{"id":12906,"date":"2011-10-16T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2011-10-16T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T01:32:09","slug":"flo-rida-and-the-cookie-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/flo-rida-and-the-cookie-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Flo Rida and the Cookie Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I see Flo Rida’s 2009 “Right Round” video on the rap-music TV channel piped into my gym, I think, “Why is this guy standing on a giant, rotating Oreo?”<\/p>\n

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\nDespite the big cookie, I love this song (which features Ke$ha<\/a>‘s voice) because it samples, “You Spin Me Round<\/a>,” a 1984 song by British New Wave band Dead or Alive<\/a>. I was crazy for Dead or Alive in 1984, especially their first album, Sophisticated Boom Boom<\/a><\/em>. While listening to it, I used to stare adoringly at the album cover, which featured lead singer Pete Burns crouching in a sea of animal prints.<\/p>\n

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Due to horrific plastic surgery<\/a>, Pete Burns is no longer the androgyne<\/a> of my early ’80s dreams, but I still prefer his cover of KC and the Sunshine Band<\/a>‘s “That’s the Way (I Like It)<\/a>” to the original. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time I see Flo Rida’s 2009 “Right Round” video on the rap-music TV channel piped into my gym, I think, “Why is this guy standing on a giant, rotating Oreo?” Despite the big cookie, I love this song (which features Ke$ha‘s voice) because it samples, “You Spin Me Round,” a 1984 song by British…<\/p>\n

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