2008 Woodie Awards
Can't we just leave it at cupcakes?
Nadine Anheier
Issue date: 1/17/06 Section: Forum
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You've heard it by now, right?
The ultra-catchy, unabashedly dorky Lazy Sunday (more commonly known as the Chronicles of Narnia rap) short from Saturday Night Live?
A coworker forwarded me a link to this little beauty about two weeks ago, and ever since then I've been hooked. I've shown it to anyone who will pay attention for the two minutes it takes to get through it.
The short played on SNL back in December, but it seems people are still forwarding it to everyone they know.
Why?
A few reasons.
1) It's two white guys (Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg).
2) They're rapping.
3) They're rapping about "mackin' on some cupcakes," getting "taken to a dream world of magic," and how you can "call us Aaron Burr for all the Hamiltons we're droppin'." (Yep, kids, tens.)
4) There are very serious shots of "Parns" and Samberg taking huge bites of cupcakes.
5) (For the ladies) Adam Samberg is one attractive young man.
Aside from all that and the multitude of hits NBC is getting on their Screening Room Web page, the video's been blogged about continuously since it hit the Internet.
While most blog postings draw the line at "Check out this hilarious rap," other more serious sites are looking into it further. I'm a big fan of the online magazine Slate.com and their generally perceptive and amusing topics, but when I saw the sub-headline for Josh Levin's take on the rap (http://www.slate.com/id/2133316/), I was somewhat floored: "The Chronicles of Narnia rap: It may not save Saturday Night Live, but it could save hip hop."
Is anyone else's forehead wrinkled in confusion?
If a two-minute SNL rap is going to save anything, it's SNL.
Nearly everyone I've shown it to, after watching, mentioned how maybe it would be fruitful to check out the somewhat dead SNL scene once more. No one said, "Gee, I can't wait to see what 50 Cent does in response to this."
Admittedly, once I read Levin's article, it wasn't as cut and dry as this-he writes that the rap hearkens back to old school-style rap instead of today's (where often things don't quite...well, rhyme). He also says humor in rap gets peoples' attention.
The ultra-catchy, unabashedly dorky Lazy Sunday (more commonly known as the Chronicles of Narnia rap) short from Saturday Night Live?
A coworker forwarded me a link to this little beauty about two weeks ago, and ever since then I've been hooked. I've shown it to anyone who will pay attention for the two minutes it takes to get through it.
The short played on SNL back in December, but it seems people are still forwarding it to everyone they know.
Why?
A few reasons.
1) It's two white guys (Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg).
2) They're rapping.
3) They're rapping about "mackin' on some cupcakes," getting "taken to a dream world of magic," and how you can "call us Aaron Burr for all the Hamiltons we're droppin'." (Yep, kids, tens.)
4) There are very serious shots of "Parns" and Samberg taking huge bites of cupcakes.
5) (For the ladies) Adam Samberg is one attractive young man.
Aside from all that and the multitude of hits NBC is getting on their Screening Room Web page, the video's been blogged about continuously since it hit the Internet.
While most blog postings draw the line at "Check out this hilarious rap," other more serious sites are looking into it further. I'm a big fan of the online magazine Slate.com and their generally perceptive and amusing topics, but when I saw the sub-headline for Josh Levin's take on the rap (http://www.slate.com/id/2133316/), I was somewhat floored: "The Chronicles of Narnia rap: It may not save Saturday Night Live, but it could save hip hop."
Is anyone else's forehead wrinkled in confusion?
If a two-minute SNL rap is going to save anything, it's SNL.
Nearly everyone I've shown it to, after watching, mentioned how maybe it would be fruitful to check out the somewhat dead SNL scene once more. No one said, "Gee, I can't wait to see what 50 Cent does in response to this."
Admittedly, once I read Levin's article, it wasn't as cut and dry as this-he writes that the rap hearkens back to old school-style rap instead of today's (where often things don't quite...well, rhyme). He also says humor in rap gets peoples' attention.
