Tales from the Cob

Genius moment of the day January 28, 2009

I was browsing through Amazon’s mp3 collection to redeem my free songs and I still had my itunes on shuffle in the background. I clicked on a TI duet with Usher and it starts out kind of weird-sounding, but I tell myself to give it a fair shot. Afterall, I didn’t warm to “Live your life” right away. So, there he was, rapping away, with this slightly discordant orchestral thing going on in the back. It sounded strangely familiar. But since TI has a track record of borrowing other instrumental backgrounds and remaking it “his own,” I just assumed that’s what it was…another weird, but “it just might possibly fly” musical combo. But then the orchestra bg took a big turn and still, he just kept on rapping, not even trying to go with the music. So then I thought “That’s it! TI has taken it too far! It’s one thing to borrow famous orchestral melodies, it’s another to just blatantly ignore it!” And only then did it hit me that I was listening to TI’s track laid over “No one mourns the wicked” from the musical -_- I lose.