Taking Sides - Sisqo 'Thong Song' vs Nelly 'Hot In herre'

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well its understandable, what with them both being black eh what?

sigh

blueski, Saturday, 21 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Monty, I'll take what's behind door number three.

Kim (Kim), Sunday, 22 September 2002 04:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

behind door number three...ll cool j

boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 22 September 2002 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I get Frederick Douglas and James Brown mixed up constantly. There will be no freedom without funk.

Pete Scholtes, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...
I searched for this because today I am starting to believe that Thong Song is one of the best songs ever recorded. I think I need some kind of ILM electro-shock therapy. I don't mean this in a Calum "yeah it's all about the booty" way. It's just such an infectious, almost manic song, and yeah, that epic climax...

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link

well exactly, i hated it at first but eventually it can force you to tolerate and then respect - on the subject of Sisqo i quite liked that recent Dru Hill track 'If I Could' too...

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

Are Dru Hill meant to be a boy band? Cos they is well ugly, innit?

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

dru hill were a jodeci gapstopper

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

So who comes next?

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

(this song has aged very well surprisingly)

The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link

If by "aged surprisingly well", you mean "aged like a used diaper from a baby with colic left in the sun", then yes.

The Reverend, Thursday, 8 May 2008 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link

lol

J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 May 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link

The Reverend in NYC

anyway for some reason i heard this on the radio the other day and thought it sounded pretty good as well

J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 May 2008 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

hot in here is crap. Thong Song is fun for its novelty value...the opening strings which sound oddly like "Eleanor Rigby".

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 19 July 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Hot in Herre is an all-girl summer camp jam.

Kath, Saturday, 19 July 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

In many senses "Hot In Herre" is the "The Thong Song" for '02.

Every year of the 00s has had its Thong Song - discuss.

Matt DC, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link

sort of amazing how many big 2002 hits that i'd enjoyed at the time i never ever wanna hear again now. 'hot in herre' chief among them.

r|t|c, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link

I can listen to "Thong Song" without getting cramps and screaming "PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE!" so it has to be "Thong Song" then.

Geir Hongro, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

I can listen to "Thong Song" without getting cramps...

Oh, the mysteries of Geir continue

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 19 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

time to reevaluate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOblJOl2LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixRvDkNzYc
i think i'm siding with thong song these days to my considerable surprise.

forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

I always loved the strings on “Thong Song” pic.twitter.com/JkgkMFdhqb

— Toshinori Yagi (@PilotCristobal) February 18, 2021

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 February 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link

The original beat had the Wes Montgomery cover of Eleanor Rigby as the strings sample:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne8p7k/and-then-there-was-thong-song-sisqo-explains-the-revelation-that-inspired-his-masterpiece

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link

Can’t find a demo of it but I guess this mash-up gives a gral idea of how it could have sounded lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Cb9wx9DsQ

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link

I thought it was actually sampled...a friend of mine has been doing a cover medley of Thong Song + Eleanor Rigby for years.

change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

Yeah, when I first heard Thong Song, I laughed because it sounded like Eleanor Rigby and was a po-faced intense tune about something that goes up yr butt

Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link


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