Now with me saying nice(-ish) things about V.I.C.!
Specifically, "Wobble"
I)The video's dedicated to Cab Calloway. It's a classy touch (since they bite his style the WHOLE TIME), and also, it's nice to see ANYONE in contemporary music making any mention of anyone who made music before 1955.
II)I don't know how much V.I.C. does in the production room (although I cannot imagine him having all that much to do with the 3-man "Package Store" production team), but in the video, he does almost nothing. In the Collipark mode, there's a multi-part hook that accounts for most of the actual song. Introductory pre-song skit aside, V.I.C. is like the 4th person you see. It's almost as if he's smugly emphasizing his novelty status.
III)Is this the first time the word "vibrator" has appeared in a song on 106 & Park? 'Cause it's pretty awesome.
ALSO: the reaction of the Livest Audience to Robin Thicke (Alan Thicke's son, he looks like this [for the record]) is BLOWING MY MIND. He's looks (and, to a great extent sounds) like the second coming of Barry Manilow. And they (=mostly girls in the front) are EATING THIS SHIT UP.
SLIGHTLY RACIST FOLLOW-UP ESSAY PROMPT: Compare and contrast Robin Thicke and Barack Obama, placing special emphasis on transcending racial animus and cheekbones.
UPDATE: Now Terence J and Roxie are comparing Alan Thicke to Barack Obama themselves!
[BONUS ADD VIDEO:
Cab Calloway + Betty Boop = FUCKING AWESOME. Props to my dad for playing shit like this for us when we were kids.]
Showing posts with label 106 and Park. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I <3 This Video
And it's even a T-Pain song! [Embedding disabled by request (but seriously, watch it)]
My favorite parts (OMG SPOILERZ!): "Welcome to WISCANSIN" and the pantomime bear with a top-hat.
There's a really excellent air of whimsy here, which I REALLY appreciate, especially in hip-hop videos. Despite the fact that there is just as much weed being smoked in your average rapper's abode as in your average rock band's—if not more—the videos tend to be relatively formulaic, at least in comparison to rock videos. (Which is not to say rock videos aren't formulaic; cars, girls, and [artificial-]wind-swept performances are now wholly cliché, largely thanks to the '80s. But it is precisely because rock videos had the 80s, in all their leather-clad overabundance, that such formulas have had the time and exposure to become cliché in the first place. The format's been given time to breathe a bit, I suppose.) This could be because of the smaller corpus, but I suspect at least as much credit has to be placed on the lack of wide-scale involvement in hip-hop videos by over-moneyed white boys with film degrees. I would point to Sabotage by the Beastie Boys as an example of what could have been.
I suppose some consideration could be given to the possibility, over time, of the more marginalized "indie" rap genres coming to prominence as a percentage of the overall cultural share of "hip-hop," in a way comparable to the progress made by "indie" music over the years. But I have to go pay rent now.
[BONUS ADD EMBED:
Pantomime Horses! It's a cold world.]
My favorite parts (OMG SPOILERZ!): "Welcome to WISCANSIN" and the pantomime bear with a top-hat.
There's a really excellent air of whimsy here, which I REALLY appreciate, especially in hip-hop videos. Despite the fact that there is just as much weed being smoked in your average rapper's abode as in your average rock band's—if not more—the videos tend to be relatively formulaic, at least in comparison to rock videos. (Which is not to say rock videos aren't formulaic; cars, girls, and [artificial-]wind-swept performances are now wholly cliché, largely thanks to the '80s. But it is precisely because rock videos had the 80s, in all their leather-clad overabundance, that such formulas have had the time and exposure to become cliché in the first place. The format's been given time to breathe a bit, I suppose.) This could be because of the smaller corpus, but I suspect at least as much credit has to be placed on the lack of wide-scale involvement in hip-hop videos by over-moneyed white boys with film degrees. I would point to Sabotage by the Beastie Boys as an example of what could have been.
I suppose some consideration could be given to the possibility, over time, of the more marginalized "indie" rap genres coming to prominence as a percentage of the overall cultural share of "hip-hop," in a way comparable to the progress made by "indie" music over the years. But I have to go pay rent now.
[BONUS ADD EMBED:
Pantomime Horses! It's a cold world.]
Monday, August 25, 2008
Addendum:
Kim Kardashian just said that this year she wanted to "do things that make [her] uncomfortable" and "step out of [her] box."
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Buttsecks?
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Buttsecks?
The Dream Is The New T-Pain
"Feat." in the Number 7 AND Number 6 videos on today's 106 & Park? GTFO.
