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.
Every hood cookout plays this song at least once and it’s usually at the end, once the older people and the children go home. This is how babies are born. When this song comes on, people literally drop their drink, their plates, put away their phones and GO IN on the dance floor. You might feel a little embarrassed after this song goes off, you might have on a couple fewer articles of clothing and probably didnt even get their name..
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.
Strike match, light fire, who’s that girl called Maya? M.I.A.’s coming back with POWER POWER!! M.I.A.’s coming back with POWER POWER!! M.I.A.’s coming back with POWER POWER!!
I double dog dare you to listening to this song and not bop your head and wild-out…you can’t. That’s why this is one of my “Hype Songs.” Now dance…DANCE, I SAID.
This song hits you like *POW!* I first heard it on Grey’s Anatomy, it was the opener with a scene over the Sound, it was the same episode that Street Lights was in. The entire episode is embedded in my head because of how ON-POINT their music was. It was Little Grey spills her guts, Karev does a solo surgery….»»»»
When I play this song in my house, I almost always have a broom in my hand..and you know what that means. Private concert for the furniture.
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.
There are so many different versions of the song Calabria song , it became a riddim. “Boomp boomp went you don’t coming around, I know you’re the talk of the town”: I’ve heard it with Natasja, Danny Punto Rojo, MIMS, Pitbull, Mashal Montall, my friend Jo even mixed a Vybz Kartel version that made it to the net too. Then there’s the Alex Gaudino “Destination Unknown” house track (with a classic European -style video, where the artist isn’t and model just dance). I have a playlist with all Calabria songs because they’re all a little different I first heard one of the songs when I was on school trip in Spain, it was playing in Club Pacha Barcelona. Then I just kept finding more and more, even the Natasja, the singer, died in a car crash back in 2007/8
This is one of the sexiest songs I ever heard in my life. I mean, flustered, blushing, half-horny and everything. When I first heard it my friend said, “just listen,” and I’m going to tell you the same thing. Listening to the words, Taina killed on this one. The chorus is ”You fucking me makes me Bilingual”: ‘nuf said…..
The only aphrodisiac I need is your voice
Hearing you speak my name
Beckoning me to answer
Telling me you want me
So I tell you that you’re the answer to every question I’ve ever had about love Read more…
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.
This song is one of my “hype songs of the moment,” I heard it on 90210 a couple weeks back and had to look it up. (Same thing with Cobra Starship’s “Hot Mess”) After I heard it once or I realized I heard i all over the place: on like 3 car commercials, CNN Morning news, CW news…its hott! Its one of those dance-around-the-house-when-no-one-else-is-there kind of song.
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