The inevitable mashup between Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus’ relentlessly sunny “Party In The USA” and the Notorious B.I.G.’s 1993 track “Party And Bullshit”—called, of course, “Party And Bullshit In The USA,” and thrown together by a self-proclaimed pro skier who calls himself “Andrew Hathaway”—probably won’t make the spawn of Billy Ray come crawling back to Twitter. But swapping out her verses for those by the deceased hip-hop giant did make me appreciate the brighter-than-just-whitened-teeth musical bed put together by Dr. Luke a little more than I did on first listen, which is something, right? [YouTube via cameronr] More »
The Electric Six‘s “Jimmy Carter” is, as far as I’m concerned, the single best song ever written about the American presidency. (Well, the American presidency and boy bands.) But there are a lot of excellent runners-up!
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down top-ten lists from every genre imaginable. After the jump, he sits through VH1’s latest TV-based listicle, 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs, and finds a few poignant moments among the MC Hammer jokes:
“He was just hanging out at the barber shop, used to party over there up on St. James Place. He used to come down to the store and say, ‘Birdell, I want you to help me get beats, tracks, ’cause I know you know them old blues and the good music.’ I said: ‘Aw, Biggie, I don’t have time for that. More »
“He was just hanging out at the barber shop, used to party over there up on St. James Place. He used to come down to the store and say, ‘Birdell, I want you to help me get beats, tracks, ’cause I know you know them old blues and the good music.’ I said: ‘Aw, Biggie, I don’t have time for that. More »