Chickens More Credibly Penetrating Than Human Beings. (My Top 70 Singles, 2014.)

[koganbot]

Am more ambivalent about "Chick Chick" than the high ranking indicates, given the social inequity underlying the song: the vocals are utterly pedestrian during the cutesy "mǔ jī mǔ jī mǔ jī mǔ jī" stuff and during the rap; the track only starts to cook when the screaming and the chicken clucking and the cackling let loose. It's then that it goes to syncopated excitement, a great visceral speed chase — really penetrates the nervous system, sorta like Bob Quine's guitar lines back in the Voidoids. But my needing to reach so far back for an example, and to guitar sounds rather than singing, leads me to this disturbing conclusion: Chickens are now more credibly penetrating than human beings are. Oh yeah, and if this list and my own viscera are representative (big "if," since they're quite possibly not, and if I'd listened to more hip-hop and rock and banda* maybe I'd know this), women are more credibly penetrating than guys are, women are more credibly tough than guys are, women are more aggressively cute than guys are, women front for rock music better than guys do, women front for heartbreak better than guys do, etc. But I've been worrying about this for years, every time I post one of these lists. And since I'm a glass-is-half-empty kind of a guy, I don't attribute this to women being good but rather to guys being lousy. And it isn't that I believe males no longer have talent, but rather that they're not finding musical models that work for them — as singers and front men, that is; when the spotlight's not on, guys are there contributing to the adventure, as instrumentalists, songwriters, dancers, impresarios, owners. Actually, the boybands are great dancers. And as for "not finding models that work for them," what's really — or merely — evident in this list is that guys are not finding models to make music that works for me. Boybands are doing fine among the fans. I'd have ranked boybands Vixx and Infinite higher if the singers had pulled off the high emotion, but the songs are gripping nonetheless.

Oh yeah, and I'm also pissed off that it's mainly young women and young men on my list (even my token trot track is by a relative youngster), but I've harangued about that before too.

I'll note that celebrated chickenphobe HyunA kicked butt this year (as well as displaying, slapping, and embracing butt (of more than one species)), and was somewhat penetrating back in 2011 deploring chickens. And that A Pony Named Olga are male human beings, not ponies.

Bold for tracks I added since October 1.

1. Wa$$up "Jingle Bell"
2. The Chainsmokers "#Selfie"
3. HyunA "Red"
4. BiS "STUPiG"
5. Kate Nash "Sister"
6. Courtney Love "Wedding Day"
7. Orange Caramel "So Sorry"
8. Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q "2 On"
9. Nicki Minaj "Lookin' Ass Nigga"
10. Crayon Pop "Uh-ee"
11. Orange Caramel "My Copycat"

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12. After School "Shh"
13. Shakira ft. Rihanna "Can't Remember To Forget You"
14. A Pony Named Olga "Funny What You Pray"
15. Wang Rong "Chick Chick"
16. Vixx "Error"

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17. Future ft. Pharrell, Pusha T & Casino "Move That Dope"
18. T-ara "First Love"
19. Puer Kim "Manyo Maash"
20. Danity Kane "Bye Baby"
21. Badkiz "Ear Attack"
22. PungDeng-E "잘탕 (잘 시간이 어딨어)"
23. GP Basic "Black Bounce"
24. Serebro "Ya Tebya Ne Otdam"
25. Dal★shabet "B.B.B (Big Baby Baby)"
26. Ca$h Out "She Twerkin"
27. Crayon Pop "C'mon C'mon"
28. Arcade Fire "We Exist"
29. The Hold Steady "I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You"
30. Gabylonia "Tirano"

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31. T-ara "Sugar Free"
32. JunglePussy "Fuck Texting"
33. Shakira "Empire"
34. Jiyeon "Never Ever"
35. Mia Martina ft. Dev "Danse"
36. Choi Sam "Answer"
37. Hong Jin Young "Cheer Up"

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38. Tahiti "Oppa, You Are Mine"
39. Girl2School ft. Bubble X "Hands In The Air"
40. Orange Caramel "Tonight"
41. Z.Hera "D Island"
42. Lip Service "Yum Yum Yum"
43. Skepta ft. JME "That's Not Me"
44. Infinite "Back"
45. Big Freedia "Mo Azz"

