A virtual representation of those records that you used to hide at the back of your collection, hoping that your close friends would never find them and ridicule you while secretly reveling in their awfulness
Credit To The Nation was one M.C. Fusion aka Matty Hanson with a couple of dancers. If you know of them at all, it is probably from their 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' sampling track 'Call It What You Want' released at the height of mid-90s 'Brit Hop' or their association with Chumbawamba on 'Enough Is Enough'/'The Day The Nazi Died'.
This, however, was their first release on Chumbawamba'a 'Agit Prop' label in 1991 and, somewhat similar to 3rd Bass's 'Pop Goes The Weasel' released the same year, is a Vanilla Ice diss track!
Bonus Clips: 'Call It What You Want'...
... 'Enough Is Enough'...
... 'The Day The Nazi Died'...
... and for comparison, here's 3rd Bass with the Peter Gabriel sampling 'Pop Goes The Weasel'
Longtime readers of this blog may know that I get some of inspiration from songs that I have heard on TV e.g. from commercials or music heard as background. Today's selection is also from TV - however, this one was actually used in a Bollywood routine on 'So You Think You Can Dance' (Season 14, Episode 13 for those interested). Realising that this songs 'slaps' (I believe that is the correct term from my kids), I turned to the internet to find out more...
... and came across the scene from the 2015 movie 'Do Dhadakne Do' where it originated and fell in love. Now, I have not seen the entire film so have absolutely no context about this scene but a couple of things are apparent:
The scene was (allegedly) filmed in a single shot and;
It looks like every Jewish wedding or bar mitzvah that I have ever attended!
You may recognise some of the actors in this movie e.g. Priyanka Chopra (Mrs Nick Jonas), Anil Kappor (Slumdog Millionaire, 24) etc. However, as is usual with most Bollywood movies, none of the actors here sing and instead 'playback singers' are used. In this case, the song was composed by the trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and features Shankar Mahadevan, Yashita Sharma, Manish Kumar Tipu, Farhan Akhtar, and Sukhwinder Singh.
