YouTube-famous duo Karmin’s cover of “6 Foot 7” by Lil Wayne. You’ve probably seen it before (they’re YouTube-famous, after all), so why am I bothering to post it?

They’re almost certainly about to be at the center of the next hyper-short Internet Hatefest, since they’re playing SNL tonight.

Gawker’s got an early lead in the petty backlash race (Aside: Hey, Gawker Media, remember when I said we cool now? I suspect that’ll be pretty short-lived.), and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got the anti-backlash backlash piece already written. (I figure they’ll rely on misappropriated gender-politics for that one, since they’ve already exhausted shameful race-baiting with their current article.)

I’m sure, though, that it’ll be just a matter of hours before the contemptuous parade begins: first with the backlash, and then the anti-backlash backlash, and then the faux-enlightened examination of both the backlash and the anti-backlash, and then Liz Phair shows up to remind us that she used to be awesome and makes kind of a fool of herself, and then the inevitable SNL recursive-parody, and then it’s on to the next one.

But in all of this (let’s face it: completely self-serving and parasitic) braying and shushing and anti-shushing and whatever, we forget about the actual music and careers are hurt and oh by the way Syria’s on fire and Saudi Arabia might be next and Greece is eating itself and America is really, seriously fucked right down to its bones, but we’re going to take time out of that to beat up on a couple of charming, charismatic kids whose only crime appears to be being too happy?

Look: I hate things as much probably more than the next guy, but come on, why don’t we focus it on something that’s worth it, like the mind-boggling and carcinogenic political existence of Rick Santorum or the way the entire GOP establishment is simply lying to us, trusting (not without cause) that we’ll be too distracted by bullshit to notice or care?

It’s like no-one learns anything, ever.

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