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46. Neon Jungle "Braveheart"
47. Lady Gaga "G.U.Y."
48. Kelis "Friday Fish Fry"
49. Zizo ft. Nan Ah Jin "Spy"
50. Bass Drum Of Death "Black Don't Glow"
51. SNSD "Mr.Mr."
52. Kim Wan Sun ft. Tiger JK and Bizzy "Goodbye My Love"
53. Shakira "Dare"
54. Scarlet "Hip Song"
55. Tyga ft. Young Thug "Hookah"
56. Louie ft. Boy Wonder "Twilight"
57. Low Pros ft. Young Thug & PeeWee Longway "Jack Tripper"
58. Ray.B "살만한가봐"
59. Plan B "Candy"

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60. After School "Rock It"
61. Infinite "Last Romeo"
62. Cam & China "Do Dat"
63. A.Kor "But Go"
64. Yemi Alade "Tangerine"
65. T-ara "LA'booN"
66. Brantley Gilbert "Bottoms Up"
67. Rascal Flatts "Rewind"
68. Switch "39˚C"
69. La Yegros "Trocitos De Madera"
70. Polly Scattergood "Subsequently Lost"

By the way, I'm only half-joking about the credibility of chickens — not that chicken sounds are inherently credible, but if it's Wang Rong herself doing the chicken vocals — and I think it is — the chicken voice unleashes something in her that she can't do otherwise in anything close to her own voice, at least not in the several tracks of hers I've listened to on YouTube. (But, given that Wikip says she's been putting out music since the early '00s, I've hardly got an overview of her work. This one's nice enough, this one's got some interesting voice maneuverings, and on this one she sings with authority.)

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*Actually, I listened to a lot of banda, every time I walked into Lowe's Mercado, but I just didn't know whom I was listening to. A lot of singers with testicles sounded quite good among the limes and piñatas.

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Chuck Eddy's Top 100 Singles

[koganbot]

Chuck Eddy's Top 100 Singles (he posted them on Facebook and gave me permission to repost here)

