OBJECTION! How can a band be known as Fatboy if it's also Slim?! THAT IS A CONTRADICTION! Their music video is The Rockafeller Skank. The video is four minutes of skankdom and can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvnHtO6daQM .
After watching it the first time, I guess my job is easy today. There's only about fourteen lyrics repeated until the video ends.
The video starts with some guys with spikey hair and collars running away from a supermarket. They run by a blonde woman in car. I like her haircut. Unfortunately after watching her drive a little bit she disappears from the video, unless she dyes her hair black at some poin.
Then we see some guys with afros dance around a really lame transformer. I think it's a law that funk soul brothers have to have afros. They go to a house where they meet a cowboy who flips a coin and the coin freezes time until it lands. Then the FSBs start FSBing all around the house.
Half way through the song Fatboy Slim must have noticed how repetitive they've been, so the song starts to slow down. A tv gets kicked and now we're at a bar. We see one of the guys from the beginning walk by and then there's a woman with a similar haircut to the blonde sit down to who I think was one of the FSBs. She places a r on the table, and in the neatest thing in the video, we cut to various close ups of various billboards which spell out the lyrics.
At some poin there's a fat cowboy lip syncing to the lyrics. Probably Fatboy but where's Slim?
There's a close up of a jukebox that just happens to have this song. That was quick.
The song speeds up. People pop gum. Fat cowboy breaks his glass with his hand. Then we're at a beach!
The awesome part is where the lyrics are spelled out like a ransom note. The second awesome part is the blonde, except when she shakes her head. There's cute and there's too cute, and she threatens to cross the line a couple times.
The song doesn't last long enough to get annoying, so it's ok. The video is ok too.
2 comments:
Fourteen lyrics? Really? There are that many?
Sorry, Tork. You did not identify the awesome thing in this video. Also, Fatboy Slim is not the name of the band, it's the name of a person. He appears in the video from time to time. He's behind the turntables, as is his wont.
The awesome thing in this video is the very thing you called lame. That car is not lame. You're lame. That car comes apart and spins around. It's a break dancing car. Can you do that? I think not.
Other awesome things to be found in this video:
1. Bzzt! Wrong, Tork! The woman in the car is awesome, but she's especially awesome when she shakes her head.
2. The disco dudes with the afros
3. The way the disco guys walk. Yes, this is awesome enough to count as its own thing. There should be a national holiday where everybody has to walk like that all day. I would die of joy.
4. THE BREAKDANCING CAR OF AWESOME AWESOMENESS
5. A dance battle between cowboys and disco guys. How could you fail to notice that that is awesome?
6. The fat cowboy in the club hates this song so much. He broke that glass with rage alone. Also, he looks a lot like the youth pastor I had when I was in high school.
7. Dunebuggy! WHEEEEEEE!!!
But the surfing at the end is lame.
Here's your new video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tVQ7L_cs0
Feel free to try to figure out why I like this one as well.
I totally have to agree with Lita here. That breakdancing car is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Rock on, awesome breakdancing car!
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