![]() (They include a few shots of Wesley Snipes and Jennifer Lopez making love, can you show that on MTV? Is that allowed?) Lyrically, Top of the Stairs consists of Skee-Lo positioning himself as a big brother to the listener, telling them a cautionary tale of the perils of fame, and how no one cares about you until you are Somebody. The music video features Skee-Lo awkwardly greenscreened into scenes from Money Train and honestly it's an enjoyable little video, if very distinctly "A Music Video for a movie tie-in". Top of the Stairs begins with a somewhat ominous arpeggio with a few stabs of synth that then gives way to a ridiculously funky bassline. Right now, all I can tell you about is how Money Train was not a critical or commercial success, and Skee-Lo's second single was a promotional single for Money Train, titled Top of the Stairs. It's on a list of bad but fun movies to watch curated by my dear friend Joe, so at some point I will eventually have seen it. I will not lie to you dear reader, I have not seen Money Train. I'm sure in the 90s this seemed like a good idea.ġ995's Money Train is a buddy action comedy in the vein of Lethal Weapon or Bad Boys, featuring Snipes and Harrelson reuniting from their previous pairing in 1992's White Men Can't Jump. The Follow Up Single is what separates One Hit Wonders from genuine Pop Stars after all, and Skee-Lo placed all of his money on a train, a train helmed by Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Like all one hit wonders though, Skee-Lo had a much bigger obstacle in his life than his lack of having a rabbit in a hat and a bat and a 64 Impala, and that was the dreaded Follow Up Single. I want to talk about the one-hit wonder Skee-Lo, and his failed follow up single. A perfect intersection of the joy of childhood with the emotional turbulence of adolescence.īut I don't want to talk about any of that. The recreation of the guitar driven melodies of Nine Inch Nails or Have A Nice Life reinterpreted as Boss Fight themes for Bowser. The interplay of nostalgia, the familiar sounds of Mario 64 depicting the emotionally heady work of Radiohead, the juxtaposition between the sweeping ambiance of Aphex Twin with the often goofy instruments of Mario 64 (love that Pan Flute). There's a lot that can be said about these songs. The works that have received the most notoriety and discussion are all from the same creator, Youtube user on4word, with their work having received articles and blog posts written about them and recognition from members of Radiohead, but it would be incorrect to assume this to be an entirely solo movement, as other projects like a recreation of Have a Nice Life's Deathconsciousness or Super Spamton 64 have also picked up an amount of notability as well displaying a clear amount of love and craftsmanship. Songs by Radiohead, Aphex Twin or Nine Inch Nails recreated with the MIDI instruments used in Mario 64's OST. ![]() An interesting artistic movement of this type that has been delivered through the medium of Youtube recommended videos, is the Mario 64 Soundfont Cover. Because of the way that the modern internet is shaped by algorithms, the pattern seeking part of my brain is interested in perceived microgenres of disparate content connected by one static element. ![]()
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