Introducing Room Clearers

Posted by Dan March 3rd, 2008 at 01:56pm In The Funk

In conjunction with a project that I’m working on over at my much-neglected personal blog, all this week I’ll be bringing you different songs that I think come under the banner of a “Room Clearer.”

A Room Clearer is not easily defined. It’s a song that is quintessentially unhip. It’s embarassing, it makes you cringe, but often there’s a piece of you that loves it. Part of you wants to run and hide from it, while another part wants to dance wildly and sing along.

A Room Clearer is often supremely dated, often ridiculously poppy and cheery. A Room Clearer is often specific to my generation, which endured a 1990s adolescence.

I’ll bring you one video from each day’s playlist (check the other blog for the full ten-track disc). It’ll be fun, amusing and painful for all.

Here’s the first video, from the “Party Time” mix. It’s Escape Club’s “Wild Wild West,” which is notable for:

  • freakish detached female limbs playing the tambourine.
  • the Rastafarian/Mexican breakdown.

  1. Lee posted the following on March 3, 2008 at 3:05 pm.

    I was really hoping wild wild west was the Will Smith version but it was okayed by the ridiculous video.
    Wiki wild wiki wild wiki wiki wild west

  2. Lee posted the following on March 3, 2008 at 3:10 pm.

    Friends forever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KStmcq6UhVY

  3. Marisa posted the following on March 4, 2008 at 9:58 am.

    Cristin brought up the idea of your “Room Clearers” mix on my LiveJournal, and the best one I could think of was Eiffel 65’s “Blue.” Ahh, freshman year of college.


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