Tiga “Shoes”
To anyone who enjoyed VH1′s recent countdown of the “100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the ’80′s” and the many WTF pop-camp obscurities it re-introduced to the brain, here’s something you should get a kick out of.
Set to an oddly groovy collection of electro squiggles and farting bass, “Shoes”, the new Soulwax-produced single by Montreal-born DJ/ producer Tiga, is a bizarro dance cut that follows a man’s attempts at getting some icy vamp to take off her clothes and submit to his creepy fetishes. He wants to comb her messy tresses, do her nails, and hold her hand wearing his precious “brand new gloves”, but she’s (smartly) not having it all, and refuses him at every turn with soullessly delivered responses of “I don’t like my hair neat” and “Those gloves don’t touch my skin”.
Key to it’s awesomely-bad awesomeness: the bad porn-meets-late night public access happenings of it’s accompanying music video that raises all kinds of mind-melting questions (like, what’s up with the weird topless drummer off in the corner) and a perfectly zany pop-art hook: Tick-tock sound effects, the man’s aroused “What’s that sound?/ I love that sound!” excitement, and the robotic vixen’s simple reply back: “It’s the sound of my shoes”.
From Ciao!, due April 27th.
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