A Kinder Gentler Mix-a-Lot
February 27th, 2007
Randy sends me this simply beautiful video for Baby Got Back – it’s Mix-a-Lot’s original MTV video speed-treated and time-warped so that he appears to be singing my version (must have taken forever). Even with the giant butt set piece, when you slow things down all the rump shaking takes on this really graceful quality that makes me cry.
I never noticed “cosmopygian” before. That’s hilarious.
A masterful reinterpretation mixed with a masterful retiming of the video.
I laughed, I cried, I wanna get me a piece of dat bubble.
I’m crying right now. In a manly way.
That video really helps, because the song is so subtle, you know? It wasn’t until I saw the giant white block letters spelling out “HUMP” and “NASTY” and the banana coming erect that I could really tell what the song was even about. Now I get it!
Words fail me. Fantastic job on the video mixing. Pure comic gold, Anthony Ray would be so proud.
Sheer brilliance.
Oh my god. Beyond magnificent. Just… wow.
I love this edit, but I also want to weep in general over the inspiration that JC is providing to so many people, not just with his music, but his world views.
The downside is that many websites having anything to do with his name are needing better servers…
Thanks for all the kind words, everybody!
I’m really glad you guys like the video!
I worked on it (off and on) for about 4 months.
I knew there was no way I’d be able to make a music video anywhere close to the quality of Mixalot’s masterpiece, so I chopped his up and served on a JC platter!
By the way, my wife plans to finish her Flickr-inspired video for Creepy Doll soon, so be on the lookout for that as well.
Thanks again, and tell your friends!
[...] Jonathan Coulton posted a blog about an individual giving Sir Mix-a-Lot’s original MTV video a new twist. It’s hilarious and a work of art at the sametime. [...]
Sweet smoking jesus, that’s hilarious. Brilliantly done.
Awesome idea! I love it!
That was freakin’ hilarious!
What an amazing edit! Love love love.
Is this going to get you slashdotted again? That was BRILLIANT.
Randy, honestly, that is -stunningly- awesome. Holy smurf!
I’ve often expressed disinterest with machinima videos and anime-over-music videos because the lip sync is never right. Yours is inspiringly right-on-the-munny. Good on ya, bud.
Oh and incidentally you’ve been BoingBoinged.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/02/jonathan_coulton_mas.html
Jonathan Coulton’s Baby Got Back cover music video…
Remember way back when I posted about Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Baby Got back (and I sent it to Boing Boing and it got posted there)?
Now, someone has synced his cover version with the original Sir Mix-a-lot music video. Genius!
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Viacom terrorizes joco music vidoes.
When i follow the link i find youtube saying that this video too has been removed because of a copyright claim by Viacom what in the sam heck is going on here.
it’s been pulled! aaaahhhh!
Yup, it’s true.
After about a week and more than 26,000 views, my video was removed from YouTube per the request of Viacom.
Copyright Infringement trumps Fair Use and Parodies once again.
Thanks for all the high praise (on my first project!); I’m sure you’ll be seeing more from me eventually.
Randy,
Any chance you can make it available somewhere else, at least for a short period? Something like rapidshare.de or something, so those of us who missed it can grab a copy?
If not, I understand.
Thanks either way,
Liam.
Yes, I am crying too. because I got here too late and the video is gone. My life will not be complete until I see it. Please, where?
I also enjoy messing with covers – and would post them on my blog were it not for the rights problem. Have you been able to sort out the legalities of making a cover recording available for free? Any advice you can offer there would be vastly appreciated. Thanks!
(Paying royalties on covers on CDs and the like is actually pretty easy, I had no trouble sorting that part out. The difficult bit seems to be letting people hear ‘em without charge on a blog or similar.)
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom.
Thanks, Viacom.
pssst:
don’t tell anyone, but it appears it’s still visible at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1394675800346515500 … purely for research purposes for those who missed it on YouTube, of course.
–Dave
[...] synchronized to Jonathan’s version. In order to find it, it’s probably best to go via Jonathan’s post about the video, since comments there have tracked the video past at least one takedown [...]
Saw the same video on http://utube-funny-videos.com but it was removed from that site as well.