{"id":825,"date":"2014-06-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T08:46:11","slug":"song-of-the-week-professor-booty-by-beastie-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Professor Booty&#8221; by Beastie Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Professor Booty&#8221; by Beastie Boys:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XxOG2NE2gmU\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never considered myself a big fan of the Beastie Boys, but on the other hand, I&#8217;ve always listened to the Beastie Boys quite a lot, and I&#8217;ve never not considered myself a fan of the Beastie Boys, and anyway if you don&#8217;t like the Beastie Boys you need to, um, check your head. Thinking about it earlier this week, I realized that part, if not most, of the reason I feel how I do about the Beastie Boys is because they&#8217;ve more or less always been there in my musical consciousness, since I was nine years old and &#8220;Fight for Your Right (To Party)&#8221; hit the radio and MTV with just the right level of silliness for a kid in the fourth grade. As I got older, the Beastie Boys&#8217; silliness changed with my own; <em>Paul&#8217;s Boutique <\/em>and <em>Check Your Head<\/em> formed part of my teenage soundtrack. But the Beasties aren&#8217;t just silly. If a nine year-old doesn&#8217;t care about musical sophistication as much as he does hollering and jumping around, a fifteen-year old at least starts to, and the Beastie Boys&#8217; music got smarter and more complex more or less in line with my own development into (I guess) a smarter and more complex person, without sacrificing on the fun. So the evolution of the band ran parallel, though not exactly parallel, to my own, and, I suppose in some way, of my generation, all the way into my\/our mid-thirties. The Beastie Boys have soundtracked my life in ways that haven&#8217;t always (or even, probably, ever) been deeply meaningful or provided specific focal points in the ways that other bands and artists have, but they&#8217;ve nonetheless provided significant thread to the fabric of my musical life. 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