Results for “braggadocio as comedy”

Songs

Make Some Noise

Beastie Boys

This is the Beastie Boys doing what they do best: rapid-fire boasting, absurdist non sequiturs, and a chant-along hook, all…

comeback/reassertion braggadocio as comedy collective unity vs individual ego

Raising Hell

Run-DMC

The title track of Run-DMC's landmark album is a boast-battle anthem built almost entirely from self-crowning imagery and…

braggadocio hip-hop supremacy battle rhetoric

ooh la la

Run the Jewels

A high-energy flex built on a chopped vocal hook lifted from an old funk/soul sample, where El-P and Killer Mike trade boastful,…

braggadocio excess and appetite anti-authority posture

All Caps

Madvillain

A pure showcase of technical rap virtuosity built almost entirely on internal rhyme chains and boastful non-sequiturs, "All…

braggadocio persona/mythmaking criminal alter-ego

Accordion

Madvillain

A compact showcase of MF Doom's rapid internal rhyme and layered wordplay, built over a spare, looping Madlib beat that barely…

braggadocio mortality and time artistic superiority

Full Clip

Gang Starr

Full Clip is a boastful, aggressive posse-cut-style anthem in which Guru delivers a barrage of battle-rap threats, positioning…

braggadocio and dominance authenticity vs. imitation violence as metaphor for skill

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

R.E.M.

A torrent of disconnected images—natural disasters, media noise, Cold War figures, cultural detritus—gets fired off at…

information overload apocalyptic anxiety played as comedy media saturation

Legend Has It

Run the Jewels

A boastful, mythmaking duo track in which El-P and Killer Mike cast themselves as outlaw legends -- part supervillain, part folk…

self-mythologizing violence as performance drug use and excess

Ain't It Funny

Danny Brown

Danny Brown turns his own addiction into dark comedy, stacking dense, cartoonish wordplay over a queasy hook that keeps asking…

addiction and dependency irony and dark humor wealth versus self-destruction

St. Judy's Comet

Paul Simon

A gentle lullaby in which a father tries, with dwindling patience and self-deprecating humor, to coax his son to sleep. Beneath…

parental love domesticity sleep and childhood

Things I Miss the Most

Steely Dan

A recently divorced narrator insists he's fine with solitude, then keeps undercutting himself by cataloguing everything lost —…

divorce and its aftermath denial versus admission materialism as emotional substitute

Motion Sickness

Phoebe Bridgers

A breakup song built on the whiplash of contradictory feelings toward an ex who wronged her, mixing bitterness, residual…

emotional ambivalence power imbalance in relationships toxic nostalgia

Ms. Fat Booty

Mos Def

A narrative rap unfolding like a short film in three scenes, tracking a pursuit-and-fallout romance with a woman the narrator…

desire versus discernment the performance of masculinity and vulnerability cynicism eroded by intimacy

Cousin Dupree

Steely Dan

A slack, aging drifter moves onto his aunt's couch and develops an unseemly fixation on his young cousin, pitching her a…

arrested development delusional self-image taboo desire played for laughs

Another Saturday Night

Sam Cooke

A breezy, self-mocking complaint from a young man stuck in a new town with cash in his pocket and no date on a Saturday night.…

loneliness displacement romantic frustration

So Fresh, So Clean

OutKast

A hook-driven strut through vintage cars, retro cool, and pickup lines, where the chorus's braggadocio functions less as…

vanity and self-presentation seduction and courtship rituals nostalgia for Black pop-culture iconography

Paul Revere

Beastie Boys

A cartoonish spaghetti-Western pastiche in which the three Beastie Boys members appear as characters in their own tall tale,…

mythmaking and self-invention outlaw fantasy adolescent bravado

Mr. Grieves

Pixies

A hallucinatory apocalyptic chant built from disconnected images and a mysterious title figure, 'Mr. Grieves' plays like a…

apocalypse/deluge faith and belief without content death and mortality

In the Mood

Talib Kweli

A loose-limbed party track built around braggadocio and seduction, where Talib Kweli shifts between flirtatious come-ons, boasts…

seduction and courtship artistic superiority authenticity vs. performance

Lola

The Kinks

A wide-eyed young narrator recounts a night at a Soho club where he meets a striking, ambiguous figure named Lola, and the song…

gender ambiguity sexual awakening urban nightlife