No, this isn’t an article about boobies. Sorry.

Sergeant D. recently conducted an interview with Born of Osiris for Substream, and, as is often the case, there was a chunk of the interview that the magazine didn’t run. The Sarge has now posted that chunk at Stuff You Will Hate, and while some of it is over my head (Did you know that Johnny Plague apparently wears a lot of puffy vests? Yeah, me neither.), I did appreciate the revelation that BOO drummer/primary songwriter Cameron Losch has dabbled in rap music:

Sergeant D. compares him to Andy Samberg’s “Blizzard Man” character from Saturday Night Live, which I think is going too far. Blizzard Man’s lyrics are more authentic. “How’d I get so good at killing bitches/Well, nobody knows?” Seriously? There a lotta gangstas on the rough streets of Palatine, Illinois, aren’t there?

Read more at SYWH.

-AR

“I’m On a Boat” by Lonely Island (a.k.a. Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg and some dudes who aren’t Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg) works as satire for the following reasons: a) it’s an incredibly catchy and accurate-sounding facsimile of the very rap songs it parodies, and b) its lyrics literalize the visuals of the music videos for said rap songs, which are concerned primarily with the topic of “bling.” (I’m white… can you tell?) Depending on which particular subgenre you wanted to poke fun at, the metal version of this might be “I’m in a Fireworks Factory” (glam metal), “I’m in the Woods” (pagan or black metal), or “I’m in a Warehouse”* (pretty much everything else).

The dudes in Goatmill, who made the below death metal cover of “I’m on a Boat” (which I originally saw on The Deciblog), clearly have no grasp of why the song was ever funny in the first place. They think it’s funny just to take someone else’s funny song and make it metal. But they’ve robbed the satire of its context, so, really, their version of the song just ends up being stupid and bad.

And if you’re last person on the face of the earth who isn’t familiar with Lonely Island’s original, you can check it out after the jump.

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Andy Samberg can’t single-handedly salvage more than a decade of suckitude at Saturday Night Live, but this past weekend’s skit “The Mellow Show” is pretty fuckin’ funny and of particular interest to metal fans. The skit pokes fun at the light rock stylings of Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and Dave Matthews, and Mr. Matthews himself makes a cameo appearance as Ozzy Osbourne. Thanks to our brostophers at Metal Insider for picking this one up.

If you’re having trouble with the below embed, check out the video at Metal Insider.

-VN