Artist	Song
run dmc	IT's tricky
infectious grooves	punk IT up
james brown	make IT funky
the donnas	take IT off
salt-n-pepa	push IT
devo	whip IT
michael jackson	beat IT
the rev. horton heat	do IT
missy eliot	work IT
james brown	give IT up or turnIT loose
beastie boys	she's on IT
brian jonestown massacre	take IT from the man
akinyele	put IT in your mouth
dwight yoakam	IT only makes me want you more
power station	some like IT hot
kc and the sunshine band	that's the way i like IT
james brown	IT's too funky in here
milli vanilli	blame IT on the rain
marx brothers	i'm against IT
james brown	doing IT to death
faITh no more	IT's IT (aka epic)

Comment:

Just what is IT about IT that is so important? Is IT about sex? Is IT about your private parts? IT must be an intrinsic part of us, though exactly which part is still a mystery. Though when you think about IT, IT sure does get around. I wonder if IT takes on different meanings when mentioned in mixed company? IT must be very durable and/or desirable because everybody, from all walks of life seem to want to whip IT, beat IT, punk IT up, do IT, work IT, take IT from him, give IT to her, and so on. I guess IT means as many different things to as many different kinds of people as you or I can ever imagine. I'm sure IT even means things to certain singers and wrITers that you and I have never thought of. But I am also willing to bet that James Brown has single-handedly figured out more meanings and uses for IT than any other person in all of music.

James seems to have a very special working familiarITy with IT. He has made IT funky, sometimes to the point of IT being too funky for most other people to endure indoors. He has personally expressed a strong individual and cultural affinITy for IT and has said IT out loud for all to hear. ExhibITing the extent of his own generosITy, James has expressed a willingness to give IT up or turnIT loose if need be. And no one can ever deny the erudITion which enables James to know exactly when to tell the people IT has gotten too bad and when IT needs to be done to death.

All this being said, we can't entirely blame (or credIT) IT's importance on James Brown alone. Though James tells us of a Man's, Man's Man's World he also admITs that IT also doesn't mean nothing wIThout a woman or a girl. IT is bigger than James or any one of us. IT has been around as long as we've had the ambITion to use music to give form to those indelible, yet otherwise incalculable feelings that for better and for worse forms the invisible social fabric which stITches us all together....from the hunger gnawing in the pIT of the underclass' stomachs to the insatiable acquisITive hunger of a glorified group of capITalists' morally bankrupt but physically and monetarily gorged to the point of obscene obesITy, from the creative fire that is said to ignITe the artists' soul to the tipping point of injustice that incITes the crowds gathering in the streets to riot and rebel, from the forbidden forms of sexualITy we used to only fantasize about locked up alone in our bedrooms now systematically sold to us as downloadable internet commodITies. Thankfully, IT in addITion to being one of the most popular pronouns in popular music is also one of ITs most popular subjects and the heady palpITatITions of lovers hearts' everywhere will always have something to beat in time to.

In short all the feelings we otherwise could not express, formulate, or begin to know even on our own terms in any other way other than to point to them and say "this is IT." is what IT is all about. IT is "as you like IT," both everything and nothing at the same time, a limITless nonentITy, an indubITably musical breath lasting for all eternITy...

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