Said the Whale – Gentleman (Mashup)

Today I bore witness to the true value of Twitter, when I saw a link for this song in one of Said the Whale‘s twoots.  The song is a mashup that features Gentleman from Said the Whale, Time to Pretend from MGMT, Lovely Alien from Holy Fuck, Baba O’Riley from The Who, and vocals over top from the Canadian hip-hop artist Shad; needless to say, it all comes together in spectacular fashion, like really spectacular fashion.  The release/leak of this song coincides nicely with the release of Said the Whale’s latest LP Islands Disappear, which hit shelves on October 13th.

I am a gentleman
Old soul gentleman
Plain Jane gentleman
No good gentleman

Stone cold gentleman like Ralph Tresvant
New Edition playing in my favorite restaurant
Sitting there solo with a chicken drumstick
This pencil thin gentleman so lovesick
Bumpin BBD that girl is poison
Don’t holler at your boy, holler at your boyfriend
‘Cause baby I’m miserable
Lazy and pitiful
Oh, you gotta excuse me lady I’m cynical
I’ve been the dude where kind is kind but I’ve been the fool
Thought she was lying I was blind now I’m ridiculed
Finished school 9-to-5 slave in a suit
Just so I can wine and dine and cook you dinner fool
I’m trying to buy you a swimming pool with an inner tube in it
And an entire Ikea living room
Make with this smooth former miss bride with a groom before I’m in a tomb off to the moon

I am a gentleman
Old soul gentleman
Plain Jane gentleman
No good gentleman