I need to have my brain wiped.

[cali]

I cannot, cannot, cannot get this thing that my kid sent me out of my mind. click on at your own peril. awful and it just won't go away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzCHcMKyDc

[asdjrocky]

1. Guaranteed to remove any song from your mind-

Click on it at your peril.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nh49a8q2E4

[cali]

2. peril or not, I'm on my way

[Tom_Foolery]

5. I remember hearing that on the radio when I was a kid. n/t

[UTUSN]

3. O.K., I'm off to the Urban Dictionary for a translation, but the music is great!1 n/t

[cali]

4. it's horribly catchy

[UTUSN]

6. This NYT link helped (me). Now, on to "NESCAC"!1

**********QUOTE********

http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/middkid/

Middlebury Students Rap About Vermont Cheddar, Flannel and Nalgene

By JACQUES STEINBERG

The latest in a growing list of a videos paying homage to particular colleges comes from a troupe of students at Middlebury in Vermont. But unlike “That’s Why I Chose Yale” — which originated in the Yale admissions office, and appeared to take some cues from “High School Musical” — “Midd Kid” is a rap that is proudly unauthorized by the college. That is not least because of some risque inferences and language that is more Jay-Z than Jay Leno, although the lyrics are mostly tame. (A sample: “I’m a Midd Kid/I roll my jeans up high/With my Teva strap tight and my flannel so fly.”

“Midd Kid” was filmed on and around Middlebury’s bucolic campus, including at the college’s main library, and in dorm rooms at Atwater Suites and Jewett House.

After someone posted a link to the video earlier this week on The Choice, I reached out to Aaron Becker, who is listed in the credits as a co-producer. He turns out to be a Middlebury senior from Evanston, Ill., whose major is international politics and economics.

A few years ago, he told me, he and several other Middlebury students formed a film and video production company, Windward Entertainment. Separately, another student, Sam Robinson, began circulating an audio version of “Midd Kid” — he wrote the music, and co-wrote the lyrics — through a group that calls itself the Allen Jokers, named for a freshman dorm. The song quickly became an underground campus favorite. ....


(COMMENTS: )

It’s embarrassing that you are giving this coverage. It’s just a handful of self-glorifying kids rapping about getting drunk. Did you notice the video features, among other proud moments, a threesome and a lax bro puking into a girl’s lap before you posted it? I hope the admissions office doesn’t mistake this as an example of their rich campus life.

— Midd Alum


.... There’s something liberating in owning your school’s stereotypes and throwing them back at the world in such a creative and entertaining fashion. ....

— Pomona student


Privileged “kidds” lead a charmed life. What else is new?

— SUNY Mom

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[cali]

7. OK, I now know what a lax bro is

that kids on elite campuses play quidditch. talk about your useless trivia. thanks for the link.

[DevonRex]

9. My son was a lax bro at an elite college. He was there on an academic scholarship.

The vid is pretty accurate except for the Abercrombie reference. Lax bros wouldn't be caught dead in Abercrombie anything. But the Nalgene and Teva and all that are spot on. Plus the part about studying hard. The lax bros were all in the same fraternity and it had the highest GPA of any organization on campus. Amazing considering how hard they played and how hard they practiced and, yes, how hard they partied. And how hard they skied in the winter and hiked in the warm months.

Great kids, every one of them. Thanks for the video. I really, really enjoyed it. And now it's stuck in my head, too. Grrr.

[jonnyblitz]

8. after watching Celine Dion doing an AC/DC cover in another

lounge thread, THIS video was nothing. :rofl:

[DevonRex]

10. OMG, you watched that? You are a brave human being. Super human, even.

:wow: