Categories: uncategorized
Date: 03 December 2009 08:18:56
Today's song is "Santa Claus goes straight the ghetto". This is Snoop Dogg's version not the James Brown version. This song gets as much wrong as it gets right and I'm posting it here to pull it apart.
I am quite possibly the most politically correct man in the world and therefore I like the prospect of an ethnically diversified Father Christmas. Snoop Dogg as a black Santa Claus (Snoopa Claus? Santa Dogg?) riding a flying caddillac over South Central LA. I can buy that.
What bothers me most about this video (other than the tacit implication that Snoop dreams of a white - cocaine filled - Christmas) is the homeless guy. Or specifically the fact that Santa can seemingly do almost anything and therefore replaces his cheap bottle of booze with champagne. I mean that in itself is nice, but maybe its a bit patronising to suggest that said homeless guy only needs alcohol, rather than say a roof over his head, food, some warm clothes and some friends.
Also Snoop's Father Christmas outfit makes him look like a Rabbi.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQfSIZiv8q4[/youtube]