Love You Tender

Browsing through Google Video, I usually check out the top 100 videos. For some reason, it's been clogged with those mentos + diet coke videos. While it certainly is entertaining the first time you see it, it becomes rather dull when every dope with a digital camcorder posts a video like he's the first one who tried it. With the exception of well orchestrated experiments, everyone should stop trying. It's old news. When I see a 60+ year old guy buy a can of diet coke for the sole purpose of watching it explode in a grandiose display, it's gotten out of hand. Did anyone even pay attention in Chemistry class?

Anyway, that's not the point.

I'm here to display something I found while browsing Google video. The so-called "Worst Music Video EVER." I found it the other day hovering at the bottom of the top 100. It wasn't there very long, because the next day, when I went to find it again, it was gone. I've watched it probably five or six times since I found it.

For two reasons.

The first being that it's near impossible for me to wrap my head around WHAT they're going for. The whole video is like an orgy of 70's and 80's era stereotypes. What is the point of the poorly choreographed dancers (seriously, it seems like they learned the moves an hour before they started taping the video)? Why is there a mirror ball when the room is so well lit? Also, these lyrics bewilder me:

Oh, you're absolutely fine
Your lips are taste of wine
I'd like to make you mine
And if I could touch your hand
This rock would turn to sand
So this is where we stand

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?! Okay, I get the first three lines. She's hot, she's drunk, and you want her, but what about those last three? They just don't make sense! Sure, used seperately, in different contexts, they can help form the skeleton of a smooth love song. But, the way they're used here...it makes my head hurt.

The second reason I've watched the video so much is because it's obviously good fodder for parody. I've shown the video to my fiance, and I now sing it to her when I have the chance. It's good fun.

Oh, but there's more. In the spirit of the Star Wars Kid, there's been a remake of this video. It doesn't really have much of a humor value, but it's worth noting.

Gotta love the internet.