Mr Scruff is a legitimately good DJ. This song is a pretty good song – maybe a little repetitive and pointless, but it’s got a good groove. So what’s so embarrassing about this song?
Anyone reading this blog on a PC knows exactly why this song is so embarrassing. It’s because this is one of three or four songs pre-loaded onto the Windows Media Player as sample pieces. I don’t know why they did that. All I know is that, one day, when I had to work at another facility and I didn’t have my own music with me, I hoped against hope there would be something already on the Windows machine I had to use – and, God bless America, there was. I listened to this song on repeat for eight hours.
Eight. Hours.
Stockholm syndrome is real, my friends.
That’s a wonderful story. After listening to this track for a couple of minutes imagining eight hours of it is like trying to picture what a trillion dollars means or how large Betelgeuse is. My puny human mind can’t handle the scale.
I can tell you that after hour four, you start hearing hidden messages in the rhythms. It’s pretty bleak. But nothing to bleak as the morning after you spent $0.99 on a song you were almost forced to listen to on repeat for an entire work day. That was a dark morning in our nation’s capital.