Thursday, September 12, 2019

Koo Koo Kanga Roo

One Liner:  Electronic kiddie music
Wikipedia Genre:   Dance-pop, hip hop, synthpop, children's music
Home: Minneapolis

Poster Position: 28


Weekend One Only.


Thoughts: Billed as "Beastie Boys meets Sesame Street," they are super silly kiddie music full of weird bits.  Very goofy.  Wikipedia says that it is two dudes - Bryan and Neil - who perform with pre-recorded tracks loaded onto an iPod while they do their thing.  The tunes are built for audience participation and generally have some sort of silly dance move that goes along with the tune.

Eight albums, and seven or so songs have more than 100k streams, so they're actually pretty large for this area of the music world.  Most of them could be used by elementary school gym teachers - "Dinosaur Stomp" is all about "chompin chompin" and "stompin stompin," or "Get Yo Body Movin" is all about, unsurprisingly, getting your body moving.
Here is the Dino song.
Got an "Everybody Dance Now!" vibe at the start.  Those ladies in the background appear to be having a terrible time broken only every once in a while by a forced smile when they remember their jobs.  16 million views for that video.

How about "All I Eat is Pizza" for this second one.
Cheeeeeeesy!

But here's the deal, several of these songs are kinda funny for the adults.  I'm not saying this is going to work like a Pixar movie or anything, but making a scurvy joke about eating nothing but hot dogs is way better than a bunch of grown men talking to a mouse puppet that just makes high pitches moaning noises.  Sure.

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