{"id":5039,"date":"2011-02-09T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T21:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:44:10","slug":"new-lambada-new-lambada-new-lambada-new-lambada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"New Lambada New Lambada New Lambada New Lambada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/djjeffresh.com\/2011\/02\/05\/la-lambada-dem-bow-de-vakero\/\">DJ Effresh<\/a> for putting me on to yet another interesting instantiation of the &#8220;Lambada.&#8221; Here&#8217;s Vakero, one of the DR&#8217;s fiercest MCs, jumping on a <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=4866\">dembow<\/a>-influenced reworking of a truly perennial tune, as hashed out <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=163\">here, way back when<\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4J2i881z32g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Discussing this over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/wayneandwax\/c8Bm2C3yGu2\/uh-oh-lambadas-back-again-for-missing-video-see\">my\/our Buzz<\/a>, Birdseed pointed out that there&#8217;s a recent UK funky version of the tune as well:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"81\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F10089897\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F10089897\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\"><\/embed><\/object>  <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/terror-tone\/kaoma-lambada-terror-tone\">Kaoma &#8211; Lambada (Terror Tone Remix)<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/terror-tone\">Terror Tone<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this sort of thing is very up my musicological alley. I love to tell a good audible story, where a particular set of materials is transformed <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=137\">over and over again<\/a>, according to its new context(s). <\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m not really interested in abstracting any rules for what makes one tune more transposable than others &#8212; IMO, there&#8217;s far too much contingency involved to open into the realm of the generalizable &#8212; one consistent thread that emerges across such case studies is that, as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryjenkins.org\/2006\/10\/confronting_the_challenges_of.html\">participatory culture<\/a> more generally, they very often present, in the words of Henry Jenkins, &#8220;relatively low barriers&#8221; to entry and engagement.<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly true for the &#8220;Lambada,&#8221; and nothing says it better than Vakero&#8217;s shameless chorus on the track above: &#8220;la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaaaaa.&#8221; I mean, c&#8217;mon, anyone can do that! That&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve been singing &#8220;Lambada&#8221; for years.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my second example (and explains the repetitive title above): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/20110207\/washington-heights-inwood\/rap-spoof-pan-con-queso-becomes-viral-hit-for-washington-heights\">Juan Bago&#8217;s &#8220;Pan con Queso&#8221;<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/102149409201954923711\/BiLfadfQ6De\/Pan-con-Queso-Pan-con-Queso-Pan-con-Queso-Its\">Monika Fabian<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gP3q-BuLewI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of Wiz Khalifa&#8217;s relatively vapid but awfully catchy ode to his favorite colors ever since it first came out. (Indeed, I even cooked up a quick mashup to draw out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2010\/11\/23\/black-and-yellow-sounds-an-awful-lot-like-the-triggerman-beat\/\">the beat&#8217;s relation to the <em>Triggerman<\/em><\/a>.) I think it was Catchdubs who, in my feeds, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catchdini\/status\/7446229311037440\">first pointed out the obvious<\/a>: You can change the chorus to be about anything! Any four-syllable phrase anyway. <\/p>\n<p>And I can absolutely vouch for the plasticity of the tune. Indeed, since it entered regular radio rotation, my two toddlers have been singing it non-stop (they easily relate to songs about colors, of course), and we&#8217;ve all had fun for the last few months slotting all manner of four-syllable phrases into the hook. (Especially other color combinations, duh, in order to, say, suit the sippy-cup of the day: pink and purple, pink and purple, pink and purple, pink and purple.) [<strong>Update!<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/wayneandwax\/fRokDCCwVZE\/thx-sharesisters-New-Lambada-New-Lambada-New\">Sharesister Lily notes<\/a> that there actually exists a lilgirls&#8217; version of the song called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipc9rzqX_Jg\">Pink and Purple<\/a>&#8220;! My daughters are delighted.]<\/p>\n<p>So it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that there would be dozens and dozens of remixes (or whatever <a href=\"http:\/\/avanturb.com\/news\/?p=1152\">you insist<\/a> on calling them) in which people substitute their own favorite four-syllable phrase. But few (that I&#8217;ve seen anyway), have come close to approaching the panache and piquancy of &#8220;Pan con Queso.&#8221; Washington Heights representando! Long live the <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=3133\">Dominican YouTubosphere<\/a>! Viva la &#8220;Lambada&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to DJ Effresh for putting me on to yet another interesting instantiation of the &#8220;Lambada.&#8221; Here&#8217;s Vakero, one of the DR&#8217;s fiercest MCs, jumping on a dembow-influenced reworking of a truly perennial tune, as hashed out here, way back when &#8212; Discussing this over at my\/our Buzz, Birdseed pointed out that there&#8217;s a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,238,215,280,404,412,10,145,405,421,75,407],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aesthetics","tag-diaspora","tag-dr","tag-funky","tag-hip-hop","tag-internet","tag-latin","tag-newyork","tag-reggaeton","tag-remix","tag-uk","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8245,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}