1. Mia Martina feat. Dev – Danse
2. BiS - STUPiG
3. Calibre 50 – El Inmigrante
4. Brantley Gilbert – Bottoms Up
5. Millie Jackson – Black B_tch Crazy
6. Xavie Shorts – Get Enough
7. DJ Snake and Lil Jon – Turn Down For What
8. K. Michelle – Can't Raise A Man
9. Kira Isabella - Quarterback
10. Klass Band Brotherhood – My Angel
11. Kindred The Family Soul – Everybody's Hustlin'
12. Wendell B. – Celebrate Cho Day
13. Tensnake feat. Nile Rodgers and Fiona – Love Sublime
14. Becky G - Can't Get Enough
15. Taylor Swift – Blank Space
16. Javiera Mena – La Joya
17. El Kommander – Soy De Rancho
18. Indochine – Belfast
19. Tinashe feat. Schoolboy Q – 2 On
20. Spiders – Mad Dog
21. Grady Champion – South Side
22. LGB – Country Woman, Pt. 2
23. Edguy – Love Tyger
24. Kate Tempest - Circles
25. Big Jay Cummings – Can We Ever Go Home Again
26. Bob Baldwin – Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo' Dat
27. Kendrick Lamar – I
28. Dev feat. Sage The Gemini – Kiss It
29. Yemi Alade feat. Selebobo - Tangerine
30. Pat Brown – I'm Taking Out The Trash
31. Sunny Sweeney – Bad Girl Phase
32. Phyno – Parcel (A Big Nwa)
33. Raw Shaw – Ghetto Tactics
34. De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig – De Toneelacadamie
35. Wa$$up – Jingle Bell
36. The Pretty Reckless – Heaven Knows
37. Toni Braxton and Babyface – Roller Coaster
38. TK Soul – Caught Up In Doing Wrong
39. The Chainsmokers - #Selfie
40. Busy Signal – Done Wid Di War
41. Kacey Musgraves – The Trailer Song
42. Jr. Blu – She’s Been Good
43. Scorpion Child – Kings Highway
44. Mago De Oz – Pagan Party 2.0
45. Lady Gaga – G.U.Y.
46. Schoolboy Q – Man Of The Year
47. Ledisi – The Truth
48. Eli Young Band – Dust
49. Crayon Pop – Uh-ee
50. The-Dream – Black
51. Tamar Braxton – All The Way Home
52. Sheila E. – Mona Lisa
53. Jamie O’Neal – Wide Awake
54. Klingande – Jubel
55. Toby Keith – Drunk Americans
56. Indiana – Solo Dancing
57. Yunglean – Kyoto
58. El Dasa – Por Ser Bonita
59. Future – Move That Dope
60. Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods
61. Riff Raff – How To Be The Man
62. Rascal Flatts – Rewind
63. Myrkur – Nattens Barn
64. Kate Nash – Sister
65. Bob Baldwin – Welcome To Planet Funky Onion
66. Lenny Williams – Didn't I
67. La Neuva Rebelion – Me Hicieron Mas Fuerte
68. Night Ranger – High Road
69. T-Ara feat. E.B. – First Love
70. Vybz Kartel – Addi Truth
71. Stevie Nicks - 24 Karat Gold
72. Yelle – Bouquet Final
73. Danity Kane - Bye Baby
74. Amerie – What I Want
75. Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga – Hermosa Experiencia
76. Keiko Matsui – A Night With Cha Cha
77. Stevie J – I Know That I Love Her
78. Bigelf – Control Freak
79. Becky G - Shower
80. Sweet Apple – Boys In Her Fan Club
81. The Shrine – Nothing Forever
82. Young Money feat. Nicki Minaj – Lookin' Ass
83. George Tandy Jr. – March
84. Hebe Tien – Learning From Drunk
85. Y.G. feat. Drake – Who Do You Love?
86. The Hold Steady – I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You
87. Simeo – Hard On A Brotha
88. Nação Zumbi - Cicatriz
89. St. Vincent – Digital Witness
90. Bella Thorne – Call It Whatever
91. Hirax – Hellion Rising
92. Jenny Lewis – She’s Not Me
93. Slow Club – Complete Surrender
94. Avail Hollywood – Rehab Ain’t Working
95. Sturgill Simpson – Turtles All The Way Down
96. Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – Timber
97. Black Zack feat. the Force MDs – Row Row
98. Black Lips – Boys In The Wood
99. Courtney Love – Wedding Day
100. Bobby Rush feat. Dr. John and Blinddog Smokin' – Another Murder In New Orleans

From chicken to tiger and back

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

According to a comment on The Singles Jukebox, the entire point of "Chick Chick" is that "chicken" (or the Chinese word for it) is slang for prostitute.

I'm also not the only person to notice that "Chick Chick" sounds remarkably like T-ara's "Bo Peep Bo Peep" And Wang Rong's "Holiday" rips off 4minute's "Hot Issue".

Meanwhile, I learn that Time magazine has annointed Jolin Tsai's "Play" as possibly the best music video of the year. (The lyrics diss a variety of posturing twits ranging from gym rats to arthouse film hipsters and retro idol fans.)

Talking of idols, Crayon Pop will return in February with a song produced by Shinsadong Tiger. Chrome's CEO said that he was inspired to start a idol group after seeing T-ara perform "Roly Poly" -- which was produced by Shinsadong Tiger (as were those songs that Wang Rong ripped off).

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

And in the video for the Japanese version of "Bo Peep Bo Peep," T-ara turn into cats (or cats turn into T-ara).

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Today, tierless creatures of the night Flashe turned into a four-member group and appeared on Inkigayo. (Yes, the one who's gone is Songhee.)

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

Happy that they're back with a pretty good tune, not so happy that the presentation is so undifferentiatedly cute, and not happy at all that their best singer is out.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Turns out Flashe were also on Music Bank on Friday. According to a comment on the video, Songhee left in July for "medical reasons", which seems to be an all-purpose industry excuse. (You might remember that Jaeyoon of Chocolat left supposedly because of health reasons, but really because of a disagreement with the company.)

