Memphis on the internet.
Memphis Style
A cartoon music video for a song called “Memphis Style” draws the city in blunt terms.
Posted to Facebook last month by cartoonist (and Nashvillian by way of Memphis) Skylar Wilson, who said he was “proud to make a cartoon set in my hometown.” The song is by record producers and songwriters Kenny Greenberg and Wally Wilson.
“Nobody lives here anymore. That’s what the ones who moved away are saying,” says the song. “Midtown’s tired. The streets are on fire. It’s 100 degrees in the shade. … Don’t touch that dial. We’re rolling, Momma, Memphis style.”
In a scathing assessment of the city’s virtues, the song says names like Otis Redding and B.B. King don’t matter anymore, replaced with greed. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland (who is labeled “Mayor Dickland” by his desk nameplate) has “all the power” but “he don’t have a soul.”
Memphis Mass Band
School’s out but that won’t stop the Memphis Mass Band from taking the field. It’s a mash-up of the Memphis All-Stars Band and the Memphis Universal Alumni Band. Check them on YouTube doing their version of “4’s Up.”