The [Booty Got] Back Story
Fact #1: In the beginning, at least as far as this topic is concerned, was Found Magazine, and Found Magazine’s raison d’etre was — and still is
… collect[ing] found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life.
Anything goes.
These finds are published with minimal annotation and, with amazing frequency, evoke passion, pathos, and poignancy. Often, they are also pretty funny. Even if you aren’t in the market for a way cool booty song, which I find difficult to believe, knowing you as I do, you should check out the Found Magazine web site.
Fact #2: One of the items Davy Rothbart, the creator of Found Magazine, found1 on the streets of Ypsilanti, Michigan was a demo tape someone had thrown away – for good reason. It consisted of a batch of rap songs that – well, they sucked. Mr. Rothbart bestowed upon the then-unknown band that created the tape, the memorable moniker of The Ypsilanti All-Starz and began distributing reproductions of the tape to friends.
Fact #3: Although it appeared at first that the tape was a serious effort by a band hoping to hit it big, Found Magazine worked through conflicting stories about its origin and determined that the songs were originally recorded by one Tim Schreiber, then a teenager, who, on an impulse, decided to put together a self-consciously bad tape because – I guess because it seemed like a good idea at the time. While it’s true that it would be a better story if the band were delusional enough to think they had recorded a tape of chart-toppers, the music, regardless of intent, is — er … special.
Fact #4: Peter Rothbart (Davy’s brother), Jason Bitner, and Jason’s band, The Poem Adept, produced an acoustic cover of all the tracks on the Ypsilanti All-Starz tape, including an especially mellisonant, coffee house version of of one of the songs, “The Booty Don’t Stop,” AKA “Your Booty Don’t Stop,” AKA “Damn, The Booty Don’t Stop.”2
Fact #5: The Poem Adept version of “The Booty Don’t Stop” is, at once, ludicrous, sweet, sexist, self-mocking, funny, cynical, heartfelt, and seductive.
Fact #6: “The Booty Don’t Stop” is the perfect transition track for that seduction mix CD as the tone of the music shifts from romance to lust — or so I’ve been told. I also recommend it for wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs, solstice celebrations, anniversary bashes, first birthday parties, New Years Eve Dances, those tender pre- and post-coital moments, and ordinations.
Fact #7: You too can possess and listen to an MP3 [4.0MB, 128kbps] of a live performance of “The Booty Don’t Stop,” the finest booty song ever — for free. The first link is a direct download. If it doesn’t work, use the second link which will take you to the download page, form which you can do the right-click/Save Target As thing.
Booty Won’t Stop Direct Download
Poem Adept Music Download Web Page
_____________________- Well, Davy knew somebody who knew somebody … who actually found it, but the important thing is that Davy got his hands on it [↩]
- “The Booty Don’t Stop” CD is for sale at the Found Magazine web site for the low, low cost of $10. Its playlist follows:
1. Wave Yo’ Booty in the Air (Bounce)
2. Yo’ Ass is So Fine
3. Ass-Whomp Bustin’ Out of Yo’ Back Pocket
4. Yo’ Shit Be Up In My Face
5. Wiggle On the Flo’
6. Booty Time
7. Taste That Booty Flava’
8. Booty Shake (a capella)
9. Your Booty Don’t Stop
10. (She Got a) Big Fat Booty
11. Wave Yo Booty in the Air (remix)
12. Yo’ Ass is So Fine (heartfelt remix)
13. Ass-Whomp (re-dux)
14. Yo’ Shit Be Up in My Face [↩]
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