White and nerdy:
"I wanna roll withThe gangstersBut so far they all thinkI'm too white ‘n’ nerdy"
The second single from Weird al Yancovic's, album Straight Outta Lynwood ,which was released on September 26, 2006. It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Charmillionaire and Krayzie Bone.
Weird al Yankovic's a parodist who enjoys changing the lyrics in the music videos and make a completely different thing from them, which results very funny for the audience, he's made other great jobs like this by parodying Michael Jackson's songs (Beat it/Eat it),Lady Gaga (Born this way), Coolio and L.V. (Gangsta paradise/ Amish Paradise) and so on.
This 2 minutes 50 seconds videos exposes the stereotypical version af a "white nerdy boy" dressed with a button-up shirt,dress slacks, wearing wide glasses, and doing the "common" nerd activities which are expected from a nerd to do, like playing Dungeons and Dragons,reading Stephen Hawking's,editing wikipedia,playing ping pong,and "eating all my sandwiches with mayonnaise." This "Alfred nerd guy" attempts to be admitted in a stereotypical gangster's crew, which seems to be impossible because of his "whiteness" and "nerdiness", also that would knock down the status quo between this two completely separated sub-cultures,therefore they "flip him off" and send him to his appropiate "side of the table", or they just run away from him. The music video uses several references that only "nerds" would understand. Ultimately, the goal here is to keep nerds as nerds and not as "wannabe" gangsters, showing again how necessary stereotypes are and how rejection and non-acceptance from other sub-cultures is predisposed to happen. Moreover all the overstatements about the activities this nerd does,proved he's too "white" and not hard enough to "roll with the gangsters".
To conclude, although it's really funny when stereotypes are taken to the highest level, they recreate two or more realities suggesting these "different worlds" are incompatible, and there's no chance they combine, have commonalities or "roll with" each other.
For more information:
http://rap.about.com/od/hiphopvideos/v/WhiteandNerdy.htm
http://www.metrolyrics.com/white-nerdy-lyrics-weird-al-yankovic.html
http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/091106/ *(charmillionare comments)
This 2 minutes 50 seconds videos exposes the stereotypical version af a "white nerdy boy" dressed with a button-up shirt,dress slacks, wearing wide glasses, and doing the "common" nerd activities which are expected from a nerd to do, like playing Dungeons and Dragons,reading Stephen Hawking's,editing wikipedia,playing ping pong,and "eating all my sandwiches with mayonnaise." This "Alfred nerd guy" attempts to be admitted in a stereotypical gangster's crew, which seems to be impossible because of his "whiteness" and "nerdiness", also that would knock down the status quo between this two completely separated sub-cultures,therefore they "flip him off" and send him to his appropiate "side of the table", or they just run away from him. The music video uses several references that only "nerds" would understand. Ultimately, the goal here is to keep nerds as nerds and not as "wannabe" gangsters, showing again how necessary stereotypes are and how rejection and non-acceptance from other sub-cultures is predisposed to happen. Moreover all the overstatements about the activities this nerd does,proved he's too "white" and not hard enough to "roll with the gangsters".
To conclude, although it's really funny when stereotypes are taken to the highest level, they recreate two or more realities suggesting these "different worlds" are incompatible, and there's no chance they combine, have commonalities or "roll with" each other.
For more information:
http://rap.about.com/od/hiphopvideos/v/WhiteandNerdy.htm
http://www.metrolyrics.com/white-nerdy-lyrics-weird-al-yankovic.html
http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/091106/ *(charmillionare comments)
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