La La La (Chris Webby song)
| "La La La" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Chris Webby from the album The White Noise LP | |
| Released | October 28, 2008 (preview) April 17, 2009 (full version) |
| Recorded | Early 2008 |
| Genre | Hip hop |
| Length | 3:49 |
| Label | Self-released, CD Baby (owner) |
| Writer | Chris Webby, Alex Christensen |
| Producer | Beat Ink (concept), Evo (recording) |
La La La is a song by American rapper Chris Webby from his debut mixtape The White Noise LP (2009). The song was released on April 17, 2009 on YouTube on his channel ForTheBurbs. It was later included as the first track on his mixtape The White Noise LP, released on April 30, 2009. La La La is one of Chris Webby's earliest and first songs recorded by producer Evo in 2008 and its composition is based on the original instrumental of "Around the World" by local producer Beat Ink (owned by CD Baby), which samples ATC's Around The World (La La La La La). In Chris Webby's La La La, the lyrics makes references of Webby's interest of having weed, as he calls it the 'weed song'. There are other remixes and versions of this song since it was released, such as the ones on YouTube. Today, La La La is the most popular version of Beat Ink's Around the World, the superior remix version in all remixes and samplings of ATC's Around the World.
Background
The song that both Chris Webby's La La La and Beat Ink's "Around the World" sample, ATC's Around The World, produced by Alex Christensen, was produced on December 1, 1999 and released on May 9, 2000, and performed well in the European and global charts. The Eurodance and Eurotrance sample is an international cover of Ruki Vverh's Pesenka (1998). By 2003, the song began to decline and lose in global popularity due to ATC's disbandment, rendering it independent from the public forever. It would later be used for various covers and other versions from 2001 and on wards. The song was left without being sampled until sometime in 2007. On December 1, 2007, after listening to ATC's Around The World, unknown local preducer Beat Ink took that sample in his song concept called "Around the World" and finalized it after that before giving it to other artists and producers. The first versions based on Beat Ink's Around the World were released on MySpace on May 14, 2008 and on YouTube on June 17, 2008. It was later recorded by other artists from many parts of the world. All versions of the Beat Ink concept are found on YouTube and MySpace. On June 1, 2008, 6 months after release of Beat Ink's Around the World, Chris Webby, a rapper from Norwalk, Connecticut, went on to record his version called "La La La", named after the vocables heard in both ATC's Around the World and Ruki Vverh's Pesenka (Webby took 3 out of 5 La's from the song) and recorded by his local producer Evo. The new song was first previewed on one of his earliest videos on YouTube on October 28, 2008.[1] It was later released as a full song on January 1, 2009 on MySpace and on April 17, 2009, on his YouTube channel ForTheBurbs. It was one of Chris Webby's first songs that marked the start of all his music.
Composition
La La La is a hip hop song with Webby's recreational drug lyrics and its composition is based on the remix concept of ATC's Around the World, Beat Ink's Around the World (2008). Like the song concept, the song has a length of 3 minutes and 48 seconds. According to the back cover of The White Noise LP, the song was recorded by a local producer named Evo, whose real name is Miguel Valor (born July 19, 1990 in Manhattan, New York).[2] It uses urban, 2000s style drumbeats. The sample is used into intro, chorus, starting melody and outro elements. Also, its speed goes at 0.7274x from the tempo of ATC's Around The World, allowing Webby to use a moderate rapping speed. Webby lends his rap vocals, performing 3 verses and 3 singing choruses in his version of Beat Ink's Around the World. The low-pitched vocals of ATC are heard in intro, outro and 3 choruses of the sample as in its original version.
Miscellaneous
Like Chris Webby's La La La, there are other versions of Beat Ink's Around the World performed by various artists from many parts of the world. More information of the versions can be found in the article of the same name. YouTube Channel A7Xdrums014 released his remade instrumental version called "Chris Webby - La La La (Instrumental)" on June 10, 2012. According to YouTube, CD Baby owns the rights to the Chris Webby version today, like Beat Ink's Around the World.
Reception
La La La is now best known for having over 6.2 million views,[3] over 21,800 likes and over 8,200 comments on his first video on YouTube. Other most viewed videos with the same songs are one from Justin Belz, with over 2.3 million views,[4] and one from TheWeedSongs, with over 3.4 million views.[5] All 3 most viewed videos with 'La La La' total about 11.8 million views, making it the most popular Chris Webby song ever heard. Since that time, a lot of other YouTube users have already uploaded their own videos using the Chris Webby song.
Overall, La La La can be given a rating between 6 and 9 out of 10, depending on how well you know the song.
See also
References
External links
- THE WHITE NOISE LP, CHRIS WEBBY / datpiff
- Chris Webby - La La La (video, youtube)
- (song, MySpace