Back in the mid-nineties Britpop era, a lot of people were saying that while Oasis were destined to crack America, Blur never would. They put it down to the mainstream American music industry’s lack of appreciation of irony.
Turns out neither really broke The Land Of The Free, but that comment always stuck in my head as a broad generalisation. Surely our good friends across the Atlantic couldn’t be so different, right? A few years later I endured an entire episode of Seinfeld on a friend’s recommendation, and realised that there must be something in the water. I don’t care how many people watched it, it’s not funny. See Two-and-half Men for further evidence as to why popular doesn’t mean good.
Back to irony – this one’s a corker. Not only does Jason Derulo manage to rip off two different songs in the first thirty seconds of his own unique offering, he also follows it up immediately with the lyric “check that out, what they playing – that’s my song, that’s my song”.
Except it isn’t. It’s Day-O and Robyn S’s Show Me Love. And some auto-tune.
Nice try though.
This:
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