Fallen Idols…

Posted by Maximum Fun on 16th March 2006

Like most other folks who love hip-hop, I love Run DMC. They redefined the form in the mid-80s, brought it to a whole new audience, and their style and energy still can’t be matched. I saw them in concert in high school, and I still treasure the Adidas Superstar I took off my foot so they could sign it.

But this new DMC single is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. And I really mean that. I’m stunned at how awful it is. I thought it would be bad, and it blew away my expectations. I feel like it isn’t real, it’s so terribly terribly terrible. DMC is a bad rapper, and he had the mind-explodingly bad idea to hook up with Sarah McClachlan. And then he was like, “how about you sing “Cat’s in the Cradle?” And it got WORSE from there. None of this is a joke. It’s like the Battlefield Earth of songs, only without the creepy charisma of John Travolta at his craziest.

I was at a friend’s house, and it came on TV, and I just sat, slack-jawed, for like three minutes, feeling my soul being sucked out and spit back in.

Enjoy!