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[The Predaking]

And it only got catchier once the fans of a certain visual novel game started remixing it....

I am not familiar with that.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

I am not familiar with that.

Since my finding out about the game's existence (at the end of October 2021) sent me down something of a rabbit hole, I'll only give mild spoilers here, mostly involving the visual glitches that plague the second act of Doki Doki Literature Club -- a game that starts off as a cutesy anime dating simulator before being wrenched off the rails into -- well, let's just say it's still more wholesome than Kiss Players.

Anyway, enjoy the simplest of many remixes, all sharing the same idea: A little bit of just Monika....

 

[Pocket]

Todd's gone all the way back to 1970 this time, with a song I first discovered in 2009 when the oldies station finally started adding '70s music to their lineup. I had no idea it was written by the same guy as "Build Me Up, Buttercup", i.e. the catchiest song ever created, but it tracks.

Also, wow, I haven't thought about "Gimme Dat Ding" in ages. I'm only aware of it from that time it was used as a particularly cringy bit on America's Funniest People, which I'm now realizing was basically the TikTok of the pre-internet age.

 

[Paladin]

 

[Pocket]

Hey, I've built up a decent library of videos that are basically this stuff but for video games, so how would y'all feel about this having a sister thread over in Fun and Games?

 

[Pocket]

I don't want to get pigeonholed as "the guy who only posts about music in this thread", but Todd in the Shadows retweeted a link to this other guy who took a deep dive into the history of one of the weirdest things to make it onto MTV, weird enough to eventually escape obscurity, go viral on the internet, and eventually get re-pressed. I give you, "Dog Police" by Dog Police. It's about the Dog Police.

 

[Pocket]

I might have mentioned before that I haven't watched Atop the Fourth Wall in ages, but this got my attention because it was the starting point of the DC Cinematic Disasterverse. Pretty much all my knowledge of the Superman mythos comes from pop-cultural osmosis, so one thing that surprised me is that apparently every version of it has a scene where Clark not only discovers the pod he crash-landed in, but gets a long exposition dump from Jor-El's ghost (hologram, digitized personality, call it what you want he's a freaking ghost). And my impression, as an outsider, is... is it really necessary? He's already learned that he has powers, seen the space pod that proves he's an alien, and (in every version except this one) had the importance of using his powers for good instilled in him by his earth-dad. And in this version especially, Zod soon shows up to deliver an exposition dump of his own, so anything he really needed to know about Krypton could have been conveyed to him that way.

I dunno. This is the kind of thing that fascinates me. Seeing how stories get retold and sometimes make it better, sometimes make it worse, sometimes do a little of both, and in all three cases sometimes expose deficiencies in the source material.

 

[Paladin]

After a prolonged legal battle, Suede's Pokemon Journey returns as Suede's PAPERMON Journey!

 

[Pocket]

This week on One Hit Wonderland... Todd tackles THE BIG ONE. The song that might qualify as not just the biggest one-hit wonder of all time, but one of the biggest hit songs ever, period. The song and dance craze that went viral before the concept of going viral had even been invented.

 

[Confuzor]

Growing up in Miami during that era, everything he says is true. I even distinctly remember the newer addition of the bitchy english singer and never really liking that part.

 

[Pocket]

Also, the last two One Hit Wonderland subjects (oh right, I never posted the last one; it was "Don't Worry Be Happy") have something weird in common: Each one has a nearly identical melody and chord structure to another famous song.

Spoiler: you'll never be able to unhear this

In the case of "Don't Worry Be Happy" it's Four Non Blondes' "What's Up" (you might know it better as the song from that old He-Man meme), and in this case it's the old jazz song "Ain't What You Do" that was most notably covered by Bananarama.

♪ 25 years and my life is still... trying to get up that great bit hill, but don't worry... be happy ♫

♪ It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, AAAAAAY MACARENA ♫

...I warned you.

 

[Paladin]