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July 06, 2005
the trials of Faberge
Kool Keith - The Girls Don't Like the Job
Let's try this again. Behind Black Leotard Front's 'Casual Friday', and Belle & Sebastian's 'Step Into My Office, Baby', 'the Girls Don't Like the Job' is one of the few songs I know that would be most at home on a 'music for sexual harassment' compilation. But unlike those other two songs, 'Girls...' is very subtle, with only a hint of impropriety. Kool Keith is dead calm in this track, dropping hard corporate jargon and switching back and forth between an immediate, clear vocal sound and something that's more like a secondhand recording off of an answering machine (waaaay off-mic and slightly distorted). The beat is thick and lazy and lukewarm, but it's garnished with both a menacing bassline and a synthy squeak that sounds like a sickly fire alarm, and it totally makes the song.
There are some CLASSIC lines in this song, but my favorite by far is the 'I want you to fax yourself to China OK? Do this now' that Kool Keith just throws out there in the background between the first verse and the chorus. Speaking of which, the chorus is particularly tempting in a 'Wall Street/Boiler Room/American Psycho' mantra-esque way (I have nearly had to choke back saying 'I hire and fire/give you checks when it's hot' during various training classes that I've taught). This song would be nice accompaniment if you wanted to grow a mustache, put on a perfectly tailored gray suit, slap a pair of aviator sunglasses on your face, light a cigarette, and invite all of your employees into a small conference room for an unexplained mass-firing. Break the news to them, then give them a parting gift of a handful of Pamprin and their choice of 3 items from the vending machine down the hall.
'The Girls Don't Like the Job' is from "Black Elvis/Lost in Space", which you can buy right here. Someday I will get around to part 3 of this mix, "Cubicle Temptation: Some Asses Look Better With Hands on Them" (the title is always changing).
Posted by Kevin at July 6, 2005 06:34 AM
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