Some songs simply become crowd favorites off the album. You know what I mean---you wouldn't hear them on MTV or radio but at a party everybody knows the song. Prime examples from the 80s and 90s are Clarence Carter's "Strokin" and Snoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun".

Then there are some songs who everybody reviles publicly but still recognizes and likes to get down to---admitting it is a separate issue. Take the popularity of any mainstream teeny-bopper party song as an example.

And rarely, the 2 categories come together to form an underground upwelling of annoyingly catchy music--as they have with Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps". Some of you out there have had this song on rotation since June of '05. Some of you out there are just seeing the video now. All of you can clearly hear that Fergie can't rap and will.i.am's call & response is a far far cry from Lil Jon. Yet you replay it again. Although BEP released Monkey Business early this summer, as of this writing "My Humps" is the most downloaded song in the country, and is becoming a staple at bars and parties. It has even inspired internet parodies (http://littlelostrobot.com/videos/robot_humps_medium.mov).

The song samples Sexual Harrassment's "I Need a Freak" (which may be a good sign, considering that Too $hort's rendition canonized that song into one of the best covers ever). It is a catchy enough instrumental, but the lyrics are what make the song, well, just bad. Slate.com's Hua Hsu summed it up when he said "It's a song that tries to evoke a coquettish nudge and wink, but head-butts and bloodies the target instead." I believe this song will get overexposed and old to the magnitude that it is popular now, then after a few years of dormancy it will become one of those party staples that makes everybody get up.

Slate.com article-- http://www.slate.com/id/2131640/