Your boyfriend Antoine Dodson’s local news breakout performance/rapist-on-the-loose PSA went from internet meme to internet meme-ier when the Brooklyn-based Gregory Brothers gave his rant some autotune-the-news treatment, ala their similar remake of Mr. Double Rainbow (All The Way). The Gregorys went so far as to release their recontextualization as an internet single (listing Antoine and his sister Kelly Dodson as co-writers) which has hit #89 on the Billboard singles chart. It’s a nice story in that it means money for the Gregorys and the Dodsons. It’s also the least encouraging instance of internet popularity yielding sales chart success in the music industry’s history. What a weird jumble knot to untangle with this, here. Anyway the music industry is dying, hide your kids, hide your wife. This song is undeniably catchy, though.
Don’t miss the marching band remix.
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Makes you look at ‘indie’ in a new way at least
Um. I need some context here.
this is one of the best examples of the internet 2.0 doing what it does best that i can remember. first the news report, then the auto-tune the news, then remixes like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E7lY1kYrM and a billboard appearance to top it all off. and all of it within a couple of weeks.
This makes me a little sad that now Auto-tune is becoming so popular. I mean sure there could be some creative ways to use this technology, but you know that most vocalists will use it to cut corners, and people will be paying them to allow it.
OMG this guy even has a costume coming out amazing! I am def buying one…WWW.BEDINTRUDERCOSTUME.COM wwwooowww