Today after lunch at the Hard Rock I ran over to Ibn Batutta Mall to pick up some last minute Christmas presents and some toilet paper. Very important mission. As I drove on the rainy Sheikh Zayed Road, I turned on the radio, good ol' Dubai 92.
They were in the middle of a kind of folksy acoustic cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". You know the song, it was one of the anthems of this last summer. You know it, even if you don't think you do. I mean, we played it at the wedding. See, you've totally heard it. But not this version. This version, well it sounded a little bit like Lewiston, Maine's own singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne.
Then the Canadian DJ comes on and says, "That was Ray LaMontagne covering Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".
No way!
No freakin' way!!
Dubai 92 is the big American-ish station around here, I think it might be the number one station in Dubai. It's kind of modern rock music, but then lots of 80s British pop. It's what you'd expect to find on the iPod of your British buddy who's about 35 years old, but keeps up with the current Rolling Stone-esque musical trends.
Also weird about Dubai 92? Their promo announcer voice (you know, the "You're listening to a mid-morning music marathon on Dubai 92") is the same voice of Los Angeles' KROQ.
