Possibly one of the last cassingles you can claim to be in the collection, Wild Wild West was released in 1999. Will Smith has this way of taking other people's songs that were hits, and convincing people that maybe he was the one who came up with it, and those old ones didn't exist at all...
In this case, you may be unawares of the Stevie Wonder tune "I Wish" and the Kool Mo Dee tune "Wild Wild West" that were... let's say... a slight influence on this song. OK, Fine. If you heard the Stevie Wonder tune, you would start singing Wild Wild West because it is straight up the same. Mostly:
As an added bonus, I included the Will Smith video below. Before you go, I'll tell you the tale of the time I was teaching this discussion section of a course at MSU and the class had to write a paper together. To do so, they used the Wiki technology to form one cohesive paper. They were not really amused when I had to make a PowerPoint slide to ask how it was going, and the slide was titled "Wiki Wiki Wild Wild West" and had a picture of Will Smith on it. Come on guys, that was pretty funny.
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