stelfox said:
no. wrong, i think. as i've said before about this stuff, i honestly think you need to see it in action in a club in the south. it really goes off and people love it. sure, you're entitled to say that it's a bit samey, but "ripping himself off" is a bit dismissive and also a kinda weird thing to say. ploughing a very similar furrow perhaps, but that still doesn't take away from the fact that it does exactly what it's supposed to do and sounds pretty great. i understand the flurry of indignation that "wait" brought about (cf jessica hopper going absolutely potty about anthony miccio's review of it in the village voice etc) a lot more than this kind of criticism.
mate, i see people going off in clubs to girls aloud and the sugababes and kylie minogue (not a dis to any of them, i like them all), but just cos people like dancing to them, doesnt mean that its not a rip off. ive met mr collipark and even he admitted with a small shrug that the artists just wanted to do the same sort of thing they heard the YYT do with such success on the whisper song. its pretty obviously a cynical cash in on the success of the ying yang twins' song (and my problem isnt with the nature of the lyrics or anything like that).
fine, it serves its purpose in so far as it makes a decent club song, but even in that context, the YYT did it better. its not like david banner was simply using a vague reformulation of the original 'wait' track, its a blatant, cynically uninspired cash-in from the whispering to the ahem, upfront sex theme. i dont really buy banner as a loverman, personally and i think this was just his transparent attempt to really become more of a star in the states.
maybe saying collipark was ripping himself off was a bit over the top, but since 'wait', he has stuck quite singlemindedly to this new template of his. which is cool, i like it a lot, he does something similar on the new bubba sparxxx song too, but as with the banner song, its his beat thats the star there, not bubba.