"Bad Lip Reading": Meta-Viral Video Phenomenon

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.

The ultimate Disney music mash-up [video]

What’s your favorite Disney tune? Hakuna Matata? Part of Your World? Whatever tune from the house of mouse makes you smile most, you will likely get your head grooving on with a mash-up of all the top songs.

Remix master Pogo took a single chord from classics like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” and “Sleeping Beauty” and strung them together to create an oddly hypnotic ditty.

This is the video for my track ‘Bloom’, a patchwork of vocals and musical chords from various Disney films. I recorded the harp sample from ‘Sleeping Beauty’, and a series of chords from ‘A.I: Artificial Intelligence’ to form the base of the chorus. The vocals are sampled from Disney films, each of which are illustrated in this video.

 

Via HuffPo.

First BMX triple backflip explained (amazing video!)

 

BMX rider Jed Mildon completed the world's first triple backflip on his bike, seemingly defying the laws of gravity in the process. Martin Berman talks to Mildon to find out how he prepared himself for the record-breaking feat.

Full story at Discovery News.

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I'd seen the original video, but this one adds much more to what was involved (including failing several times first).