{"id":1714,"date":"2012-08-22T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:42:15","slug":"a-tasty-musical-snack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"A Tasty Musical Snack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably you&#8217;ve already seen this. Kids in a Minneapolis YMCA summer youth program created a terrific rap song called &#8220;Hot Cheetos &#038; Takis.&#8221; With an assist from some adult producers, they released a video of the tune, which in the last week has gone viral:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7YLy4j8EZIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read the back story to the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/arts-post\/post\/hot-cheetos-and-takis-how-kids-learn-to-write-raps\/2012\/08\/22\/32215ce4-ec82-11e1-aca7-272630dfd152_blog.html?wprss=rss_style\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/08\/16\/minn-kid-groups-hot-cheetos-takis-song-going-viral\/\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/songreviews\/hot-cheetos-takis-20120815\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine <\/a>declared the song &#8220;the summer&#8217;s final truly great jam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like the tune quite a bit. Whereas grown-up rappers focus on grown-up desires (wealth, drugs, sex), the kids rhyme about what kids really desire: snacks. It occurred to me today that another reason for liking the song is that it provides a perfect marriage of content and form&#8211;the content of the song <em>is<\/em> its form. The lyrics are all about the joys of tasty snack foods, while the song itself is the musical equivalent of an after-school snack:  tangy, a little spicy, not too heavy. And the song has one great advantage over its namesakes: it doesn&#8217;t turn your fingers red (though the kids actually seem to like that aftereffect from eating red hot Cheetos).<\/p>\n<p>I have to confess I&#8217;ve never eaten Takis. I&#8217;d never even heard of them before watching the video. I&#8217;ve learned since that it&#8217;s a brand of corn chips. 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