This song is ridiculous, and 2 Chainz and Kanye revel in its stupidity. Look at the chorus! “All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe” repeated over and over. The beat is understated and oddly menacing, adding to the absurdity of the song. There’s also the interesting dichotomy of naming the track Birthday Song and interspersing the song with places you’d like to be buried.
Places 2 Chainz would like to be buried:
The Louis store 4x
The Gucci store 3x
The jewelry store
The truest though
Next to two b****es
The booty club
Lyric wise there is one great line from 2 Chainz: “You the realest n**** breathin’ if I hold my breath.” Otherwise his wordplay is forgettable. Kanye West goes on this diatribe about deserving a ménage a trois after being married 10 years and providing luxury automobiles for his wife. Kim K is certainly a lucky lady, eh?
It would have been a throwaway track with a sub-par guest verse, but the video is what MAKES the track.
Look at it! We slowly meander through a house, showing a party in various stages of disarray. Random Pakistani guy drinking a fourty! Strippers! Booty Cake! Smoke filled garage with Kanye West! Creepy clown! The beating of the creepy clown! Wee Man of Jackass fame in blackface! Wait… that last one is the icing on the stupid cake, and something I missed when I watched it. A friend had to point it out to me. This is a video you show your friends, and they notice something weird that you missed.
Make no mistake, this is a trash track. However, it’s an earworm, boosted by the insanity of the music video.
What the heck did I just watch? I thought that was Weeman from Jackass and I thought the other shirtless guy might be Steve-O. I bet all of those women in the video have parents who are just beaming with pride when their friends ask what their daughters are doing with their lives.
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