Word Up!

I went with a bunch of songs that the girls have been requesting lately.

So here is Word Up.

This is by Korn.

Originally it was done by Cameo in 86.

with the movie version of The Wiz featuring Diana Ross as Dorothy.

A number of the songs from the musical were enhanced with extra disco dance beats to create pop hits to add fuel to the booking of the megastar Diana Ross in the lead role.

But all of that effort failed to get people into the theaters for this movie.

On initial release, The Wiz only made $13 million in 1978, on a $21 million budget.

leaving the two younger brothers as a duo.

George and Louis Johnson spent time working as backing musicians for other well-known R&B acts, including working for Quincy Jones, who ultimately decided to become the producer for the duo's 1976 debut album.

Both that debut and the 1977 follow-up album produced top five pop hits and number one R&B singles.

In 1978, the Brothers Johnson returned with their third album, Blam!, with three exclamation points.

Yeah.

Um, and then, um, and then while this happens, while all this is happening, of course, it's scored by, um, Scottish rock band Guns' classic cover of the Cameo song Word Up.

And you're like, "Yep, this is..." It couldn't be more mid '90s and it couldn't be more exactly what it clearly wants to be, uh, and that's, that's obviously a, a vehicle for Pamela Anderson and, um, just a, a, a...

You know, what would now be called, I guess, a, a thirst trap, I guess, and, you know, like, um, for the horny teenage boy audience that th- this, uh, movie is, is clearly, uh, aimed for.

I'm really, again, I told you I listen to, you know, corny music.

Word Up? What? Word Up? I guess I know that one.

Yeah, I've heard of that one.

They did the original.

I do listen to Korn.

I would call them corny.

I've heard the Korn cover of Word Up.

Brick House, Commodores.