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It Is Very Epic
Like most hip-hop, lyrics probably aren’t that work safe.
(If you’re confused by pop culture references, the original:)
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Like most hip-hop, lyrics probably aren’t that work safe.
(If you’re confused by pop culture references, the original:)
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about 10 months ago
At times, parody would seem to surpass the original.
about 10 months ago
I saw it before. And it REALLY isn’t work safe. That said, is well done and sticky. Although I’m not surprised that people can do an entire video about mounts, they are status symbols in WoW, just like cars and boats are in the real world.
That said, my answer to all the discussion that is going to happen: WoW is what it is, is good for them, not good for everybody else. And yes, I consider that discussion threads can be predictable after a while.
about 10 months ago
Embedding disabled by request… weaksauce
about 10 months ago
YouTube: Where corporate whining on the Internet appears to work….until the video is resubbed 5 minutes later.
about 10 months ago
You mean that this song “I’m on a Boat” hasn’t died yet? I’m not sure I can endorse this much profanity on the ground that it’s meant to be a parody of hip-hop. In the end, no matter how many degrees of profundity you want to pretend exist in what you’re doing, you’re still committing the same crime as what you’re denouncing. No wonder I’m gradually tuning out of American pop culture.
And now we get a parody of a parody. Nice, real nice.
about 10 months ago
@Vetarnias – what crime was being committed and how are they denouncing it? how does this support your gradually tuning out pop culture?
about 10 months ago
Proof that MMO subscribers will beat anything into the ground and laugh at the most unfunny garbage as long as it features WoW characters. It’s not revolutionary or cutting-edge anymore; it’s just boring and bad.
about 10 months ago
@JustStop
That can be said of hip-hop in general, but is still good for dancing.
about 10 months ago
@argyle
I remember reading that the guys who recorded “I’m on a Boat” just wanted to tackle the excess of profanity in hip-hop. And naturally, the best way to do this was to have even more “f-ck”, “sh-t” and “motherf-cker” than what hip-hop did.
And that was why I was saying about tuning out of this kind of stuff. Parodies that just reinforce the original.
And I also agree with JustStop. Not particularly funny in the WoW cover, little to connect it to the Boat song. To me, they just seemed to have started from “I’ve got a murloc”, found it so funny that they built the rest of the song to accompany it. The song is well-made, though.
about 10 months ago
The guys from Lonely Island (I’m on a Boat, Jizz in My Pants, etc) are actually pretty avid hip-hop fans who are able to contextualize the white suburban hip-hop ethos because they’re creative and funny. The guys that came up with this garbage are a bunch of carbon copiers who probably laughed themselves silly on a Ventrilo channel over a pretty pedestrian idea, and thought that it would be worth showing it to the rest of the socially inept shut-ins who are eager to create their own memes.
There is nothing new under the sun.
about 10 months ago
I have another video for Vetarnias:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM
about 10 months ago
@Athryn
Why do people always assume I’m one of those Christian Right guys who just want to go back to the gosh darn golly era?
Carlin was notorious for this sort of thing, but I’m welcoming it, actually, and I would cringe if I heard it with bleeps on television. Just as I cringed when I heard our public network (the CBC) discussing this year’s Polaris Music Prize and carefully avoid giving out the winning band’s name (“Fucked Up”) because “we can’t say the name on television”. I had to look it up on the web to find out.
I’m not sure it’s a wise thing to call your band such, or to call a film “Young People Fucking” just for the sake of making a point against government censorship under the Conservatives (even Roger Ebert said it just made the film sound cheaper than it was); but when it’s done, it’s done, and you acknowledge it and live with that. No matter if you can or can’t say it on TV.
But hip-hop, there’s an art form which built itself around profanity. It’s like standup comedians at their most gratuitous (Carlin, on the other hand, genuinely did it to break taboos) and just give you the prefabricated excuse that it aims at a greater truth by offending people; but any person dishing out verbal abuse could also claim that. But hip-hop can’t even make such a claim; they use those words for rhythm, it glorifies them instead of making any point about censorship or restrictive social mores (like gangsta rap, subgenre of same, with its bling, guns and whores).
about 10 months ago
“But hip-hop, there’s an art form which built itself around profanity.”
