sinicalypse wrote:
there was just something oddly calming and routine about hearing that music at a certain time every day.... now it's just the equivalent of being the web v2.0 version of the second half
OH YEAH, i wanna get back to this point while it's on the tip of my mind. for the longest time i've been on larrycakes to BRING BACK
SHAKE THAT because like, shoot dude, for better or worse there was a daily ritual whenever 6:03 rolled around and you heard [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-baGjV5bI]the vocodered "P-P-P-P-ARTY ROCK L-M-F-A-O" --- anticipation builds up to a level higher than the sears tower even tho you know exactly what's coming cuz you've made fun of it to the point of it being a board meme.... BUT STILL, SHIT, once you hear that
SHAKE THAT you tend to lose control and start dancing wherever the fuck you are.
powerful stuff. even ike's best nugular magic carpet ride can't top the raw visceral emotion of THE DROP (i.e. why dubstep is popular; the music is utter trash but if you use the overblown breakdown/buildup/drop inherent to the music, shit, humans love following instructions. give them some. i.e. ike i want some of what you're smoking: hollatchabw0y!
as i've said on here seemingly ad nauseum, you have no idea how many dirty looks i'd catch on/around the metra right there at 6:03 because my momma raised a good boy; so when the future of chicago sports talk radio commands me to
SHAKE THAT, believe you me
THAT is getting
SHAKEN, not stirred no matter what i'm doing. hell some of my then-coworkers were !!!! and would sardonically look forward to me party rocking alongside them circa 6:03. larry and the a-team successfully installed a proper meme into me, and by the time i truly grew to love
SHAKE THAT it was gone as quickly as it came.... which leads me to say WHAT THE CHRIST LAURENCE COMEON YOU BRANDED YOURSELF AS THE PARTY-ROCK OF THE SCORE AND YOU CAME OUT WITH THIS SONG HOOKING ALL OF US (LOVE AND HATE: SAME EMOTION DIFFERENT WEIGHT) TO THE POINT OF CREATING A CSFMB MEME!!! FOR FUCK'S LARRY GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!
so yeah i'm bitter that like, larry caved in to whatever pressure he surely didn't have and decided to get rid of the intro drop that was the most recognizable aspect/symbol/epitome/metaphor-for/motief/etc of the whole Laurence W. Holmes Multimedia Experience! i mean, if he's sensitive about how he's perceived here amongst the hardcores, shit, you've gotta realize that being tied to that phrase/drop/song was an excellent bit of marketing because whether or not people loved you, hated you, or honestly didn't give a toss either way..... everyone knew
SHAKE THAT. and whether or not people are willing to admit it like me, i too came to party rock and make you lose control (
SHAKE THAT) and the unmitigated pure unadulterated totally un[something-high-vocab] compulsion to lose control and
SHAKE THAT took over my body and caused me to celebrate the infinite majesty of life through the expressive/emotive medium of song.
i grew to love
SHAKE THAT like evidently nobody else ever did. it was just so perfect and when it stuck his show around after the initial ballbusting it was like a glorious middle finger from laurence to the haters.... this is what i am this is what i do and this is how we roll in the people's show colon we do what i want.....
alas, laurence is perpetually subject to this hellbent desire to conform to the lowest common denominator of society therefore he changed it to some anonymous classic rock song intro as if to say "ok white people, here's something for you" and it killed the badass vibe that he kicked off each show with.
and i'm sure he'd argue that it was the right move to do, especially now that he's in the 9-1 seat and not likely gonna give it up itl his contract expires.... but like, still man.... i just.... i always end up in this position where i hit the brick wall of interpersonal human communication and can't properly convey the unabashed positivity that came with a proper romp in the realm of
SHAKING THAT. Hell, i have that song on repeat one right now just to get the style pumping through my heart and coursing through my veins.... i mean when the song would drop into the note with the raising pitch and then hitch a couple times by saying
SHAKE THAT and later
MOVE THAT i'd literally be dancing around and pointing at random people in perfect time with the song.... it brought out this jovial extrovert in me that could lend credence to the theory that music is some sort of a ritual meant to alter human emotion and consequently thoughts/actions.... and hell i think thing song even inspired the meme where we call him "sir" larry because pitbull or whoever croons that he loves [you] so much he wants to be [your] "sir"
i mean shit.... comeon laurence look at this
LMFAO Shooting Star Remix ft Pitbull wrote:
Every other SHAKE THAT becomes a blur / be my mistress i'll be your sir
metaphorically speaking, we the audience were Laurence's mistress and he was(/is/will-forever-be) our sir. and he threw it all away.
