The Dictionary’s Coming
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Stark Effect’s “We Like Repartee”, released in 2002 as part of the Dictionaraoke Project, isn’t the cleverest Internet gimmick song I’ve ever heard, nor is it the even the catchiest — it is, after all, based on a goddamn Venga Boys song. Yet somehow, I have become unaccountably obsessed with it. Why does something so silly give me so much pleasure?
As a professional comedian, my suspicion is that the rewritten lyrics make it seem almost plausible that the word-pronunciation voices from online dictionaries actually have, somehow, written and recorded a party song about how awesome the dictionary is. That, and the simple pleasure of hearing the stilted Encarta voice try to get his groove on. (”Hey. Now. Hey. Now. Here what I say. Now.”)
More from Stark Effect: The Mic In Track EP, a wonderful set of compositions based on found recordings collected from peer-to-peer filesharing networks.
Tougi wrote:
Adam, you are a terrible person. What do you have to gain by getting this stuck in my head?
Posted on 25-Sep-07 at 11:24 pm | Permalink