Harshing My Gnarls Barkley Mellow
On the radio this morning, I heard a parody version of Gnarls Barlkey's "Crazy" that is about a fat chick. It's called "Gravy," I think. At least the chorus is "she tastes like gravy." It's all about a guy who thinks a girl is skinny when he drunkenly picks her up at as bar, but then he discovers she's fat, but it's cool, because she'll do things skinny chicks won't do, but woah, is she ever fat! He has to roll twice just to get off her! Ha, ha! As Michael Scott would say (I'm now 2 for 2 on The Office mentions), it's really lame. And offensive. So... double lame.
posted by mo pie at 12:25 PM
4 Comments:
Perhaps it's like that CSI Miami storyline, where she rolls over and smothers him and takes him out?
You know, like Gravy.
Misogynist jerkweeds.
(Hi! I'm a lurker, but I've been reading this page for a long time.)
I heard this parody, probably on the same SF-area alt-rock station that you did. And yeah, it's a lame, unfunny song, and all commentary on it would and should normally die with that assessment.
However, in addition to the offensive-to-larger-ladies angle, I also found it less than politically correct from a race perspective. I mean, really -- the soulful black man is singing about gravy?!? And he is fetishing larger ladies? Are we in an Eddie Murphy movie?
I really wish I could find the lyrics online, because I feel that when I heard the song, I was offended in about twenty different ways.
Actually it is pretty funny. And as a African American, it is not in the least bit racially offensive. Race has nothing to do with it at all. I hate when people always have to find the racial angle of anything that in some way involves African Americans.
I agree with the above in that I hate when people try to throw race into everything. I find the song hilarious, and think people need to stop finding offense in every single thing, b/c then you only go through life miserable and never happy b/c "everyone offends you"
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