Apparently there is a whole world on youtube of cartoon characters lipsyncing to pop songs, mostly "Crank That."
Soulja Boy Pooh
If you watch just one, watch this one, and watch it until the part with Eeyore.
Dora the Explorer ( Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Soulja Boy Fox and the Hound
Simba's Gonna Buy U Drank
Spongebob sings Don't Cha by the Pussycat Dolls!
(my favorite part is in the description: "Another classic by moi!")
Spongebob sings Just Lose It by Eminem
Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob
The Lion King - Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Youtube videos presented without comment
Chris Brown Feat. Britney Spears - Forever ("Official" Remix)
Akon Calls T-Pain
Fox And The Hound- T.Pain and Akon parody
T-Pain Loves Butternut Reduction
Akon Calls T-Pain
Fox And The Hound- T.Pain and Akon parody
T-Pain Loves Butternut Reduction
more mashups
I made these two mashups earlier this week. They both consist of songs I just discovered mashed up with a song they remind me of.
1 - "Click" by Ciara vs. "Glamorous" by Fergie
"Click" just leaked to the internet this week. I don't know for sure, but I think it was produced by Polow Da Don. I know (from Wikipedia) that Ciara has been working with him on her next album. It sounds a lot like Polow to me, particularly "Glamorous." It has the same hand-clap as "Glamorous" in parts, and it has the swirly, layered prettiness that "Glamorous" and other Polow songs, like "Forever," have. I think of "Click" as being something of a sequel to "Glamorous." It sounds like it and has somewhat similar subject matter. I think I might even like "Click" better, because I like Ciara so much more than Fergie, and instead of bringing in Ludacris or another male rapper for the rapped verse, Ciara just does it herself. The one thing about "Click" that reduces the pleasure I get out of it is that it's in the Sex and the City movie. In the mashup, "Click" stands out over "Glamorous" to me. I've already received a bunch of comments on the mashup, two of which say that "Click" is better. I'm interested in the idea of the "vs." in mashup songs being quite literal - it's a fight between the two songs to which is better.
2 - "Be Careful" by Sparkle vs. "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." by Changing Faces
Both of these songs are written and produced by R Kelly. He duets on "Be Careful," as well as a remix of "GHETTOUT" that I didn't use here. "GHETTOUT" is from 1997, "Be Careful" is from 1998. I really like R Kelly, and I really like both of these songs. I discovered "GHETTOUT" a few months ago and "Be Careful" earlier this week. I realized that, when I had been listening to "Be Careful," I got "GHETTOUT" stuck in my head, because of how similar the songs are. Even though they're kind of the same song, there is definitely room in my life for both of them. I like the mashup because it's actually pleasant to listen to.
When pulling up this video on youtube to post it here, I got distracted by the following:
GHETTOUT Chopped & Screwed
I don't know if it's common or not to chop & screw a slow jam, but I've never encountered it before. I think it's brilliant. The sidebar linked to this, which I also feel a need to link to:
Sensual Seduction Chopped & Screwed
1 - "Click" by Ciara vs. "Glamorous" by Fergie
"Click" just leaked to the internet this week. I don't know for sure, but I think it was produced by Polow Da Don. I know (from Wikipedia) that Ciara has been working with him on her next album. It sounds a lot like Polow to me, particularly "Glamorous." It has the same hand-clap as "Glamorous" in parts, and it has the swirly, layered prettiness that "Glamorous" and other Polow songs, like "Forever," have. I think of "Click" as being something of a sequel to "Glamorous." It sounds like it and has somewhat similar subject matter. I think I might even like "Click" better, because I like Ciara so much more than Fergie, and instead of bringing in Ludacris or another male rapper for the rapped verse, Ciara just does it herself. The one thing about "Click" that reduces the pleasure I get out of it is that it's in the Sex and the City movie. In the mashup, "Click" stands out over "Glamorous" to me. I've already received a bunch of comments on the mashup, two of which say that "Click" is better. I'm interested in the idea of the "vs." in mashup songs being quite literal - it's a fight between the two songs to which is better.
2 - "Be Careful" by Sparkle vs. "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." by Changing Faces
Both of these songs are written and produced by R Kelly. He duets on "Be Careful," as well as a remix of "GHETTOUT" that I didn't use here. "GHETTOUT" is from 1997, "Be Careful" is from 1998. I really like R Kelly, and I really like both of these songs. I discovered "GHETTOUT" a few months ago and "Be Careful" earlier this week. I realized that, when I had been listening to "Be Careful," I got "GHETTOUT" stuck in my head, because of how similar the songs are. Even though they're kind of the same song, there is definitely room in my life for both of them. I like the mashup because it's actually pleasant to listen to.
