Monday, May 31, 2010

Worst. Song. EVER.

"Crank Dat Soulja Boy" ~ Soulja Boy

This is arguably the worst song (if you want to call it that) ever written. Based on our class song rating sheet, it received a negative 320. That includes the five points that I awarded it for humor; this song is a joke. The vocals display no hint of talent, and to say that the song is repetitive would be an understatement. Many of the words sound like they are missing letters, so only parts of these words are heard.
When I was completing this assignment, I was convinced that every bad song has allusions. If the lyrics are weak, the songwriter tends to throw in a few allusions just so that the lyrics won't be all bad. Soulja Boy includes allusions to Bathing... I'm sorry, Bathin'... Apes, Robocop, Rubberband Man, Superman, Roosevelt, and...um... himself. Even when the allusions are used, they don't make sense, much like the rest of the lyrics, which mainly consist of random words put together that mean absolutely nothing. Because of phrases such as "Superman dat oh," the song sounds like something that someone wrote in their sleep. Even that may be giving this song too much credit; it should not be compared in any way to Paul McCartney's "Yesterday." However, Soulja Boy does use alliteration consonance: "lean to the left," "super soak," AND "do dat." (clever, I know)
This song has an abundance of poor word choices, some of which are not even real words.
"Haterz get mad cuz..." Haterz? Cuz? Really?
"And he's gon' crank it up fo' sho'" Wow, he managed to finish more than half of the words in this line!
"Now watch me you." When people use the phrase,"Now watch me..." they usually end it with a VERB.
"at yo local party"- I'm not even sure if it means "your" local party or not.
"they be lookin'"- That's not a grammar violation or anything...
"Im'a," "wanna," "tryna," ...enough said.

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