26th
Lazy Town/Lil’ Jon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLAv3JHRwY
This is a video that a friend showed me one night while we were surfing youtube.com. At first, naturally, I thought it was a ridiculous and annoying video. Unfortunately for my roommates, it has grown on me so I recommend that everyone watch it six times over a few days before they make their decisions about it.
However having watched about half of this videos views views, I started considering the type of humor that this video has. This is not a simple comically sexual song that usually comes up on youtube. This song is based on a childrens’ show, therefore the first impression of the video is very innocent. The little girl singing about cake with a catchy tune is abruptly sliced by a raunchy Lil’ Jon clip. The comedy is created by the blatant defacing of this innocent song with sexual lyrics and dirty dancing. The people who edited this video were able to take the dance moves from the normal video and overlay them with the rap lyrics to make it seem dirty. There are a lot of things in the original Lazy Town video which are entirely G rated which were able to be turned into a sexual action. For example, in the childrens’ show, the kids are trying to make a cake, and they accidentally squirt a man with the cake frosting since they are having a hard time following the recipe. In this video, this action is perceived as a male ejaculation because of the lyrics of the song at the time when this clip is shown.
This song is entirely made interesting by the contrast of the two videos. I have watched both of the original videos which compose this one, and I didn’t particularly enjoy either of them.
