October 16, 2008
Music Videos with Literal Lyrics - I don't know why this is funny. But it is: Take On Me - Head Over Heels.
weak. sauce.
None of the others in that YouTube search had the conceit right -- leave the video and music alone, but sing new lyrics rewritten to describe the literal events of the music video -- not "Two people carrying a space heater and wearing 15 layers of clothes" over Mims' This is Why I'm Hot.
The Streets Have No Name and Strawberry Fields Forever ones did.
But yes, most of them were pretty lame.
Someone took up the gauntlet and made Literal Eclipse of the Heart -- and it's certainly the best of the lot, with a killer barrage of pop-culture references starting at the 1/3 mark.
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WFMU correctly points out that Total Eclipse of the Heart needs to be next on the menu.
I'll confess I didn't make it all the way through Princess_ck84's epic deconstruction of the video, but it's a hermeneutic triumph.
posted by mrflip at 04:59AM CST on October 22