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A boombox is not a toy
Imagine my joy when SNL featured a Digital Short this past weekend of my favorite track off the Lonely Island CD, Boombox. Julian Casablancas from the Strokes appears, as he provided vocals for the song. The video pretty much tells the story I envisioned in my head, and any song and/or video that references the 1990 hit Do the Bartman is aces in my book.Tags: 00s music, 10s tv, 90s music, andy samberg, digital short, do the bartman, julian casablancas, saturday night live, snl, the lonely island, the simpsons, the strokes
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The guy who writes the SNL digital short songs
He gave you Dick In A Box, Mother Lover, and Lazy Sunday and is the brother of Jorma Taccone, one of the three Lonely Island dudes. His name is Asa Taccone, and he’s also doing music for the MTV Movie Awards airing May 31st, 2009.Asa Taccone is part of the Black Iris collective, an agency that creates music for advertisements and the entertainment industry. With offices in NYC, Los Angeles, and Richmond, VA, Black Iris has also started their own singles label. The label has been lucrative, selling longer versions of the songs you may hear in something like the newest Cadillac ad for example. Other Black Iris work includes compositions for the ESPN X Games, Gatorade, and Hummer.
Creativity recently posted an interview with Asa…
What’s the process for composing the music for the digital shorts? Is it as hectic as it seems?
Completely. It really is just as hectic as anything you’ve heard. I’ve gone and done some of the work in New York and when I see how SNL is put together, it amazes me that anything is funny on that show. It’s so last minute. For “Mother Lover” Justin was re-recording vocals about an hour and a half before the show started. It’s because we always have to send stuff to NBC’s standards and practices department, and often it’s like, “Uh, no that can’t go on air.” So we have to change things all throughout the process.
It’s so hectic that the network didn’t even know who did the music for “Dick in a Box.” My brother gave me $60 for that track. My name didn’t really come up until the Emmys and someone asked. It’s just so chaotic, but it works.Usually the process is, my brother will call and give us the general joke idea, and that changes about four or five times in a four hour period until they land on an idea that they think is funny. Then we send them a bunch of tracks and they’ll either pick something they like and just start writing to that or, when it’s more organized like in the case of “Dick in a Box” and “Mother Lover,” they give us a more specific outline. For “Dick in a Box” they wanted a cheesy, 90s, Color Me Badd type track. Then we just go from there, and there’s usually so little time to get everything done.
Drew Campbell and I did “Mother Lover” and I got the call on the Monday at about 3:20 a.m., L.A. time, and all those guys were in the studio with Justin Timberlake, just writing and trying to figure things out. It seems like that’s a lot of time, but so much changes right up to when the show goes on the air.
Here’s a partial list of some of the things Asa Taccone has been involved with on SNL (from imDB:
- – Dane Cook/James Blunt (3 December 2005) – composer (additional music)
- Jack Black/Neil Young (17 December 2005) – Soundtrack (writer: “Lazy Sunday”), Composer
- Peter Sarsgaard/The Strokes (21 January 2006) – Soundtrack (writer: “Young Chuck Norris”), composer (additional music) (more…)Tags: 2009 mtv movie awards, andy samberg, asa taccone, black iris, digital short, drew campbell, jorma taccone, music composer, saturday night live, snl, writer, wrote
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songspeak
I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover, we should love each other’s mothers
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake offered up an eyebrow raising follow up to Dick In a Box, this time a wonderfully inappropriate Mother’s Day seduction song called Motherlover. Susan Sarandon plays Samberg’s mom and Patricia Clarkson plays Timberlake’s mom. Each of them tries to seduce the other one’s mom as a gift for Mother’s Day. Lyrics after the video.Dick In a Box actually won a fricken Emmy. I wonder if this will follow in its footsteps. Motherlover was directed by The Lonely Island dudes, Akiva Shaffer and Jorma Taccone.
The lyrics to Motherlover:
Andy Samberg: Oh dang…
Justin Timberlake: What is it dawg?
AS: I forgot it’s Mother’s Day
JT: Didn’t get a gift for her
AS: Other plans got in the way
She’ll be so disappointed
JT: Damn I forgot it too
AS: This could have been avoided
Both: What the hell are we gonna do?JT: My mom’s been so forlorn ever since my daddy left.
AS: COLD
JT: No one to hold her tight, life has put her to the test.
AS: I know just what you mean, my mom’s been so sad and gray
JT: Word
AS: My dad can’t satisfy her in the bedroom ever since he passed awayBoth: Hold up
AS: You thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’?
JT: I’m thinkin’ I’m thinkin’ too
Both: Slow up
AS: What time is it dawg?
JT: It’s time for a switcharoo
Both: We both love our moms, women with grown women needs
I say we break ‘em off and show ‘em how much they really meanCHORUS:
’cause I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover
We should fuck each other’s mothers
Fuck each other’s moms
I’m pushin’ that lady where you came out as a baby
ain’t no doubt that shit is crazy
Fuckin’ each others moms
’cause every Mother’s Day needs a Mother’s Night
If doing it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right
I’m callin’ on you ’cause I can’t do it myself
to me your like a brother, so be my MotherloverAS: I’m layin’ in the cut waitin’ for your mom clutchin’ on this lube and roses
JT: I got my digital camera, I’m gonna make your momma do a million poses
AS: They will be so surprised
JT: We are so cool and thoughtful
AS: Can’t wait to pork your mom
JT: I’m gonna be the syrup, she can be my waffle
Both: Sho’ Nuff
JT: My mother loves bubble bath with chamomile
Both: Straight up
AS: Give it to my mom d- d- d- d- d- d- doggie-style
Both: This the perfect plan
For a perfect Mother’s Day
They have to rename this one
All up under the covers dayCHORUS:
’cause I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover
We should fuck each other’s mothers
Fuck each other’s moms
I’m pushin’ that lady where you came out as a baby
ain’t no doubt that shit is crazy
Fuckin’ each others moms
AS: Break it down
It would be my honor to be your new stepfather
JT: It would be my honor to be your new stepfather
AS: I’ll let you do my mother, make me another brother
and I’m gonna do your mother
I’ll never use a rubber
JT: OH’cause every Mother’s Day needs a Mother’s Night
If doing it is wrong, I don’t wanna be right
I’m callin’ on you ’cause I can’t do it myself
to me you’re like a brother, so be my mother lover
They blessed us both with the gift of life
She brought you in this world so I’m a sex her right
This is the second best idea that we’ve ever had
The choice can be no other
Be my mother loverHappy Mother’s Day
Tags: akiva shaffe, andy samberg, digital short, fuck each other's moms, it would be my honor to be your new stepfather, jorma taccone, justin timberlake, mother lover, mother's day, motherlover, saturday night live, snl, the lonely island, where you came out as a baby
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songspeak
You say I’m premature, I just call it ecstasy
SNL Digital Shorts. They’re just awesome. The latest, Jizz In My Pants, follows a long line of hilarious Andy Samberg-penned gems.
Appearances by Jamie Lynn Sigler (as the cashier), Molly Sims (the model), Justin Timberlake (the janitor), and Jorma Taccone from The Lonely Island.
Tags: andy samberg, cashier, dance, digital short, european, jamie lynn sigler, janitor, jizz in my pants, jorma taccone, justin timberlake, model, molly sims, premature, snl, the lonely island
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