Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels.
There is a Todd in the Shadows episode about "Whomp, There It Is" (that mentions the coincidence of having two songs with similar titles). But instead of linking to that, I will threadjack and say that his video about the Macarena is _amazing _. I've been thinking about sending it in for a while, and a long weekend is a perfect time to sit back and be reminded just how strange the entire Macarena phenomenon was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33MGYUouEE4
This clears up some longstanding confusion I had. Thank you for the research, Heebie.
I think it is the movie Rat Race (the remake) that has a running gag where every time they dip into a convenience store, the Macarena is playing.
I started listening to the You Must Remember This Erotic 80s series, and in the preview episode, they discuss Deep Throat, and I just cannot get over how popular a hardcore porno was. That is such a bizarre little cultural nugget. The 7th highest grossing film of the year! It was a thing to go see what all the fuss was about, with your friends! And it was a completely run-of-the-mill porn movie that just happened to get elevated because it was showing when the NY Mayor declared war on porn! Such a weird sequence of events.
4: I truly felt like I'd uncovered a hidden gem and accomplished some big feat when I read this. High water mark of 2022 for me right there.
Also there are 3 little tots in the ~15-18 month range toddling around me in the airport, and there is nothing that puts me in a better mood than watching these little cuties. Also I'm traveling by myself, as Jammies drove ahead with the kids last weekend. What a great combination.
It's not just the title! The refrains are indistinguishable! The 95 South version adds "Where the booty at?!" in between "there it is"s which I suppose makes it marginally less appropriate for a DreamWorks Animation montage. The verses and beat of the Tag Team version add no value! I would be extremely annoyed if I were 95 South and my residual checks were 0.01% as large.
Hey, what was your son's game again? I forgot but now I have time off to try it.
6 I don't remember how but when I was barely a teenager, still a kid I think, someone I know had a 16mm print of it and my brother and I had a screening of it in my parents' basement. No idea how we weren't caught.
Heebie, when you have time you should watch the video in 3 (made by the same person who did the "Disco Duck" video). It's great, you'll love it.
I would be extremely annoyed if I were 95 South and my residual checks were 0.01% as large.
Like rain on your wedding day.
I don't think I ever heard Whoomp! There It Is (nor, I assume, Whoot) contemporaneously, even though 1993 was about the time I was most tuned in to chart music. Hip hop hadn't really taken off in the UK by then, and Wikipedia tells me it only got to 34 in the singles charts here. I have since heard the refrain in other pop culture, but that's about it.
It seems someone covered it much more successfully here, though I don't remember this either:
In 1995, British pop/dance act Clock released a successful Eurodance cover of the song titled "Whoomph! (There It Is)". It was their fifth single from the debut album, It's Time..., and peaked at No. 5 in Ireland, No. 4 in the United Kingdom
For about twenty years I thought the Quad City DJs were from the Quad Cities and I figured lots of towns must be cooler than you would guess just driving through. When I finally double-checked this on Wikipedia, I felt very very very dumb.
For about twenty years I thought the Quad City DJs were from the Quad Cities and I figured lots of towns must be cooler than you would guess just driving through. When I finally double-checked this on Wikipedia, I felt very very very dumb.
Well, I never heard of the Quad City DJs until this very post, but I did learn from their wikipedia page that one of the members goes by Tony WHOA! (caps and exclamation point are part of the name apparently)
19: I did the same thing but I didn't feel dumb. I felt angry about being lied to.
I mean, Jacksonville's not exactly known for its coolness either.
I'm in agreement with 10. How did two different groups manage to write the same song at the same time? Were they both referencing an earlier thing?
24: One heard the other. That's my shocking theory.
A similar song, "Whoot, There It Is", was released by the Miami-based group 95 South a month prior to Tag Team's "Whoomp!"[9] Both groups' record companies maintained that the similarities were a coincidence, as the phrase, "Whoomp (or whoot), there it is", was a common expression used by dancers in Atlanta and Miami nightclubs that members from both groups frequented.[9] Arsenio Hall hosted both groups on his television show to perform their versions of the songs and let viewers vote on their favorite by calling a 900 number to donate money to the relief effort for the 1993 Midwest floods.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoomp!_(There_It_Is)
I'm not buying this explanation.
It's like that time I wrote a song with the same exact words and melody as "Yesterday". Can you believe that people accused me of plagiarism? So silly -- "yesterday" is a very common word!
That's not a very good song. You could do better.
The Tag Team song has continuously occupied a (tiny, stupid) part of my brain for the past almost-thirty years, and I have never heard of "Whoot There It Is," so I was prepared to listen to it and say, these two songs are actually not that similar, but wtf! they are exactly the same. And the Quad City DJs song went triple-platinum? This is a Shazam-sized hole in my memory.
Hey, what was your son's game again? I forgot but now I have time off to try it.
Here is the Steam link. I hope you like shooting alien spaceships.
Unless Musk is on it, I won't shoot a local one.
30: I liked it quite a bit. It does a good job of making you think it's beyond your skills, but a few repeats of practice and learning the patterns is enough to beat the next level.
29: I never knew the name of either of these bands, but I did remember that there were two competing "Wh...., there it is" songs on the charts at the same time. Maybe I saw a promo for that Arsenio Hall show?
I not only *can* discuss the difference between the "Whoot" and "Whoomp" songs at great length, but I in fact did so just this past summer while driving with a friend to the beach listening to a nostalgic rap and hip hop playlist.
"C'mon and Ride It," meanwhile, remains a frequent earworm because the sound of passing trains disrupts one of my classes at least twice per class session.
I'm now hoping you do the choo-choo/pull the chain dance move, when appropriate.
and chant "I think I can I think I can".
I liked it quite a bit. It does a good job of making you think it's beyond your skills, but a few repeats of practice and learning the patterns is enough to beat the next level.
That's great! I'll tell him that and he'll be thrilled with the feedback.
I'm just really touched that we stayed on topic for 38 comments so far. You all do care about the finer points of Billboard hits of 1993 after all.
I was off topic in the first comment.
Peltola wins! (Murkowski too.) There's your off-topic.
More of a mixed bag in the state House. Looks like there may be another deadlock before someone can form a majority caucus. State Senate will almost certainly have a bipartisan majority coalition.
35: To be perfectly honest, I have done both the dance and the "I think I can" bit in front of my goofier classes when the train has interrupted me for the millionth time in the middle of an important point and the students are already used to me being a total dork. My classroom persona is not terribly dignified.