DOUBLE TRUE
At this point, "Lazy Sunday," better known as the "Chronicles of Narnia Rap," has scored the erudite liberal media trifecta: first the Village Voice blog, then Slate.com, and today, the New York Times. All we need now is something in the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column (3 to 1 odds say it will use Magnolia Bakery as the hook) and this fad will have all but officially jumped the shark from clever, zeitgeisty moment to 2005's "Rick James, bitch" stale gag.
Not that I don't like the song - it's certainly entertaining enough and does have some excellent, quotable lines (the Aaron Burr/Hamiltons joke is an insta-classic, as is "Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious"). But I really don't need to hear one more person opining, "this is better than actual hip-hop!" which, to me, you could only say if you really don't listen to any actual hip-hop. Goofy funny hip-hop is all around us. Ok, provided, much of it is unintentional but c'mon - the funniest rap song of the year, hands-down, is "My Humps." Meanwhile, I hear 7L and Esoteric are about to file suit against Samberg and Parnell over flow biting while both J-Zone and Paul Barman are no doubt asking themselves why they never thought to write songs for SNL skits.
Frankly, one of the first blogosphere notes about the song should have been the last. Back on December 19th, less than 48 hours after the skit originally aired on SNL, Sasha Frere-Jones said, "This Saturday Night Live routine is pretty much my nightmare, like people telling me they really like Danger Mouse, even though they don't usually like rap. What is difficult to process that, while hideous on paper, this routine is quite good, both as comedy and as a piece of rap music, even the delivery."
That's everything you need to know or think about the song.
(I do wonder if business at Magnolia has picked up?)
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