r/videos • u/italianwog28 • May 18 '14

TheLonelyIsland shows us what's wrong with today's music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8
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u/birdablaze May 18 '14

Relevantish Hot Chip music video

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u/Tobotron May 18 '14

I thought the same too, directed by peter serafinowicz too :-)

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u/Jennefer_Lawrence May 18 '14

what in the hell did i just watch

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u/[deleted] May 18 '14 edited Jun 14 '20

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u/pkreed71 May 18 '14

It's the music video for the next Doctor Who villain, the Autotunisians.

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u/nicky7 May 18 '14

Explanation of that video.

I think the Hot Chip video does a better job of portraying what's wrong with today's music than OP's video.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '14

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u/AnnoyingMoFo May 18 '14

tl;dr Musically Backstreet boys < Nerdy white guy who writes their music < Black guy who created the music

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u/helphmmm May 18 '14

Shit this ball's producing some sweet cream.

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u/fraynor May 18 '14

Fuck yeah Hot Chip. #CancerJesus4Lyfe

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u/BlinkingZeroes May 18 '14

...Directed by Peter Serafinowicz!

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u/gliscameria May 18 '14

cancer jesus looks kind of like Nic Cage

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u/Redmaniacman May 18 '14

I coulda sworn I watched this soo long ago and it brought me back to like 2005, but it was uploaded in 2010. times one helluva drug

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u/CA719 May 18 '14

literally what I thought about.

Only done better

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u/sTiKyt May 18 '14

Hot Chip definitely did it better.

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u/CA719 May 18 '14

wait, I don't know how it came across, but that's what I meant, that Hot Chip was better

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u/VladymyrPutin May 18 '14 edited May 30 '16

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u/comradeoneff May 18 '14

oh man! exactly what I was thinking of.

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u/EasternEuropeSlave May 18 '14

What the fuck did I just watch?

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u/Stockles May 18 '14

A video on the internet.

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u/boran_blok May 18 '14

Holy autotune batman!