Doo-doo d-doo-d-doo-doo-doo, boom-boom b-boom-b-boom-boom-boom (Sexyy Red's "Ah Thousand Jugs")

[koganbot]

In 2002 Vanessa Carlton had this beautifully girlie and arty song, "A Thousand Miles," and now just last year Sexyy Red grabbed it and probably liking all its nuances and the chord twists and tuneful turns she nonetheless had fun bashing around in it, "Ah Thousand Jugs," just pawing at it with a who-cares out-of-tune voice, throwing her own words

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White Chicks

[skyecaptain]

My students all know "A Thousand Miles" from the movie *White Chicks*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C7u5Kud1Y0

The joke is basically that this is the initiation of the two main characters into the sort of thing that makes their new white friends go crazy. "Haha, this is how white people go crazy," something like that. But later, Terry Crews says it's *his* favorite song, too, jamming out to it the same way that the white friends did in the car. Other people in the movie all go crazy for it eventually.

So there's two things -- one is the basic contradiction between where Carlton "codes" as hype. But the other thing is that the outside audience, the ones outside the hype, still ends up jamming out to it (i.e., my students genuinely like the song; the movie was their "in"). So it's a song that gets to have its cake and eat it too.

Re: White Chicks

[koganbot]

Do they know the Sexyy Red version?

I discovered her through "Slide," naturally; she's from St. Louis, though, not Chicago.

I'd half-noticed references to White Chicks in the comments, but they never really registered since I hadn't seen it.

I wonder if it had anything to do with Heroes & Thieves coming out the next year on Irv Gotti's hip-hop label, whether he got interested in Carlton through the movie and/or thought the movie had made the black audience interested. Or maybe, simply, he was already a Vanessa Carlton fan. There was no attempt to make her sound R&B on it. She mostly worked with Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) and Linda Perry, according to Wikipedia

Re: White Chicks: Is the future just a memory that we will soon forget?

[koganbot]

Terry Crews appeared a couple of weeks ago on the Marc Maron podcast; spoke about (among many other things) being inspired by #MeToo to go public about having been sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive - which links him in another way to Vanessa Carlton: she'd not been assaulted, but she told the New York Times that when she was a 12-year-old at a City Ballet summer school a teacher there threatened to expel any student who spoke to the press about the director assaulting his wife. "It was not until many years later that I realized this kind of thinking and behavior lays the groundwork for silence."

And though I can't say this has anything to do with "A Thousand Miles" or White Chicks, I've long wished to embed Tina B's "I Always Wanted To Be Free" on my lj, and someone finally put up a version on YouTube, so I can. The song's basically a stretched-out freestyle climax, starting where most songs are nearing their end with chanting and vamping and gospel lightning bolts and just flowing from there (produced by Arthur Baker, 1984