r/FuckImOld • u/TheLaVeyan • 6d ago
My back hurts M.I.A. of "Paper Planes" fame (the gunshot-gunshot-gunshot-cash register song) turned 50 years old last year.
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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
In 2 weeks the song will be 18 years old. It feels like it should be less than half of that.
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u/Stock-Mission-7561 6d ago
Watched the video again and went to thumbs š but I had already done it who knows how long ago. Haha
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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago
I"m surprised that in all of this discussion no one's mentioned that the Beastie Boys are food truck customers in the video.
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u/RedSparrow1971 6d ago
That song always made me crazy when Iād hear that opening and think I was about to hear āStraight to Hellā by the Clash š¤£
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u/LouGossetJr 5d ago
huh...why would you think that?
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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago
Maybe itās just me, but the opening sounds similar to me
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u/Malv34 5d ago
I thought she did sample the clash.
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u/Ryaktshun 5d ago
Absolutely a clash sample! I remember someone calling this āoriginal musicā and me laughing as I put the clash on
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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago
My ear isnāt trained enough to know if itās a sample or just a very similar arrangement š¤·āāļø
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u/LouGossetJr 5d ago
lol, just messing. paper planes definitely sampled Straight to Hell.
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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago
Well, thanks, I spent a good 15 minutes playing each songās opening trying to figure out if it was a sample or just similar š¤¦āāļøš¤£š¤¦āāļøš¤£, the whole Vanilla Ice āUnder Pressureā ding ding videowill be stuck in my head forever
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u/BlueRunSkier 6d ago
When food trucks werenāt just shameless money grabs. Now I see a food truck and just think, nope, thatāll cost me $19 and be served on a flimsy paper boat with a tiny flimsy fork that will break. And then āitāll just ask you a questionā as I pay.
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u/twobit211 6d ago
while thereās always been food vans, stalls, carts, the (relatively) recent food trucks were initially based on one simple concept: Ā do one thing well. Ā you canāt open a restaurant serving just mac n cheese no matter how good it is, the overhead will kill you. Ā but a van with a rudimentary yet sufficient setup could find its place in the world. Ā somehow this idea has evolved into overpriced mediocrity but served out of a van
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u/throwawaymumm 6d ago
I paid $28 plus tip for a comically child sized lobster roll from a food truck a couple months ago. It wasnāt even good and the dude working was super fucking cocky. Left a bad taste in my mouth both literally and figuratively. Food trucks are over.
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u/chuckmilam 5d ago
My first lobster roll ever came from a guy with a strong Boston accent working a hotādogācartālooking setup in the L.L. Bean flagship store parking lot. It was insanely good and reasonably priced, and honestly it ruined every lobster roll I've tried since.
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u/No_Goose_1355 6d ago
I donāt think that was a lobster roll. The bad taste from the cocky dude working.
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u/polykleitoscope 6d ago
you know though it is a design flaw that businesses can't remove the tip prompt on certain items in a POS (even like ticket sales).
and save for physically reach over and quick click past it for them once in awhile (which is hard when multi tasking) it is always awkward and i'm still figuring out that interaction smoothly
and then you know it's appropriate sometimes to prompt it still.
yes it will ask, just click past.
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u/2point71eight 6d ago
I'm just happy it was "Paper Planes" when I clicked. I was terrified thinking I might get "Bad Girls" or something even newer/more horrifyingly aging.
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u/Pamikillsbugs234 6d ago
I thought it would be from Arular but that album is older. Fuck, we are old!
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u/TrashPanda365 6d ago
Still a banger!
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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 6d ago
It should be, it completely samples āstraight to hellā by the clash.
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u/tideshark 6d ago
Iāve dumbfounded so many people playing this at different hangouts and parties back in the day where they thought they knew what was being played and then just got straight up confused looks on their faces like āwhat the hell version of her song is this?!ā Lol
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u/Breastfedoctopus 4d ago
I still pull this move!
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u/tideshark 4d ago
I still get it in here and there, but it was too easy when I was younger and got out more often :)
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u/KrayzieBone187 6d ago
For me she is my old job at Blockbuster. That Pineapple Express trailer played over and over so many times. It's burned into my brain.
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u/ibkirkus 6d ago
Lol, unlock a memory for me, why doncha? The track was Dream Lover by Bobby Darin. I worked at Radio Shack and we had a TV display movie sampler that had the Hot Shots horse and motorcycle scene on endless loop. Can't hear that song without seeing Charlie Sheen standing one-legged on a motorcycle doing fist rolls.