Re "undifferentiatedly cute", someone once suggested that, for K-Pop girlgroups, cute concepts don't really count as actual concepts, because cute is the default mode for girlgroups anyway.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

But it isn't the default mode (cf. Miss A., 2NE1, Brown Eyed Girls, After School, etc.), and wasn't Flashe's original concept. Were originally trying to split the difference between tough and cute, which may be why they didn't get commercial traction. Perhaps being less smiley would've worked better.

HyunA left Wonder Girls for what seem to have been legitimate medical reasons, and stayed on JYP payroll a bit after leaving. Am guessing that JYP made physical demands that HyunA's parents thought were too much.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

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And now it isn't even the most frequent mode, since butt shaking sexiness has become boringly similar across the field. To the point where old fashioned SNSD-y cuteness of Lovelyz felt fresh (helps that they sound pretty good) and a (sonically) pretty unexciting 'tough' hiphop-y concept from new group Sonamoo gets k-pop fans talking them up just because they do stand out in the current climate. I have a feeling butt shaking sexiness is on the way out also among k-pop labels, though, although EXID's late 2015 sudden success and chart re-entry of their pretty good and catchy 'Up Down' was at least sold in the media as a butt shaking sexiness success story.

Another discussion we briefly had over at ilxor is the fact that non-idol korean pop was what dominated the charts in 2014.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

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I should correct that to say that cute was the default mode for typical K-Pop gorilgroups. But Flashe (sorry, FlaShe) turn up the cute in the My Day MV even more than on stage.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

By the way, tierless creatures Tren-D steadfastly continue performing (here last month at the 5th Korea Construction Safety Supervisor Evening), though with no new songs, as far as I've heard.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

TREN-D do have a new fifth member (the original, Elly, left). The new member is reportedly called Bona, so I suppose they're now TRBN-D. :)

I don't think they're obscure enough to be real tierless creatures, but have you come across MINX? They can sing Beyoncé's "End of Time" in close harmony and pull off fist-pumping dance moves at the same time. :)

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

Had heard MINX's "Why Did You Come To My Home" and marked them as a group to continue to pay attention to — and then promptly forgot them. Didn't realize E-Tribe were working the board. Have MINX released anything since? (Seem also to fall in the valley betw. tough and cute; not that the valley can't pay off (cf. 4minute, Jiyeon), but the tough needs to be really credible.)

Ah, here's a successful hook-up w/ Dal★Shabet on "Rockin' Round The Christmas Tree."

Today is officially Yoohyeon Day

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

A bit late now, but today (7th January) is Yoohyeon''s birthday, so she gets a celebratory graphic with an awkwardly-posed photo.

(There's a cooler "Happy Yoohyeon Day" graphic on the main page of MINX's fancafe.)

Meanwhile in TREN-Dland

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Today is Nayul's birthday.

By the way, TREN-D have a member called Tami and MINX have a member called Dami. I wonder if they've met. :)

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

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I think Siyeon (at 0:32) could rival Wang Rong as a credibly penetrating chicken...

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(There's a translation of everything they're saying in the comments. And lots more videos where they run around acting daft.)

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

밍스 플레이 - 꾸꾸까까 (Minx Play - Coo Coo Kka Kka):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpUQSkAJPw

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

Think that Jolin Tsai's trying to have her cake and eat it too — which isn't necessarily a bad thing, mind you (thought that was E.via/Tymee's strategy in the vids for "Shake!" and "Pick Up You!," for instance).

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

Once you point it out to me, the reliance of "Chick Chick" on "Bo Peep Bo Peep" is obvious. Also, compared to "Bo Peep Bo Peep," "Chick Chick" is utterly clumsy and third-rate. And then the chicken squawks take over, and it's transcendent.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

And in a comment to an Asian Junkie post about someone plagirising Taeyang, I came across a dismal Latin American girl rock rip-off of Bo Peep Bo Peep, plus the same group copying another T-ara song. They can't sing the melody, the drums sound like a drum machine and even the guitars sound synthetic.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

The Jukebox commenter (James Errington) didn't say that the point — much less the entire point — was that "chicken" is slang for prostitute. He did say that it was the joke, though, and then added, "it's odd that the only people listening to the song are the ones who don't get it." Well, obviously for (most) of the people listening to the song, to the extent they think there's a joke, the joke is something else: like a whole bunch of chicken squawks, for instance. (Thought the second part of the comment was more interesting, where he talks about liking the track only for its being deliberately grating and he claims that this puts it at odds with most Chinese pop music: "Chinese pop music generally puts a priority on avoiding offending anyone.")

