Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
*1/2 (of four)
Wreckx-N-Effect was the brain child of R+B producer Teddy Riley, who apparently poured his heart and soul into this pinnacle of one-hit wonderhood. I was an idiot and bought the entire album - paid like four bucks for a used copy, but still, it's a definite one-hit wonder CD. One guess what song is Track One.
"Rump Shaker" came on the heels of "Baby Got Back," but where Sir Mix-a-Lot's video was knowingly campy, Wreckx-N-Effect tries to look their thuggiest while rapping from a beach during Black Spring Break. One of them is wearing black spandex shorts, while another sports the R. Kelly bandana/sunglasses and a third has donned a purple wetsuit.
But the girls - the rump shakers themselves - steal the camera's attention. My favorite is the one in the orange bikini who's standing ankle deep in the ocean, pretending to play the song's synth loop on the saxophone. There are at least two closeups of the orange-bikini slowly mouthing the lip of the sax. And there are dozens of other anonymous dancers whose entire essences are summed up by closeups of their asses shaking or their titties jiggling or, in one particularly amusing slo-mo shot, a bucket of water sloshing across their flat bellies.
This song's kind of fun when you're fifteen and the lyric, "Since you got the body of the year, come and get the reward / Here's a hint: It's like a long, sharp sword," still makes you giggle. But it doesn't wear particularly well, and I have a feeling Teddy Riley himself doesn't claim it as one of his babies anymore. Like a long, sharp sword indeed.
Wreckx-N-Effect was the brain child of R+B producer Teddy Riley, who apparently poured his heart and soul into this pinnacle of one-hit wonderhood. I was an idiot and bought the entire album - paid like four bucks for a used copy, but still, it's a definite one-hit wonder CD. One guess what song is Track One.
"Rump Shaker" came on the heels of "Baby Got Back," but where Sir Mix-a-Lot's video was knowingly campy, Wreckx-N-Effect tries to look their thuggiest while rapping from a beach during Black Spring Break. One of them is wearing black spandex shorts, while another sports the R. Kelly bandana/sunglasses and a third has donned a purple wetsuit.
But the girls - the rump shakers themselves - steal the camera's attention. My favorite is the one in the orange bikini who's standing ankle deep in the ocean, pretending to play the song's synth loop on the saxophone. There are at least two closeups of the orange-bikini slowly mouthing the lip of the sax. And there are dozens of other anonymous dancers whose entire essences are summed up by closeups of their asses shaking or their titties jiggling or, in one particularly amusing slo-mo shot, a bucket of water sloshing across their flat bellies.
This song's kind of fun when you're fifteen and the lyric, "Since you got the body of the year, come and get the reward / Here's a hint: It's like a long, sharp sword," still makes you giggle. But it doesn't wear particularly well, and I have a feeling Teddy Riley himself doesn't claim it as one of his babies anymore. Like a long, sharp sword indeed.
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