The GB Album Club: Let's Talk About That Fucking "Get Low" Cover by Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain

Duders! As we get out shit together re: next album club cycle, we felt the need to set up a space to discuss the recently released cover of "Get Low" by Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain. (I would link to it, but I'm not sure it's ethical to do so.) Why did we feel the need to do this? I don't know. Why do you deserve to be happy?

Anyway, what are your thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg and T-Pain's cover of "Get Low", and if you want to treat this thread as an excuse to say mean things about Mark Zuckerberg, I sure as hell won't stop you!

(Also a new cycle of Album Club is coming! We've been delayed due to logistical blah blah blah it doesn't matter. We've got a pool, and there's 10 albums in it so far. It's coming!)

No.

I will not. Mark Zuckerberg is a vile human being and I refuse to give him any attention or acknowledge his most recent charm offensive. The products his company makes have hurt too many people for me to ignore in the name of meme songs.

So instead I will write about the original "Get Low" by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz featuring the Ying Yang Twins.

Remember "Get Low"? Man what a song. I listen to it and it time travels me back the the better days of 2002-2003. I hear iconic lyrics like "3, 6, 9. Damn you fine" and "Aww skeet skeet motherfucker! Aww skeet skeet god damn!" and it gives me the warm fuzzies. Whenever people talk about this song, it's always both tongue in cheek but also there an element where people acknowledge that it's a fun, silly song. It puts smiles on people's faces, and I love it for that. The song was a running joke when I was in high school where people would play it and laugh but it was always easy to tell people enjoyed listening to it even though it was a bad song. The lyrics are 2 Live Crew levels of misogynist and awful but they're so over the top that it's hard to take any of them seriously, kind of like the 2 Live Crew.

The song also reminds me of Need For Speed Underground, a game I love dearly which features a heavily, HEAVILY censored version of the song. Like half of the lyrics are cut out. It's hilarious.

@ben_h: I 100% think there's an argument to be made that "Get Low", the original "Get Low", not the fucking Zuck and his fucking harlequin baby (don't look it up if you don't know what that is) face version of "Get Low", is the best party song of the 21st century so far. Or at least it's a very strong contender.

Everything about it is perfect. The beat, the "brrrr dum dum dum/de da de da de dum" intro to the chorus, the chorus... my god that chorus. And if you're at a party or prom or a cool wedding if it comes on, you're doing the little point dance even if you're not on the dance floor. (Fun story: My senior prom year was 2010. It was the end of proper prom, and the DJ puts on "Get Low". Everyone went nuts. And then the DJ actually closed with "Party in the USA" and everyone was pissed. I hope that DJ has changed.)

And of course, the misogyny is bad. I won't defend it. But at least what you see (or hear) is what you get in this case. It's all on the surface and there's nothing insidious about it, unlike, say, "Hotline Bling" where it takes a lot of people a few listens to think, "Hey, wait a minute, is he calling his ex a whore because she's dating someone else now?"

It's so good that even the existence of this abomination does nothing to tarnish the legacy or the standing of "Get Low." It genuinely warmed my heart seeing so many reactions that are essentially "HOW DARE YOU FUCKING DO THIS TO THIS SONG!"

Zuckerberg will be remembered as a villain. Lil Jon will be remembered as a hero.

As someone that was in college when Facebook was just starting out and when Ben Folds did that "Bitches Ain't Shit" cover, I feel some level of culpability here. If we knew it would end up like this, I swear we would've done things differently.

Why did he do this?