Benny Benassi ft. T-Pain Electroman review by John M. Ellison IV

I was checking out my twitter feed yesterday. This usually entails sifting through lame jokes with equally as lame hashtags…which I of course contributed some jokes to and retweets of crude fanmade accounts of cartoon characters like “Family Guy” and them tweeting cheesy phrases like “Women fake orgasms, men fake relationships.” It was a droll experience…until I came across an interesting tweet from T-Pain.

“If you guys don’t think I got permission from the Mighty Boosh before I did the electro man hook ur crazy. It’s called being a fan of there music. The Mighty Boosh heard that song before any of you did so I think they would have sued me by now. But I understand how you feel yasimelike. Just do Yo research before you go ham on a nigga”

After trying to figure out what he was talking about, I looked up a song called “Electroman” by T-Pain and Benny Benassi. Apparently, this is an interpolation of the original “Electro Boy” hook by The Might Boosh from the “Electro” episode. Looking up the ASCAP records for “Electroman” it shows Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh) are credited as co-writers of “Electroman”…Or in other words, they gave a fellow Boosh fan permission to use it! As a fan of the Mighty Boosh myself that wins some brownie points with me.

Also, I think it’s hypocritical that fans are getting upset, I mean didn’t The Mighty Boosh parody Parliament’s “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) for “Sea Funk?” From the looks of it, I doubt they got permission to do that. So, yeah…instead of saying “T-Pain sucks” How about saying “Hmm, he has good taste in comedy” Instead?

So, pardon the corny aspect of the phrase but “don’t hate and embrace.”

Anyway, I checked out the song in question called “Electroman” by T-Pain and Benny Benassi.
I’m not surprised that T-Pain would collaborate with more electronic artists and Benny Benassi is a great fit. I’m not going to get all analytical; aside from noticing that the bass line sounds like it was lifted from Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima. But I don’t hear anybody complaining about that though…just saying.