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General Larry Platt, of course, is our generation’s Susan Boyle, achieving overnight celebrity with his American Idol audition of an original song called “Pants on the Ground.” But maybe his song was not so original after all! Now, there are already a couple of important questions that have been raised about General Larry Platt. For one thing, how did he even get in front of the American Idol judges in the first place? Eligible contestants cannot be older than 28. Where was the security? At what point did the chain of command break down? WHAT IF SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO SIMON COWELL? This is just like when Tareq and Michaela Salahi crashed a party at the White House back in 2009. The other interesting question about General Larry Platt is how he is not a general. I guess that’s not so much a question as it is a statement of fact. I’m not saying that General Larry Platt hasn’t done interesting or important things in his life, and everybody loves having a cool tough nickname. But it is kind of weird when you go on television and say that you are a general and then people are like “oh wow, you’re a general,” and you’re just sort of like “General Larry Brown, that is me,” because, you know, you are not a general.
But now there is a new question about Mr. Platt. And that is whether or not he plagiarized his song “Pants on the Ground” from a song by the Green Brothers called “Back Pockets on the Floor.” (BACK POCKETS ON THE FLOOR!) Possible video evidence after the jump:
Suspicious! Of course, this is the Internet, so it can be hard to fact-check these things. It is entirely possible that the Green Brothers recorded “Back Pockets on the Floor” after seeing the success of General Larry Platt’s “Pants on the Ground” and hoping to get some of that fire for their own novelty-partially-built-on-mockery-and-schadenfreude musical careers. Your honor?
SUSTAINED!
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Hopefully President Obama will address these important questions in his State of Reality Television speech tonight. That’s what he’s doing, right? Otherwise, why wouldn’t the networks show regular programming?
This guy should have Hung himself.
while misguided, this looks like a William Hung joke. does that deserve downvotes?
Yes.
Often a monster posts a comment that he believes is mildly amusing. He might look at the comment, allowing his hand to hover over the mouse before hitting the submit button. He then might curse, believing he was already signed. In hindsight the comment was more than regrettable. This is one such case. I have been forced to come to terms with something so ill conceived and hastily thought up. My fellow Videogum comment-readers, allow me to apologize for a terribly ill-concieved and grammatically incorrect pun. Hanged, not Hung. Thank you, Bird, for your assistance, but a man must bear the shame of his joke.
Who does he think he is, Keyboard Dog?
WHOA, let’s not go saying things we can’t take back!
That dude’s gonna get shot, with his red flags, and the blue hats.
Everyone knows this is Leroy Brown’s Town anyway
These guys dance moves do not hold a candle to the General’s.
This is disheartening. If we can’t trust would be reality contestants, who can we trust?
It is going to take three carafes of Tool wine to get me to sleep tonight.
2 things-
Only an old man would write a 6+ minute rap song right out of the gate.
I find it comical that they’re standing in front of an untouched drum kit meanwhile their actual beats are completely computerized.
the beat is my favorite part. I feel like I’m tripping balls over here.
If you’re going to steal, steal from the worst.
-motto of 2010
This is a coincidence! Our first american hero of the new decade is not a thief! *cries*
I move for a directed verdict in favor of “Its time to say no to the gangs, drugs, and dress code”
While I may still be undecided on the plagiarism question, I am certainly ending my gang affiliation asap.
Bill Cosby is furiously taking notes.
There can never be too many songs about youths’ impractically loose legwear.
this is what gabe’s record store looks like:
dukeellington,countbasie,lordcreator,lordinvader,princefar i,kingtubbyQueenLatiffa,SirMix-a-Lot,Dr.DreI hope Leno makes a funny joke about this tonight!!!!
Whatever, Bill Cosby said it first.
So do we call this PantsGate or Pants on the GroundGate? Headline writers need Pulitzers, too.
There’s only one thing more terrible than terrible 90′s rap: (This spot is reserved for when I think of something, I’m drawing a blank right now).
it’s white people listening to terrible 90′s rap, and then commenting on it. the more you know…
you broke my heart, general larry platt. if that is your real name. (it’s not.)
Man, the dude was a badass in the civil rights movement and got his own day. He’s a general in my heart, is all I’m saying.
I KNEW it sounded familiar!
this guy is such a hypocrite – he’s wearing his own cap backwards…
Who’s looking like a fool now? For shame, ‘General’ Platt, for shame!