“[P]erfectly embodies the... Y2K-MTV-TRL years like no other [song]”

May 17, 2020 8:49 AM

An oral history of SisQó's “Thong Song” (As told by SisQó, and no one else.)

Then I was gonna come up with a second verse, but the first verse was so good I was like, "Yo what if I just sang the same verse but made it sound like it was a different verse?" That's lowkey genius. It's a sing-a-long. It's like complex simplicity.

posted by Going To Maine (12 comments total)

🍑 like a 🚚, 🚚, 🚚
posted by tonycpsu at 8:58 AM on May 17, 2020 [3 favorites]

Best oral history ever?

Someone else on Twitter pointed out that in another interview, Sisqo said that his friend sang "thong-tha-thong-thong-thong!" to the tune of the Dragnet theme song, which is just perfect.
posted by muddgirl at 9:11 AM on May 17, 2020 [7 favorites]

The next day I call all my boys and I'm like, "Gather around let me tell you tale. I saw this THING. It was like dental floss, but it was underwear. She called it a thong." Now I'm from Baltimore, so this is a bunch of thugs and all of a sudden everybody had stuff to do. "Hey man, I think I left a pie in the oven." Everybody just dispersed. They roll out.

This is golden. Give it a read and then debate the post title quote with your closest friend.
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 9:30 AM on May 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

this is amazing, thanks for sharing
posted by sibboleth at 10:09 AM on May 17, 2020

You ever see that movie The Ten Commandments? It's an old school movie... Charlton Heston. At first when he was in Egypt, his hair was dark. Then he went up in the mountains and saw God, and when he came back down his hair was silver. That's literally what happened to me

Amazing.
posted by mhoye at 10:20 AM on May 17, 2020 [14 favorites]

I’ll never listen to Eleanor Rigby the same way
posted by weed donkey at 11:44 AM on May 17, 2020 [4 favorites]

That had no business being as good as it was.
posted by the christopher hundreds at 12:25 PM on May 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

More than All Star? More than Smooth? Steal My Sunshine? I mean, heck, it relies heavily on 1999's inescapable Livin' La Vida Loca... but you know what? Yeah. I think the post's title is probably right.

Thank goodness I actually listened to the advice in the Sunscreen Song, lest everyone realize I graduated highschool yea 21 years ago.
posted by Made of Star Stuff at 12:38 PM on May 17, 2020 [4 favorites]

Glad I read this even though I know I'm going to have "Let me see that thoooOOOooonnng" stuck in my head for the rest of the week. (Not the whole song. Just that line.)
posted by grandiloquiet at 3:35 PM on May 17, 2020

Ah yes. The Thong Song. It was the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini of its day.
posted by pickles_have_souls at 4:28 PM on May 17, 2020 [2 favorites]

My high school definitely had a thong-song themed dance.
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 5:19 PM on May 17, 2020

That was delightful.
posted by subdee at 11:21 PM on May 17, 2020