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Thursday, February 5th, 2015

AronChupa – I’m an Albatraoz

Gather ’round, children, it’s time for a story…


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Iain Mew: “Loca People” meets “Bom Bom”. They make out only briefly before sneaking off the sticky dancefloor, leaving behind some dull thwacking and a feeling of anticlimax.
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Micha Cavaseno: It’s like Betty Boop being forcibly updated for a remake by Steve Aoki. Does anyone here comprehend that the Albatraoz is not what you’d want to be? I don’t know who’d want to have this as their theme song.
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Katherine St Asaph: More like the Rime of the Preset Sampler. Up a point because I’m half-convinced this’ll bring the lolwhats in 20 years.
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Josh Winters: The “pop music makes you stupid” argument is one I’ve grown heavily weary of in all my bouts of explaining and defending the genre to many friends, but oh my god, I feel like my brain just atrophied watching this video and I’m really just speechless and befuddled right now.
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Mo Kim: Ultimately, it’s Nora Ekberg’s deliciously bratty delivery and the brief circus piano interlude that lift this dance floor remix of “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” above its one-note concept.
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Anthony Easton: You know that line in Mariner where Coleridge writes: “The selfsame moment I could pray/and from my neck so free /the Albatross fell off, and sank/like lead into the sea”? I will be singing that to this tune, if I ever get the motherfucker out of my head.
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Abby Waysdorf: Basically like any other novelty dance song I’ve heard out at clubs around here, with a bunch of elements of the more successful recent examples of the genre (the random English swearing, the vaguely 1920s horn elements, a beat reminiscent of 90s happy hardcore). There’s not much to recommend it over some of those earlier versions — it doesn’t have the charming silliness of “We No Speak Americano” or the actual skill of “Loca People” — but it’s current. I guess that’s something.
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Brad Shoup: It’s amazing what a little swing and a lot of contempt can do for your Continental dancepop single. Worth hearing for the worst scatting ever recorded.
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Scott Mildenhall: A weird melding of the tacitly American “back home there’s a long road where all this was fields” non-storytelling Avicii is so fond of (adjacent to the similar, but often less farm-based pillage of “Waves”wave) and abysmally executed LOLpop. Rednex did it successfully by going in full throttle at both; this devolves into scarcely developed noise after about five seconds of lyrics. These sort of hits can be fun to think about, but they should be more fun to listen to.
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Will Adams: The song treats the lyrics with the nuance of a Seth MacFarlane gag. The video treats the song with the nuance of those fucking Kia Soul commercials. This never stood a chance.
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John Seroff: I suppose every year gets the “Barbie Girl” it deserves? If our young 2015 is jostling to be defined as the dawn of the foul mouthed brostep polka (with a donk on it), I suppose we’ve at least got eleven more months to save our collective soul. Someone call Ylvis and tell them all is forgiven.
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11 Responses to “AronChupa – I’m an Albatraoz”

  1. sukrat, on February 5th, 2015 at 1:32 pm Said:

    listening to upcoming entries as a cycled stream yr mostly only half paying attention to while concentrating on actual paid work has drawbacks = this REALLY stood out and i invariably cheered up when it came on (viz the equiv i guess of back-in-the-day rockwriters having to pull the car over when certain songs came on the radio)

    (except actually work won these last two/three days, so i never got round to actually pulling over/listening/focusing)

    also at a minimum the video halves likeability (i guess bcz it dissolves away the hyper-infantile angle which i wz probably subconsciously responding to)

  2. sukrat, on February 5th, 2015 at 1:36 pm Said:

    foul-mouthed brostep KIDDIE-polka (with a donk on it)

    all the same i am basically super-pro this^^^ as a trend if the makers can get more obnoxiously behind the kiddie element* :p :p :p :p

    *bcz work is likely to be winning more often than not these next few weeks :( :( :( :(

  3. Will, on February 5th, 2015 at 3:36 pm Said:

    seriously, the video is SO bad

  4. Scott M, on February 5th, 2015 at 3:46 pm Said:

    I’ve just worked out what it reminds me of: the Roobarb and Custard theme tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIUc4NZsCCw Now that is a great piece of music.

    Also the Addams Family one, come to think.

  5. Kat, on February 5th, 2015 at 8:26 pm Said:

    E-petition to have all vowel sounds changed to -aow

  6. sukrat, on February 5th, 2015 at 8:41 pm Said:

    Everyone to talk like Henry’s Cat (I interviewed Bob Godfrey once: he really did talk like this)

  7. edwardo, on February 6th, 2015 at 10:44 am Said:

    The “fast” version of the Henry’s Cat theme is such a total banger

  8. Asher Stuhlman, on February 9th, 2015 at 4:13 pm Said:

    I’m not sure how this fits into the puzzle, but there’s also a Swedish band called Albatraoz which has an almost-as-absurd song, which is _also_ called Albatraoz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ31INpjXX0

  9. Brad, on February 9th, 2015 at 5:26 pm Said:

    AronChupa’s a member of that band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatraoz

  10. j. winters, on February 9th, 2015 at 7:10 pm Said:

    i still hate this

  11. Moses, on May 12th, 2015 at 3:59 pm Said:

    giving this a [6] is the single worst mistake i’ve made all year

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