lo cuero, toca los cueros, loca e que ta!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK so the weather may be VILE outside but it is June so we should at least have the opportunity to pretend it's summer. And nothing is better for that than this year's dancehall smash, 'Whine Up' by Kat DeLuna and Elephant Man.

Watch on YouTube

This is exactly the kind of music which perfectly encapsulates summer for me, I would not mind if every pop song in the future was made along these lines. Kat D reminds me a little of Christina Milian, she has that same vibe of...looking kittenish, but you know that she's in charge and secretly a TIGER. Anyway if you don't find the basic elements of the song and the video deeply satisfying - the pitch-shifting synth, the lyrics about how great dancing is, the dancing itself (when I first heard this song I started dancing along about two lines in), then, I dunno, you are 1XFOOL.

EDIT ooh and more along these lines - the return of LUMIDEE! I am sure you all remember her from having made probably the best single of this decade, 'Never Leave You', and she is BACK BACK BACK - no longer a chubby girl singing out of tune but a fully fledged reggaeton diva with Pitbull in tow. Best bit in the video = when she keeps it moving after discovering her boy with another girl.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

lex lex ru goin to host a WIMBLETIMISTS community?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was going to post a, er, post about it today on my lj! But the hangover won :(

I have taken the entire fortnight off work (probably won't take it ALL off though) and will be attending on Wednesday. I am worried about the weather though.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Lex where do you stand on... TILA TEQUILA? She has, like, the same face.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Sadly the intervention of Elephant Man made me stop watching that (that is Elephant Man, right? otherwise this is going to be embarassing) because something about the man makes me die. However, when I fastforwarded to the chorus I thought it was good.

Why do people insist on putting Elephant Man on otherwise perfectly good records? It really is unnecessary.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Elephant Man is GREAT though! I love his cameo verse here, definitely.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I wish she was...better? She's shouty, I love her image and her antics on video and what she DOES, it's just...how she does it is like Northern State or Uffie or some other shit indie rappers.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Remind me to link to the most outrageously unneccesary Elephant Man cameo ever tomorrow.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

You've made me quite desperate to hear this, if only I could get YouTube working at home!

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, I'm off work so I don't have to be tainted by tennis in any way shape form.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK the Kat DeLuna track is seriously odd. In the bridge leading up to the chorus it threatens to turn into a Kelly Clarkson-like shoutathon - and then deftly steps back into dancehall mode. I think I like it.

The Lumidee is GREBT! What is the title? Neither your post or the video says! Is it just "Keep it Movin'"? The beat reminds me a bit of one or more of the latin-flavoured tracks on last year's Pitbull album. I'm wondering if one of the producers on that LP is involved here...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha yes I forgot! It is called 'Crazy'.

[(Anonymous)]

the lumidee track is on the bubble up riddim, which is like 2 years old. lenky produced it.

[koganbot]

Very weird - there's a rap in the middle that I'm sure is by Ivy Queen and in the vid the rapper is hooded: but then she sheds the hood, and it turns out to be Kat. (In the video, anyway; I still believe it's Ivy Queen's voice.)

Kat's voice is very '80s, like Lisa Lisa and ilk, achy and feisty, which I think is quite fine. Sorta what the song is like, actually, whining up and then winding up into brashness; so, lovely aahs and pangs and then twists and snarls and hollers.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Last.fm reveals that there is at least some other version of the song ft. Elephant Man and Ivy Queen, but I think only Ele is officially credited.