There were a lot of birthday shout-outs tonight. I always subtract 9 months to figure out when people were conceived (even though it’s more like 38 weeks). So, it looks like there are a lot of St. Patrick’s Day babies today. Whenever there are a lot of birthdays, the 9-month thing always correlates to a significant holiday, i.e. first week of September (New Year’s), middle of November (Valentine’s Day), so it’s scientific enough for me.

Somehow, In Da Club by 50 Cent has become “the birthday song.” It’s a song about getting drunk in the club and starting fights and doing ecstasy and getting shot, but because he says “It’s your birthday” a couple of times, it has apparently become an appropriate song with which to celebrate your birthday. Maybe I’m kinda lame, but I don’t quite roll that way on my birthdays, and I doubt most of the people requesting In Da Club as a birthday song do either, especially when they call it the “50 Cent It’s Your Birthday Song.”

And to be technical, he says party like it’s your birthday and suggests that it doesn’t matter that it’s not your birthday. Excuse the semantics, but this particular request drives me bonkers and makes me want to hit somebody upside the head with a bottle of champagne.

Here’s the edited song/video.