Word: ratatat
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With next weekend's Yardfest approaching quickly, the College Events Board (CEB) seems to be receiving much less criticism than usual for its choice of artists--Sara Bareilles and electronic group Ratatat. Cue new advertising efforts: the most notable of which has been the "Ratatat Remix Challenge," intended to reward the creator of the best Sara Bareilles-Ratatat mashup (with what? It's unclear). Has the CEB stumbled upon the next Girl Talk? Read...
Though it gets off to a slow start with an unusual background, once "Love Song for Seventeen Crips" moves to the Ratatat beat it evolves into a carefully crafted interweaving of electronics, piano, and the lyrics of Sara Bareilles' most prominent hit, "Love Song." Close attention to detail here...
...Thing You Wanna Hear" changes gears multiple times. While the different strands are layered on top of each other with smooth transitions, Sara Bareilles' voice seems almost like an afterthought, and often her melodies do not mesh with the electronic background, creating unusual combinations of notes. A solid Ratatat mashup, but perhaps Bareilles has a song that would fit with it better than her best known...
...bouncy beat mixed in with "Love Song" that reappears again later in the mashup. The mid section features repetition of the line "I'm not gonna write you a love song," that gets a little bit...well...repetitive, despite the catch background. The mashup ends strongly with a Ratatat musical interlude. Overall a solid, catchy remix...
...tour we do the audience gets a bit younger. There always an oddball older crowd mixed in. It seems to appeal to different sorts of people from all different backgrounds and it seems to change form region to region, too.6. FM: Your duo wasn’t always called Ratatat. What was your first name, and how did it evolve?EM: The first name was “Cherry” which was a name our friend James came up with when we had just made one or two song ... so we went with that for a while...