You Guys, The Ellen Page "Don't Stop Believin'" Video Is Supposed To Be Terrible
Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat (Maeby), and Har Mar Superstar made this video where they sing off-key to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," and everybody's FREAKING OUT because it's so bad, but don't you guys see: it's SUPPOSED to be bad. Any old shy person can do a lip dub, but to actually try to sing this apparently difficult song is to not only brave, but it's supposed to jerk us out of our comfortable Ikea existences with its inherent tension and excruciating pain. This video is like Fight Club for our ears:
(Via Vulture.) Now's the time to inappropriately mention that one of my friends made out with Har Mar Superstar in 2002 and still totally blames it on 9/11. TRUE STORY.
Posted by Lindsay at 10:30 AM in Music Related Content
Tags: Alia Shawkat | Don't Stop Believin' | Ellen Page | Har Mar Superstar | Journey | Whip It!
Was Gabe the friend?
I like this MUCH better than those stupid Miranda Sings videos. People feel the need to constantly send them to me, and they're not funny. This is actually good.
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gabe was TOTALLY THE FRIEND . . .
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Is it only me that finds this particular confluence of people particularly unsettling?
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Alia disappeared half way through that. i need more Alia.
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I agree, why have Maeby and not use her?Even thought I did like this, sorry Ellen Page, this doesn't get you off the hook for Juno or Smart People.
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Their teeth...too nice to be in a video like this. It looks all wrong.
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I get it now! I don't have to waste my life being owned by my possessions! I too can take the midnight train anywhere!
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Alia LOVE. That is all.
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george michael prob bought this for maeby's (wedding) ringtone
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Love the avatar
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haha thanks, and i do believe Henry told Ron "Dont Stop Believing"
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Ellen Page can do way more press-ups than me.
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I love this video. My opinion is totally skewed though because I love anything related to Ellen Page (even X-Men 3).
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I feel like I'm the only person who liked X-Men 3. It was an adequate conclusion to a trilogy--the fact that Gene Grey and Logan's powers ended up being antitheses to each other was a great way to end their whole unrequited mutant love triangle thing. And all the comic book nerds were like "Boo! That's not what the Phoenix Saga is supposed to be like!" and all the normal people were like "Boo! I'm not nerdy enough for this!" It was a competent ending!
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I liked it, too, and I get a never-ending stream of flak from my friends about it.
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whoa.
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If by "competent" you mean all over the fucking place, then yes, you would be correct.
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Did you intentionally misspell Jean Grey to further piss us off?
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Secret Glee fans?
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I frowned the whole time. That being said, I did watch the whole thing. Fuck my life.
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Maeby is gorgeous.
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it would explain a lot if it was revealed that ellen page took this angle to all of her work.
"no, juno is a pile of crap, i know! THAT'S THE JOKE!"
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I was always kind of sad that I never saw Alia Shawkat in anything outside of Arrested Development, but then this video reminded me that she apparently played The Oracle in The Matrix. (More like The Matryikes)
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she's the baby with broken arms in Three Kings. I dunno, it was on AMC like, twelve times last week, maybe you saw her then?
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My brain! Stupid hipster comedians think they're too cool to use a tripod!
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God have you seen the movie Pieces of April? That movie made me so fucking mad. It was an indie movie that was too indie to use a tripod but not too indie to give Jack from Will and Grace a completely unnecessary role just to show off that they 'could get him' or something.
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Is it just me or does it look like Alia has been crying?
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That was pretty funny. But that video led me to the website ellenpage.org and I am disturbed.
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WHOA MY IRONICOMETER IS OFF THE CHARTS!
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This video would be cooler if it starred Ellen Feiss instead.
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Har Mar Superstar is trying to steal The Critic from John Lovitz.
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This gets and EFFORT for effort.
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How could anybody not know that this is a joke? She has her "acting!" face on.
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They're not singing off-key. They are off-beat and often off-pitch, but it's in the right key.
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I meh this song, in an ironic way, in an unironic way, in every way possible. I can't even bring myself to hate it.
Can we get some Afternoon Delight instead?
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Alia & Har Mar also teamed up for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4IFA3ynkU
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I agree with Lindsay. Bad on Purpose isn't ironic. I'm not actually sure what irony is, but it has something to do with making sarcastic comments (AKA snarks!), and/or something bad happening when you feel something good happening would be so much more appropriate (i.e. precipitation during nuptials, see A. Morissette.) If you make something you meant to be good, and it turns out to be really, really bad, and people like it BECAUSE it's bad, well I don't know if it's irony, but it gets me paid and laid, ya know what I mean? Thanks, Lindsay, you were incredible.
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No, Tommy, irpny is like when you're a kid and your grandma shows you pictures of kitties sitting on toilets, or cats dressed up in "cute' hats or outfitis, saying how "cunnin'" thery are -- she's vaguely southern and always droppin' her g's, and you think, "Wow. even if I do get old I'll never be so braindead I think pictures of cats doing human things are in ANY way funny or charming, and then you grow up and they invent the internet and you spend all your time watching keyboard cat and LOLcats and wait a minute that's not the same thing because I'm not even old, and they ARE cute and charming and Funny, and so what I'm not doing anything with my life and I don't have a real relationship, and I KNOW he's just using me for sex, mom, and I live in a cultural mecca but only ever go to movies they show in cineplexes in any old suburbia and watch garbage tv and youtube but that just show's how smart and funny and in touch with current events and trends I am right? right? shit. assholes!
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I don't believe you're the same tommy wiseau who made The Room. The real tommy wiseau couldn't be so self aware.
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Yeah, but even if it's supposed to bad, it's supposed to entertaining and clearly a lot of people don't "Get It" because it's not funny. It's just terrible.
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Wow, when Ellen Page is being intentionally bad she's actually kind of charming. But when she's trying to be good, she's really irritating and I want to punch her in the nose.
Ellen Page is a Zen koan.
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lol at sexy pushupers and people hiding behind other people
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I won't stop believing that Har Mar Superstar was the best concert I've ever been to. Arrested for public lewdness! He's the shit!
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"That's what she said" : jokes :: "Don't Stop Believin" : music
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Here's another video of Har Mar & Alia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4IFA3ynkU
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i like that ellen page has the same shitty taste in living room decor that everyone has when they're 20.
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Wow, Ellen Page has NO tits.
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Marry me!
(seriously, Alia. Marry me.)
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I like the Alia love. She's such a cutie.
And I even like Ellen too.
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I guess I get that the video is supposed to be terrible, but off tempo? No, that's not intentional. That's just lame.
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I guess I get that the video is supposed to be terrible, but off tempo? No, that's not intentional. That's just lame.
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i love all the parts with maebe and hate all the parts with juno and am indifferent to all the parts with the dude,
i don't have any preconceived notions or biases about these people though
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i feel like i missed something...
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i banged ellen page and totally blame it on her being wasted and thinking i was in Man Man
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The video was hilarious. Both Ellen and Alia sing better than that....so obviously this was intended to be bad. I bet there is some inside joke between Ellen and her Mom that they share that no one here will figure out
Ellen Page rocks, and Alia rocks, too. Can't understand the hate for Ellen on here...I guess the Hannah Montana/High School Musical crowd isnt gonna like her....the "All Cheese and no Macaroni" crowd" Can't wait for their movie (Whip It) to come out later in the fall
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