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Mind control at a hundred twenty BPM
By Joe Palmersheim
Published:
Monday, October 20, 2003
Josef Palmersheim -- Staff Column
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I've noticed, after seeing this a few times, that you can make people say really awful things if you have a catchy musical beat behind it.
I came to this conclusion a little while ago when I was in a club and I heard a particular song.� This, song, for those of you who don't know, has a refrain (edited for this publication of course) that goes "Face down, [rear-end] up, that's the way we like to [fornicate]."
What really blows my mind is that the majority of the people I see singing these refrains with obvious joy in the sheer crass-ness of it are female. The kind you would see read to blind kids or volunteering in a nursing home, convincing Mr. Floyd in 32B that the German Army is NOT out to get him.
If I were to walk up to one of these girls and say what this song said, I would get beaten or at the very least, slapped. In this day and age, I would probably get shot without a trial. So how come a song can get away with it and I never could?
Techno is very simple.� Lyrics are banal at best, and at the very worst, unprintable. The song I referred to in the opening paragraph isn't even really a song.� There is no melody - it's just a bunch of beats strung together.
This gives me an idea. I think I'll get some random French person (the French seem to know a lot about techno) and form a band.� We'll be called The Dumpster Babies. Our lyrics will be the most foul things that can come to mind, just to see how far we can go before people, especially the girls, stop singing along. Keep an eye out for our new single, "I'm Fat, Stupid, and Really Ugly (Happy Playground Mix 2003)."
