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Bad Lip Reading: Meta-Viral Video Phenomenon

This is simply amazing.
Someone is taking popular music videos, then changing the lyrics of the song to sync with the movement of the singer’s lips. [Hence the moniker "Bad Lip Reading."]

From Douglas Wolk coverage of the phenomenon:

BLR first came to prominence with “Gang Fight,” a riff on Rebecca Black’s inescapable quasi-hit “Friday” that kept its video intact but constructed an entirely new song around what Black appeared to be singing–a different tune, a different arrangement, and a totally inverted if wildly incoherent sentiment.

Exhibit A: Original video for Ludacris’ “My Chick Bad”

Exhibit B: The Bad Lip Reading revision, “Magic Man”

I want to know you, Bad Lip Reading.

Evidently even better examples are on YouTube from them: "everybody poops", "asian baby", "hot jumping beans". A HT to my daughter-in-law for this phenomenon.

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