Wow, thank you for the lovely recs! And also for a few vids that I haven't seen yet - I'll totally check them out soon. In the meantime, I DID check out the Ponies vid, even though I don't even watch that show (except when chaila43 makes me!) and it's HILARIOUS and just complete loooove.
eta: Oh, also, the Friday vid you link on YouTube, I think I can explain the pop culture joke, just because it makes the vid even more brilliant, funny and creepy. Basically the song, "Friday" that starts playing before the remix with the crazy scary industrial sounds interrupts it, was a viral YouTube phenomenon for being "the worst song ever". It's a poor attempt to create yet another young teen star with bad autotuning by a cheesy media company, or somesuch. Anyway, the song itself features lyrical gems like, "Yesterday was Thursday, tomorrow's Saturday and the day after that is Sunday," and the eternal, question, which seat of the car should you choose after narrating your own trip out of the house (including toothbrushing and cereal). Of course its viral nature had the effect of rocketing it to fame at which point you get people who like it and a bajillion people remixing it in various ways, like this one, with the industrial twist which seems to be internally commenting on the awfulness of the song itself by ripping it apart with sound at creepy intervals (okay I think it might actually just be the dubstep style, but it certainly works on that level too).
So like, the vid is crack and commentary on that level also - it's this cheesy awful would-be pop hit ripped apart by creepy external alien audio forces, kind of like how the world seems safe, cheesy and happy but actually there are deeply disturbing things going on and it's being ripped apart by the Silence. The memory gaps of the Silence mirror the freaky echoey and misplaced sounds that interrupt the original track in the remix.
...I've now used Rebecca Black's Friday in a piece of metacommentary on a vid. I feel...dirty. ;) /eta.
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Date: 13 May 2011 08:41 pm (UTC)eta: Oh, also, the Friday vid you link on YouTube, I think I can explain the pop culture joke, just because it makes the vid even more brilliant, funny and creepy. Basically the song, "Friday" that starts playing before the remix with the crazy scary industrial sounds interrupts it, was a viral YouTube phenomenon for being "the worst song ever". It's a poor attempt to create yet another young teen star with bad autotuning by a cheesy media company, or somesuch. Anyway, the song itself features lyrical gems like, "Yesterday was Thursday, tomorrow's Saturday and the day after that is Sunday," and the eternal, question, which seat of the car should you choose after narrating your own trip out of the house (including toothbrushing and cereal). Of course its viral nature had the effect of rocketing it to fame at which point you get people who like it and a bajillion people remixing it in various ways, like this one, with the industrial twist which seems to be internally commenting on the awfulness of the song itself by ripping it apart with sound at creepy intervals (okay I think it might actually just be the dubstep style, but it certainly works on that level too).
So like, the vid is crack and commentary on that level also - it's this cheesy awful would-be pop hit ripped apart by creepy external alien audio forces, kind of like how the world seems safe, cheesy and happy but actually there are deeply disturbing things going on and it's being ripped apart by the Silence. The memory gaps of the Silence mirror the freaky echoey and misplaced sounds that interrupt the original track in the remix.
...I've now used Rebecca Black's Friday in a piece of metacommentary on a vid. I feel...dirty. ;) /eta.