(Carlos) Serrano Spice

Upon hearing this song and watching this video for the first time, I felt like the professional athlete who has just won the championship in his sport and just “can’t put his feelings into words”. Now, perhaps as a means of coming to grips with the fact that I’ll never be a professional athlete (despite catching hundreds of TD passes from the life-size Troy Aikman beanbag I played backyard football with growing up), I am just trying to relate my everyday life to the inexplicable highs these guys experience on a regular basis – or, maybe that feeling I described really is possible for anyone? Why am I getting so sentimental? Must be the Homecoming Weekend nostalgia talking…

Anyway, as a service to all my Junkyard Cat readers, I’m still going to attempt to describe what makes this song so awesome. It’s a mashup (I know what you’re thinking… give it a chance) of Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain” and Daft Punk’s “Something About You”, and it purposefully combines the explosive crescendos and raw intensity of Adele’s voice with one of Daft Punk’s most subdued beats; the result is a stunning soup du jour (I feel like I’m sounding a little too much like Sir Herbert Sherpa today…) that has inspired its very own video.  That’s right, a video produced exclusively for the purposes of accompanying a mashup. And the video is just as awesome as the song itself.

I hope this song treats all you road dogs well this weekend. Be safe out there, and until next time…

http://vimeo.com/49757843

SHAQ ATTACK

Last weekend at Budweiser’s Made in America Festival in Philly, Jay-Z aka HOVA aka Jigga brought rap BACK for me. I haven’t felt this way about rap since taking my shirt off at middle school dances and following Petey Pablo’s instructions to “twist it ’round yo head spin it like a helicopter”. All cities remix was nothing short of revolutionary.

This brand new jam from Jigga, Yeezy and Big Sean is also revolutionary in a way – I’ve never had headphones actually vibrate off of my ears like they do when this song is pumped at max volume. Speaking of pumps and middle school, thought I’d throw up a pic of the SHAQ pumps I used to rock in middle school… nothing like a little suburban kid with marginal basketball talent decked out in all black sneaks. To a great era, and to G.O.O.D. music bringing it back, HIT IT: