Smash Mouth, Bee Movie, and jokes that require work
January 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s been one week since we heard a Barenaked Ladies single contorted into pop art.
The remix of the band’s 1998 track “One Week,” created by SoundCloud user edes421, replaces every instrument (except the drums) with former BNL frontman Steven Page’s starter pistol of a lyric, “It’s been…” The result is a surreal, stuttering thing, like a chatbot re-creating the numb arm scene from Six Feet Under. It is not an easy or pleasurable listen.
It’s been played almost 180,000 times.
The track is the latest in an increasingly popular — and shamelessly displeasurable — goof we’re calling, for lack of a better term, the technical meme. Think of technical memes as the Ikea furniture of internet culture. You take a mechanically achievable formula…
