EVERYBODY, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW--

[pikabot]

And read this.

Link scythed from pookaseraph. It's a lengthy and absolutely devastating dissection of trashy pop-rap song 'TiK ToK' (sic). It is amazing in a number of ways. It not only illustrates beautifully why 'TiK ToK' is so loathesome, in the process it also gave me a new appreciation for a totally different song that I am not and likely never will be terribly fond of (Beyonce's 'Single Ladies').

It is absolutely glorious. I hope that one day, I can be as wonderfully evocative as this man. Examples:

the problem with “TiK ToK” is that once you strip away its hedonistic veneer, it becomes apparent that the song actually operates with all the devil-may-care flippancy of a SWAT team clearing a building.

I will point out—just for the sake of context—that wrestling’s reliance on its audience’s pronounced disinterest in peeking behind the curtain rhymes pretty conspicuously with a mode of discourse that contemporary philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt identified in a 1986 essay as bullshit

Absolute bloody perfection.

Comments

[lady-tigerfish.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA win.

Seriously, I can't stand that song >>;;

[pikabot]

I'm actually not familiar because I abhor the radio - but the sample from the link told me about all I needed.

[lady-tigerfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the whole song, pretty much. Three minutes of hell. It was playing at a club I went to a few nights ago, and I had the very strange experience of everyone else going YEAH WOOHOO LET'S DANCE TO THIS as my gut twisted into an ultradense ball of disgust. SERIOUSLY HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS SONG? EVEN HER VOICE IS ANNOYING! It's like that one wasted crazy chick at the party, the one everyone who's had a little too much to drink uses to console themselves the morning after by saying "hey, at least I didn't start dancing with a lawn flamingo and then puke on my shoes like THAT girl!"...has suddenly gotten herself star status for marketing THAT IMAGE SPECIFICALLY.

It is also beloved of my ten-year-old-cousin. Oh what havoc we wreak upon the young...

[pikabot]

And some people wonder why I don't ever do the club thing.

It is also beloved of my ten-year-old-cousin.

At least it's not an eight year old running around singing 'my humps'. Fuck my life.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

IS THIS LIKE THE GUY WHO SAID UMBERLLA WASN'T A FRIENDSHIP AND SEXY SONG BUT R MAKING A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL AND SEXXING HIM?!??!?

[pikabot]

PRETTY SURE NOT.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

OH MAN. i got to hedonistic and was all excited lol.

[pikabot]

Haha no, it's just a dissection of how the song in question throws up a shallow veneer of hedonism to seem freewheeling but underneath it is some seriously calculated shit.

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Peter Peter Peter this article is amazing I love you for linking it. Partly because it helps me identify why I actually like "Single Ladies".

/saves this link forever for further academic pursuits.