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.

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3 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Lee  |  March 3rd, 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  |  March 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    Friends forever.

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

  • 3. Marisa  |  March 4th, 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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