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A 38-year-old father has today completed the sacred generational rite of musical embarrassment, after earnestly introducing his 10-year-old son to the 2002 punk-funk anthem Fever For The Flava by Hot Action Cop.
Corey Whittaker, of Riverside Circuit in Betoota Heights, reportedly wheeled out his battered Panasonic CD stereo from the workshop over the weekend, after his son Corey Jnr asked what music was cool “back in the olden days”.
“Mate,” said Whittaker.
“This is real music. None of this auto-tuned algorithm crap you listen to on Fortnite radio.”
According to family witnesses, Whittaker then began tapping his foot and bobbing his head before proudly mouthing along to the lyrics, which include graphic references to bedroom activities and condiments, as if unveiling a lost artefact from a more innocent, hornier time.
Corey Jnr reportedly burst out laughing by the first chorus.
“He thought it was a joke,” continued Whittaker.
“I explained to him how cool it was that they spelled ‘flavour’ with an ‘a’. Like flava. It’s stylistic. It’s rebellious. It’s punk!”
“I remember my old man showing me Supertramp once and I thought it was the lamest shit ever. Fuck, is this what it feels like?”
The CD remains in the tray, awaiting rediscovery in another twenty years.
More to come.
