Hot Chip, What’s Upppp!
Ugh. Screw you, Internets. I was all set to embed the video for the (fairly) new Hot Chip song and rave about how I’ve been listening to this song incessantly for the last month, and how why isn’t the most popular song in the world? because it’s so freaking good, &c. But then I searched for the video on YouTube, and the record label (EMI: BOOOOO! Didn’t the Sex Pistols murder you up in 1977? Why are you still here?) disabled the ability to embed it. Why would a record label ever do that? Isn’t the whole point of a video to promote the song? And so why would you ever deny people the ability to promote your song for free? Ugh on you, EMI. I hope you get torn apart by wild wolves.
But please, dear readers, don’t hold it against Hot Chip, the unfortunate victims of this public relations crime. Because if you do you will miss out on the hottest damn single of the year.
Nerds who like to dance are pretty irresistible, so Hot Chip generally scores hits in my view, even with the autotune.
1The video is pretty great, but the song doesn't do much for me. More importantly, though, I saw this video ages ago, so I knew about a song before you (or at least before you became obsessed with it)! Woohoo!
2Fine, fancy boy, but which one of us opened for Hot Chip in 2006 in San Francisco? * Was it you? I thought not!
*(Trick question: it was neither of us. It was actually Awkward Press cofounder Kyle Jarrow! True fact from history!)
3I will admit that Kyle is much hipper than either of us. And, of course, I was also conceding your general hipness, in that I think it's an accomplishment to have heard of something before you :)
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