Shake it like a white boy/girl

As a lad growing up in rural southwestern Utah, I developed a pronounced aversion to country-pop, Slayer, and Richard Marx (such were the dominant music cliques in my high school).  What did I do?  I started listening to 80's/early 90's 'black' music - Hip-hop (Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions) and R&B/Soul (New Edition, Keith Sweat, Al B. Sure).

In the summer of 1989 I discovered an average R&B-pop group called EU.  The band's music was largely forgettable; with one exception - the song, Shake it Like a White Girl.  This song was one of the first to make me jump/slide/wiggle/squirm in the privacy of my bedroom.

Since those days, It has been the rare tune that induced me into shaking it like a white boy.  Enter British soul vocalist (formerly electronica artist) Jamie Lidell.  He has been described thusly:

“a 21st century reincarnation of Little Richard” with “a soul voice fried in honey like Sly Stone or Prince, and a beatboxing talent to make Muhammad Ali quake in his Everlast”

This is the perfect music for gettin jiggy whilst cookin some dinner and sippin some wine.  Listen to a few tracks off the album Multiply (also available on iTunes) and try to hold your booty still.  My money says you'll be shimmying a little something like this:

Download Shakin.mov

Listen now.  Shake it later.

Comments

[Lenn]

For some reason...I'm left thinking about saltines, Ritz, graham and oyster...but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Haha!

[Jennifer]

I'll check out Jamie Lidell, but you remind me that my favorite EU song was "Da Butt" (as in "Doin' Da Butt") When I was a college DJ back in the late 80s I'd play them all the time!

[beau]

Ah yes. Who can forget Da Butt (sexy, sexy, sexy, owwwwww)