Dissect DJs - Tones and I - Dance Monkey

Episode Date: April 23, 2020

We try dissecting something from the modern charts of 2020 with Tones and I's 'Dance Monkey'. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Disseq DJ! Oh, what's going on, everybody? It's the Dicek DJ Jag with Cass Deasy. What up, Cass? Here it is. Let's get this, y'all. All right, wait, we got to explain this before we actually play it yet. So this time, we're going to a song that we've never actually heard before.

Castle's never heard this song. I've never heard this. We do a lot of songs from back in the day, and I was like, let's try to get one that's new and high. We've seen this song called Dance Monkey, and we're like. He never heard it. But I'm like the name alone, I'm in. So it's got to be a good song. It's by To Nodonon.

It sounds like. Kids are coming. I don't know what that means, but we're going to go ahead and get it. We've never heard of it, so let's that. Actually, I haven't heard this, but... Never actually listening. Sounds like Halsey. First impression of this song so far.

I'm getting a dance monkey vibe early. No, I'm not ready to dance. It's not making want to dance, but I'm getting like a dance monkey. I'm imagining a monkey dancing a little bit. Bling, blink, blink, blink. It's not making me want to dance. I'm so I'm so why would you name the damn? Dance books.

Because it makes it. My first impression is I'm not liking this. The first lines they go, they say, oh my God, I see the way you shard. Take your hand, my dear, the place the both in mind. You know you stopped me dead when I was passing by, and now I beg to see you dance just one more time. And you really follow that. It's fine. At this point, this song better fucking slap right now.

It's about to hit a turn. It's about to hit a drop. It could go. so many different ways right now. It hit like a ooh-o-a-a-a-a-ha. Nah, don't do that. Don't see that.

Don't make it fucking oo-u-uh. That's a bad thing. No, like, ooh-o-u-a-ha. I know, I heard the first time. I didn't like it either time. I really hope it doesn't do that. I woke up her brosions with that shit. It better drop or this song sucks.

It's right. It's like, Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me. Man, I thought I think could have hit way harder, dude. Like, it could have had something so much. All right, here's what I just realized. I need this song. to be paired with a really good music video.

It's got like this old school filmy vibe. So if they have a really cool video that kind of like brings it to life, I'm in. But if they don't, then what the fuck is this? I don't care about the music video. That can't have hit with anything right. And one more time. Let's go.

Maybe it still will. I would be like, oh, let's get it. But instead it went like I get one by the... I mean, it's ramping up still. Shut up. It's like, you sound stupid already. You wanted to hit like that trap vibe.

It was just like, ba, ba, ba. It's a hard bass. I don't know. Well, it's still let it go. It's picking up. Let's see where it goes from there. Back to the beginning. Back to the back.

Take my hands, my deep, and look me in my eyes. You have one more chance to do something here. It's about to do something. It better do something better than the last time. I mean, it's not going to get that. I'm telling you, it's not going to do that. I don't want it to. Alright, here we go, let's see.

That needs more bass, because it needs some kind of dropped. I wanted everybody to see Justin's disappointment when he got to that. He dropped his head. It has potential. It has good potential. It has good potential. What's I'm saying?

It's got this old-timey sound, which I feel like if it has a video that really matches, I think it could be awesome. All right. Let's keep it going. All right, it's clear just repeating itself. Yeah, it's just. same shit at this point. Yeah. It's fine.

All right. You're ready. It's unique. It's unique. I like the uniqueness of the track. It's not like anything you really hear on common radio. It's just a different sound. It's got a little bit of that kind of old-timey feel mixed with sort of like this new

attempted dance wave that's kind of going out there. And I like those who go for it, but at the same time, it's probably not a song that I see myself like go into to be like, you know what? I feel like listening to the monkey dance right now. Like, I don't see myself really thinking that much. But again, like I said, I kind of want to see

the music video. The music video really works. If there's some, like, dope choreography that goes with it, and, like, there's a whole kind of, like, story being told with it. That could bump up my rating. But for now, I haven't really seen it, so I'm going to go with that was a delayed third slap, so. Two and a half? Two. Two in the delayed three? Two and a delayed three, yeah. All right.

This song reminds me of basically what comes out of assholes. And that's shit, okay? The song is shit. It sucks. Okay? It doesn't have a drop beat. It wants me to dance to a beat that's lacking any kind of true dance rhythm that I can really get down to. It's slow. It's not, I'm not going to break a sweat dancing this song. If I had another dancer, I'm against. She's not going to, no.

