Why? Why? Why

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I hate to spoil the flow of seasonal postings, but this... well.. you'll see.

From Tatysite.net:
Californian band Flipsyde borrowed original vocal and instrumental parts of Tatu's for its new hit "Happy Birthday". Lyrics of this rap ballad have nothing to do with the birthday greetings but tell about regrets of a person over his unborn child.

Yes, that's right! It's a rap song about regretting one's partner having had an abortion! And it samples "Gomenasai" by TATU! TATU! The piano and part of the third verse, specifically. And it's spectacularly awful. The sample is great, obviously, but it doesn't go with the clumsy, programmed-in-maybe-five-seconds beat or the lyrics! Oh my god, the LYRICS, someone needs to do a long discourse analysis of this.. yesterday. Badly executed meta-songwriting("Think about it every day so I picked up a pen"). Clumsy bits that don't flow at all. The language of the born-again pro-life movement ("murder", "homicide"). Heavy-handed heaven-imagery that would have shamed Bono ("the place without time and space"). The only precedent for such shamelessly brazen, silly sampling would be "Tacky Love Song" by Credit To The Nation (though that one likely infuriated Radiohead fans, so at least it had something going for it), but this is just astonishingly inept. Though I suppose it's nice that you can have a hit despite having worse flow than me. Basically, stand aside "Nine Million Bicycles", "Ass Like That" and that awful Towers Of London song. This is clearly the biggest musical abortionabomination of 2005.

You really have to hear it. Here you go, thank/curse me later. And READ THE LYRICS, in all their woefulness.