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Classic or dud: people saying "inna [whatever] stylee"

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...Assume, if you like, that the people in question do not otherwise speak in Caribbean patois and the subject in question is unrelated to reggae/ska/dub/etc. E.g., "inna White Stripes stylee," "inna nu-metal stylee."

I think this is in the category of things that may have been clever/funny the first few hundred times and are beginning to smack of cartoony appropriation.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard anyone say that. I might have to steal it.

― WillS, Friday, 5 August 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I saw someone do it on the news the other day. Some inappropriate place anyway.

I didn't know it was Caribbean.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry dude, but all things jamaican are simply INFECTIOUS.
it's the rules.

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I didn't know it was Jamaican, I thought it was just retro-90s. Like putting "age" on the end of randomwords. Skillage.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

A few uses gleaned from the past 6 months or so are pasted below. Some do, in fact, come out as whimsical and apt--I just wondered whether others thought it has run its course, or what.

laptopper/noize stylee
-- Ian John50n

WHAT IS UP WITH THE EUROPE-STYLEE GUITAR SOLOS
-- Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts

Scottish funk APB stylee
-- Morley Timmons

inna acid stylee
-- Another Allnighter

an electroklashdevopoppunk stylee....
-- donut e-g

literate pop stylee
-- Neil Stewart

in an Off-Broadway stylee
-- Morley Timmons

in a nu-Liz Phair, Since U Been Gone stylee
-- Baaderonixx cancels each other out

rock out all nick drake stylee
-- diedre mousedropping and a quarter

in an echo-voiced stylee ala Brucie Bee/Clue
-- Ellis From Die Hard

jay-z could be a good pulp novelist in an iceberg slim-type stylee
-- hstencil

in an early Madonna stylee
-- Daniel Peterson

improv synth jamz inna dark stylee
-- The Sensational Sulk

Lisa Loeb Good Morning America coffeehouse acoustic stylee
-- donut christ

inna white-guy stylee
-- The Argunaut

Blur-do-Beatles-inna-ramshackle-stylee
-- David Merryweather

Paul Simonon of the Clash used to pour paint all over his bass inna Jackson

Pollack stylee
-- Alex in NYC

Boy Division, who do Boyzone songs in a JoyDiv stylee
-- Sasha

inna Van Halen 'hot' sound stylee
-- Sundar

a cover of Prince's "If Were Ur Girlfriend" in a Foetus stylee
-- donut christ

I like to play [Horse With No Name] Ramones stylee (i.e. downstrummed and

needlessly speedy)
-- Alex in NYC

Tackhead covering New Kids On The Block's 'Hangin Tough' in a war protest stylee
-- donut christ

a little vocal bombast inna Freddie Mercury/Jeff Buckley stylee
-- Alex in NYC

inna Fiery Furnaces stylee
-- Suedey

a grand beautiful twee musical-theater production in the Wes Anderson storybook

stylee
-- nabisco

OTM inna OTM stylee
-- grimly fiendish

rock critics inna ILM stylee
-- yuengling participle

inna Spinal Tap stylee
-- Alex in NYC

Oberst-stylee emo/singer-songwriter crap
-- C('ing on)urt1sss

Aphex Twin stylee corny indie fuxx
-- Tuomas

"dark" in a Depeche Mode/Achtung Baby stylee
-- locust lover

the trad. Usher stylee
-- Forksclovetofu

nice softpop inna ELO/Supertramp stylee
-- Dr. C

German brood inna soda jingle pop-rock stylee
-- Tantrum The Cat

it's very much a stab at an American "shave and a haircut, two bits" stylee
-- Stormy Davis

very much played inna synthpop stylee
-- kit brash

But I guess that's always been a paradox of the Scream, or indeed anyone who tries to rock inna humanist stylee inna Babylon an ting
-- Momus

pastoral post-folk meanderings inna vaguely organic talk-talk stylee
-- grimly fiendish

they just suck really bad INNA TEENAGER STYLEE
-- The Argunaut

in a trance stylee
-- Dr. C

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC! If I do it.

Inna Rub-a-DUD stylee: if anyone else uses it.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, i'm in that list twice. fuck, inna fucking-hell stylee.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic. I pretty much always like it and I meant to use it myself yesterday before I was Poxy Fuled. But I also pretty much always like when they make a reggae version of a song and take a word that sounds like "dub" and sing the word "dub" instead- "What the world needs now/ is dub, sweet dub."

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I'm on that list and I have no recollection of typing that phrase. Maybe I was posting in a hungover stylee...

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on it four times, each inna different name stylee

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing this er trope used in music papers in the 1980s. It's an oldie! It doesn't bother me one way or the other.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive dud. I'll always think of Apache Indian when I hear/see it.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud, inna Pete Wylie stylee.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

as good as saying 'on a [___] tip'

― N_RQ, Friday, 5 August 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"on a [___] tip" is much, much worse!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen this outside of ILX. I assumed it was some ILX meme from 2001 that people still clung to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I first saw it used in smash hits!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe I've seen, like, Sterling Clover use it in the Voice, but you know, same diff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I first saw it used in smash hits!

i remember me and my mate woose saying it a lot at school in 1991 or so, so i assume it was used a lot in the NME by the likes of collins/maconie/quantick. they are, after all, responsible for most of the shit and gibberish i spout.

futuristic hover-style jetpack ... hahah hahahah ho god.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That list of posts just made me laff. Can we get rid of "über-____" while we're at it?

― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Defend the indefesible: White American DJ's saying "riddim".

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i assumed this was an ilx-centric thing. dud like all things ILX!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

from my voice piece on Coral Fang: "Strong hooks remain, and some of the old-school alt-ness can be blamed on producer Gil Norton's Foo Fightin' stylee..."

I REGRET NOTHING
(though I'm never doing it again, knock on wood)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Defend the indefensible: White American DJ's

You're right, it *is* tough.

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob, ye be british, no? Black? Grimey?

― Whitey Ford, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

WHEW I have only ever said this five times on the board and four of those times were for comedic effect.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

All inna 'Stylee' stylee.

― Inna Stylee, Friday, 5 August 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...
So apparently, if you google 'inna stylee,' this thread is the first result.

Don't ask me why I googled inna stylee.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 6 July 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

I have said this six times here, the last in April 2002 - it was just a phase.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:35 (twenty years ago)

I was convinced i had used this here, but search shows nothing!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Paul Simonon of the Clash used to pour paint all over his bass inna Jackson Pollack stylee

The only acceptable one in that list.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

And the only people I've ever heard actually say this are Sublime and 311, so please take note.

DATE RAPE STYLEE!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

you only listen to regatta de blanc?
INNA SAD SAD STYLEE.

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)


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