RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
December 21, 2019 at 12:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2019 at 12:12 am by Rev. Rye.)
If you were alive to remember music in the early 2000s, you almost certainly know "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Reading a Cracked article, I discovered that there's a lot of unexpected history to this song.
If you ever wondered who actually let the dogs out or why you should care, Anslem Douglas, who wrote the song originally, explained it, and it makes a lot more sense.
Doesn't explain why anyone thought a song like that would be appropriate for a Rugrats film, but the story gets significantly stranger. Apparently, a hairdresser started talking about the music he discovered during a trip to the Caribbean to one of his clients. Said client? Jonathan King.
Yes, it does sound like crap. Also, if the name sounds familiar, well, it turns out Jonathan King, in addition to recording hundreds of UK hit singles under multiple names,
Jonathan King gave it to producer Steve Greenberg, who gave it to the Baha Men, and, once he figured out its success in the UK didn't translate to the US, he took a brute force approach to it, licensed it to Nickelodeon for Rugrats in Paris, and marketed it to damn near every sporting event for the next couple years after it.
And that's why, odds are, most of you will think "Goddammit, Rye, I've wanted so badly to forget that song for two decades" and not "Why is Rye talking so much about an obscure novelty song and the pederast who made a recording of it?"
If you ever wondered who actually let the dogs out or why you should care, Anslem Douglas, who wrote the song originally, explained it, and it makes a lot more sense.
Quote:"It's a man-bashing song. I'll tell you why. The lyric of the song says, 'The party was nice, the party was pumpin'.' When I said the word 'party' I was being metaphorical. It really means things were going great. The 'Yippie-Yi-Yo,' that's everybody's happy, right? 'And everybody was having a ball.' Life was going great. 'Until the men start the name-callin' / And then the girls respond to the call.' So the men started calling the women 'skank' and 'skettel,' every dirty word you can think of. The men started the name-calling and then the girls respond to the call. And then a woman shouts out, 'Who let the dogs out?' And we start calling men dogs. It was really a man-bashing song."
Doesn't explain why anyone thought a song like that would be appropriate for a Rugrats film, but the story gets significantly stranger. Apparently, a hairdresser started talking about the music he discovered during a trip to the Caribbean to one of his clients. Said client? Jonathan King.
Yes, it does sound like crap. Also, if the name sounds familiar, well, it turns out Jonathan King, in addition to recording hundreds of UK hit singles under multiple names,
Jonathan King gave it to producer Steve Greenberg, who gave it to the Baha Men, and, once he figured out its success in the UK didn't translate to the US, he took a brute force approach to it, licensed it to Nickelodeon for Rugrats in Paris, and marketed it to damn near every sporting event for the next couple years after it.
And that's why, odds are, most of you will think "Goddammit, Rye, I've wanted so badly to forget that song for two decades" and not "Why is Rye talking so much about an obscure novelty song and the pederast who made a recording of it?"
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