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December 8, 2005

The Triumphant Return of Robot Blogging!

So there I was, innocently reading Lawyers, Guns and Money, when Robert Farley ruined me forever. Or at least until the next brain-infection-posing-as-"music" hits me.

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Farley cites to Hua Hsu's article in Slate on The Black-Eyed Peas' song, "My Humps." Hsu is not impressed. And I'm having a heck of a time understanding why, with lyrics like this, Hsu isn't a bigger fan:

What you gonna do with all that junk?
All that junk inside that trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.

And who could forget these immortal words:

They say I’m really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.
They always standing next to me,
Always dancing next to me,
Tryin’ a feel my hump, hump.
Lookin’ at my lump, lump.
U can look but you can’t touch it,
If u touch it I’ma start some drama,
You don’t want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
So don’t pull on my hand boy,
You ain’t my man, boy,
I’m just tryn’a dance boy,
And move my hump.

Yes, the Peas have truly done it again with yet another stellar contribution to modern society.

But wait -- there's more! There's a video! Go and watch the video. I'll be here when you get back.

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All righty then. Had enough? Because the real reason I've subjected you to this thinly-disguised bout of torture (now 70% more Geneva-Convention-compliant!) is because of Robots!!!

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The sick and twisted mind behind Little Lost Robot has come up with a truly amazing "tribute" video. Go and watch the video. I'll be here when you get back.

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What I find most fascinating about the video is its fidelity to the original video. As Robot tells us, "I tried to match the original video shot-for-shot, but only get it about 90% accurate, since robots don't really have a whole lot of actual 'humps' action going on."*

And even when the hump-action falls apart (sometimes literally), the spirit of the original lives on in the breakdancing sequences that have to be seen to be believed.

Next time (perhaps), we'll continue our Return Of Robot Blogging with another look at dancing (and canoodling!) robots in music videos. Stay tuned!


* The forthcoming robot-canoodling post might change your mind about this, Little Lost Robot!

Posted by reparent at December 8, 2005 3:56 PM

Comments

Just a tragic thing that I know about Fergie, the afore-pictured Black-Eyed Pea.

Apparently, she's known to pee her pants in the middle of a concert. (Please do not ask how I know this. I am so, so embarrassed to know this.)

I think that this fact, coupled with the crippling virtuosity of the Peas' lyrics, should cause all of us to shudder in terror.

I, for one, am shuddering.

Posted by: Gail at December 15, 2005 9:05 PM

Hmmmm... now, should I be proud or ashamed that I made Gail shudder...?

We love you, Gail. Drop me a line and let me know how the teaching life is treating you.

Posted by: Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 15, 2005 10:02 PM