More Crispy (Crispier?)

At first I found “Licky Licky” to be a decent song, but after a couple listens it began to grow on me. It is a song about tasting exotic fruit, but we all know what this standard metaphor is really about. Of course, because Crispy is a bubblegum dance artist, they just go ahead and slay what would otherwise be relative subtlety with lines such as “Would you like some coconuts? / I got a pair already”. The fruitfulness of the song is furthered by the fruit-salad of the music, carefully creating a delicious bowl of heavy baseline plums, string-counter melody honeydew melons, watermelon synth bits, and apple slice vocals. The awesome computer-flute thing sounds like frozen tofu, except that's not really something one typically puts in a fruit salad. Also, the little fruit men dancing on the table in that video there are kickin' rad and clearly Licky Licky Lady wishes she could dance like that.

A wise man once said, “Songs are ways to say things that sound absolutely stupid when you just say them outloud.” My favorite Crispy song, “Happy King”, is a perfect example of this great truth. For example, the line “I am happy as a king” is the cornerstone of this song. But what does that mean? Can one really assume that to be a king is to be happy? Never mind that since the singer is female, she should be happy as a queen. Nevertheless, the idea of complete happiness is conveyed perfectly. What I also wonder about is why every single line that the male accompanist sings is ridiculously amusing and amusingly ridiculous. Why does he say “and me still get no kiss”? And then he goes on to tell us “I never get no kiss kiss / Kiss kissy, never ever”. Whatever the reasoning behind this, it's lyrics like these that give this song and many others like it their addictive charm. This is especially true with “Happy King” because of its sugary upbeat nature, employing all manner of white and tan synthetic instruments to make a great song with masterful melodies in all the right places.

You can listen to “Happy King” here.

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