MUSIC: Pitbull – Bad Man (feat. Robin Thicke, Joe Perry & Travis Barker)

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Musical Commandment No. 3,255: Beware any track that leads off with Pitbull declaring, "This is history in the making!" You will be disappointed.
So it goes with “Bad Man,” which features Aerosmith's Joe Perry’s on guitar, Blink-182's Travis Barker on drums, Robin Thicke singing the hook, and Pitbull doing his dance-rap thing.
Would it be cynical to assume that this song was cobbled together in some boardroom by a think-tank of well-heeled pop producers, pitchmen, and corporate lobbyists? And that this random conglomerate was assembled solely to perform the song at last week’s Grammys, in a vain attempt at demonstrating just how hip the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is?
It sure sounds that way. “Bad Man” shamelessly cribs from Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” while delivering less lyrical substance than the original (no easy feat, there). Its theme? The mind-blowing twin revelations that Pitbull is a bad man and he likes hot girls who dance.
If familiarity breeds contempt, then trust me: You’ve already heard this song 20,000 times. “Bad Man” is the sound of a lite beer commercial. It's a passionless orgy of common-denominator Top-40 lifestyle branding. It's just bad, man.