Track themes:Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Don’t let that sing-a-long chorus or those playful afrobeats fool you. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa is a song of seduction. A mating call as sincere and heartfelt as that of a Serengeti wildebeest who has returned from work of a Friday evening to find not one single message on his answer machine. Yes, Vampire Weekend are a bunch of stick-thin rich kids from Columbia University, but don’t handsome youths from fabulously wealthy families deserve love, too? Only the most heartless, Hilton-baiting peasants among you would think not. Especially since Vampire’s musical _cri de crotch_ is coached in slyly humorous lyrics, as when the narrator asks his reggaeton-loving lady friend, to “stay up till dawn, in the colors of Benetton?” If that’s too subtle to ring your bell, then just wait for the chorus. It consists of one great big leer: “Is your bed made, is your sweater off? Do you want to f***, like you know I do?" Now, how refreshing is that? A young man singing about sexual relations while _not_ wearing a diamond encrusted chain with his own personal logo. Swooooon. Vampire Weekend haven’t even released an album and already I’m in bed with them.
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