Kanye vs. the Muppets
This was going to be a simple shout out to my friends Adam and Brandi; I promised them I would post this track that I told them about last night, a mashup of Golddigger and Mahna Mahna by Lenlow. But there are some interesting details to the story behind the song, so I figured I'd do a full on entry about it.
The video above, obviously, is the classic Muppet skit. But the original version of that song — yeah, surprise!, it's a real song — was written in 1968 by Piero Umiliani for an Italian soft core porn, "Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso". By all accounts, Jim Henson was aware of the connection when he Muppetized it. There's also a version recorded in French by Henri Salvador in 1969, called "Mais Non, Mais Non."
Come with me, then, to almost 40 years later. Guitarist Joe Pisapia records a version that ends up in a (commercial watch!) Saturn commercial (it's the video called "Other Dealerships"), which is what reminded me of the Kanye mashup. How this came up last night, I don't recall. But A and B, this one's for you.
-eh, www.amNY.com
Comments (1)
E- thank you for putting my name before Brandi's...
it makes all the difference
:-)