothes, the cinematography: I’m five years old all over again.
M.I.A.’s “Bamboo Banga” made me think of Salt N Pepa because they’re both upbeat songs. I know M.I.A.’s a fan, listen to this version of the song Sunshowers. This is an earlier version than the Arular Album, it’s from Piracy Funds Terrorism, EP, produced in-part by Diplo.
I looked high and low for a video for Mona Lisa with no success. Apparently Slick Rick the Ruler was too busy ordering around his minions and managing his bling game. Youtube has the song with a still image of dude’s face, which I would have put up, but none of them have the hilarious intro at the beginning. In my opinion, that sets the tone.
After we get over the initial chuckling over the self-pleasure reference in the title/hook, you can do the I’m-in-the-house-and -I-don’t-care-how-I-look dance. I already love anything 80s, and this song can play round round, like a record baby, right round round round… While I make an attempt at house-cleaning (Molly Ringwald dance, of course). There’s really good imagery in this video too.
Another one of my “Hype Songs of Moment” when this track comes on, I feel like Michael J. Fox, I just can’t stop moving.. Shoutout to my twitter homie, fellow New Yorker, @MCiscart for putting me on to this song. I adopted this track as my morning leaving-the-house theme music..as well as the get-hype song wherever I am. This is back in a time in music when old genres were fading and new ones were being created. MC called it “disco hip-hop,” I think it’s just Hip-Hop from a time when it was more about dance at house party rather than blinging-it-up at the club.
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