If you were taught a good, like, choreograph dance to it, I feel like you could. That's it. That's it. But to put it up, put it at the club and hope that I got a dancer that's about to get down with me on this, it ain't going to happen. It needs to definitely be a certain kind of vibe for it to work. You can't just, like, work it into, like, a comment. I disagree. I think it sucks.

I think it's shit. All right, so how many stops are giving it? You ready? Here you go. It doesn't get any fucking claps. Doesn't get any snaps. You got a zero. It got a zero.

The song sucks. Can we even do that? Absolutely. I just did it. I might have to check with the upper management on that one. I don't know. Song sucks. It's shit.

You really don't like it, huh? I don't like it. I don't like it. It is a huge drop. The title throws you off. It just has done so much more with that song. I think the fact that. that it's like monkey dance makes you think

you want to dance to it and it's not really okay stop I know it's not a dance song like you want it to be but uh accepting it as like kind of like a classic sounding vibe like I think it's unique but you're right it does need to kind of kick into that it's a good piece of music but it was a well

I can just move monkey monkey because you're just going to move but not dance all right well let me ask you this are you ready for this song to potentially like play in the next year like a lot like No, see, yeah, that's going to annoy me pretty good. It might, yeah. It's not a song that needs to get overplayed. It will.

Definitely. It's already in top 15. I'm afraid of it, yeah. All right, I'm afraid a little bit. Move for me, move for me, move for me. Ah, ah, ah. Oh, my God. Don't do that into the microphone, please.

Sorry. Yeah. This feels like one of those songs that has potential to change on you based on your experiences. I think a remix of this? Oh, actually. Maybe a remix. I'll hear a remix that has a game. Maybe a remix.

Maybe it's in a movie or a show at some point that you like, or maybe there's a music video, like I said, that, like, really brings it to life. I actually found a couple of remixes. Just now? Yeah, I've been searching. I was like, wait a minute, because I was thinking about it long before.

I was like, a remix would really do this song. I really do this one. So, let's see what we got here. I got this one. Can you play it? Yeah, here we go. All right, let's hear. It's like a dance monkey at speed.

Uh-oh. Oh, but it's doing that pickup that you wanted. One more Let's see Let's see That was a good one Oh man I felt like it was gonna keep going

Into like another set It was And I stopped it Because that's not the song We're talking about But the remix I told you That was a remix No no no

That jumped it up Let's try I found another one here Let's see what this one does Let's see this one real quick Hey Wait a second That's better than the original version

No no Let's see At the risk of sounding super white here those clops sounds a little intrusive I don't think it's scumbia!

I know. I know about hey don't turn me against cumbia just because I didn't think that was a good job but that one did not work for me.

I'm sorry. All right. Last one is called the monkey dance which I'm pretty sure that's the what is this? Oh

definitely a difference Wait a minute. is this the actual that's what I was talking about earlier Castle It's not too in the The monkey dance Wait let's give it a 104 seconds

I don't want to give this song I'm going to let 24 seconds Okay Okay I kind of like that song That's going in my favorites Monkey dance No it's not

Just put it in right now. Done in church. Let's put it right down. You were going to be very disappointed. The first time that song comes up on a shuffle. To talk the monkey. I told you. I told you that's all she needed to do was add that to the original.

You could not convince me that that shit was better than you. All she needed to do was add that to the beat of the original. Dance with me, dance with me, dance, me. Like, you know what I mean? Throw an actual monkey in there. That's not at all. There was not an actual monkey in that song. I'm trying to tell you she should have.

Sure, that song, was that tongue done by the monkeys? Was that who that was? No, it was the monkey dance by the Wiggles. The Wiggles? Isn't that? Isn't that like a children's song group? I don't know. Okay, the fact that you just landed on a Wiggles song as the resolve here,

I'm like, no, no, no. See, I told you, the Wiggles, they had it right the whole time. Okay, we've ended up in a direction that I could never have possibly found him. This is why you don't pick songs that we don't know. You say, hey, here's a new song that's on the charts. It's called Dance Monkey. It looks cool. Let's play it.

We don't know it. And next thing you know, we end up with eight minutes of Justin trashing it, and he ends up playing a Wiggle song. And he's like, that's music. That's what you need to be listening. Okay. All right, I'm done with the song. I'm going to try to pretend that you haven't killed the credibility

for the entire. I sec DJ's history. Um, and there's only one word that I can use to try to move us forward to greener pastures. Are you ready for it? Next!