Music Mondays: Inverse Phase (8-bit Cee Lo - Fuck You parody)

This has to be the greatest 8-bit brilliance I have ever heard. Inverse Phase is the alias of Brendan Becker, a chiptune artist who actually does this stuff on real hardware — NES, Commodore 64, Game Boy, the whole shelf. He’s basically the gold standard for taking modern pop songs and rebuilding them out of three square waves and a noise channel without the result sounding like a novelty ringtone. The Cee Lo cover is a perfect target for the treatment: the chord progression already has that bouncy, almost-arcade-game feel, and the chiptune voicing exposes how good the song actually is underneath all the production. It’s funny, it’s a flex, and it absolutely goes. Listen and report back.