Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Confusion of the Lyrical Kind  

This blog is automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, so melodic.
Somewhat lyrical, some say satirical.
Funky Fresh.
Now, let me see you one two step.
Title explained. But, I promise, there's more.

I listen to an assortment of media while slaving away in my cubicle jail. It keeps my mind quite distracted from over-thinking work, and from time-to-time I have something to quietly sing along to, or something that causes me to quietly laugh-out-loud.

Today, I heard something that was kinda hot, but kinda confusing.

Which reminds me of my big-screen feature the night prior to this one, where I watched Rachel Bils...The Last Kiss. And if I have never given credit to these people before, then I sure do now. Whoever does the preview line-up did a bang-up job last night. Mind you, I understand the idea of target-marketing. But I also was under the erroneous impression that any movie you watch on any given day would have the exact same previews.

In anticipation for seeing some tricked out trailer for Spiderman 3, I put down my Famous magazine, and focused my attention to the screen right after the lights dimmed. And then I was left with 10-15 minutes of trailers for movies I will never watch, but to which all the ladies in the theater were entranced by. No Spiderman. And that's when it really set in that I was watching a chick flick in theaters.

Target Marketing. Hit the mark.

Safe to say I haven't done chick flicks in theaters for a while. But not to fret. Rachel Bils...pardon me, the movie did not disappoint, but the choices made by certain characters in the movie were as frustrating as me trying to curl twenty-pound dumbbells twice.

Upon leaving the movie theater, most of us were just shaking our heads. But no explanations were needed. It was just understood. Unlike this following lyrical excerpt from a Lupe Fiasco track, "What It Do".

Before everyone goes clicking away, PLEASE DON'T, I know most of you don't care for rap. In fact, you may think rap is crap. But indulge me and try to read through/understand these lyrics, and then possibly sum it up in a sentence or two in the comment section below.

I show you what it does, how it did, what it do.

I saw it on TV, I was told to buy a CD, the CD told me buy a TV, the TV that I bought came with a CD that said go and buy the DVD.

The DVD that I bought came with a CD which was the DVD of the making of the TV that I saw, which told to go and buy the CD in the first place, wait, naw.

I put the DVD in the TV, so you can see what I saw, but wait, this is CD, so you can’t see me, aw, maybe I should just come out on DVD like CB.


It's actually pretty hilarious hearing this in real time, because not only is it technically sound, it's just plain absurd, but not quite product placement (Pass that Courvoisier in my Air Force Ones) absurd.

posted by Buttug McOysty . 8:34 PM .