V.I.C. w/ Soulja Boy - Get Silly

Girl Talk samples the first seven seconds of this song on Feed The Animals’ Here’s the Thing (it comes in at 2:13 and meets up with a sample of Pump It Up, amongst others). I am embedding it here only to demonstrate Girl Talk’s superhuman ability to discover and exploit the perfect sample.

Like Souja Boy’s eponymous single, the Macarena, and the Hokie Pokie, Get Silly is one of those songs whose lyrics teach you how to dance to itself. Tracks like that are really swinging hard for the fences. There’s nothing sadder than a song about a dance craze that never became a craze (though maybe I’m just not in the loop, Get Silly did peak at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100).

Get Silly is really one of the least essential songs I can think of. It makes Crank That Soulja Boy look like an opera. That keyboard at :35ish sounds like the, “you found a hidden door” jingle in Zelda. The whole song just sounds lazy.

But when Girl Talk uses those opening lines, it works. I had never heard of V.I.C, but after listening to Feed the Animals a bazillion times I was intrigued enough to pull up it’s indispensible Wikipedia page and track Get Silly down. That Girl Talk was able to sift through this song and isolate something good out of it (specifically the first seven seconds before the music even starts), is remarkable.

Feed the Animals was my favorite album of the summer.