Word: songfulness
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...beer can and fishing reel, among other objects. He still laughs at the memory: "Robert Hughes is really the champion of Modernism. Here he is in a cube. It's perfect." Nor was it much of a leap from his court-jestering with the Histrionics. Smashed Nissan or song by the Knack-Kesminas sees both as found objects for him to "sculpt." He's now composing a ditty to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll, though he keeps getting stuck on the lyric, "I spent my whole life being pigeon-holed." He needn't worry...
While some of the jokes and songs received a lukewarm reception, the audience erupted with enthusiasm when the band started to play their final song, “Semi-Charmed Life,” prompting the band to return for a three-song encore...
...With Your Best Shot” to a classical piece that plays under the prologue. In the same vein, self-parodying gags like the announcement of each character’s entrance in the final scene with a spotlight, a theme song, and a pose are wonderfully funny—especially because they play off the tone and conventions of the era’s plays...
...video, like the track, is not particularly original. Just as the song recycles the lyrics of wildly successful tracks including “Snap Yo Fingers” and “Walk it Out,” the video is replete with the apparent prerequisites for any commercial rap video: darkly-lit shots of a club where beautiful women dance around the singer, with money raining down and Cristal in the cups...
...just as the song is an undeniably catchy fusion of pure pop-rap-bubblegum ridiculousness (the phrase “I’m gonna buy u a drank” has never sounded so smooth), the music video too achieves success. There’s one particularly memorable image where, as T-Pain sings “I got money in the bank,” money appears on-screen, dripping with liquor. No longer are money and dranks separate considerations; in T-Pain’s world, you have money-dranks. In the ultimate display of making...