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[4] [5] [6] The song's reception was highly negative, and it was parodied by numerous artists and comedians. The original music video was removed from YouTube on June 16, 2011, due to legal disputes between ARK Music and Black. [7] By then, it had already amassed more than 167 million views. [8] [9] The video was later re-uploaded to YouTube on ...
Recorded live on The Dr. Demento Show, and performed live in 1981 on Tomorrow Coast to Coast (presented by Tom Snyder), which marks the artist's first TV appearance. "Another Tattoo" Alpocalypse (2011) Parody of "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars"
The original use of the term "parody" in music referred to re-use for wholly serious purposes of existing music. In popular music that sense of "parody" is still applicable to the use of folk music in the serious songs of such writers as Bob Dylan, but in general, "parody" in popular music refers to the humorous distortion of musical ideas or lyrics or general style of music.
The Key of Awesome (formerly Barely Productions and Barely Political) is a YouTube channel that produced comedy videos starring writer/performer Mark Douglas. "The Key of Awesome" was created by Mark Douglas and Ben Relles and is the channel's most popular series, mainly producing viral music videos and parodies.
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
The band Nirvana started to become popular in the music scene at the time, creating "big, seismic shifts in pop culture" according to Yankovic. [3] Yankovic felt that the band's 1991 album Nevermind , which featured "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was "really great", but feared that at its release the band was not popular enough to warrant a parody ...
On 30 July 2011 it was officially premiered on YouTube and on the Australian music show Rage. The music video was well received for its artistic style, picking up 200,000 views in its first two weeks, as well as receiving promotion on Twitter by actor Ashton Kutcher and Katy Perry. [26] [70] "What a video!" Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody enthused ...
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [49] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [50] and 200 million views, in seven days. [51]