"Man I Used to Be" is a song by Canadian alternative rapper
k-os. It was released in January 2005 as the third single from his 2004 album ''
Joyful Rebellion
''Joyful Rebellion'' is the second album of alternative hip hop artist k-os. It was released 13 August 2004 in Canada by EMI and 21 September 2004 in the United States by Virgin Records. It debuted at number 7 on the Canadian Albums Chart, and w ...
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Content
The song tells the story of a man who has gone through rough times and wishes to be back the way he was originally. According to the ''Joyful Rebellion'' liner notes, the song is indeed about Michael Jackson in particular, as well as k-os himself (and people in general).
Music video
The video, directed by
Micah Meisner Micah Meisner is a former music video director who has won two Juno Awards on four nominations for his video work.
Meisner and k-os were nominated for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2003, 2003 Juno Awards for "Superstarr Pt. Zero".
Along ...
, begins with break dancers in the hallway of an apartment building and K-os is in his room packing to leave, taking a box of seemingly great importance. k-os hails a taxi outside of the
Hotel Waverly and two men fight a duel by dancing on the sidewalk. A bag man, pushing a cart with a neon light, sings the lyrics, and k-os riding in the taxi, disappears by opening his box, which teleports him to the cockpit of a spacecraft in space. Footage of
Maasai Maasai may refer to:
*Maasai people
*Maasai language
*Maasai mythology
* MAASAI (band)
See also
* Masai (disambiguation)
Masai may refer to:
*Masai, Johor, a town in Malaysia
* Masai Plateau, a plateau in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
*Maasai peopl ...
is seen on k-os's screen and the spacecraft enters warp drive.
Charts
References
2004 songs
2005 singles
EMI Records singles
K-os songs
Songs about Michael Jackson
Songs about nostalgia
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