Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo
**1/2 (of four)
We all remember the Bloodhound Gang from their hornball new wave-sounding novelty hit "The Bad Touch," which featured the memorable refrain, "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals / So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Back then I had a friend who was an obsessive fan of the group and claimed "The Bad Touch" was a sellout song not representative of their work as a whole, and that within a few years the band would be huge based on the strength of their musical canon. I wonder what she thinks of the video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," which makes "The Bad Touch" look quite subtle by comparison.
Again, we're subjected to watered-down new wave, but this time it's a little closer to the uptempo pop side of Blur. The topic, however, remains the same. If you hadn't noticed the song's title forms the acronym F-U-C-K, which about says it all. The four words, "Foxtrot," "Uniform," "Charlie" and "Kilo," as I just learned from poking around the Internet, come from the International Radio Operators' Alphabet. Let no one say the Bloodhound Gang aren't well-versed in other aspects of the media besides synthesizers and lyrics like "Pressure wash the quiver bone in the bitch wrinkle." All the lines in the verses are variations of the same, some oddball form of "stick your penis in her vagina." And a few of them are pretty damn funny.
This isn't high quality entertainment by any means, but the video and song have an appeal that's difficult to resist. While the band plays from inside a highway tunnel, "Jackass" alum Bam Margera drives a giant banana car around. (The banana is half-peeled, which is symbolic for arousal, circumcision or both - I'll leave the ultimate interpretation up to you.) It doesn't take Encyclopedia Brown to realize the banana car will eventually penetrate the tunnel, but along the way we're treated to a series of amusing and just plain gutter-trash shots, including the sexiest woman I've ever seen wield a jackhammer (if you're curious, I've seen a few) and lead singer Jimmy Pop sticking his tongue up his right nostril.
I'm not as up on videos as I used to be, but according to a debate thread on the videos.antville.org link site, the video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" is rife with plagiarism. The victim? A Benny Benassi video called "Satisfaction," directed by Dougal Wilson. Poster Benroll claims the "F-U-C-K" ripoff is identical "right down to styling, art direction, slo-mo, choice of power tools... the lot." While similarities between videos are unavoidable, there's coincidence and there's thievery, and knowing the Bloodhound Gang stole a lot of what I just watched only seems more fitting for this kind of material.
We all remember the Bloodhound Gang from their hornball new wave-sounding novelty hit "The Bad Touch," which featured the memorable refrain, "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals / So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Back then I had a friend who was an obsessive fan of the group and claimed "The Bad Touch" was a sellout song not representative of their work as a whole, and that within a few years the band would be huge based on the strength of their musical canon. I wonder what she thinks of the video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," which makes "The Bad Touch" look quite subtle by comparison.
Again, we're subjected to watered-down new wave, but this time it's a little closer to the uptempo pop side of Blur. The topic, however, remains the same. If you hadn't noticed the song's title forms the acronym F-U-C-K, which about says it all. The four words, "Foxtrot," "Uniform," "Charlie" and "Kilo," as I just learned from poking around the Internet, come from the International Radio Operators' Alphabet. Let no one say the Bloodhound Gang aren't well-versed in other aspects of the media besides synthesizers and lyrics like "Pressure wash the quiver bone in the bitch wrinkle." All the lines in the verses are variations of the same, some oddball form of "stick your penis in her vagina." And a few of them are pretty damn funny.
This isn't high quality entertainment by any means, but the video and song have an appeal that's difficult to resist. While the band plays from inside a highway tunnel, "Jackass" alum Bam Margera drives a giant banana car around. (The banana is half-peeled, which is symbolic for arousal, circumcision or both - I'll leave the ultimate interpretation up to you.) It doesn't take Encyclopedia Brown to realize the banana car will eventually penetrate the tunnel, but along the way we're treated to a series of amusing and just plain gutter-trash shots, including the sexiest woman I've ever seen wield a jackhammer (if you're curious, I've seen a few) and lead singer Jimmy Pop sticking his tongue up his right nostril.
I'm not as up on videos as I used to be, but according to a debate thread on the videos.antville.org link site, the video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" is rife with plagiarism. The victim? A Benny Benassi video called "Satisfaction," directed by Dougal Wilson. Poster Benroll claims the "F-U-C-K" ripoff is identical "right down to styling, art direction, slo-mo, choice of power tools... the lot." While similarities between videos are unavoidable, there's coincidence and there's thievery, and knowing the Bloodhound Gang stole a lot of what I just watched only seems more fitting for this kind of material.
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