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Jurassic 5 feat. Dave Matthews Band - Work it Out

OK, so this one is too easy. The past few days, on bbs and other blogs, I've seen links to the Jurassic 5 MySpace page, which features this track. The comments board is pretty hilarious, filled with mostly backpack sycophants eager to declare praise that nobody will ever see. But elsewhere on the 'net, the track has been almost universally bashed. This is because nobody likes J5 in 2006 and DMB has been associated with the striped shirt and sandals crowd.

Even at their best, nowadays Jurassic 5 is a guilty pleasure, with their corny sing-songy choruses, tepid raps and embarrassing fanbase. Add Dave Matthews on top (I hate Dave Matthews) and this song becomes a hater's paradise. However, this song isn't that bad. Sure, it has the boring, overtly positive, in-your-face message, a snore-worthy beat and a wanky guitar, but I wouldn't say I hate it more than, say, that Brooke Hogan and Paw Wa' song. And the best part of this is that nobody will have to probably hear this after a few months goes by (I'm pretty sure alternative radio, which would cater to J5 fans, hates DMB more than us).

This is the first time I've noticed Cut Chemist jumped ship from Jurassic 5. I remember reading an interview with him after he said he finished "Thin Line" with Mya or Nelly Furtado or whomever, and he said something along the lines of "Wow, we cut our first R&B song--I mean, it's great that we're doing new things, but wow." And that's when I knew it was basically over.