When pulling up this video on youtube to post it here, I got distracted by the following:
GHETTOUT Chopped & Screwed
I don't know if it's common or not to chop & screw a slow jam, but I've never encountered it before. I think it's brilliant. The sidebar linked to this, which I also feel a need to link to:
Sensual Seduction Chopped & Screwed
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Alice
A lot of my posts on this blog, particularly that involve mashups, have to do with taking things from culture and making something new out of them. Today, Videogum, a blog I recently started reading, posted this music video to a song made up of sounds from Alice in Wonderland.
I think this is an amazing and beautiful object made out of other cultural productions. Of course, this is in contrast to other things I've been making and collecting here, which are more about failure, which is why I wanted to post something that I find incredibly successful.
I think this is an amazing and beautiful object made out of other cultural productions. Of course, this is in contrast to other things I've been making and collecting here, which are more about failure, which is why I wanted to post something that I find incredibly successful.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Found Mashups
After reading the NYT article I linked to in my last post, I decided to look around on youtube at mashups made by other people. Here are some interesting videos I found:
The first is a mashup of "Call the Shots" by Girls Aloud and "Hole in the Head" by the Sugababes (not embeddable). This one is amazing to me because it's just like something I would make. The track is basically "Call the Shots" with the chorus of "Hole in the Head" layered over the chorus of "Call the Shots." I would have totally picked these two songs to stick together, too.
Abba vs 50 Cent - Queen of Da Club
I found this while specifically looking for something that would make 50 Cent sound really gay, but I never could have hoped to find something this good. Not only is "Dancing Queen" very feminine sounding and gay-ish in its associations, the implication is that 50 Cent himself, in the club, is a dancing queen. I love it.
Anticipating VS Runaway - Britney Spears & Avril Lavigne
I hate how this one sounds, but I love the video. Particularly, I love the interesting punctuation choices on the lyrics for "Anticipating." For example:
- I'll be "Anticipating!"
- You're feeling this right? Let's do this tonight?
With the latter, I never heard those as questions, it changes the meaning a lot. I have no idea what's going on in the former. Is she suddenly going to become the song "Anticipating," which she is currently singing? It's all very mysterious.
The same person also made this video: Lil' Kim vs. Nicole Scherzinger
I don't have much to say about it. I love Lil' Kim, and "Whatever You Like" by Nicole Scherzinger has one of my favorite beats, but somehow I'm underwhelmed. And there's no charming video!
Britney Spears' Gimme More/Madonna's Into the Groove Mashup
Okay, this is kind of amazing and also, to me, really difficult to watch. But it's a live mashup.
There's another one with Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music" and J Lo's "Waiting for Tonight:"
And last, not exactly a mashup, but I can't help but post it:
The first is a mashup of "Call the Shots" by Girls Aloud and "Hole in the Head" by the Sugababes (not embeddable). This one is amazing to me because it's just like something I would make. The track is basically "Call the Shots" with the chorus of "Hole in the Head" layered over the chorus of "Call the Shots." I would have totally picked these two songs to stick together, too.
Abba vs 50 Cent - Queen of Da Club
I found this while specifically looking for something that would make 50 Cent sound really gay, but I never could have hoped to find something this good. Not only is "Dancing Queen" very feminine sounding and gay-ish in its associations, the implication is that 50 Cent himself, in the club, is a dancing queen. I love it.
Anticipating VS Runaway - Britney Spears & Avril Lavigne
I hate how this one sounds, but I love the video. Particularly, I love the interesting punctuation choices on the lyrics for "Anticipating." For example:
- I'll be "Anticipating!"
- You're feeling this right? Let's do this tonight?
With the latter, I never heard those as questions, it changes the meaning a lot. I have no idea what's going on in the former. Is she suddenly going to become the song "Anticipating," which she is currently singing? It's all very mysterious.
The same person also made this video: Lil' Kim vs. Nicole Scherzinger
I don't have much to say about it. I love Lil' Kim, and "Whatever You Like" by Nicole Scherzinger has one of my favorite beats, but somehow I'm underwhelmed. And there's no charming video!
Britney Spears' Gimme More/Madonna's Into the Groove Mashup
Okay, this is kind of amazing and also, to me, really difficult to watch. But it's a live mashup.
There's another one with Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music" and J Lo's "Waiting for Tonight:"
And last, not exactly a mashup, but I can't help but post it:
NYT Article about youtube
Yesterday I came across this interesting New York Times article: Pixels at an Exhibition
It's gotten me to think a bit about youtube videos as an art form in their own right, rather than as a depository for other art (clips from TV, music videos, etc). My own mashups use slideshows in a way that I borrowed from common youtube practice, just as one example of youtube having its own forms. After reading this article, I spent a lot of time on youtube looking for mashups other people have made, and I got excited about the idea of youtube videos not being a way to view something else (a music video or a mashup) but being their own thing. I will work on a post about the videos I found this afternoon.
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