Outside The Loop - Gordon Voidwell

This song is probably going to get a lot more popular.



Let's not kid ourselves; this is little more than disposable pop music. Which is another way of saying that it's colorful, fun, and will make you smile for a couple of weeks until you get sick of it and decide that you never want to hear it again. What's interesting is how much it resembles Reptar. That's not to accuse either one of ripping anyone off. It's just a sound that's very prevalent these days, especially on top-40 radio.

More importantly, it's the similarities between the two artists that magnifies their differences, and helps us to better understand them.

Gordon Voidwell fills his party song with insights into the world of overprivileged elites, rhymes 'ivory towers' with 'big-sized endowments,' and stops you in your tracks as you wonder whether he's celebrating this world, mocking it, or getting ready to destroy it from the inside. It's the difference between observing the world and merely existing in one. And it's a difference that the local group has yet to learn.

And while we're on the subject, Gordon is also a better dancer, as well as a more charismatic frontman.