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zenfroglet, hush.
I liked this a lot more than I expected, mostly 'cos white peoples being all wacky and self-consciously geeky while haha rapping DO YOU SEE? is 9 times out of 10 teh lamest - BUT this works, largely because the correct relationship between this and the Beastie Boys is that it's a reminder of the time when the Beasties made records that weren't afraid to be genuinely ridiculous and enthusiastic about having a good time. And because the idea of shouting out the answer to one of those movie trivia quizzes and everyone being awestruck is a great, great joke.
However Jack Fear is entirely right on two counts: firstly, Josh Levin's Slate article is awful, if 100% predictable - no, scratch predictable, inevitable - so much so that if this song was to get a commercial release as a single, say, and that response became a widespread one, I might well start hating it very, very quickly. Secondly, on what constitutes mainstream pop culture. Weedy white guys making nerdy references is a very dominant form of mainstream pop culture, but those guys and the women who love them all like to pretend that they're still the underdogs - however, this is only really a problem if the Josh Levin view rears its misshapen, racist, actively ahistorical head. |
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