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The line between art and satire has been further blurred. Earlier this week T-Pain featured the popular Saturday Night Live spoof song “On a Boat” in concert. “Poseidon, look at meee!” an inter-tubed T-Pain pleaded to the Greek God of the Sea.

The crowd even knew the vocoded lyrics by heart. At the the end of his solo, the Nappy Boy offered them an assist by starting “Believe me when I say…” to which the audience ecstatically finished, “I fucked a mermaid-eeaid-eeaid!”

The Lonely Island, the comedic trio behind SNL‘s Digital Shorts, have penned other online hits as well, such as “Dick in a Box,” “Jizz in My Pants” and “Like a Boss.” Their music, featured on their underappreciated debut album Incredibad, has ushered SNL into the digital age and is actually better than a lot of the music it pokes fun at.

Funny as it is to admit, “On a Boat” is an undeniable hit record—one that T-Pain should regularly work into his auto-tuned routine.

-Lukas Brekke-Miesner

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