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Some more MC Frontalot for your Saturday morning:
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Best. Plot Twist. Ever.
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Civilization VI
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Playstation 3
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Awesome, thanks for the video!
Wow…. just wow.
Pitch Dark was great, but this is just a completely different level of amazing. I obviously need to do some music shopping.
Technical nit-pick, you changed tags for the two videos.
Pitch Dark: mc-frontalot
Bizzare Genius Baby: frontalot
Okay, let me see here. I have a hard time understand a lot of Frontalot’s lyrics, so I want to know if I have the story straight.
He has a baby girl, who is really smart. He has trouble identifying with her, and she’s also a lot to manage around the house. After much work and trial, she finally accepts him as a dad and role model, so he sells her to a sweat shop in Singapore, for which she kills him.
Is that basically the idea?
I feel like I ought to like Frontalot. I really want to, but I guess it’s not for everyone. On the other hand I really love Jonathan Coulton, who also writes a bunch of “geek music.”
For what it’s worth, Frontalot’s efforts seem very well-made, and just as good as any other rapper out there… and he isn’t singing about shooting cops or raping/peeing on kids or stealing things, so that’s a check in the plus column!
Kevin:
“Is that basically the idea?”
Except for the most important part:Hes just dreaming all of that.
Oh! Okay, cool. Thanks for that Luci. See, that’s why I asked!
(Though I’m not certain how that affects the story…)
Shamus – another to check out (but that has no video) is Secrets from the Future. You’ll find a lot of parallels to the futility of DRM mechanisms. :)