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I’m on a Boat
So I recently saw “I’m on a Boat” which is a song and accompanying video created by a few guys involved with SNL. These three guys, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg, call themselves The Lonely Island and create and compile a bunch of short comedy songs. Many of the short videos that they have created are ridiculously funny and have become huge hits when they air on SNL and have gotten many millions of views. My personal favorite segment that will be on their album is “Jizz in my Pants.” Even though I feel like the video is a very important part of the comedic power of this song, this song has ridiculous but witty lyrics that have made it a huge YouTube hit. They are also responsible for similarly clever songs like “My Dick in a Box” and “Lazy Sunday.”
Their most recent song, “I’m on a Boat,” however, is not the same as their previous works. The first thing that I noticed about this song is that there are really only about five different phrases that they use without much variation or innovation. All of the other lyrics that The Lonely Island has written are witty the whole way through and keep the viewer interested with new jokes the whole way through. In “I’m on a Boat,” they basically just keep swearing and saying their on a boat with a few words about the boat in the middle (I suppose this is supposed to be the verse.) To make it worse, this group used the fame of T-Pain to boost their views. I think it is perfectly normal for any group to have a few failed singles, I just hope that The Lonely Island hasn’t started resting on their laurels and coasting off the viewers that they have already earned!
