Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

The holiday album deluge has already borne strange gifts. One indeterminate stocking-stuffer is Erran Baron Cohen's Songs in the Key of Hanukkah , which upgrades Jewish standards for the 21st century. We think. Taking a look at the video for "Dreidel," it's hard to draw a bead. The bling-rap spoof starring Orthodox Jews sounds and screens hilarious, but the song goes on so long that the jam becomes the thing. I guess you can have your irony and eat it too, when it comes to the Baron Cohen family. Erran and his brave brother Sacha have [...]