#cotton eye joe - rednex

[dandelionsprout42]

The Theets know how to barn dance

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 11/04/2024

I will Never be a Redneck

Season 7 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire

Ripped by Madinstance

Requested by Corb and uwustepanne! (Discord, Request Form) (@uwustepanne)

"I'm just kidding, this isn't a blue balls rip. However, you're going to wish it was. I warned you."

Can you IMAGINE being 601billionlazer and getting this rip for Secret SiIva 5?? You hear the silly blue balls and go oh, haha what fun, what a great little bit Madinstance, you always outdo yourself so its fun to see you've taken a funny step back here - only for the truth to be revealed and all hell to break loose? You hear the backing change and think, I swear I recognize that, there's no way he actually did it - the banjo comes in with a gleefully sinister pluck and reaffirms your suspicions. Madinstance fucking did it. The first proper rip uploaded as part of Season 7 introduced the year with a fucking bomb. I will Never be a Redneck.

And look, I've covered some One-Winged Angel rips on here already, One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop and Hen'yoku no Piraman - the latter even being made by Madinstance as well - but I feel like it needs to be stressed how thoroughly deranged this rip in particular is. We ALL know Cotton-Eye Joe, if not the original American country song then ABSOLUTELY the world-famous 1994 Eurodance version - one that, funny enough, was recorded by a Swedish band. Indeeds, its oddly befitting: A culture clash between my homeland, and the nation where a majority of SiIvaGunner's own audience and contributors live - the result is that ALL of us knew well what Cotton-Eye Joe was, a piece of our childhoods for some, or at least for me. Yet its prevalence on SiIvaGunner had been comparatively tame in comparison to that popularity, only appearing in some modest mashups and melodyswaps in Season 1 - seven whole years before Madinstance deployed the nuclear option. Realizing that this overplayed icon of a song even had the ability to be remixed in such a fashion positively blew my mind - I won't sugarcoat it, I will Never be a Redneck completely floored me.

And like, in some ways its to be expected, right? Madinstance is incredible, he continues to show up on here with rips like Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) and Fell From a High Place (Reprise) for a reason - his prowess for these large-scale projects feels like it shouldn't even be humanly possible. I remarked back in Hen'yoku no Piraman just how much the recent trend of One Winged Angel rips impresses me, how each one feels as if the ripper is truly showcasing their worth whilst dedicating it all to the glory of a single meme. That still stands, yes, but to apply it to a song that otherwise had near-no prevalence on SiIvaGunner, no standard set for how remixing it ought to go: To have my FIRST ever time hearing Cotton-Eye Joe pitch shifted be in this absolute behemoth feels downright criminal. And its even crazier how it WORKS the whole way through.

The amount of touches present to make this feel as cohesive as it does is staggering. The chorus' titular line of "Cotton-Eye Joe" replaces the use of "Sephiroth!" in the base track perfectly, the original song's violin instrumental breaks between the chorus and verses are pitch shifted into the ominous tone of One Winged Angel's equivalent instrumental breaks, the banjo going off the shits in the longer break from the main melody midway through the track...really, its incredible how much of the original track's excitement and danceable fun suddenly sound so ominous, with changes so deliberate, substantial yet conservative enough to not lose the Cotton-Eye Joe feel - this ALWAYS sounds like the right amount of both tracks in balance. I love how the song's chanting "Hey-hey-hey-heyys" suddenly sound akin to One Winged Angel's latin choir song, how the vocals of the chorus repeat in a somewhat staggered, haunting way near the rip's end - like Beautiful Dreamer or My Dr. Eggman Can't Be This Evil!, its remarkable just how drastic the change of tone becomes through rips like this.

Most of all though, it is that gradual realization of what you're listening to that has made I will Never be a Redneck such a classic for me - NOBODY could've anticipated it based on the channel's past history, and nobody would've expected THIS would be the way that Season 7 would officially "start". Yet its the kind of rip you can send to anyone - both songs are immediately recognizable, and the effort put in to making the two work in tandem is unmistakably impressive. uwustepanne, who wrote in to request this be covered, included a short anecdote with her write-in, about how this rip showing up in her YouTube feed was what made her realize the channel hadn't ended with Season 6's finale, that I will Never be a Redneck in a way represents everything she loves about the channel, the impact its had on her. And yeah - isn't it crazy how a rip as cracked as this one, still wound up facing incredibly stiff competition for rip of the Season?? 2023 was one of SiIvaGunner's greatest-ever years, and seeing a rip like I will Never be a Redneck uploaded at its very start felt almost like they'd set the bar far too high for the rest of the team. Yet somehow, someway, everyone else was up to the challenge and continued making absolutely incredible rips throughout the entire year. Madinstance continues to raise the bar of quality on the channel at almost every turn, and having him do it at the Season's very start - with a rip as out-of-this-world as I will Never be a Redneck to boot - remains as an absolute power move.

[morgause1]

Everyone fears the eldritch abomination and succubus Jolene, but nobody talks about her just as terrifying male counterpart, Cotton Eye Joe.

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

If you haven't heard one or both of the songs before, it's recommended that you do so before voting!

Define "better" in any way you wish :)

[mudwerks]

(via Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe (1994)

[ask-sebastian]

This week's Kiwi dedicated songs heheh 🥝💚

🐎 They have a horse in the clip at some point 👀🐴 https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM

THANK YOU FOR SENDING COTTON EYE JOE! If you hadn't I was definitely going to post it.

[mortifiedandawesome]

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe 2002 (Official Music Video) [HD]

[music-asylum]

July 7, 2023

[13eyond13]

#16

Cotton-eyed Joe

COTTON EYE JOE + THEIR SEXUALITY: the flirty kind of bi that delights in making supposedly straight people question their sexuality, I'd assume

[headcanon ask meme]

[nytehavyn-circle]

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe (Official Music Video) [HD] - RednexMusic com

(Yes, Tolaas has been known to sing this around his home, or on amateur nights at the local bar. It works better if there's a backing band that can play this song...)

[spilladabalia]

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

[music-in-my-veins14]

If it hadn't been for cotton-eyed Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton-eyed Joe?

[wyrmwould-star]

There are 2 songs that everyone in the US knows, and that's our national anthem and Cotton Eye Joe, in one form or another.

That's not even hyperbole. 90% of kids who can speak know it, and every single person over 10 knows it.

[pastacatprod]

Cotton-Eye Joe, at least as far as I could tell from the lyrics, seems to be about a stranger coming to town and havin sex with all the women. And all the men are like "Arrrrgh curse you Cotton-Eye Joe!"

There's maybe also racist background to the song? I don't know. My Google results were mixed.

And the Rednex version of it is very sorta bouncy and fun and iconic, but I thought it'd be fun to make it a moody western song.

[littlewalken]

Does anyone know what remix of Cotton Eye Joe by Renex this is? It's from 94-95 and doesn't have the female vocalist. Would have been played on the radio by MARS fm or an X alternate station in southern California.