Sorry for the slow posting of videos lately, but I have been out of town and am getting caught up.   Here is the sequel to the Cleveland Tourism Video I posted a few weeks ago.    The sequel video follows the same tune as the first, only this time it’s a lot more cynical and the language is a bit aggressive.

Apparently there is no shortage of negative aspects to Cleveland, because the singers are able to pick apart several more shortcomings of the city.  Having never been to Cleveland, I cannot tell how true these are, but I’m guessing they have a fair amount of accuracy.  At the end they say at least we’re not Detroit.  This is probably accurate too.  However, when I was in Detroit, I stayed in a really nice place and really enjoyed the city… so what do I know.

Here is a list of the things that these musicians find wrong with Cleveland:

• Under construction since 1868
• See our river that catches on fire… it’s so polluted that all of our fish have AIDS
• Flats look like a Scooby Doo Ghost Town
• Don’t slow down in east Cleveland or else you’ll die
• Our economy’s based on Lebron James
• Buy a house for the price of a VCR
• Our main export is crippling depression
• We’re so retarded that we think this is art
• It could be worse though, at least we’re not Detroit.  We’re not Detroit!

I inadvertently have a lot of things to say about this little video on tourism in Cleveland, Ohio.  At some point on Wednesday, I saw this video on my RSS feed reader 10 times.  Had no real idea what it was about, so I was working and ignored it.

Then yesterday morning I received a note from my buddy LJ and he said “dude, have you heard the song about Cleveland?  It’s hilarious, it reminds me of the song from Team America World Police – what is the name of that band?”

They are called DVDA.  The lead singer is Trey Parker.

With that said, it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together and realize that the video in question was the same video from my RSS reader.  I continued to humor my friend with talks about the video, but I never really got very far.

There were a few other conversations I had around this video inadvertently that aren’t worth mentioning (namely because it makes me seem like a biggot), but let’s just say that this Cleveland Tourism video was completely under my radar.

Fast forward to tonight when I write this post, drinking some wine and catching up on some video watching, leisure reading and podcast listening.  What do I come across while listening to the 93x morning show?  The Cleveland Tourism song!  It really makes me want to go Cleveland.

Some good lines:

“Come on down to Cleveland town everyone.  Come and look at both of our buildings”

“You should come on down the west 6th street.  It’s the perfect place if you’re a douchebag”

“Watch all the poor people all wait for buses”

“Who the fuck still uses a pay phone?”

“Here’s the place where there used to be industry.  The train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland”

“Cleveland leads the nation in drifters”

“Here’s a statue of Moses Cleveland.  He’s the guy who invented Cleveland, YEAH!”

This video might be a little older, but I just noticed it today for the first time.

I have never flown Southwest Airlines (because they didn’t service Minnesota until a week ago), but I have heard nothing but good things. If this video, where a flight attendant raps the normally mundane instructions you hear on every flight. He does a pretty good job too!

I fly a lot (probably 1-2 trips a month), which means I hear these instructions about 30-40 times a year. If this guy were on my flights, I think I’d have a much better time!

Hopefully this is a new trend in rap; flight attendant on southwest airlines, then recording contract. It would be a big departure of the normal path taken by rappers, minus the ‘street cred.’