will.i.am - I Got It from My Mama: Track Review

If we get lucky, maybe this new will.i.am single won't catch on and this will be the last we hear of it. But if I had to guess, I'd say it's gonna be huge, and we're gonna be subjected to it, plus any number of other singles from his forthcoming Songs about Girls, ad nauseum this fall and winter. Might as well get used to it. After all, look at how many songs on the charts right now feature guys singing through motherfucking vocoders.

As far as these things go, I'd say this at least as catchy as any of those songs by Fergie (who supplies the chorus here) that were all over the radio earlier this year and has the added benefit of not featuring any of her rappin'. The main synth figure actually reminds me of the kind of shit you'd hear on MTV's The Grind back in the early to mid '90s, which was my shit both for the tunes as well as the tang.

The central idea of "I Got It from My Mama," which is pretty high concept, is that girls with good-looking mothers tend to be good-looking themselves and will likely remain that way until they're upwards of 44 years old (yikes!), if not even older. Which is an idea that I'm sure dates all the way back to cave man times. Indeed, Juvenile had a minor hit with a song that had more or less the same chorus not too long ago.

I guess it's good advice for a guy, especially if you don't have the means to trade up every 10 years or so, which I know is what a lot of guys are looking to do these days. But you have to wonder what's the likelihood of the average brother on the street such as myself scoring one of these permafine broads. I mean obviously if a guy had his choice, he'd go with the best-looking broad possible. In that sense, will.i.am's "advice" is probably not as novel as he'd like to think.