BOSS BABY MOVIE SOUNDTRACK SERIES
The Charlotte, NC rapper DaBaby (you may have seen the video for his single “Walker Texas Ranger” if not, prepare to live) capped off his Baby Talk series of mixtapes with one depicting him as a Boss Baby, wearing a suit and talking on a brick-sized cell phone. Will he shit himself? Hell yeah he’ll shit himself,” said its writer during a pitch meeting, I assume.) And yet its charming dumbness clearly hit a cultural nerve, bringing in over half a billion dollars at the box office and spawning a (sadly) Baldwin-less children’s series on Netflix.ĭaddy Yankee is not the only musician to deploy Boss Baby-style imagery. (“Alec Baldwin combines his Trump impression with his character from that scene from Glengarry Glen Ross, but - get this - he’s a big-ass baby who wears a suit.
The Boss Baby has been a meme from the moment its existence was announced, another shamelessly blunt concept driving a computer-animated kids’ movie, fitting neatly into a genre including The Emoji Movie (about talking Emoji), The Lego Movie (about talking Legos), and whatever movie the Minions came from. In case you were wondering, Snow shows up around the 2:40 mark. So when something falls outside of these strict, market-tested bounds, it tends to jump out at you. Almost everything that shows up looks like it would easily fit on a stylish Instagram feed, featuring usually either a slightly off-kilter image of a face (like this week’s releases from Beyoncé, Cage the Elephant, and Gus Dapperton ), a striking photo of the artist in some stage of undress (the art for Tyga’s single “Goddamn” finds him sunbathing on a Lamborghini Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You features a body-positive nude and Shy Glizzy’s Covered N Blood features the rapper squatting shirtlessly behind a tiger while covered in blood), or something made by a computer ( Beck’s “Saw Lightning,” Sech’s Sueños, and “Earth,” the star-studded single by the odious joke-rapper Lil Dicky). There’s a consistent visual continuity among album art these days. Though I rarely listen to more than a few tracks, it’s a comforting ritual, a compulsion that I cling to even as I age out of the target audience for basically all songs released on a label with enough marketing clout to earn a spot on the Spotify New Music page. Every Friday, I spend a few minutes scrolling through Spotify’s collection of notable new album and single releases on my phone.
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