I'll Be Your Everything
... Okay, I may need to explain this.
I hold an awful lot of nostalgia for Disney's Inspector Gadget. I still have the VHS tape that I've kept since I was 6 or something. In retrospect it isn't a very good movie, but it was probably the most influential part of my childhood. This is the music video that plays after the credits of the film on the VHS tape in question. I have no idea why, but it is.
So Youngstown was one of the early 2000's white rap groups that dissolved in 2005. This was really their only commercial success because it was marketed with this film. It's like if Alicia Keys made a deal with Lionsgate to put Girl On Fire on the Hunger Games DVD.
Apparently, there are 2 versions of this song: this version, and the one that they put on their album "Let's Roll." The album version has no reference to the film except the word "gadget" in the chorus and the same musical sampling at the beginning. It's also got a rap verse, and is explicitly about romance and sex as opposed to the film version which is about saving the day. Now the question is: which version did they write first? My guess is they approached Disney with their album version and the mouse made them change the lyrics to be more family appropriate, but I can only speculate.
This song really isn't anything special. It's one unique trait is the sampling of the Inspector Gadget theme. It gives the song charm and fits surprisingly well with the synthetic stuff that they come up with. That's really the only thing that makes it musically interesting, but that little bit of instrumental that uses the same key and keeps with the goofy sound of the original song is actually kind of fun to listen to.
So, the video:
Not very unique. They're putting on the tough guy thing, and when you're wearing a trench-coat and singing the plot to a Disney film, it really doesn't work. Good set design, though. It's simple, but it looks like something, and allows for creative transitions. And I've already run out of stuff to say. The only reason that any of this is exemplary is because it was on the Inspector Gadget VHS.
Happy late Halloween (2014).
I hold an awful lot of nostalgia for Disney's Inspector Gadget. I still have the VHS tape that I've kept since I was 6 or something. In retrospect it isn't a very good movie, but it was probably the most influential part of my childhood. This is the music video that plays after the credits of the film on the VHS tape in question. I have no idea why, but it is.
So Youngstown was one of the early 2000's white rap groups that dissolved in 2005. This was really their only commercial success because it was marketed with this film. It's like if Alicia Keys made a deal with Lionsgate to put Girl On Fire on the Hunger Games DVD.
Apparently, there are 2 versions of this song: this version, and the one that they put on their album "Let's Roll." The album version has no reference to the film except the word "gadget" in the chorus and the same musical sampling at the beginning. It's also got a rap verse, and is explicitly about romance and sex as opposed to the film version which is about saving the day. Now the question is: which version did they write first? My guess is they approached Disney with their album version and the mouse made them change the lyrics to be more family appropriate, but I can only speculate.
This song really isn't anything special. It's one unique trait is the sampling of the Inspector Gadget theme. It gives the song charm and fits surprisingly well with the synthetic stuff that they come up with. That's really the only thing that makes it musically interesting, but that little bit of instrumental that uses the same key and keeps with the goofy sound of the original song is actually kind of fun to listen to.
So, the video:
Not very unique. They're putting on the tough guy thing, and when you're wearing a trench-coat and singing the plot to a Disney film, it really doesn't work. Good set design, though. It's simple, but it looks like something, and allows for creative transitions. And I've already run out of stuff to say. The only reason that any of this is exemplary is because it was on the Inspector Gadget VHS.
Happy late Halloween (2014).