Btw, if you hadn't noticed, I've made a triage decision to generally disengage from the Jukebox — especially Jukeboxers' attempts at social analysis, in which they straitjacket themselves into mediocrity (it's like once someone has arrived at the position or reaction that's appropriate to the sort of person he or she is, the brain shuts off). It's not that I don't learn stuff from the site,* or don't think the people are worth engaging. If I had more time I'd jump into the discussions, which would become more bruising and ugly and unsettling as a result. But I've got other people to attend to, and I'm keeping an eye out for writers who will give me more back and whom I'm not as eager to hurt. (That isn't a comment on commenter Errington, whom I don't recall seeing before. And it isn't as if I myself wouldn't want to raise the issues that Patrick et al. tried to raise of which audience "Chick Chick" was courting, and which audiences it actually got, and to what effect. And if Wang Rong needs to get all aggressively cutesy and dress up like a chicken and come on ha ha ha like a prostitute** in order to unleash her best art, what does that tell us about the world?)

*Certainly learned from the Jukebox reviews of "Chick Chick," and learned from what you'd learned from the comments thread (I'd read the reviews when they were posted, unfortunately neglected the comments).

**If that's what she's doing.

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

I've discovered the missing link! a couple of them, anyway, for the above comments:

Wang Rong "Holiday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJSlZAD_s0

Minx "End of Time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inOulMyHnDs

Minx "Coo Coo Kka Kka"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRpUQSkAJPw

(Minx, as you all likely know, went on to add two members in 2017 and to change the group name to Dreamcatcher.)

Re: From chicken to tiger and back

[koganbot]

David Frazer continues the conversation (here we are in 2019!):

Siyeon covered "Speechless" from Aladdin (as have several other K-Pop idols) and got a comment from the disneymusic YouTube account.

Then she went on Kong of Mask Singer and got eliminated in the first round.

[koganbot]

Kinda dumb of me to imply that when guys are dancing they're not in the spotlight.

Despite male dancers from Astaire & Kelly to break-dancing, I think of dancing as nonetheless being a girl thing more than a boy thing* — boys being more into sports and soldiers. So maybe it's 'cause it's less of a boy thing that it still works for the boys.

*That may only be the Anglo-American experience, of course. I don't know.

this comment exudes high levels of brain-dead-ness

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nonetheless!

happy to see "Manyo Maash" and "B.B.B." so high on the list. The latter has had more sticking power than I thought it would when I first heard it.

Neon Jungle keeps juuuust missing for me, with the exception of "Trouble" -- everything else I've heard from them I want to like it and then I end up not being to take to it. I feel like Amira is being handed/writing pretty weak material. (I keep comparing them to Ladies' Code, in that I loved their debut and then felt like everything afterwards was a letdown -- "So Wonderful" and "Kiss Kiss" felt like retreads of "Pretty Pretty" -- but they've had more variety than LC.)

(I just keep mentioning LC a lot because I don't want them to be forgotten, if that makes any sense.)

Re Infinite/emotion: agreed that the guys are actually not that good at conveying emotion in song, as opposed to eye-rolling, pouting, and crying on variety shows. If you really want a mismatch between emotion and message, try B1A4: cheerful about being cheated on in "What's Happening?" or taking a page out of GLAM's book with "Solo Day."

I'm surprised "Last Romeo" made it so high; I mean, I played it a lot and I liked the extra percussion, but that was where I started feeling like Sweettune was painting by numbers; I ended up trying to a comparison to Nine Muses's "Wild" in the structure (verse A / verse B / prechorus A / prechorus B / chorus / rap / etc.) At some point I will probably end up re-creating that chart and throwing in "Glue" and "Dolls" and "The Chaser" as well (probably as soon as I want to procrastinate on school work, so, later this week, maybe). And "Dolls," "Wild," and "Gun" were all better songs than "Last Romeo".