so yeah, crestfallen is perhaps the only term that can accurately depict the ethereal type of feelings i'm being deprived of as laurence has changed his intro into some goofy a-team ritual that basically only exists to remind us/his-underlings that he is the best-schooled out of all of them.... yeah man, enough with the ego laurence. give us not just what we want, but truly what we need. GIVE US
SHAKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!1
my bad on the tl;dr paragraphs that feature me talking in circles and repeating myself over and over and over again with minimal variation, although in talking about dance music you can argue if there's one subject matter in life where doing the verbose broken record style is apropos, it is indeed here.
so yeah, getting back to my original point.... radio is a really habitual medium....moreso than television of even the cafeteria style of selecting your own internet-propagated media, you tend to find some underlying sense of comfort in the day-to-day commonality of hearing familiar music/drops/bumpers/commercials/etc.... you know, radio is all about the repeat customer.... the regular listener.... or hell even the regular reader if it's saints related bollocks.... and part of that is borne in the euphony of finding something you like that's compartmentalized/tied-to-something-compartmentalized in such a way that it's a daily repetitive habit. you know, when 5:58 would roll around with the final few commercials leading up to the top of the hour update you're purposely gonna listen to it just so you can get your public dance on, cuz man laurence.... real talk homey if you read this or any of my lenghty constructive criticisms of you and your hosting steez... i have a hard time taking the center of attention when it comes to communicating with attractive members of the opposite gender. seriously i often get crippled wit self-doubt because having low-self-esteem = why am i seeking attention in such a boisterous way?
well
SHAKE THAT broke down that barrier and has gotten me a couple'a phone #s in its heyday. the p-p-p-p-p-party rock did the lord's work in ritualistically grabbing my soul and breaking me out of the day-to-day banal doldrums to the point where i proudly demanded the attention of everyone around me because dammit barry gordy's son/nephew/whatever wouldn't lie to me when he says i'm a shooting star! i'm special, and with his music overriding my cold and lonely intellectualism, i turn into a simple visceral straightforward genius who allows a piece of music to program him into a party rock machine built for pleasuring the wimmenfolk. yes sirs and madames...
SHAKE THAT did the trick for me. for that fleeting period of time it was an indelible part of my life, as hearing that drop will forever be equated with impromptu dance parties on the metra that ended up benefiting me in terms of random wanton sexual debauchery; again, YOU DID THE LORD'S WORK, LAURENCE.
so in the spirit of that, i humbly reiterate that hearing the NFL Films background music every day w/the 2nd half provided a certain level of comfort borne from the expectations of being fed something that i was used to hearing every weekday at a certain time (you know, what the medium of radio is all about.... unless you're howard stern cuz he's so goddamn busy with his show and AGT that we're blessed to get 3 days a week when we maybe deserve two, if even that. teh show has evolved.
ahem. yeah i got nothing.... i'm done. and i'm gonna bump
SHAKE THAT one more time to indelibly remind me of a time and place in my life that i'm going to forever look back upon with rosy colored glasses. a special time and place in my life that i'll never get back because someone is TOO SELFISH AND PIGHEADED TO GIVE US AN OLDSCHOOL ONE NIGHT ONLY RETURN OF
SHAKE THAT. yeah. it hurts... it sucks.... and even if tanny/a-team plays the vengaboys or something equally kitsch and fun-bad, well, it'll never be quite the same as that period of time where i worked downtown and rode the metra back pumped up and
SHAKEN and ready to hear about the 4 hours of show that LoHo had to cram into ~22 minutes of time b4 white sox baseball pregame on WSOX.
this is the end. really. sorry to everyone who is annoyed by my tl;dr stuff, but goddammit when i have an emotional reaction to something that has possibly provided the world with a secret lovechild due to the aforementioned random wanton sexual debauchery that came from allowing the LMFAO ritual to override my mind and put me in a visceral mindset that relied heavily on our animal instincts to propagate the species*.
that's right kids, there very well might be a SON OF
SHAKE THAT out there somewhere whose life has been prophesized to be that of the antichrist. or jesus. or maybe just a fallen angel or seraphim or something. and s/he only exists because that song popped up and got le loosey goosey and ready to mack teh wimmenfolk, so again, thank you laurence but fuck you because WAAAHHHHH I NEED MY
SHAKE THAT ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1