Lazy Journalist Bastards #1- Andrew WK/WWF Comparisons

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Nearly every single review of Andrew "My album charted at 71, despite blanket media coverage" WK mentions the WWF in some form. He's WWF music. He's a WWF wrestler. Whutever. Umm... how? Seriously, how? Do these journalists even have a basic knowledge of pro-wrestling? Or do their keyboard fingers operate without connection to their brains?

What are they saying? He's on steroids? He's cynically manipulated? He's totally controlled by one family?

I want answers. No fucker'll give me them, but...

― Judd Nelson, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm one of the aforementioned journalists, so I'm perfectly qualified to answer your question. The reason, Mr. Nelson, that I said this in my review (which ran in Time Out New York), was because THAT'S WHAT HE FUCKING SOUNDS LIKE. Have you heard wrestlers screaming into a microphone? I grew up in Minneapolis--AWA and later WWF central--and heard everyone from Hulk Hogan to Rooster Griffin (who, to be fair, seldom got any screen time aside from getting his ass kicked in the opening match every Saturday morning on the AWA) talking to Mean Gene Okerlund. I've also checked their ID's as the door person of a nightclub. Wrestlers tend to have guttural voices much like Mr. W.K.'s, and especially when they raise them the resemblance is undeniable.

I also grew up watching the Hulk Hogan's Rock & Wrestling cartoon show, whose theme song--oi!-cum-Slade-esque chants over overdriven guitar/synth stomp--sounds exactly like an Andrew W.K. song. Or, more to the point, Andrew W.K.'s songs sound exactly like the theme song of Hulk Hogan's Rock & Wrestling.

― M Matos, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that most talk about Andrew WK had been incredibly lazy. They know he's a joke, but they insist upon talking about high school parties and date rape and vomit. Or WWF, or whatever. Why do they have to pretend that they don't get the joke? It's too obvious.

― Chris H., Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sexy boy by WWF
I think I'm cute
I know i'm sexy
I got the looks
That drives the girls wild

I got the moves
That really move them
I send them chills
Up and down their spine

I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)
I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)

I make them hot
I make them shiver
Theirs knees get weak
Whenever I'm around

They see me walk
They hear me talk
I make them feel
Like they're on Cloud nine

I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)
I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)

Eat your heart out girls
Hands off the marchandise

I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)
I'm just a sexy boy (sexy boy)
I'm not your boy toy (boy toy)

― Billy Dods, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jim Johnson is a musical genius...

So, what you're saying is, Andrew WK is representative of the Rock N Roll Wrestling period? (Say, Hogan's first title win in 1983 through to Bret Hart vs Ric Flair in late 1992?).

Because, for a start, contemporary music in wrestling is nothing of the sort. Indeed, Jim Johnson and his magic power chords have been put on the back burner recently, leasing out theme tunes to such Gods of contemporary music as Boy Hits Car and Our Lady Peace.

Wrestling theme tunes go through stages. We had the disco phase, the Southern rock phase, the cod metal phase, the quasi metal phase, the gangsta phase, the nu-metal phase, and now we're into angst-core. Cod metal is the only genre there that Mr WK works with.

Plus, wrestlers don't talk like WK on the whole, anyway. 9/10 wrestlers have a much more relaxed manner of speaking. How the hell can you cut a promo if you're gibbering like WK does? Hmmm?

And I'll take "Whutttttaaaaaaarussssshhhhhhh" over "Party Hard" eight days a week.

― Judd Nelson, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus, wrestlers don't talk like WK on the whole, anyway. 9/10 wrestlers have a much more relaxed manner of speaking. How the hell can you cut a promo if you're gibbering like WK does? Hmmm?

have you heard W.K. speak and not sing? I haven't, so I'm comparing his singing voice to wrestlers' stage voices

― M Matos, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian M made me listen to this in the car the other day. All I could think of was wrestling, but that could be cause that's what Brian said about it, too. DAMMIT.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just saw him present a couple videos on M2. In sum: Snap into a Slim Jim!!!!!!!

― Andrew DK, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, WK DID play on the recent Rock-hosted SNL, which makes things even more problematical. Maybe if you put him against Fozzy- a metal band with an actual wrestler (Chris Jericho) as a lead singer- then we could have an even better point of reference.

That said, both wrestling and its musical trappings are a lot more interesting in Japanese indies. There's a fed called Toruymon which features this wrestler with a male exotic dancer gimmick named Magnum TOKYO who comes out to this total 1991 rave music, as well as a bad- guy stable (M2K) that enter to sleazy garage-punk. It's fucking fantastic.

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK is a know with a capital K and a prime example of NME getting it all wrong. Again.

It's readers don't want this toss... I know I don't.

― Calum Robert, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Magnum TOKYO owns. Saw some import videos with him recently, very interesting.

Fozzy aren't the only reference point. Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart was the lead singer of moderately succesful 60s band the Gentrys for a start.

Fozzy are... amazingly mediocre. Spinal Tap crossed with more Spinal Tap, basically.

― Judd Nelson, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And let's not forget THE CRUSHER, you turkeynecks!

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

thank you sex gooooooooooooooood

― aa, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also the WWF is called the WWE now thanks to a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund.

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I often got confused between watching the Rock fighting Steve Austin and saving a panda, and accidentally gave the Stone Cold Stunner or Rock Bottom to an endangered species. And that time that I shot a tranquiliser dart at the Undertaker and attached a radio collar round his neck doesn't even bear thinking about.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i love andrew wk

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yer drunk!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

so?

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

omg wwf

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm blasting I GET WET and i have to finish getting dressed and get to my friend's place 8 blocks away in 20 minutes but it's so nice to rock out to I GET WET!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, there's nothing wrong with that. I Just felt like yelling at a drunk.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Have fun at your friend's house. I'm going to bed, so keep it down. If I dream about Andrew W.K. yer in for it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yell with me mofo!!!

I LOVE

NEW YORK CITY

OH YEAH

NEW YORK CITY

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page17/willie2.jpg

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

DYNOMITE! Willie, I could kiss the fat on your head!

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

DANCE GYGAX

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

GYGAX! LISTEN TO THIS!!!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

i would buy a record of judd nelson covering andrew wk

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

I Get Bent

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 28 January 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

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