Smarmy acquaintance, self-professed "music connisseur" and professional music writer disses L'il Jon in email chain which poses the question "what makes you turn the radio OFF?"

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urgh...never met him except through these emails

So unless I'm misinformed, none of the rest of you all share my, echem,
pleasure of djng dances for middle schoolers. Let me tell ya'll
something: there has never (and I'm willing to make that empirical statement) been a worse hit song than Lil John's "Get Low," especially when it's
accompanied by a room full of twelve year olds screaming "Till the sweat drip down my balls/ah skit skit motherfucker goddamned!"

For those not in the know, "Skit skit" is slang, apparently, for "oh my
god I'm cumming."

You gotta love MTV, peeps.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"echem"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

but anyway, someone you don't know doesn't like get low! whatcha gonna do

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm guessing "pudgy white dude with beard" would fit somewhere in the description of this guy

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it's teh funny and teh sad, why do people hate fun?

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

lemme guess, this person doesn't think hip hop is "real music", right?

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

this person thinks Wilco are "real" and doesn't like the White Stripes because they're "sloppy"

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(I like Wilco but come on)

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i think this might be a "pick your battles" type of situation

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

s1ocki OTM. I'm not a huge Lil Jon fan, either, FWIW (oh no!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"skit skit"

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If only you knew where he lived. I can think of many awesome pranks involving "Get Low"

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not so much the lack of L'il Jon love as the tone which I find funny.

I shall battle you both, BTW

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

SKEET SKEET MOTHAFUCKA

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, people still say "peeps"?

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shootingsports.com/ossa/images/logo.gif

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no wait, this one's better

http://www.nssa-nsca.com/nssa-logo.gif

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "echem" that violent cough thing that Jadakiss does on every song. Though that's more like "eckha".

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU HEAR THAT FUCKERS? YOU GOTTA LOVE MTV!
http://www.detnews.com/pix/2002/03/23/peeps.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

forget lil jon for a second, what's his fucking problem with middle school dances??

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, he got audience participation out of a middle school dance? I can't tell whether he's disapproving of middle schoolers being sexually explicit or not. Either way, I'm sure MTV is to blame.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, he played it, right? and he's complaining about the results?

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"HOW DARE YOU PEOPLE DANCE!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

'Get Low' is great altho i did see the video featuring ladies mud-wrestling and foxy-boxing and feel terribly guilty for a moment...

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

there has never (and I'm willing to make that empirical statement)been a worse hit song than Lil John's "Get Low," especially when it's accompanied by a room full of twelve year olds screaming "Till the sweat drip down my balls/ah skit skit motherfucker goddamned!"

See this just convinces me it's the greatest song EVER, not the opposite.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This also convinces me that dude has no concept of what songs are appropriate to play at a middle school dance. If you don't want tweleve-year-olds to sing along with obscene or explicit lyrics, then DON'TPLAY SONGS THAT HAVE OBSCENE OR EXPLICIT LYRICS. Dumbass.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

was this guy the drummer from Gay Dad?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a v. popular person around here it seems sometimes but if my lasting legacy is the gay dad thread i can die happy.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

actually yeah, what the hell? playing that at a middle school? he must be full of shit, he can't have played that.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll all die happy, but there's work to be done first.

― My Dinner With Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

At one of my middle-school dances, they played the clean version of "Me So Horny," and a group of boys ran after the girl who was branded the school "slut," pointing at her and chanting the chorus.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Middle school is hell.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

nicalicious - excellent

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

morris just made me choke on my drink.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"actually yeah, what the hell? playing that at a middle school? he must be full of shit, he can't have played that."

If the dude played this at a middle school dance, I assume he played the "clean" version and the kids just sang the real words.

I'd like to make a CD of radio edits of songs with really nice pleasant, non-sexual words in place of the bleeps and silences. I bet I could sell it to Ralph Reed or something.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Straight outta Compton,
Crazy mother-hugger called Ice Cube
From the gang that twitches with attitude
When I'm called off, I got a sore cough,
Squeaky finger and Bobbys are called off.
U2, boy, if they flunk Whitney,
The Police are gonna have to come and get tea...

Etc etc etc"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody who DJs middle school dances and hates it, call me. i will happily do your job. actually, shit, i should just start doing this for a living.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If the dude played this at a middle school dance, I assume he played the "clean" version and the kids just sang the real words.

Not an excuse. We weren't allowed to play "Mony Mony" at our high school dances because of the "Hey/Hey what?" chant that isn't even in the song.

"I played 'Boom! I Fucked Your Boyfriend', 'Lick It', 'Oochie Wally', 'Boom Boom Boom' and 'How Many Licks' and all of these twelve-year-olds knew all of the nasty words! It was terrible, so I played 'Fuck Da Police' and 'Cop Killer' to try to settle them down."

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Folk Song Angers Parents, NAACP in Mich.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 14, 2005
Filed at 10:21 a.m. ET

BERKLEY, Mich. (AP) -- A black parent and the NAACP are criticizing a middle school's decision to perform a song that they say glorifies slavery.

The song, ''Pick a Bale of Cotton,'' is on the folk music choir program Wednesday at predominantly white Anderson Middle School in the Berkley School District.

The song's lyrics include, ''Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton. Gotta jump down, turn around, Oh, Lordie, pick a bale a day.''

Greg Montgomery told The Detroit News that he complained to school officials, and when he was dissatisfied with their response, decided to pull his 11-year-old daughter, China, from singing.

''It's mind-boggling that people don't understand sensitive issues,'' he said.

China said: ''They were bringing back the memories of how African-Americans picked cotton, and it wasn't a good memory. It was disrespectful to African-Americans.''

Berkley schools spokeswoman Gwen Ahern said district officials would consider the song's origin and decide whether to leave it in the concert program. She also defended the choice.

''We used to sing that song when I was in school during the '50s,'' she said. ''It's like a Southern type of folk song. I remember it being perky. It was more of a song that people just sang for fun.''

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

ughhhhhhh

― Jdubz (ex machina), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

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