Lately most looped tunes
You know there's just those songs that you can hear just too many times in the road.
There's the good songs that you attentionally repeat, because you find them good -
and there's those disturbing songs that you try to repeat - just to get out of you're head.
Like some excorsism for your musician-part of the brain.
By: Thomas Dahlquist
Written: 2005-07-xx
One of those incredibly disturbing songs right now, is without doubt Crazy Frog - Axel F.
Not just because it's like #1 of the top40 mainstream-charts, also because some untalanted schmucks
decided to do like some dozen Techno-DJ's already done - remix that theme song from the 80's movie
Beverly Hills Cop, starring loudmouth Eddie Murphy. Then just to spice it up a little bit, they take one
Swedish guy's ugly motorcycle-impression and mix it all together to an bad tasting, childish and
torturing top40 track! The worst thing about this "song", is that is in some way produced by Jamba,
you know them with the mobilephone advertisements from MTV. And therefore, one major part of the braindead Eeem-tee-wee-generation has this "song" as their tune - everytime their all too expensive phone rings. Holy macaroni - Crazy Frog is topping the Dance Charts. Can you believe people dancing to that crap?
Maybe for kids below 10 and younger at the little cute disco during a trip on a big, big boat while daddy and mommy is in the bar - drinking their troubles away.
Another braindead song that's finally stopped being played 5 times an hour is of course
Eric Prydz - Call on Me. And many hits on the dancecharts has followed its footsteps.
The song wasn't all that bad the first 10 times you heard hit, and hey - the video included a bunch of
humping aerobicsgirls! But then you realise how simple this song is. Anyone with too much free time and
basic knowledge in remixing could have done this one. Can you believe hundreds of girls jumping around,
drunk and screaming the lyrics "Call on meeeee - Call on Me!" "Call on meeeee - Call on Me!" for 6 minutes?
Recipe for a hit on the Dance-charts:
1. You got to have a song to remix. Back in the days it was popular remixing old Funky tunes, and Hip-hop
almost began with some dudes remixing a 12" of Funkbeats or James Brown. Nowadays, It's all about remixing old one-hit-wonders of the 80's. Either you do a stupid technoremix with a new voiceover made by some blonde chick - or you just pump it up Eric Prydz-style. You take like a 10 seconds clip from the original song's lyrics and put in some beats and sound with sounds like when you're turning the volume up from 0 - 100% at your musicplayer very fast.
2. The rave-effect. Every dance-chart hit must have this one. Before the main song comes back again - the previous words gets echo and the volume increases. Then it decreases and the tunes has a massive bass which decreases at the same time the master volume is increased. The easy way to express this, is that it "sounds like the song is played from an old taperecorder in mono, put in a can".
3. The erotic-video. Some girls with almost none, or lingerie clothing dances around with bare legs and humps around a single guy. Either it's at an aerobics-pass, at the poker-table or at the drycleaner. It's important that the Male Female-ratio is at least 1:4 - it would seem like a sexistic group-thing otherwise. And with a lot of guys and no girls, no dudes would drool about the musicvideo - and no drooling means that they have to listen to the music - and that's not a good thing.
If we're trying to forget this type of music and try to focus on other charts-hits which are looped to the infinite on radio today; Helene Paparizou - My number one and Black Eyed Peas - Don't phunk with my heart. Both this songs, as well as the videos wins because their sexuality. One good looking female who's making some sensual moves and sings. Now you may say I could include Shakira- La Tortua in this section, but no. Shakira don't sing good and her spasmic moves remind me more of eppileptical seisures than sensuallity. However, all these three songs is looped on the radio everywhere you go.
All of the songs I have mention has melodies which like parasites feeds on your brain. The only certain cure is to put on really good music with fresh improvisations, solos and nice vocals. True musicians without mixers, 80's popsongs and humping barbiedolls.
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