lil flip - game over



just when you thought it was safe! nah i guess it's still safe because there's something awesomely wearying about this song. i mean lil flip is cool, he is the laziest of all lazy-flow dsouth dudes, and he's on my two favourite david banner songs. the exploding nintendo intro on "game over" is an amazingly good set-up device to get you amped and ready for the console fx storm. but then what? the rest of the sounds are completely lame! surely if you are going to base your big new anthem around a fx gimmick then the fx ought to be... fx-ive. the plinky mario noises (i dont know if they are really mario noises, whatever) are vaguely evocative, but a) they are plinking out a surprisingly response-free melody, and b) i can still remember when i first recognized those sonic the hedgehog sounds in "pony" by ginuwine (um it was about four years after the song came out) - it was a hilarious, spluttering laugh out loud-type moment! so in a very real sense, this is the age-old megadrive vs snes war, but with music. and snes still sucks! where is my copy of golden axe 2??

(even the indelible mc's did better with this idea on "weight", that's got to be the most damning thing of all.)

sugar daddy - sweet soca music


ive been on holidays for the last week and i totally lost touch with the pop music world. all i did was lie on the beach reading books and stay in listening to radio national or watching becker reruns until one morning when i woke up early and was excited to tune into the saturday morning video charts! they have charts on two different channels so if rage plays that horrible jack johnson video with ben stiller in it you can always switch to video hits. sometimes if you are lucky you can see your favourite videos twice. my favourite videos at the moment are beyonce - me myself & i, junior senior - rhythm bandits, especially when junior goes 'woo!', kylie minogue - slow and now sugar daddy - sweet soca music which i saw for the first two times this saturday morning. it is different from my other favourites because it looks quite cheap, and not intentionally cheap in that junior senior way. it has hazy yellow nostalgic summer lighting (my favourite thing) and a lot of really young, maybe a bit too young, really good looking people and they are partying on a yacht in trinidad. it sort of makes me ache with longing! or maybe i'm confusing these feelings with toothache from all the sweetness. seeing the video twice makes me want the song to be a hit but really it feels more like the sort of thing that should disappear without a trace as tho the video yacht has got caught in its bittersweet symphony loop bermuda triangle. it's not really anywhere near as good as kevin lyttle - turn me on and even though it is a soca song about how great soca is, which should make it like re-rewind it's really a lot more like summer jam which means that corny people like me like it a lot.

the best mc name of 04

it's stack bundles of course! you can catch him on dj clue's new mixtape when animals attack, along with other clue cronies like fabolous and paul cain, doing a version of "99 problems". i haven't listened to it yet but i'm sure that shit is fair to middling.

03: what lumidee did

on heavy rotation every station now. in june, there was this really hot 12 in rap shops which was the only lumidee record anyone ever needed except for the original "never leave you" 12. you got her doing the ill cover of "crazy in love" with a completely unnecessary "shimmy shimmy ya" drop-in during her 'yo i can rap too' verse. (this might turn out to be the most 03-specific already-dated three minutes of music ever, like if it was 93 it would be lords of the underground covering "gin n juice" or something.) you got her flipping the still-underrated "one for peedi crakk" beat for r'n'b heads and sounding beautiful. sadly you also got the busta/fab rmx of nly instead of the way better 50 cent one but nevermind! it was just at that moment when nly was about to blow and we were all obsessed with lumidee. it was special!

now let's never speak of her again.