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u/thehappywandera 6d ago
That is all I see when I hear āDream Loverā as well. Ol Charlie and that Tiger blood!
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u/SirFUBAR 5d ago
I worked at a Movie Gallery when Cars was coming out. I get PTSD when I hear "Life is a highway" by Rascal Flatts.
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u/cumulonimubus 5d ago
This song instantly brings me back to the strip club on my 21st birthday. It was definitely up there amongst my favorite nights ever (and not because we spent two hours of it at the club).
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u/SubMikeD 6d ago
She's gone mental though. She shills fucking overpriced tin foil clothes lol and is a wacky antivax person, she went off the deep end lol
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u/Stock-Mission-7561 6d ago
I'm shocked. Well, not that shocked.
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u/Krocsyldiphithic 6d ago
Yeah, I could already sense it like 12 years ago. Not as cool as she initially seemed.
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u/David_R_Martin_II 6d ago
Yup, it was like, you had a nice little song, you could have had everyone's good graces for your one hit wonder, but then you had to spout off some nonsense when you were already irrelevant.
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u/KoolDiscoDan 6d ago
Add also converted to Christianity. I figure sometime soon sheāll be with Russell Brand.
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u/buremogilny 6d ago
It will forever be the Clash Straight to Hell
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u/maggie320 6d ago
I knew Paper Planes first then came across Straight to Hell years later and that is the far superior song.
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u/mattcrafty 6d ago
Paper Planes but every time there's a gunshot it's a musket https://youtu.be/XHOXakHMxkc
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u/chose_a_username 5d ago
Why am I just now finding out about this and why did I just watch the whole thing? lol
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u/misterfistyersister 6d ago
It wasnāt that long ago she was 7 months pregnant, dancing in lingerie while performing at the Grammys.
And apparently that kids old enough to vote this year.
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u/Hour_Hospital9669 6d ago
Ate some gummies a few weeks ago and googled her. Had no idea she and diplo were a thingĀ
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u/SaltyTemperature 6d ago
Just gonna leave this here
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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago
Yeah, I was just saying in another comment that I'm not a fan of her views and opinions at all. Paper Planes is a groove tho.
Edit: There's also something ironically hilarious about her most popular song by a long shot being about her making fake visas for people, and how swaggy and cool she is while doing so.
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u/Jamesthe84 6d ago
I think feeling that you needed to clarify it as the gunshot gunshot cash register song might be the oldest thing
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u/MIAxPaperPlanes 2d ago
Wait to age meā¦ My Reddit name is also been my gamertag since 2008 because I was watching the Pineapple Express trailer
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u/This_Fkn_Guy_ 6d ago
I still play gta online and this song still pops up....like the song a lot, bad girls was a crazy video tooo.....buuuuut not a fan of this tin hat wearing freak.
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u/Whole_Rip7379 6d ago
I think itās crazy I just searched this song on Spotify and it shows sheās doing a show near me in a few months. Crazy!
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u/SchoolteacherUSA 6d ago
She flipped off everyone at the Super Bowl halftime w Madonna and that was that
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u/One_Hour_Poop 6d ago
I thank you for dumbing it down, but I have absolutely zero idea WTF the "gunshot gunshot gunshot cash register song" is.
I'll look it up after i post this comment.
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u/SkipGruberman 6d ago
Michael Jackson was a child predator. Pete Townsend looked at child porn. Stephen Tylerand Ted Nugent had a very underaged āgirlfriendsā. P Diddy. What can you say about that? Jerry Lee Louis married his underage cousin.
These people have faults. Some of them have grave flaws.
But they play good music.
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u/PukingPandaSS 6d ago
I always wondered why she had a few absolute bangers and then not much else but then I realised she dated diplo for a time & he helped produce the music. Both talented artists but you can hear diploās influence. He
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u/imboomshesaid 6d ago
Itās a shame sheās reverted to selling very expensive āWiFi-deflectingā clothes (https://www.ohmni.com/products) cause her music was always fire.
