Cobrastyle

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"Cobrastyle"
Single by Teddybears featuring Mad Cobra
from the album Fresh
Released 2004
Format CD/EP
Genre Alternative rock
Length 02:59
Teddybears featuring Mad Cobra singles chronology
"Yours to Keep
(2004)		 "Cobrastyle"
(2004)		 "Hey Boy"
(?)

"Cobrastyle" is a single performed by Teddybears featuring Mad Cobra. Cobrastyle uses the piano riff from "Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals, and uses elements from Erick Sermon's "Bomdigi" and Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight". It also features a prominent musical line, reminiscent of The 5.6.7.8's cover of the Ikette's song I'm Blue. Mad Cobra performs the same rap as on his own song "Press Trigger", released in 2001.

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[edit] Music video

The video for Cobrastyle is available on YouTube.[citation needed] It has the singer near the mountains, the band playing somewhere else in the mountains, two robots come out of the mountain, they end up attacking each other.

[edit] Track listing

  • "Cobrastyle"
  • "One, Two, Three, Four"

[edit] Charts

Chart (2004) Peak position
Swedish Singles Chart 10 (16 weeks)

[edit] Robyn version

"Cobrastyle"
Single by Robyn
from the album The Rakamonie EP & Robyn
Released August, 2008
Format CD
Genre Electronica
Robyn singles chronology
"With Every Heartbeat
(2007)		 "Cobrastyle"
(2008)		 "Dream On"
(2008)

The track was also covered by Robyn on her 2006 EP The Rakamonie EP, and is also featured on the international edition of her self-titled album Robyn. Her cover was number 61 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[1]

[edit] Music video

A home-made live video for Robyn's version was uploaded onto Youtube on December 12, 2006 and has been viewed 123,007 times. An audio-only version was uploaded on July 29, 2007 and has been viewed 618,785 times. A "viral video" was created in April 2008 and features people playing strip poker, among them Perez Hilton. An official video was released on October 10, 2008. It involves Robyn and the band dressed in white with a white background, playing with paint whilst performing.

[edit] Charts

Robyn's version entered the Swedish Singles Chart at number 18 on August 14, 2008 at peaked the following week at number 17.

Chart (2008) Peak
position[2]
Swedish Singles Chart 17
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[3] 7

[edit] In the media

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2009-01-12
  2. ^ "Robyn and Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat Billboard Charts". Billboard.com Retrieved May 5, 2008.
  3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Hot+Dance+Club+Play

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