In an amusing follow-up to rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot’s appearance with the Seattle Symphony, classical music critic Tim Smith writes in Wednesday’s (6/11) Baltimore Sun, “By now, you have surely heard all about the Seattle Symphony’s Web-phenomenon—a viral YouTube clip of the orchestra teaming up with Sir Mix-a-Lot for a version of his 1990s posterior-fixated rap hit ‘Baby Got Back.’ … Some folks … have railed mightily against what went down in Seattle. Others see this as a harmless bit of cross-over that can catch the attention of folks who otherwise may never give a symphony orchestra a second thought. Mostly, I suspect, everyone in the classical business is eying the nearly 2 million YouTube hits for the Seattle Symphony’s unexpected brush with fame and wondering how to create something like it.… I thought I would make a sure-fire suggestion to my homey band, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.… It would be a small step to go all out and get a gig going with a Baltimore-bred artist. Yes, Sisqo is who I’m talkin’ about. It should take no more than two shakes of, um, a tail to whip up an orchestral arrangement of Sisqo’s indelible hit, ‘Thong Song.’ … A YouTube souvenir of that would go seriously viral. Ballistic even.”
Posted June 16, 2014
