Please Explain This Pop Culture Reference

[Lavabe]

A phrase coming from someone's audition on AMERICAN IDOL has gone viral, and is rapidly moving its way into our language. The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND

Would someone explain to me what this means? WHY has it gone viral? Why did Brett Favre use it in a lockerroom speech just after the Vikes beat the Cowboys in the playoffs?

Sorry... I don't get it.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

A phrase coming from someone's audition on AMERICAN IDOL has gone viral, and is rapidly moving its way into our language. The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND

Would someone explain to me what this means? WHY has it gone viral? Why did Brett Favre use it in a lockerroom speech just after the Vikes beat the Cowboys in the playoffs?

Sorry... I don't get it.

Maybe this will help: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realit ... dol-smash/ Search for "Pants on the Ground" on Facebook for additional information including groups being formed in support of the idea behind the rap.

[wilson]

The pop culture reference inherent in the above is just what you've outlined...an American Idol appearance. The song "Pants on the Ground" was merely an older gentleman's admonishment to the younger sorts, who it seems commonly traipse about with their "pants on the ground" (an exaggeration, but a valid comment nonetheless).
There's not really anything to "get" about it.
The gentleman who first offered the song, "General" Larry Platt, actually has a pretty interesting story. He earned his nickname via his efforts in organizing various civil rights initiatives in the '60s, and was a colleague of many of the movement's lions.

[cl15876]

... The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND
....
Sorry... I don't get it.

Lavabe - that makes two of us! I was wondering the same thing!

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

... The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND
....
Sorry... I don't get it.

Lavabe - that makes two of us! I was wondering the same thing!

I repeat! What would we ever DO without Wilson to explain things?!

Now I know 'bout "dank" and "Pants on the Ground"!!! I'm one hip chick. (Please translate that into current vernacular, Wilson.)
Love, Ima

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

PS: I find it intriguing that the boys like their clothes three or four sizes too big while the girls wear three or four sizes too small. Doesn't anybody wear clothes that actually fit anymore? (Bless their hearts.)
Love, Ima

[colchar]

A phrase coming from someone's audition on AMERICAN IDOL has gone viral, and is rapidly moving its way into our language. The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND

Would someone explain to me what this means? WHY has it gone viral? Why did Brett Favre use it in a lockerroom speech just after the Vikes beat the Cowboys in the playoffs?

Sorry... I don't get it.

I don't get it either. To me, it is rather idiotic.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

A phrase coming from someone's audition on AMERICAN IDOL has gone viral, and is rapidly moving its way into our language. The phrase is:

PANTS ON THE GROUND

Would someone explain to me what this means? WHY has it gone viral? Why did Brett Favre use it in a lockerroom speech just after the Vikes beat the Cowboys in the playoffs?

Sorry... I don't get it.

Maybe this will help: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realit ... dol-smash/ Search for "Pants on the Ground" on Facebook for additional information including groups being formed in support of the idea behind the rap.

The rap song started out as a form of social commentary. The sentiment has been borrowed and reshaped for a variety of settings. The local TV station in WS presented this video from NBC which shows the widespread interest in and application of this little ditty. http://www.wxii12.com/video/22352241/index.html