Critical Reception and Parodies
Despite its pop success, the song was criticized for both sampling Wonder's song and for its incongruity with the western for which it serves as the theme. It won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst "Original" Song of 1999. (Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio later ranked the song at #27 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever while telling Will Smith in spirit, "Look, make your dumb 'robots in the Wild West' film, get millions, God bless. Just leave Stevie Wonder alone!") An "unreleased" remix of this song, said to be remixed by Jason Nevins, is available through file-sharing programs. In the South Park episode "Cat Orgy", Eric Cartman sings a parody of "Wild Wild West".
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