Webstar, Chicken Noodle Soup, Lenny Bass
YouTube with a soda on the side?
can i get an anthropological on this?
Keep it clean, dude.
Don't even try to understand this song Prog. Could get ugly.
no, honestly: this thing is so pared down and far from the usual that i'd be interested in some analysis/context, especially after looking at the rather divisive comments on u2b.
This is a pretty good explanation.
Well for starters here’s a post by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill that accused the dance of being "new-school minstrelsy." Here’s an XXL blog post that discusses the post and several other possible minstrel show raps. Also here’s a Status Ain't Hood post where he goes to see the DJ Webstar release party and claims that the song is just basically a kid's dance song on par with the hokey-pokey. Personally I'm more inclined to agree with the latter.
Tom's right: "We can't really judge a song like that on what it is; we have to judge it on what it does." That's all there is to say, really. Anything above that is a bit waspy.
Damn, spit beat me to it. Btw here's hoping this post doesn't get completely out of control.
interesting comment on lamont hill's post here. (ironically, people take the video ripper's sign-off logo with the gun, bullets&cash to be a part of the video.)
also check out the nobodysmiling thread, tommy taylor's remix video, and ms. peachez...
(that should raise the temperature a little...)
[Response to P's lamont hill note] You're getting there. The history of mv is rife with off-the-radar, groundswell videos like these. Lately they've become increasingly popular - "Chain Hang Low," as mentioned, can be linked to "Chicken Noodle Soup," as well as Young Dro "Shoulder Lean," and to the hyphee movement (see E-40) and crunk (Lil Jon et al).
captain muthafukkin save-a-ho came to me / flexin'just'like'a'little'ol'b\tch, all'up'in'front'of'my'company //
god bless E40
this is a cool track, mostly novel in its anti- approach, but successful just the same, right?
As someone with a lot of affection for hip-hop I am often tired of the pro-ignorance stance that urban music takes. Raps about drug-dealing, ho slapping and thug shooting certainly get a lot more respect (from many sides) than things like "Chicken Noodle Soup." That Flavor Flav is now waaay more famous than Chuck D is certainly disturbing. But that being said ...
THIS IS A KID'S SONG. If eight year olds wanna dance and scream - I'm all for them doing it CNS and not the Pussycat Dolls or Ying Yang Twins. What should kidds dance too? The Clipse? The song is fun, the video is cheap and reasonably fun. Criticizing it for being immature is like doing the same to Raffi or the Wiggles.
The two creators of the song are an 18 year old DJ and a fifteen year old singer from Harlem. There is so much to not like about the music industry - but not in this song.
It's "better" than the Jibbs track in that it doesn't celebrate having long dangly jewelry - something no young man should be subjected to.
Is it minstrel-ish? I dunno. That wasn't the first thing that I thought of.
another interesting angle on this: regional i.d.
Modern Rock and Top 40 Hip-Hop are both materialistic, shallow, and disposable, the only difference is rock's audience demands that their artists pretend to be singing about profound things, while Hip-Hop's audience realizes that popular music isn't about being profound.
Give me Chicken Noodle Soup over Panic! At The Disco any day.
it had to end like this, didn't it? (via the 'gum)
