Is there any song that has been as overplayed as this one? I feel like I have heard it a million times if once. Not only on radio and in public spaces, but in about 1,200 commercials, most of them for beer. It has become a sort of signal. It is supposed to trigger visions of good times. Everyone is dancing and laughing and preparing to share an STD with a stranger.
Allegedly the song is about a stereo sounding real good, and for some reason also about getting a wish from a genie, the two ideas having nothing to connect them. Most people believed it to be about drugs, which has been denied by the songwriters. Those would have to be some very boring drugs if it were.
I cannot pinpoint exactly what I hate about it, aside from the baggage discussed above, but it is probably just that it is incredibly corny. It is a vapid exercise in juvenile metaphors.
Musically it might be okay. It incorporates elements of funk before rock music really did that. And in some ways its pretty heavy for its time. But somehow it still feels like music made for polioxiplastiastic pod people having pseudo-fun like they live in a beer commercial, so I am unable to appreciate any positive qualities I suspect it might contain.
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