R. Kelly - Ignition (2004)
*** (of four)
I love Dave Chappelle and all, but ever since he did the R. Kelly "I Wanna Piss on You" parody, no musical urination joke could hope to measure up. Well, especially since this shit came out two years ago. And that's a shame, too, because Kelly makes it so easy - "Ignition" even rhymes with "pissin." Tragic, I tells ya.
Anyway, I've got my TiVo zipping through the MTV "Hit List" airing from All American Rejects, and so far every video they've picked is rap and hip-hop. Which I think indicates that even the guys in the band know the style of music they release is shit. So here's the remix to "Ignition," which is only billed by MTV as "Ignition" because, let's face it, the remix IS the original. R. Kelly took the Super Mario Warp Zone approach to his music here and skipped straight to the remix.
The "Ignition" video, from softball director Bille Woodruff and hardcore director R. Kelly, is an amalgam of shit we've seen before in hip-hop and R+B. However, since the song is so damned infectious, the video is supremely watchable. Kelly presides over a vast yellow and green-tinted club, showing them all how to throw their hands in the air and wave them like they just don't have any emotional investment in the matter.
Girls dance, guys wave empty champagne bottles around, and when the blood alcohol level hits its peak, Kelly locks the bathroom doors and pulls out the tarps just in time for the Golden Showerz floor show. And that's one more musical urination joke that just doesn't measure up.
I love Dave Chappelle and all, but ever since he did the R. Kelly "I Wanna Piss on You" parody, no musical urination joke could hope to measure up. Well, especially since this shit came out two years ago. And that's a shame, too, because Kelly makes it so easy - "Ignition" even rhymes with "pissin." Tragic, I tells ya.
Anyway, I've got my TiVo zipping through the MTV "Hit List" airing from All American Rejects, and so far every video they've picked is rap and hip-hop. Which I think indicates that even the guys in the band know the style of music they release is shit. So here's the remix to "Ignition," which is only billed by MTV as "Ignition" because, let's face it, the remix IS the original. R. Kelly took the Super Mario Warp Zone approach to his music here and skipped straight to the remix.
The "Ignition" video, from softball director Bille Woodruff and hardcore director R. Kelly, is an amalgam of shit we've seen before in hip-hop and R+B. However, since the song is so damned infectious, the video is supremely watchable. Kelly presides over a vast yellow and green-tinted club, showing them all how to throw their hands in the air and wave them like they just don't have any emotional investment in the matter.
Girls dance, guys wave empty champagne bottles around, and when the blood alcohol level hits its peak, Kelly locks the bathroom doors and pulls out the tarps just in time for the Golden Showerz floor show. And that's one more musical urination joke that just doesn't measure up.
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