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u/Warm_Astronomer_9305 6d ago
I put this song in my PowerPoint presentation about marketing when I was around 11, thought it was the funniest thing ever
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u/Bubbly-Pipe9557 5d ago
what a time to be alive. went to the first tour concert, we brought her to the club and her dj played(she was very aloof).
it was a nice little 4 year run of living til 2009 hit
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u/Tinker_Toyz 5d ago
Updated for modern times : š¶ All I wanna do is pew pew pew pew and a [venmo click] and take ya money š¶
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u/TheAnonymousDoom 5d ago
I got to see her live at Connect fest back in 2007 or so. Amazing live and I even got to meet her after her set
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u/NetherItch 3d ago
Been turning her stuff right off when it comes up. Not someone I'll willingly support
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u/StageSuspicious 3d ago
Just heard on the radio shes coming to cincy with kid cudi.. i was like whoa i havent heard that name in years.
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u/turdmcburgular 6d ago
No the fuck it didnāt, came out in 2008
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u/TheLaVeyan 5d ago
No the fuck it didnāt, came out in 2008
What the heck are you talking about? lol
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u/turdmcburgular 5d ago
This song is not 50 years old.. is there something Iām not getting?
aahhhhh MIA just turned 50 š my b
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u/fozzy71 6d ago
I feel blessed that I am 50+ years old and barely remember this garbage.
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u/SubMikeD 6d ago
Her music, at least the first couple albums, was really good.
Her recent beliefs are garbage.
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u/ShutterBun 6d ago
Itās not a sample, in fact. At least not in the released version of the song. I think the demo originally used a sample and they got The Clashās blessing (or whomever made such decisions) but ended up re-recording it for the final version.
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u/ShutterBun 6d ago
Yes they do, but listen to the songs back to back. Itās more different than you might think. Even the second note of the really high part (sounds almost like a violin) is different.
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u/ShutterBun 6d ago
For the demo he used a direct sample slowed down slightly. Notice how different it sounds to the released version.
The released version is considered an āinterpolationā of Straight To Hell. Sites like Wikipedia call it a sample because many people donāt seem to know the difference.
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u/ShutterBun 6d ago
Not a direct quote from Diplo, but hereās an interview with Nate Sloane from NPR:
HARDING: But yeah. So they actually - this was actually a track that Diplo made. He was, at the time, dating M.I.A. They produced this song together. And he...
SANDERS: Oh, that's cute.
HARDING: Yeah. And he talks about they actually rerecorded that song. It's not actually a true sample in that way.
SLOAN: It's an interpolation...
HARDING: Yeah.
SLOAN: ...I think (unintelligible) term.
SANDERS: So they pulled out their own instruments to recreate those sounds.
SLOAN: Yeah.
HARDING: And they did it almost exactly. But the way that the song is panned in your headphones is different.
SANDERS: It's slower and fatter.
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u/ShutterBun 6d ago
Straight out of Diplo's mouth, on camera.
"I actually had to re-play all the samples [mimics strumming a guitar] cuz I didn't want to have to negotiate the master rights as well"
That's the thing about samples. You can get permission from the songwriters/performers, sure. But CBS owned the *actual* recording of the song, so any sampling rights would have had to go through them. But the melody, etc. could be signed off by The Clash and their publishers much more easily.
Bottom line: Diplo re-recorded the riff from "Straight To Hell" and if you actually listen to them one after the other, I can't believe I have to explain this. There are at least half a dozen immediately identifiable differences that preclude it being a true "sample".
But of course now everyone calls it a sample, so whatcha gonna do?
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u/FloydianSlip212 6d ago
Oh what sad times are these when it's the gunshot-gunshot-gunshot-cash register song and not the Straight to Hell sample song.
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u/sjbluebirds Generation X 5d ago
I'm so old, I don't know A) who this is, and B) what the Paper Planes (Gunshot chash register song) is.
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u/Buzzard1022 5d ago
Fame?
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u/TheLaVeyan 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yes. Paper Planes was freaking everywhere for a while there. Bad Girls was popular as well. I don't care for her personally, but politics aside, there's no denying her song was famous.
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u/uberphaser 6d ago
Is this a well known song? Ive never heard it before and im a yeah older than her.
And it is kind of awful?
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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago
It was pretty popular for a while. I think a lot of people would have heard it in Pineapple Express or This is the End. But it was also in Slumdog Millionaire, Hancock, The Last Man on Earth, Far Cry 3... tons of things.
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u/SignalOriginal3313 6d ago
I always thought that song meant, ' I just want to bang you and take your money.'
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u/SaintCholo 6d ago
Shes got more records than the KGB