Tragically, hip-hop music often masks mediocrity for the inattentive or inexperienced listener; perhaps more than any other genre of music, truly awful hip-hop songs can often pass unnoticed. Perhaps it’s the speed with which the lyrics are delivered, or maybe the fact that most people who listen to music don’t understand what makes the song structure different, but either way true heads have to suffer through the popularity of a really terrible joint.

Today we have an unlikely ally in the form of Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of the rock band Wilco (who have a new album out later this month, if you’re into that sort of thing). Tweedy’s cover of the Black Eyed Peas‘s “I Gotta Feeling” is so laced with disbelief and contempt that it exposes the song’s absolute heinousness in a way that might elude a traditional hip-hop diss. With the Peas on indefinite hiatus, the specter of another such disaster coming from those quarters is not so present, Tweedy’s cover should still serve as a stark reminder: never again.

Via Time Out Chicago

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