BOC: DFtR and Tidbits

Joseph Brooks Joseph.Brooks at GCCCD.NET
Fri Jul 2 10:25:56 EDT 1999


One can only hope that this is not the case. Some things are better left for
dead. (Sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself.. : )

JB

> Have Styx been exhumed? has anyone else noticed the "buzz"
> going all around the
> mass media about Mr Roboto? Its lyrics and music are
> appearing everywhere in
> commercials and the such ('domo arigato' was quipped in a new
> hi-profile
> commercial promoting e-business). It's also been a subject in
> several recent
> conversations i've had.
>
> The earliest  reference to the song (immediately before this
> surge began) that I
> know of was in a May issue of  The Onion, in an article
> titled something like :
> "Mr. Roboto (and some other song) Only Songs Not Yet Sampled
> By Rap Artists "
> ...Could this have actually started it?
>
> i bet that, ironically, someone's doing a remix of it right now!



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