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Snoop Dogg Featuring T-Pain, "Boom"
Man, classic '80s synth music is having a rough couple of days. First there was the desecration of New Order's "True Faith" by George Michael and the Autotune machine that has apparently taken control of mind and relieved him of his faculties. Now Snoop Dogg and T-Pain do something not entirely unsimilar to Yaz's "Situation." (They used Alison Moyet's wonderful bubbly laugh and everything!) "Boom" is also one of the most nonsensical videos I've ever seen. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. But, why did we go through a full minute-and-a-half of post-apocalyptic Tusken raider stuff just to get into the same club we spend most hip-hop videos in?
Here are the originals, to try to wash the taste out of your mouth.
Snoop sounds like he is outsourcing his lyric writing to Bangalore.
They're called YAZOO
nope. no OO.
Yes, OO
that's a right-of-pond problem.
More importantly they didn't even bother to use the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea headgear for some serious hotboxin'.
Right. I was definitely expecting that. A waste of an excellent costume department's work.
For the confused: the official name of the group is Yazoo. They are called Yaz in the U.S., though–apparently there was already a rock group in the U.S. with the name Yazoo, and they sued.
So, technically, both LondonLee and Art Yucko are correct… although I'm inclined to go with Yazoo since they are British.
(Note to 2011: Please stop desecrating my music. Thank you.)
The only thing missing is Blizzard Man.