#365songs (63 / 365)

Last entry in the increasingly inaccurately named "boys whomst sing fast" category. This one's neither singing nor is it particularly fast. But it is another white boy rap track that did not spur me into any serious engagement with the genre, or even the artist, as a whole. Looking back, I guess I found it novel that a rap song would shout out Mr. Spock, not that I was ever really a ST:TOS fan. Looking back, I was really not terribly impressed with the Beastie Boys' whole deal. Like "One Week" they have become a semi-affectionate low-grade meme on social media, but where for the Barenaked Ladies IT'S BEEN the jumpscare-y abruptness of "One Week"'s opening that's made it meme fodder, for the Beastie Boys it's their incredibly distinctive rap lines with a last word they SHOUT. In my mind, every Beastie Boys song sounds like "Intergalactic" except for "Girls," about which the less said the better. This is probably unfair but life is that way sometimes.

This marks the end of this weird phase in my musical history. Tomorrow I will hopefully return to songs that I still like in 2026.