Comments on: The Internet: The Music Video

The Internet: The Music Video

dgaicun — Sat, 10 May 2014 06:51:29 -0800

So this new music video called 'Tip Tip', by KIDS N CATS, looks like it was shamelessly engineered to go viral on the Internet. I WILL HELP THEM.

By: dismas

dismas — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:11:23 -0800

Welp, that's certainly a thing.

By: surplus

surplus — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:12:03 -0800

Needs more memes.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:27:46 -0800

More cats, less beards. Also, the cats should drop the kids and get more cats.

By: katrielalex

katrielalex — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:38:45 -0800

WELLLLLLL that was weird.

By: So You're Saying These Are Pants?

So You're Saying These Are Pants? — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:42:39 -0800

I've seen some strange stuff. And that was quite possibly the strangest of all.

By: So You're Saying These Are Pants?

So You're Saying These Are Pants? — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:43:44 -0800

I will lick a dirty lollipop if that video gets viral momentum.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:59:56 -0800

I've seen some strange stuff and that was sure trying hard to be that.

By: sixohsix

sixohsix — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:00:26 -0800

Despite how it was designed and engineered for virality, I found the songwriting pretty clumsy, and the video so-so. You can't make ironically good things with the spirit of irony. You really have to believe in yourself wholeheartedly to make good art/work, even if the work is supposed to be silly. 4.6/10

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:07:30 -0800

It looks and feels like one of those mildly disturbing but in the end annoyingly tedious dreams you get when you ate too much before hitting the bed.

By: ReeMonster

ReeMonster — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:07:35 -0800

When hipsters get old.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:08:19 -0800

It comes across to me as trying a little too hard. Some nice individual bits, though

By: thivaia

thivaia — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:39:54 -0800

Is this satire?

By: thivaia

thivaia — Sat, 10 May 2014 08:40:22 -0800

I ask honestly.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Sat, 10 May 2014 09:07:27 -0800

You can't make ironically good things with the spirit of irony. yes. it felt, ironically, like the work of Artists. I didn't even make it to the cats. This on the other hand ...

By: angrycat

angrycat — Sat, 10 May 2014 09:09:55 -0800

i did like the goggly-eye butt cheeks, though, in terms of random WTF imagery

By: achrise

achrise — Sat, 10 May 2014 09:13:53 -0800

Is 4 minutes too long for viral? It seemed twice as long as it needed to be to get in what it had.

By: Bruce H.

Bruce H. — Sat, 10 May 2014 09:51:59 -0800

DO NOT WANT

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:01:25 -0800

This video is, like, art!

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:17:17 -0800

Japan think you're trying too hard.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:24:05 -0800

"Japan think you're trying too hard." Fuck yeah! More please. I love this batshit Tim & Eric 4chan netpunk aesthetic.

By: LMGM

LMGM — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:26:41 -0800

I was just coming in here to post a link to Kyary Pamyu. Beat me to it, chrominance!

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:32:24 -0800

She's so great! Though I don't like her music as much as some of the other projects her producer works on. The Tim & Eric thing wasn't a one-off, either, though the aesthetic has evolved over the years. I have no idea what this video has to do with family parties. If you can't be bothered to watch her two albums' worth of music videos, this video for her high-school-graduation song is a lovely recap of her career. (It's better if you realize that the polar bear is supposed to be her dad.)

By: prinado

prinado — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:49:41 -0800

At least she's not riding a wrecking ball in the buff in this one.

By: maryr

maryr — Sat, 10 May 2014 10:51:03 -0800

More butts than eye expected.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Sat, 10 May 2014 11:17:08 -0800

dgaicun: "This video is, like, art!" Hypnobutt.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Sat, 10 May 2014 11:27:45 -0800

I need to show this video to an acquaintance who has a slime fetish due to Double Dare and see what she thinks. It really felt like it was trying to trigger fetishes I don't have.

By: Debaser626

Debaser626 — Sat, 10 May 2014 12:04:26 -0800

I didn't much care for this video. Visually cool, but the song grates. But... I know my opinion means nothing. What I REALLY want to know is what does the fox say?

By: bigendian

bigendian — Sat, 10 May 2014 14:16:48 -0800

I was just coming in here to post a link to Kyary Pamyu. Beat me to it, chrominance! Sorry for the derail but: The thing with Kyary's music videos is that after a while they somehow start to make sense (as in: cute colorful multi-layered visualizations juxtapositioned with very mild "horror elements" set to upbeat music (basically the blueprint to the whole Kyary catalogue) or recently even some slight melancholic undertones (the last three Kyary singles and parts of her latest album, IMO)). It's all very "wild" and "over the top" but it feels like a cohesive universe to me. The above video on the other hand just comes off as being weird for the sake of weirdness to me. (But maybe it's unfair to judge something you've watched twice now versus something you've kept around as your favorite go-to tool for escapism for two years.)

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 10 May 2014 14:16:56 -0800

Here's a hip hop video that uses this kind of aesthetic. Some of my favorite blogs on tumblr post these kinds of images, evoking terrible early 90s Internet design, but amped up into hyper-ridiculousness. Wikipedia calls it seapunk. I just dubbed it netpunk (which I think is more accurate). Frankly, calling every new fashion and design subculture a kind of "punk" is fucking lazy. From now on I'll call it netcamp, since it's much more a celebration of retro Internet cheesiness than "punk"

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 10 May 2014 14:54:33 -0800

Here's Rihanna rockin' some netcamp on SNL. What I appreciate more about the kids n cats video is the heavy incorporation of actual weird shitty animated gifs.

By: happyroach

happyroach — Sat, 10 May 2014 15:58:33 -0800

So. Uh, yeah. Um. So hey, how about them Dodgers, eh?

By: NoraReed

NoraReed — Sat, 10 May 2014 16:35:56 -0800

So that's where those gifs were coming from.

By: harrietthespy

harrietthespy — Sat, 10 May 2014 18:39:43 -0800

You will help them go viral? But why?? That was awful.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sun, 11 May 2014 01:12:17 -0800

Netcamp aesthetic from Tim & Eric. I love their visual vocabulary, which also mines cable access and corporate videotoaster terribleness. Bob Odenkirk (their producer), I imagine, had a lot to do with that style being used in those Breaking Bad commercials for Saul Goodman.

By: Monkey0nCrack

Monkey0nCrack — Mon, 12 May 2014 16:14:10 -0800

Someone entered the mind of Ann Coulter and hit the record button whilst she was thinking about liberals. Behold the resulting film.