The Baha Men - "Who Let the Dogs Out"
Any song that first debuted in "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie," should be banned from even contending for a Grammy. Unfortunately in the year of 2000, I wasn’t old enough to clue the Grammy Committee into this obvious rule, and thus the Baha Men won a Grammy in 2001 for the ridiculously annoying one hit wonder “Who Let the Dogs Out.”
Part of the outrageously annoying resonance of the song stems from the 90 times woof escapes the mouths of the Baha Men. What is even worse is that everyone including the Baha Men have remained stumped by this troubling question: Seriously, who let the dogs out but most importantly, why the hell does it matter?
But where does one even start with the video? With the close ups of the Baha Men shouting into the screen and the lame footage of all the sweet dogs running through the background this is just another bad video that got too much love. Wow, the female-dog metaphor is really subtle guys. With line like this, “I tell the fellas "start the name callin'" {Yippie Yi Yo} And the girls respond to the call {hah, hah, hah, hah},” the bitches innuendo isn’t quite an innuendo.
Somehow this song just won’t die. I never got the fascination with playing it at sporting events- what about this song could possibly give the adrenaline rush needed to kick some ass on the field? Even our own DTH is still using the title to tag pictures in the paper. Ten years later and the song has made more than its imprint, but that’s no reason to drag it out for an entire decade.
PLEASE NO MORE, I beg of you people.
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