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Venetian Snares - Cleaning Each Other (from Songs About My Cats)

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Jinkx Monsoon, "One Day More" — MCC MISCAST24

Just in time for Pride Month and Barricade Day!

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Erwin Beekveld - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard 2005

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is a video that was published on August 16th, 2005, by Dutch musician and photographer Erwin Beekveld, as a Flash-animation on the website Albino Blacksheep. In 2006, it was re-posted to Youtube, where it gained over 12.5 million views and 38,900 comments in the first seven years. The two-minute video composed of multiple fragments from the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings became an internet meme, and has obtained a cult status mostly among fans of this trilogy. It is built out of scenes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In the video, actor Orlando Bloom is seen playing the elf Legolas, who repeats the line "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" He is occasionally interrupted by Gollum (played by Andy Serkis), and also by Marton Csokas as Celeborn, who repeatedly inquires the whereabouts of Gandalf.

The dialogue is rhythmically set to a techno version of music originally composed by Howard Shore for the movies' soundtracks, and contains among others the leitmotif of the song "Concerning Hobbits". The song caught the attention of participants of a discussion forum sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, in which the dactylic quality of the song's prosody was discussed at length. (Read it here!)

In the book Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, "They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is mentioned as an example for the amendment on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an American law concerning the author's copyright on digital media. The amendment from 2010 made it legal, under certain conditions, to use fragments from movies and television shows in personal videos. Musicologist Michael L. Klein (Professor at the Temple University of Philadelphia) mentions "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" in his book Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject as an example of a meme and mash-up as the pinnacle of creativity in the postmodern age.

In 2013, after Orlando Bloom finished filming his final scenes on the set of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, director Peter Jackson published a video in which Bloom, dressed up as Legolas, sings along with "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard". In the next five days, the video received more than 6.9 million views and 7,200 comments. In an interview for Rude Tube in 2013, Beekveld says people love or hate him for making the video, due to its catchy tune, and that it made him very happy to see Orlando Bloom sing along with his remix eight years later, which he states is the ultimate recognition. On 30 March 2022, Beekveld died of lung cancer at the age of 52.

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" received a total of 82,5% yes votes!

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1967

"Half-peeled Banana" by Chocolate Moose is an unpredictable explosion of sound, a sonic snapshot of carefree chaos.

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Alex Brightman - The Twitter Song (from Nobody Loves You by Itamar Moses and Gaby Alter)

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Chocolat - Never Gonna Give You Up

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im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life

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Orville Peck's cover of Pick Pony Club by Chappell Roan [x]

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Simon Loveridge - Running Up That Green Hill Zone

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in 2017 a truck full of hagfish spilled on a highway and made a big mess.

...here's a punk/math rock song about it??? lyrics beneath the cut

lyrics:

I am covered in slime

Don’t you even try to get close to me now

I’ve been here a long time

And I’m going to tie myself up to break out

No eyes no bones no spine

Don’t know where to draw the line

Dead whale it’s dinner time

I’m breaking out from the inside

When the truck falls down 

slime will coat

Your Toyota Prius

The slime will flow

Don’t you wanna be us?

When the truck falls down 

slime will coat

The adjoining highway

The slime will flow

Can’t you see it my way?

I am covered in slime

Don’t you even try to get close to me now

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I'm still actively shopping but I had to submit this immediately.

Wethersfield, CT Savers.

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chelmico - BANANA