Soulja Boy and Smooth Jazz: Two Great Tastes that OMG MY EARS ARE BLEEDING
Two things:
1) Even though Kanye apparently has Soulja Boy's back and I can't seem to get behind Ice-T's old man-style get-off-my-lawn posturing in this whole "Crank That" is/is not the Hip Hop Apocalypse debate,* I can say the teenage rapper's YouTube-fueled smash is one of my least favorite popular songs of the last decade.
2) Maybe it's because it gives me flashbacks to dentist-related trauma or maybe it's because being trapped in an elevator is one of my worst fears, but, regardless, it's difficult for me to listen to smooth jazz for any length of time without totally flipping out. I have a music allergy to smooth jazz.
Taking these things into consideration, you'll imagine my joy when this morning I discovered this unholy smooth jazz version of Soulja Boy's "Crank That," which is easily one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard.
It comes from the Hidden Beach Unwrapped series, which is a collection of albums apparently dedicated to sucking all the joy out of any rap song that might have appeared on one of the Now That's What I Call Music compilations.
Now, I have nothing against the Hidden Beach label; they've released some excellent Jill Scott records and I'm thankful for that. No amount of Jill Scott, though, will allow me to unhear that slick, sickly sanitized Soulja Boy cover.
What are your musical allergies? What songs or styles make you go N-V-T-S nuts? Is this Kids Rap'n The Hits version of "Crank That" any less awful? Am I just being cranky on a Monday morning? Will this string of questions ever end?
-- Jeff Reguilon
* Not to be confused with the Hiphopapotomus vs. Rhymenoceros debate
hapa monkey on June 24, 2008 at 12:35 AM
Some of you may have heard the break out dance hit by Soulja Boy, "Crank Dat" (btw, "Superman dat hoe" means when a guy sprays his "wintery spirits" on a girls back and sticks a sheet to it making it look like a Superman cape). Well, local boyz from Hawaii, Ryan Higa & Sean Fujiyoshi came up with their own dance favorite, "Yank Dat Cameltoe". Check it out on youtube.com. Seems both songs have their own "special" merits.
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008
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