Danger!

Hey, post when you can, once a week would be lovely (I didn't even know Metric was Canadian - this is important!) I'm doing this while taking breaks from writing a long paper, but it's good when you have to post, otherwise you don't write anything for half a year and...yeah.

Just a heads up, the intro goes on until 1:11 but picks up significantly after. Honest!

Now, you've probably heard of Gnarls Barkley. You might even know that Gnarls Barkley is composed of Ceelo on vocals and DJ Danger Mouse on the production. And if you know that, you are no doubt well aware of the magnificence that is The Grey Album. This is DJ Danger Mouse one stop before that.

Jemini is a decent rapper but the vocals don't have the imagination that the production does - the flow is solid but the words themselves aren't much more than the same posturing (guns and a willingness to use them, lyrical ability, popularity with the ladies). This would be better song about, for example, a BBQ chef - "I got some burgers and some ribs, so watcha want?"

Compare that to the strings, the effects, the chorus, the bubbling half-synth keys - all sewed together with a snare drum that is very confident in its status as a snare drum, neither ashamed to stand out nor too obvious in its search for attention. (OK, so that might have been a little too but much with the personification of a sample, but you get the point). I can imagine him filling the space that had been taken up by the vocals with horns and coming up with a quite excellent instrumental track.

The anime in this video is Cowboy Bebop, which wasn't a bad series (though I will admit the subtitles are a little annoying) - as the name suggests, it's a fusion of the wild west with 60's jazz/bar culture. But in the future. And Japanese.

DJ Danger Mouse & Jemini
"Ghetto Pop Life Intro" & "Ghetto Pop Life"
Ghetto Pop Life


Tomorrow: The LORD shall rebuke those who elect the path of wickedness, and great shall be the righteous fury and wrath of the LORD. With overtones of House, MD!