Imagine my joy when SNL featured a Digital Short this past weekend of my favorite track off the Lonely Island CD, Boombox. Julian Casablancas from the Strokes appears, as he provided vocals for the song. The video pretty much tells the story I envisioned in my head, and any song and/or video that references the 1990 hit Do the Bartman is aces in my book.

I woke up in the morning feeling like P Diddy today, on account of the whole Daylight Saving Time and all.

I know Ke$ha knows what I’m talking about because I’ve been hearing all about it every time I turn on my pop radio stations or see the commercials on NBC for Minute To Win It lately. Much like the DJ she speaks of in this song, she’s been blowin my speakers up.

After listening to the song though, two big questions remain unanswered?

- What does waking up like P Diddy involve?
- Why on earth do the boys have to look like Mike Jagger?! Clearly, Ke$ha hasn’t seen THIS VIDEO.

Lyrics:

Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy
(Hey, what up girl?)
Put my glasses on, I’m out the door – I’m gonna hit this city (Let’s go)
Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
Cause when I leave for the night, I ain’t coming back
I’m talking – pedicure on our toes, toes
Trying on all our clothes, clothes
Boys blowing up our phones, phones
Drop-topping, playing our favorite cds
Pulling up to the parties
Trying to get a little bit tipsy

[CHORUS]
Dont stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, I’mma fight
Til we see the sunlight
Tick tock, on the click
But the party dont stop
Woah-oh oh oh
Woah-oh oh oh

Ain’t got a care in world, but got plenty of beer
Ain’t got no money in my pocket, but I’m already here
Now the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger
I’m talking about – e’rybody getting crunk, crunk
Boys trying to touch my junk, junk
Gonna smack him if he’s getting too drunk, drunk
Now, now – we goin’ til they kick us out, out
Or the police shut us down, down
Police shut us down, down
Po-po shut us -

[CHORUS]

DJ, you build me up
You break me down
My heart, it pounds
Yeah, you got me
With my hands up
You got me now
You gotta that sound
Yeah, you got me
DJ, you build me up
You break me down
My heart, it pounds
Yeah, you got me
With my hands up
Get your hands up
Put your hands up
Now, the party dont stop until I walk in…

Our buddy Joe turned us onto this fantastic interpretation of The Rolling Stones ‘Start Me Up’. This has always been one of those videos that was hard to take seriously anyhow, between Mick Jagger’s tight v-neck shirt and his chicken-like dance moves. The disco era had a strange effect on the Stones, and this video makes that glaringly obvious.

So… take this horrible original video and overdub it with different words and music, and you have something that’s truly magical and hilarious.

There’s something about overdubbing different audio against videos, I’m telling you… because god I love all those “shreds” videos too.

That’s right, The Golden Girls‘ own Rose Nylund… the incomparable Betty White, is slated to host the May 8th “Mother’s Day episode” of SNL! That this didn’t happen sooner is perhaps life’s biggest mystery.

Betty’s self-deprecating humor and quick wit is sure to be a great match for Saturday Night Live, and we’re excited to see what is likely going to be one of the more memorable SNL episodes.

According to People, “…the special Mother’s Day episode will also reunite six former female SNL cast members, most of whom happen to be moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.” While the 88 year old Betty White is not actually a mom herself, she is perhaps “a mother of great comedy”. That’s good enough for us.

How did this happen? A Facebook fan page titled “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” creeped up soon after a Snickers commercial featuring Betty White getting tackled in a muddy football game aired during the 2010 Super Bowl. A groundswell of support and petitioning of Lorne Michaels made it all happen!

Matt and I had a brief IM conversation this morning resulting from I Don’t Want to Wait by Paula Cole playing on the radio:

jamie: wearing shrap-NEL in his SKIN
jamie: that was just on the radio
matt: how nice for you
matt: I don’t hate any songs more than that one
jamie: really? ANY songs?
matt: I can’t think of a single song I hate more
jamie: wow…including Celine Dion? Whitney Houston?
matt: them i can tolerate
matt: if I need to
jamie: you don’t wanna wait? for your life to be over?
matt: but Paula Cole is like nails on a chalkboard for me, which come to think of it, still sounds better than Paula Cole

Ever since the song came out, we’ve made fun of the way she sings “wearing shrapnel in his skin”, but until this conversation, I never quite realized the level of hatred that Matt has for her. Not that I’m a fan by any means. Hearing the song and having this conversation reminded me of many years ago when Matt and I were staying at his cousin Eric’s apartment near Boston for some reason, and we were planning on getting tickets to see Radiohead at the Worcester Centrum later that summer. Tickets went on sale the morning we were at Eric’s, so I called Ticketmaster or whoever the hell you’d call back then to order concert tickets, but since they had just gone on sale, it was hard to get through, and I was put on hold. And the entire time I was on hold (at least 15-20 minutes, possibly much longer), I Don’t Want to Wait by Paula Cole was played on a loop. Part of me thought whoever set that up was incredibly clever, and part of me wanted to find them and kill them in cold blood.