(Revamped 9M later this month!)

I could not get through "Chick Chick." Errington may have a point about its deliberate unlistenability.

anyway my big love of the year was and remains "Red Light," which came together for me in a way "I Got a Boy" (or "I Like That," for that matter) didn't.

and now I'm listening to "Mona Lisa" and contemplating the possibility that it's a sequel to / commentary on "The Glamorous Life" and also maybe in the honorable tradition of Caetano Veloso's "Alexandre" and all this is making me happy.

Re: this comment exudes high levels of brain-dead-ness

[koganbot]

Puer Kim's Purifier EP is real strong, too; would've made my Pazz & Jop if I'd listened to it in time.

You know, I've still never listened to Metal Machine Music. In any event, I doubt that "Chick Chick" was trying to sound abrasive and unlistenable — just unhinged. (And I obviously don't know this, but if it had any international audience in its sights, it probably wasn't the mass audience for "Gangnam Style" but rather the dance novelty crowd that goes for stuff like "We No Speak Americano" and ilk. I still recall Italodisco group La Nuova Fattoria who hit with several animal-sound novelty tracks in the '80s, including "Disco Pollo," which holds together as a song but is decidedly tame in comparison to "Chick Chick.")

Re: this comment exudes high levels of brain-dead-ness

[koganbot]

New chicken link (for "Disco Pollo"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e90ouKqzeg0

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Yes, the explosion into chicken sounds in "Chick Chick" is the entire selling point of the song. I like the bland verses gluing it (cheaply) together; feel like giving any more would only detract from the spotlight on the squawking.

I suppose I understand concerns about this song's complicity in "Weird Asia" (or something along those lines) but I still find it hard to pin that xenophobic trope on "Chick Chick" if only because of what an airhorn-blastingly-obvious pleasure the chicken noises are. But I suppose if you don't find chicken noises (w/ *feeling*, anyway, beyond the basic conviction required to sell 'em) funny, that won't matter. (Anyway, I don't think it's at all clear by whom or how this song was enjoyed, especially in contrast with something like "Gangnam Style," where there were huge conversations about it all over the place. So while it would be an interesting set of questions, I don't think those questions have very clear answers in this case.)

In any case, I haven't been moved by chicken noises like that since childhood, probably, or at least (to a lesser degree) Mu's "Paris Hilton," which uses chicken noises more for mise en scene.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

FWIW:

SONGS

1. Shakira: Empire
2. Wang Rong: Chick Chick
3. The Knocks: The One f. Sneaky Sound System
4. Nicki Minaj: Lookin’ Ass
5. YG: My Nigga
6. BiS: STUPiG
7. DJ Snake f. Lil’ Jon: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT
8. Clean Bandit: Rather Be
9. Chainsmokers: #SELFIE
10. Miranda Lambert: Little Red Wagon
11. Seven Lions, Myon, Shane 54, f. Tove Lo: Strangers
12. Charli XCX: Boom Clap
13. Taylor Swift: Blank Space
14. One Direction: No Control
15. Big Freedia: Mo Azz
16. "Weird Al" Yankovic: First World Problems
17. Jason DeRulo: Talk Dirty to Me
18. RAC f. Pink Feathers: Seventeen
19. 3BallMTY f. Becky G: Quiero Bailar (All Through the Night)
20. Orange Caramel: My Copycat

ALBUMS:

1. Charli XCX - Sucker
2. D’Angelo - Black Messiah
3. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness
4. Got a Girl: I Love You but I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
5. One Direction - Four
6. Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine
7. YG: My Krazy Life
8. Taylor Swift - 1989
9. Azealia Banks: Broke with Expensive Taste
10. After School: Dress to Kill
11. Miranda Lambert: Platinum
12. Stromae - Racine Carree
13. Big Freedia: Just Be Free
14. Duck Sauce: Quack
15. Pitbull - Globalization
16. Katy B: Little Red (continuous mix)
17. Nick Cannon: White People Party Music
18. Apollo Brown: Thirty Eight
19. f(x): Red Light
20. Weird Al” Yankovic - Mandatory Fun