That made my day!

NOOOOOO!! now I'm picturing Kroger "Gangstas" sporting the uniform, gold chains, and a gold grill riding to work in Low-Riders. I like rap, and yes it's got an ok beat but I can't (wont and refuse to) jam to it. I feel bad for any new hires.

kroagrr wrote:

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Emailed to the company as an ad pitch.

Kroger Family

 

(I have a couple of opinions, but I'll withhold them to see what you all have to say.)

 

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 Opinion 1: WTF?! O_o

Opinion 2: I can literally feel the spit every time he says Proud to be a member of the Kroger family

Opinion 3: I don't listen to much rap, but even I can't even see when, where, and how in the hell you would even play this and expect to be taken any kind of seriously

Opinion/more like reactionary side effect: *still twitching and cringing heavily*

kroagrr wrote:

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I'll give him credit for showing initiative and creating something.

Probably not gonna score a lot of street cred by shoehorning a mess of empty corporate slogans into a "song" . . . where they don't seem to fit too well.  (Songwriter folks sometimes call that "prosody" problems.)  If the words don't fall comfortably into your song structure--if there are three too many syllables at the end of a line, for example--then, Houston, we have an . . .  opportunity.

My guess is the guy gleaned some slogans from a corporate website and tried to craft them into a commercial piece to sell to the company.  Had he worked here, he'd know the words are often empty, ironic, and some serious bull.

(You know what could make a decent song?  The phrase fresh-and-friendly.  Just sayin' . . . dawg.)

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Doing a quick search on Facebook, this guy calls himself a "positive rapper".  Yes, he is a real person. And he actually works at a Kroger in central Mississippi.  Very strange that he sounds as if he takes the "5-STAR SAFETY TEAM" nonsense seriously.   Perhaps he is a fairly new employee who is still looking at the Kroger company with rose-colored glasses on?? 

In any case, sorry to hurt any feelings here (pleeze don't be offended, rap junkies) but I loathe rap music with a passion.  I like to hear music with actual BEAUTIFULLY-SOUNDING VOICES, nice melody, interesting chord structure, great-sounding background instrumental accompaniment, and memorable and meaningful lyrics.  Therefore, that counts out Rap in my book.