
Gabe Saporta, also of the mediocre band Midtown, says he's ready for his 15 minutes — making with the chirpy hits, catapulting himself into the realm of Vanilla Ice and the Garbage Pail Kids. And though it may have been hard to know what to expect from a band that had only a brazenly sashaying cover of Gwen Stefani to its name ("Hollaback Boy"), it's shocking how catchy his single for this summer's most unavoidable film is. You just have to get past shouting Sam Jackson's asinine motto of having "had it with these motherfuckin' snakes." After you realize just how spot-on Dave Chappelle's impersonation of Jackson was, you'll find yourself contending with Saporta's clinking-clean guitar riffs and his sweet-as-safe-sex vocals. It's boring. At first listen. All the talk of cheap champagne makes you nauseous. But by the time you hear it the third time, its bridge is irresistible, the chattering chorus ("come on, bring it" sung by The Sounds' Maja Ivarsson) sticks to your membrane insanely and you have to laugh when the line, "Grab your ankles/ And kiss your ass goodbye," rolls by. I hate to excuse yet another mind-dulling pop cultural sensation. But this one's too venomously contagious to let go.
A.D. Amorosi