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.)
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