Marcel Winatschek

The Lonely Island: YOLO

The Lonely Island got me with ’I’m on a Boat’ and ’Dick in a Box’—SNL digital shorts that worked because the music was actually well-made underneath the stupidity. They’d get real musicians to play straight man to the joke, and it was this weird collision of competence and absurdity that shouldn’t have worked. YOLO came later, after they’d exhausted the novelty of the formula, and I think the moment had passed. They’re still there doing the thing, but the thing got smaller somehow.