Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Wensday Morning Music - The Lonely Island - "Boombox {Feat. Julian Casablancas}"



Remember when LSD could broaden your mind, roving gangs of skateboarders would cruise around town looking for old ladies to help across the street and rats to cook and feed to homeless men and women, and boomboxes could bring about world peace? Well, in this post AID/9-11/Gay Clay Aiken environment, nothing is ever quite what it seems: LSD can help you loose your ego, but you just might loose your mind too; skateboarders can be helpful, but they also write rude grafitis on walls; boomboxes can save the world or destroy it.

Lonely Island and Julian Casablancas bring us this paean to the boombox (in the glorous tradition of simmilar pop-culture-phenomenon-as-a-means-to-change-the-world songs such as "Convoy," "Skateboards Across America," and "Yo, Slap Bracelets Cure AIDS") that turns into a timely cautionary tale about the dangers of having too much of a good thing. Watch that turbo bass button, folks.