Where ARE you, Nate Dogg? Truly, the world mourns for thee. Please, come back and Regulate all over these inferior fools who have welled up in your absence like feudal states after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Where ARE you, Nate Dogg? Truly, the world mourns for thee. Please, come back and Regulate all over these inferior fools who have welled up in your absence like feudal states after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Glorious Return of 106 & Parkblogging
Nothing specific, really, I'm just charmed by this one. The homage to this Nike commercial from a few years ago is cute, and the video is chock-a-block full of the hypercolorful clothing that's sweeping "the streets" as of late, which I simply adore/covet (in particular, scope what Andre 1500 is wearing.)
In other news, I still kinda hate The-Dream. I just saw that his album is named LoveHate. Seriously.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Is It Just Me...
...or does 50 look really gay in this video? Maybe I just have Hiding in Hip Hop on my mind, but certainly the highly-toned black men in high-fashion military-inspired garb—not to mention 50's jaunty little chapeau—aren't helping.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
I only talk about T-Pain
Apparently.
Anyway: T-Pain revealed on 106 & Park today that he has a moustache tattooed on the inside of his index finger, for the purpose of holding it up to his upper lip. I can't honestly say whether this makes me like him more or less.
He also out-shouted fingerstash.com, which he claimed was some sort of networking site for finger-stache enthusiasts. Or something. As of right now, it's a brief green logo(?), and then a redirect to a "page does not exist on this server" message.
This is as mysterious as it is silly and ultimately pointless. God bless you, 106 & Park.
Bonus ridiculous: watching various teams of either slightly-too-lanky or slightly-too-chunky high school dancers compete to music videos.
Anyway: T-Pain revealed on 106 & Park today that he has a moustache tattooed on the inside of his index finger, for the purpose of holding it up to his upper lip. I can't honestly say whether this makes me like him more or less.
He also out-shouted fingerstash.com, which he claimed was some sort of networking site for finger-stache enthusiasts. Or something. As of right now, it's a brief green logo(?), and then a redirect to a "page does not exist on this server" message.
This is as mysterious as it is silly and ultimately pointless. God bless you, 106 & Park.
Bonus ridiculous: watching various teams of either slightly-too-lanky or slightly-too-chunky high school dancers compete to music videos.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
106 & Parkblogging
It's on right when I get home from work. It's hilarious and depressing. And the best part is that the music videos AND the hosts interaction with the audience/the guests/each other are BOTH hilarious and depressing in equal measure.
Anyway: I just watched Terrence the Male VJ give Tracy Morgan a pound for not having to pay child support. And then they played the video for "Too Silly" by V.I.C., the latest terribly-rapping, silly-dance-relying-upon, bar-lowering nonsense consort of Soulja Boy. Apparently he, V.I.C., and Hurricane Chris (? I heard of him in like...Rolling Stone? or something? I don't know his song) are all on the same record label, according to the random older black man who did the shout-outy bit at the end of this "Too Silly" song. Now I know who to blame.
And then after that video, Tracy Morgan gave the least enthusiastic talk-up EVER for Superhero Movie. He definitely said something very close to, "The paycheck was good." Yeah. And then Terrence the Male VJ, and Rocsi (seriously, how her name is spelt in the titles at the bottom of the screen) the Female VJ asked Tracy Morgan a bunch of too-in-depth questions about the movie and comic books.
Also inspired: "New Orleans in the house!" [pan to 6 cheering girls] "Well, there's only 6 of them, but they're here!"
Anyway: I just watched Terrence the Male VJ give Tracy Morgan a pound for not having to pay child support. And then they played the video for "Too Silly" by V.I.C., the latest terribly-rapping, silly-dance-relying-upon, bar-lowering nonsense consort of Soulja Boy. Apparently he, V.I.C., and Hurricane Chris (? I heard of him in like...Rolling Stone? or something? I don't know his song) are all on the same record label, according to the random older black man who did the shout-outy bit at the end of this "Too Silly" song. Now I know who to blame.
And then after that video, Tracy Morgan gave the least enthusiastic talk-up EVER for Superhero Movie. He definitely said something very close to, "The paycheck was good." Yeah. And then Terrence the Male VJ, and Rocsi (seriously, how her name is spelt in the titles at the bottom of the screen) the Female VJ asked Tracy Morgan a bunch of too-in-depth questions about the movie and comic books.
Also inspired: "New Orleans in the house!" [pan to 6 cheering girls] "Well, there's only 6 of them, but they're here!"
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