As a parent, you end up watching a number of shows and movies that can range from horrible, to excruciating. You feel like it's a good day when your reaction to a movie was "well, that wasn't too terrible."
And then there are the really good days.
We took the kids to see "The Lego Movie" last week.
By the accounts of everyone in my group, the person in the theater who was laughing the loudest and the longest for the entire movie, was me.
I mean, the deck was pretty stacked, as the cast includes some of my favorite comedic actors, including Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman (both of Parks & Rec), Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks and Will Ferrell. Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman are surprisingly hilarious. There are a TON of cameos, both famous voices and also famous characters from other pop culture worlds.
And the main song in the movie is by The Lonely Island.
Bonus points: My kids liked the movie too.
Hear the song on Youtube.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Lonely Island “I’m On A Boat”
(As evidenced by my Monday post) My Rap Music knowledge is pretty well stuck back in the late 80s and early 90s.
At some point I just lost touch with the scene. Or lost interest.
Or it lost interest in me, is actually what I thought. I knew that rappers were not writing their songs for white, middle class 40-somethings. So I haven’t really been qualified to assess the Rap music scene.
And for that reason, I would dismiss the dismissive comments about Rap music, that I often hear from mvyradio listeners. People on the request line, and in emails to the station, will express their strong distaste for Hip-Hop. But they aren’t supposed to be the audience for Hip-Hop, so their judgement seems too subjective.
But what to do with information that is not subjective, that supports the claim that Rap music is completely devoid of musical value? That a once-creative, urgent, necessary, dynamic art form, had devolved into a crass, commercialized parody of itself?
How else do you explain the Lonely Island Grammy Nomination? And no, not for the Comedy category.
Lonely Island is a comedy troupe from New York, who’s members famously got absorbed by Saturday Night Live. A couple of members are SNL writers, and member Andy Samberg is a part of the cast. They are the team responsible for the Digital Shorts that have appeared on the program for the last couple of years. You may remember them from such classics as “Dick In A Box,” “Lazy Sunday” and “Jizz In My Pants.”
And now you can remember them as the 3 comedians (plus T-Pain) who are nominated in the “Best Rap/Sung Collaboration” next to Beyonce, Kanye West, Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, Jay-Z, Rihanna, T.I. and Justin Timberlake.
Is this the state of Rap music? That a song, made explicitly so they could shoot a video that mocks the stupid, crass commercialism and conspicuous consumption of Rap music videos and lyrics, is actually held up as one of the best of the year.
How could an outsider not laugh with this video, and then laugh at what the genre holds in high regard?
Of course, now you have to see the video.
And you can hear clips of all the Grammy nominees in this category. See if you can spot which one is the joke.
Buy the intentionally funny album, here
At some point I just lost touch with the scene. Or lost interest.
Or it lost interest in me, is actually what I thought. I knew that rappers were not writing their songs for white, middle class 40-somethings. So I haven’t really been qualified to assess the Rap music scene.
And for that reason, I would dismiss the dismissive comments about Rap music, that I often hear from mvyradio listeners. People on the request line, and in emails to the station, will express their strong distaste for Hip-Hop. But they aren’t supposed to be the audience for Hip-Hop, so their judgement seems too subjective.
But what to do with information that is not subjective, that supports the claim that Rap music is completely devoid of musical value? That a once-creative, urgent, necessary, dynamic art form, had devolved into a crass, commercialized parody of itself?
How else do you explain the Lonely Island Grammy Nomination? And no, not for the Comedy category.
Lonely Island is a comedy troupe from New York, who’s members famously got absorbed by Saturday Night Live. A couple of members are SNL writers, and member Andy Samberg is a part of the cast. They are the team responsible for the Digital Shorts that have appeared on the program for the last couple of years. You may remember them from such classics as “Dick In A Box,” “Lazy Sunday” and “Jizz In My Pants.”
And now you can remember them as the 3 comedians (plus T-Pain) who are nominated in the “Best Rap/Sung Collaboration” next to Beyonce, Kanye West, Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, Jay-Z, Rihanna, T.I. and Justin Timberlake.
Is this the state of Rap music? That a song, made explicitly so they could shoot a video that mocks the stupid, crass commercialism and conspicuous consumption of Rap music videos and lyrics, is actually held up as one of the best of the year.
How could an outsider not laugh with this video, and then laugh at what the genre holds in high regard?
Of course, now you have to see the video.
And you can hear clips of all the Grammy nominees in this category. See if you can spot which one is the joke.
Buy the intentionally funny album, here
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