Idolator
The 36-second song "The Ladies' Bras," by Jonny Trunk and Wisbey, has become the shortest song ever to reach the UK Top 75 Singles Chart; it sold 1,664 copies in its first week of availability and hit No. 70 on the chart, despite not getting any radio airplay. In the interest of joining the bandwagon helping "The Ladies' Bras" ascent on the digital-music charts over here, I plunked down 99 cents for the track and wrote out my second-by-second reactions:
00:10: This isn't so much a "song" as it is "leftover interstitial music from The Benny Hill Show."
00:23: If only They Might Be Giants' "Minimum Wage" had come out in the Internet era—then it may have seen the chart success it deserved.
00:36: Well, there's another 2.75 cents for one second of tossed-off "humor." I, sucker!
'Ladies' Bras' Hold U.K. Chart Record [Billboard.biz]
Comments
Minimum wage......HYAH! (whipcrack!)
Sorry. But otherwise that would have been in my head all day.
I do support an effort to re-release "Minimum Wage" as a single on 3 formats with exclusive remixes by Switch and Justice et al., though. It's been 17 years, folks.
the sample snippet is 27 seconds long, so you're paying 79 pence for the last 9 seconds?
@Butch Huskey: It's a genius business model, no?
Wish I could type that fast.
@Chris N.: I started early.
@Chris N.: (with my typing lessons, that is.)
@nonce: @maura: Damn you, damn you both. Possibly the best interstitial ever, but not when it's spinning through your head at 30 repetitions per minute.
Comment on this post
Reply by EmailLogin with your username and password below. Or comment on this post via email.
Forgot your username or password? New User?