Not only smart, they’re smart in character, which is one thing that sets them apart from obvious (but different) peers Flight of the Conchords. Everybody) track, epic in its own right, and a good use of T-Pain’s guest spot that’s as important (and as funny) as it is in “Blame It.” (2) They’re smart. This production is, like, a real song - pretty accurate as an emulation of an epic DJ Nobody (feat. Reluctant point for the halfway decent beat, but the vileness of the overall aesthetic outweighs it.ĭave Moore: Three points about the Lonely Island. “I’m On a Boat” is wild-eyed homage, a joyous celebration of Rick Ross-esque money-porn, even while it renders many lesser examples of such music obsolete.Īlex Macpherson: Ugh, dorky white dudes trying to be funny, failing miserably. “I never thought I’d be on a boat,” T-Pain auto-croons like some modern day version of Kenneth Grahame’s Water-Rat, the Wind in the Willows character who delighted, “There is nothing - absolute nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Yacht, ferry, or dinghy, could any boy be so lucky as to find himself on a boat, with the opportunity to tell the entire world of the exhilaration he is experiencing? Some may be tempted to see this as sneering parody, but disregard those buttoned-down killjoys. The Lonely Island, with spiritual assitance from T-Pain, ascends to some blissful consumerist nirvana where transcendence can be achieved by mere means of presence on a watercraft. Jonathan Bradley: “I’m On a Boat” is quite simply the greatest rebuke to Marxism since the fall of the Iron Curtain. This generation’s Weird Al, except without any jokes. It is the best pastiche of hardcore black hip hop by white people that I have heard, lyrically and musically, so certainly skillful and sort of impressive. Martin Skidmore: I’m not entirely convinced that copying other acts and sounding a little bit Eminem, a bit Atlanta and so on, actually amounts to parody, or what I am supposed to find funny. To their credit, they nearly manage it – it’s a slick-sounding gag that doesn’t quite work away from the slick-looking clip. You can slice it any way you like and say it’s parodying profanity-laden rap in the lyrics at the same time as bling-laden materialism in the video, but the verses and the authentic T-Pain cameo have to do a lot of lifting to compensate for the witless chorus which doesn’t outlast its surprise/shock value. “THIS BOAT IS REAL!”Įdward Okulicz: Much better as a song than it is as a joke. Put it this way: with or without T-Pain excitedly exclaiming “I never thought I’d be on a boat!” with all the wonder of a small child (with access to a vocoder), this is still an impressive piece, which, at just two and a half minutes, also leaves it just short enough to still be both catchy and, as importantly, fucking funny. Somehow The Lonely Island have managed to buck the trend with each of their singles so far (Boyz II Men on “Dick in a Box”, electropop on “Jizz in My Pants”), by paying just as much attention to detail in the production as they do to the lyrics. Pharrell WilliamsĪlex Wisgard: A novelty YouTube sensation never makes for a good pop song, especially novelty whiteboy-goes-urban genre pisstake like this.
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