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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Comedy / Music / Film A New(ish) Song from the Rubberbandits

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM

How did I miss this? Last November, the Limerick-based Rubberbandits—the Irish boys who brought you the stupidly genius/geniusly stupid "Horse Outside"—released a new song. As far as I can tell, it's poking fun at the painfully artificial tokenism on TV and movies when writers try to assemble diverse "gangs" like Captain Planet and the Planeteers, or the most recent X-Men movie.* Not that diverse gangs are a bad thing, or that they don't exist. But sometimes it just feels goofy. Behold:

"I've got a Puerto Rican and a nervous Jew/An intimidating Russian with a fake tattoo/I've got a hot blonde with plastic boobs/But there's something missing from my crew/I need a black man!/In my gang/A black man doing black-man things." And I always love their dance moves.

* Thanks to Paul Constant, professional watcher of garbage—like the Republican primary debates!—for helping me with examples.

UPDATE

Commenter Zuulabelle pointed me towards "I Like to Shift Girls" which is also a marvel. Two new Rubberbandits song in one day! Too much good stuff! Video below the jump.

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LOVE this song. Have you heard "I Like to Shift Girls" as well?

http://youtu.be/FkEimy0xGTk

Posted by Zuulabelle

on June 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM

Also - MUST include Bag of Glue, with the men gathering at the Boom Boom ("It's not gay"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYO2Gffqn…

Too much!

Posted by Jaymz on June 28, 2012 at 4:21 PM

sorry, this sucks. dated and beyond obvious. almost offensive in the played out "I'm so un-racist that I can act racist" genre. please show more discerning taste.

Posted by bluer is better on June 28, 2012 at 6:19 PM

Actually the most recent X-Men movie was pretty decent, hth

Posted by Reader01 on June 28, 2012 at 6:53 PM

Damn, thanks for all the links!

Posted by gloomy gus on June 28, 2012 at 7:52 PM

Yawn.

Posted by hmmmmm on June 28, 2012 at 8:54 PM

This made me think about the plastic bag ban :(

Posted by Pmasp on June 28, 2012 at 9:20 PM

Of course, Reagan's interior secretary, James Gaius Watt, went there first.

In 1983 he mocked affirmative action by saying about a coal-leasing panel:

"We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."

He resigned a few weeks later.

Posted by rob!

on June 28, 2012 at 9:29 PM

David Schmader posted something significantly cleverer than this just yesterday, and even that came with a poll -- Please note the first option in said poll: "I am glad this was made by an African-American artist, because if the creator were white, it would be impossible to enjoy."

Posted by Puschkin on June 29, 2012 at 12:36 AM