Really?
“Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing.” (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music )
That sounds more accurate.
It’s OK if you don’t like hip hop music. Or even hip hop musicians. But I wouldn’t be so dismissive of an entire music genre, based on what I am guessing is only a few examples and personal preference.
about 10 months ago
That’s a pretty myopic view of hip-hop, Vetarnias. That’s like saying “country music is built around whiny drunk rednecks lamenting that they beat their wives until they left them.”
Hip-hop is as multi-faceted as any other genre, if not moreso. Unfortunately, the most popular hip-hop artists tend to be the most homogenized and extreme (just as the most popular country artists tend to be the most jingoistic and ignorant).
That being said, this video still sucks.
about 10 months ago
The issue with hip-hop is that is difficult find songs that aren’t the same shit over and over again. Like artists that did try to make a difference, like Eminem before he became a whiny bitch. Your wife divorced you, you didn’t get custody (like many other guys), we get it. You don’t have to do a million songs about it.
And almost all the other guys just sing about how awesome they are, how many money they expend in accesories and how many chicks they screw.
@JustStop
Wives don’t dump guys that hit them until they get to the hospital and her family tells to guy to fuck off or he risk getting his ass kicked and/or going to jail. At least not wives that were atracted to dangerous men in the first place.
And I like the original video, at least. They try to be funny. And they are.
about 10 months ago
Wait – there were popular songs from the late 90s, early 00s that aren’t a bunch of whining?
I do play too many games.
about 10 months ago
Over the last couple of weeks I have been contemplating a return to WoW. Then I saw this video. Thanks for reminding me again why I never, ever want to go back there.
about 10 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jbSjX4sJRI is better.
about 10 months ago
The original was a parody of the bragging and status symbols in hip hop.
The WoW video seems to be a genuine celebration of the mount.
Also, singing the word “motherfucker” as background harmony is pretty funny.
about 10 months ago
Which is why it’s particularly annoying. It’s made by people who don’t understand what the original set out to do, or what it parodies.
It’s like my earlier caveat in this thread: committing an act (say, profanity) in an attempt to denounce it isn’t a stellar idea. Why? Because you get people like the WoW video copycats who don’t understand the parody aspect of it, much less whatever denunciation there is, and just take it at face value.
It’s why I’ve always been wary of parodies that are too perfect…
about 10 months ago
There’s actually an interesting parallel going on.
World of Warcraft flaunts casual-focus of the early game that actually misses the point of MMORPGs (which are more about getting the individual invested in a virtual environment) but the game works because it eventually transitions into the very thing it pretends not to be.
The World of Warcraft “I’m On A Mount” parody of “I’m On A Boat” missed the point of the “I’m On A Boat” song, but it nonetheless works because it eventually transitions into being a similarly ridiculous flaunting of useless material possessions.
Even a shallow puddle can seem deep from the right perspective.
about 10 months ago
Can you really say “flaunts casual-focus” about WoW’s early part? Going through that stage, I felt there was a certain ambivalence on the part of the developers: plenty of quests, and enough opportunities for exploration. I would call it neither particularly casual nor hardcore.
But you’re right, it changes later on. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment, but it might be easier to do that on a PvP server: it might be when you enter one of the contested zones (low twenties). Though the switch took place by the time you get to Stranglethorn Vale.
about 10 months ago
When it comes to casual focus in MMORPGs, it’s more along the lines of requiring very little time investment per session, and keeping the activities simple enough as to not overwhelm a casual player (e.g. not requiring players to build full teams to make any progress at all). Quests and opportunities for exploration aren’t on the same level, because you can always quit mid-activity and do these things later, and they don’t have any difficult prerequisites to attempt.
(Then again, there is the “ELITE” content throughout the game… but that is optional, and the groups are very temporary.)
So, yeah, I could say WoW flaunts a casual-focus. It was one of the main things it did over its predecessors, and that’s why all the MMORPGs that seek to imitate it success are making it similarly
braindeadcasual on the immediate level.