It’s a strange feeling to hear a song (a mashup even) barrel out of the gates with charm, invention and pizazz and then cut itself down to nothing a mere two minutes later.
“Dockstar” (Mash up by Cacola) is a otherworldly mix, the demented lyrics and absolutely insists upon itself vocals of Nickelback’s “Rockstar” woven with the melody of composer Koji Kondo’s “Dire Dire Docks” from Mario 64.
I love how the idilic, childlike textures underscore and inflate the hollow heights the sputtering vocals shoots for. It’s small and spirally while equally grandiose boasting.
A twisted twist of the truly rancid and the effortlessly sweet
Two minutes later the song does itself in by adding in vocals from three forgettable( as opposed to nakedly heinous) songs^.
It goes from attention grabbing to boring in the blink of an eye. Limps itself to the finish.
This last section (60 seconds of a 3 minute song) is every other lifeless mash up I’ve head in my life.
Had Cacola ended it at the 2:30 mark, finishing in the bizarrely perfect mesh it started as, I’d call it an all timer.
Instead, it’s a two minute masterpiece with a minute of lifeless corpse.
To start out bad is one thing. To start out fucking great and end as less than pond scum is tragic.
I’m coming to the regrettable conclusion that Cacola thought themself cleverly by adding more. “Too simple” to just have two samples. Instead of realizing that it takes just two jagged pieces of music to create a diamond. They truly didn’t get to get cute before the end, but they did.
I do support the song; as a could have been, and a reminder to have the courage to be basic but balls out.
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Old town road(nas x)/ blue (effiel 65)/sweater weather(the neighborhood)
