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There now exists an .mp3 file in this world of Mark Zuckerberg earnestly singing the lyric “to the window, to the wall, ’til the sweat drop down my balls.”
The Meta founder met his wife, Priscilla Chan, at a college party where the song “Get Low” by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft. the Ying Yang Twins was playing. As Zuckerberg wrote in an Instagram post, apparently he and his wife listen to “Get Low” every year on the anniversary of when they started dating. But this year, the swagged-out Zuck went above and beyond, collaborating with T-Pain to write an acoustic cover of the 2002 rap song.
It sounds exactly how you would expect — almost Weird Al-esque.
The song itself is pretty vulgar, which Zuckerberg acknowledges, wryly calling it a “lyrical masterpiece” in his Instagram post. The lewd lyrics are even more obvious when T-Pain and Zuckerberg slow down the tempo and deeply enunciate the lyrics while they strum their acoustic guitars. If you had told me an hour ago that I was about to hear a tech CEO sing the word “skeet” over and over, I would’ve guessed it had something to do with Bluesky. Not this.
For as cringeworthy as this “Z-Pain” collaboration is, it’s actually not bad considering what some other CEOs have done. Maybe it’s autotune, but Zuckerberg is actually on pitch when he sings. Meanwhile, venture capitalist Tim Draper once infamously sang a song about Bitcoin at Paris Blockchain week, in which he rhymed “Satoshi Nakamoto” with “Perfect-o.” Canva has commissioned choreographed songs about enterprise SaaS. Even Zuckerberg’s own sister, Randi, once made a music video called “We’re All Gonna Make It,” a crypto anthem to the tune of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” And let us not forget the biggest revelation of Frances Haugen’s major Facebook leaks: the Facebook benefits enrollment musical, which takes place both on Zoom and in the metaverse.
With the image of metaverse avatars singing about dental insurance in your mind, is Z-Pain really so bad?
Amanda Silberling is a senior writer at TechCrunch covering the intersection of technology and culture. She has also written for publications like Polygon, MTV, the Kenyon Review, NPR, and Business Insider. She is the co-host of Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture, with science fiction author Isabel J. Kim. Prior to joining TechCrunch, she worked as a grassroots organizer, museum educator, and film festival coordinator. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and served as a Princeton in Asia Fellow in Laos.
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