Comments on: What is that sound? Is that… music?!

By: Maddie

Maddie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:58:16 +0000

I just stopped by to tell you that I finally got the new color theme to unfamed.org up and I REALLYY like the new layout for looking-in.

Anddd ily. Kthnx. =]
And missss talking to you.

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:13:19 +0000

I think a lot of people just buy into all the popular songs without actually considering the message or the lyrics. Or if they do, they just don’t care

I admit, I find the song catchy. And I can’t really tell what they’re saying or what they mean by it — this is the first time I realize superman is used as a verb; I just thought it was a song about dancing! I guess I should have known better.

Some of the students in my school were teaching the dance to one of the teachers, and there’s even a video of that on youtube.

But hey, I can’t blame them for spelling “soldier” like that. It does make a “j” sound when you pronounce it

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:43 +0000

Everyone around here listens to that song religiously it seems like. I can’t go anywhere without hearing it. I liked it at first but it has become so played out that it’s annoying the hell out of me. I am more of a rock type of person. I listen to rap occasionally but not very often. Papa Roach, Hinder and things of that type are what I’m into. Not…hmm…well I was going to name a few rap artists but their names seemed to have slipped my mind, lol. See how much I listen to rap, haha.

By: Marz

Marz — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:42:12 +0000

I am an alternative and rock music type of person so rap doesn’t really appeal to me, soundwise. I did enjoy the rap and hip-hop of the 90s (yes, the times of baggy silk pants and synchronised dancing in the alleyways.. though that seemed to be a boyband thing too..) but the rap nowadays doesn’t really appeal to me. I guess I also found rap of the 90s to be more.. socially aware, I guess? Then again, the early 90s was also another height of environmental awareness, racial awareness and the like. I guess based on the previous comments, I am on the recieving end of really horrible rap music because the ones I am hearing have terrible lyrics. If I do come upon rap that I do enjoy, I’ll stand corrected. I may be a rock/alternative music listener at heart, but I can keep my mind open.

By: Rafia

Rafia — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:29:23 +0000

Oh yes! I briefly mentioned this song in my “Music sucks nowadays” post I made a while ago. I had no idea it was called “Crank That Solja Boy”. Oh, excuse me. Dat. It’s very important.

They play the freaking song like once every hour on the radio stations. As soon as I hear even a second of that song I change the station. I’ve haven’t heard long enough to actually know what the guy is saying… but I doubt I’d be able to comprehend even if I did listen to the whole song.

Superman? Wow.

Oh, and I have to agree with Leila… Mark Ronson is nice. And not all rap is trash. I rather like Mos Def and Common. But I like to think of them as “social rap”…

By: Sic

Sic — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:38:56 +0000

It’s amazing how little people seem to care about the actual content of rap lyrics. One jeep TV commercial used lyrics from a rap which described drive-by shootings.

Soulja Boy is the rapper’s stage name so of course his name has to repeated dozens of times in the lyrics. Sometimes people refer to a penis as a soldier boy or little soldier, so I can only assume this guy is calling himself a penis. If to “crank that soldier boy” is like “cranking your shaft” then the entire rap is about masturbating onto women.

By: ACE

ACE — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:53:48 +0000

If you think that song was crazy then you need to hear spidaman that ho. There is some good hip-hop out in the world. This kinda reminds me of how in hs on the bus to games we would be singing my milkshake, even though we knew what it meant. Thats why people imo are drawn to artists such as Christina, Mariah, Joss Stone, Jo Jo, Faith Hill, Beyonce, Whitney pre-crack, John Mayer, Gavin, Morrison, Lidell, Jamiroquai, Legend, Nozuka, Justin T, etc b/c it’s soulful and they want something to hear something real. Enough of may rambling but reading this did give me a good chuckle while raising a good point at the same time.

By: Laur

Laur — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:39:53 +0000

Lmao, thanks for that, Leila. I thought “hoe” was a variant spelling, though. Oh well. We’re talking about a song that spells “soldier” with a ‘j’ and “Superman” like “Supaman,” after all.

By: Leila

Leila — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:48:08 +0000

It’s ho, not hoe. ^_^ Also, is it a bad irony that you made a typo spelling “soldier” when you were trying to point out how to spell it correctly, or do I just have a terrible sense of humor? Probably the latter.

I’m slightly offended by Chanel’s comment here; this is why we listen to indie rap and get into the underground hip-hop scene — 99% of rap is not the garbage you hear on the radio. Popular rap and hip-hop is reaching new lows, but Mark Ronson is still the em-effing bomb.

By: Chanel

Chanel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:31:14 +0000

I pretty much have nothing more to say – you’ve said it all perfectly.

99% of rap is simply appalling. The majority of it is utterly degrading to woman, the English language, and pretty much everything else that it references to.

I briefly saw the music video to this “popular” song and for a moment, I couldn’t tear my eyes away. It was ridiculous. And the ‘music’ was, like you said, horrid – If you can call it music. It gave me a splitting headache.