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We decided to make the video feed that popular misconception and had a lot of fun doing it. We kind of magnified that myth that this was a song about whipping and sadomasochism.
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Laser Discs never caught on, but MTV did, which gave this video lots of exposure.Ĭasale: "We made a video to it for like $15,000 that was shot in our rehearsal studio. Devo had been making interesting videos for a while because they thought Laser Discs were going to catch on and wanted to make film shorts with music soundtracks that people could watch on them. Some European and Australian artists had been making videos, but very few came from US artists, and most of those were concert videos. When MTV launched in 1981, they had very few videos to choose from. We didn't want to ruin it and tell them the truth, because they just wouldn't get off on the truth." All the DJs and people hearing it assumed it was a song about beating off or sadomasochism, so we let them think that. Says Jerry: "It spread around the country. He played it on some stations there and created the buzz that made it a hit. This became a hit when it was picked up by a radio programmer from Florida. We didn't like it any better or any less than any of the other songs we were doing, and we had no idea it would become a hit." We started practicing it every day, until we got it to the point where we really liked it and we thought it was really snappy. Then we started putting the lyrics over the top of it and liked the idea of how it was working out. All the parts of the song got rolled into one song. I put them all together into one composition. Then 3 other songs had pieces of what became the 'Whip It' song, except they were in different time signatures and different tempos. He had this tape with about 8 things on it, and one of them had a drum beat that was very interesting, it became the 'Whip It' drumbeat. Mark had recorded some sketches for song ideas in his apartment, and when we'd get together every day to write, rehearse and practice, we would listen to everybody's snippets of ideas. I thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I wrote down 'Whip It' one night. He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and 'You're #1, there's nobody else like you' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. The lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in his book Gravity's Rainbow. "Whip It, like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. Jerry told us how this song came together:
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Kool and the Gang - " Hollywood Swinging" (1974).Zapp & Roger - "I Can Make You Dance" (1983).Songs marked with an asterisk are not present in the mobile and Xbox 360 ports of the game. Genres: funk, P-Funk, contemporary R&B Playlist It is the radio station the Ballas listen to as well as Sean "Sweet" Johnson and Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, as evidenced when the player enters their respective vehicles. Bounce FM is a funk and R&B radio station in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, hosted by The Funktipus (voiced by George Clinton, who also lent one of his songs to the radio station).