If it hasn't arrived already, one of your mates is probably about to email you this YouTube clip, or send you to the pjotro.com website to see a funny clip of a guy (is he David 'Elsewhere' Bernal?) in a green suit, dancing and making crazy electro sounds. It seems like a shame that, right now, Britain's highest form of art is the corporate-funded viral video (i.e. this show at the ICA). In this case, you can just imagine gang of 30-something Barleys sitting round in Clerkenwell: Dude A: "Well, Nokia have given us £MetricFuckton of cash to do something innovative and creative and viral. Obviously we've spent 3/4 of the budget on gak, so what are we going to do?"
Dude B: "There was that one guy from that one website, McRorie. That was some funny shit! Lets rip it off and spend loads of money on it!"
All: "Sweet!"
But the thing is, McRorie is real, and this isn't. And the whole thing is an attempt to promote Nokia's lamentable N91 phone, which is a first-generation iPod Mini strapped to a year-old brick phone. It does make me wonder whether the Lordi/Eurovision thing was another elaborate Nokia-backed prank, masterminded from a open-plan hotdesk somewhere near you... (Thanks, Ash)
This was done better twenty years ago by Laurie Anderson, who sewed a drum machine into a jumpsuit and performed in it. It was featured on her concert movie "Home Of The Brave".
ReplyDeleteIts all a pack of lies! Germany has won the Contest!
ReplyDeleteEurovision: The German Horrorkabinett wins Song-Contest!
They cant govern and they cant sing neither: Still the German Horror-Kabinett won!
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Eurovision: German Horror-Kabinett wins!
OOOH, this would look great at a cosplay event.
ReplyDeleteAlso great for the full body spandex fetishes.
What a great convergence: music + cosplay + spandex fetish + russian madness.
Perhaps, since it's Nokia, one can use it to compose ring tones?
I second the irritation at barleysesque ad industry bods plagiarising viral web stuff.
ReplyDeleteDon't they understand that purely ripping off web content that appeals to the demographic they're targetting is a massive turn off to that same demographic? Or am I missing something?