NSFW "Running to the Edge of the World" video, you guys:
Yuck. This video is terrible! It's like it was created by a focus group tasked with determining what anti-social 15-year-olds from broken homes who like 50-year-old men and nightmares want.
Although, maybe I'm watching it wrong? Like you know how it's unfair to judge the trailers for James Cameron's Avatar too harshly after watching them on a Quicktime window on your computer monitor when the film is intended to be watched in anamorphic 3D on IMAX? Maybe we shouldn't judge this video too harshly until we've seen it through the window of our Time Machine on the way back to late 1997, the day before Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" video first aired, when this might have seemed even slightly shocking and not just the obnoxious work of an aging asshole who's run out of ideas.
A couple of weeks ago, we all enjoyed the video for Bangs's "Take U 2 Da Movies," and since then it has gone on to become a Genuine Internet Sensation. Everyone loves Bangs's gentle lyrics about buying popcorn, not to mention his tight flow. (Take notes, Chamillionaire.) He's our generation's Eli Porter! Now, an Australian news site has an interview with the Best Rapper on the Internet. From Channel 9:
A 19-year-old Melbourne rapper says he "feels amazing" after his song "Take U 2 Da Movies" -- an ode to cinema dates and popcorn -- became a global internet sensation.
The music clip has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube since it was featured on popular viral video websites this week.
Ajak Chol, aka Bangs, told ninemsn he has been offered several record deals with major labels in Australia and the US since his career skyrocketed.
"It's crazy. First there were 30 or 40 views. Now it's getting more and more every day," Bangs said.
"Hip hop is in my heart and soul, I'm so happy."
Yessssss! It's the feel good story of the morning! You the best for this one, Bangs. But there is more than just joy in Bangs's heart, there is also some words for the haters:
Weezer have made their own Weezer-brand Snuggie. It is real. You can buy it. They even made a commercial (after the jump), which is very similar to the original Snuggie commercial that became an Internet Sensation a year ago. Fair enough. Weezer gets to do whatever they want, this is America. But this would have been a lot funnier a year ago. I'm happy for anyone making Snuggie jokes at this point, and I'mma let them finish, but making Borat jokes is the best outdated, overused pop culture reference of all time. Get it? You get it. [Borat voice:] Success! Seriously, though, what happened? Did Weezer's Internet go out for a year and they're just catching up? "Hold on, guys, I'm going to call Time Warner just as soon as I finish sleeping with these teenage, Japanese groupies." That is what Rivers Cuomo says.
You know who probably still thinks that Snuggie jokes are funny and topical? Dads. Which I guess makes sense. How old are these guys anyways? I'm in my late-to-very-late '60s and I'm pretty sure I've seen these guys cutting me in line at the Sizzler buffet to take advantage of the Early Bird Special. What a bunch of dads.
As we learned this morning, it's far too easy to criticize people for the wrong reasons. Sure, someone's love for a particular stand-up comedian's racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and anti-semitic ventriloquism routine might be depressing and signal a dangerous strain of aggressive and proud ignorance in this country, but it is dismissive and counter-productive to criticize that person for being "not thin." At the end of the day, people are just trying to find a connection and feel less alone in the world. That's all it is. Now if their attempt at creating a meaningful and supportive community is centered on the belief system that people who are different from them should be feared and ridiculed (via puppets, or not via puppets, either way), then perhaps their community isn't very worthwhile, and perhaps we all need to work harder to provide them with a meaningful and less-disgustingly-hate-based alternative. Say, a local choir (again, with puppets or without puppets) for example.
But certainly you wouldn't criticize a guy with plugs in his ears who hangs out in his basement on laundry day recording "audition" tapes for death metal bands?
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