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A Little TOO Ironic?

April 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Since this has been around for at least 48 hours—which is eons in Internet time—I’ll assume many of you have already seen this Alanis Morissette parody of the execrable, inexplicably popular Black Eyed Peas abortion “My Humps.” But the spoof nevertheless deserves an extra nod for managing to simultaneously be hilarious as a satire of both Fergie’s and Morissette’s own styles and (just to twist the knife) actually a substantially better piece of music than the tuneless original, low a bar though that admittedly is:

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  • 1 David Weigel // Apr 4, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    the execrable, inexplicably popular Black Eyed Peas abortion

    Come come, it’s not inexplicable. As long as humans reproduce sexually and head out to nightclubs, songs about asses and breasts will continue to blow up the charts.

    That said I find the appeal of Fergie incredibly hard to understand. She looks like a post-nuclear cave mutant.

  • 2 Barry // Apr 5, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    David, if you’re living in a cave after the bombs fall, cave mutants will eventually look good.