I don't wanna wait, for my brains to be blown out...

Speaking of Paula Cole and Boston, she performed at the first Mixfest in Boston that Matt and I went to, along with our friends Lisa and Erica. We stayed at Eric’s apartment that weekend as well. When Paula Cole came on stage, Erica climbed up into a tree to get a better view of Paula’s hairy armpits while Matt, Lisa, and I wandered off to do something a lot less depressing. I think we went to see the Holocaust Memorial. We were also there for most of Third Eye Blind’s set as well.

Anyway, long story short: Matt hates Paula Cole and she has hairy pits. And eff Radiohead for making me listen to her song for an eternity.

At a family gathering over the weekend, we got into a discussion about a Facebook fan page that was created by a 2010 Winter Olympics watcher strictly for The Norweigian Curling Team’s Pants. My family being blessed with both Norweigian roots AND a terrible sense of humor led me to say “Norweigian Pants, isn’t that a Beatles song?”… which in turn started a discussion about how you could put the word ‘pants’ into just about any Beatles song title to make it better…

All You Need Is Pants
Norweigian Pants (These Pants Have Flown)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Pants
The Pants on the Hill
Back In The U.S.S.Pants
Can’t Buy Me Pants
She Loves Pants (Yeah Yeah Yeah)
In My Pants
A Day In The Pants
And I Love Pants
Pants Together
Here Comes The Pants
Happiness is a Warm Pants
I Saw Pants Standing There
Martha My Pants
P.S. I Love Pants
Strawberry Pants Forever
The Ballad of John and Pants
With A Little Help From My Pants
You’ve Got To Hide Your Pants Away
All My Pantsin’

We went back and forth like this for quite awhile. This may have been the thing to my dad saying that we always post “weird” things on Facebook. He’s not wrong.

Are there more “pants’d” Beatles song titles? List them in the comments!

Thanks to Tosh.0 for bringing my attention to the Epic Beard Man viral video. It’s pretty disturbing, so I won’t embed it here, but you can view it at this link. Basically, a drunk black dude and a racist bearded white idiot exchange words on a transit bus in Oakland, CA, which then escalates into the white guy beating the tar out of the black guy, leaving blood all over the seats and the black guy asking for an ambulance, only he pronounces it “amberlamps”. Apparently this video has created quite a stir, the men involved in the fight have done interviews, and people have done a ton of video mash-ups using it. My favorite by far is this one, which incorporates the video into the video for Ram Jam’s Black Betty. It makes me laugh every time.

As disturbing as it is that this has become such a phenomenon (I mean, can you imagine being on the bus on the way home from work and witnessing something like this?), at least we’re getting some fine entertainment out of it.

There was a pretty awesome songspeak on the Soup Awards this past weekend. Jeffrey Osborne’s classic 80’s ballad On the Wings of Love was nominated for his perfomance of the song on the season finale of ABC’s The Bachelor. Although Heidi Montag’s abominable performance from the Miss Universe Pageant won the award, Jeffrey Osborne made a surprise appearance and announced to Joel McHale and the rest of the world the existence of his new wing restaurant, Jeffrey Osborne’s Wings of Love. It appears to be along the lines of the Toasted Owl that we here at songspeak like to frequent, and Jeffrey sang a great new version of his famous hit that promoted the restaurant. You can see the performance here (warning – it will make you hungry for wings):

It seems like Viacom is taking the bold move of removing The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from HULU, much to this dismay of college students with MacBooks everywhere. Bloggers everywhere (including us) are going to have a much harder time embedding clips of last night's zingers on their posts.

The shows will still be available on ComedyCentral.com, but have you tried to use that site? I mean COME. ON. You need some sunglasses. So many colors.

But seriously folks, in all actuality the videos that get posted to Comedy Central's microsites: TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com aren't half bad. It's just going to be frustrating for people who sort of like an all in one solution, but for that, there's always Boxee, which is better at online video than Hulu anyway.

One more gripe, when you embed, the video isn't 16:9. What is this, 2007?

Last month Coral Anne created a Facebook fan page called ‘Can This Pickle get More Fans Than Nickelback‘. Guess what– it did! It only took about 3 weeks! This is good news for cucumbers everywhere. The page has more than 1,530,445 fans.

A lot of news sites are reporting that Nickleback frontman Chad Kroeger found out about it, and instead of laughing off the ridiculousness, he sent a message to the fan page’s creator. But this seems to be fake. I mean, make no mistake, we’re not saying that that poodle of a lead singer is not a d-bag, but c’mon Daily News.

According to the page creator…

“I have had no correspondence with Chad Kroeger or anyone affiliated with Nickelback. Anyone who says so is just spreading rumours and/or are mistaken by pictures that were posted on the site of someone with what was likely a fake account. Nickelback have not done anything wrong in lieu of the making of this page and if anyone out there says that they have, it is not true.

I am fully aware that I misspelled Nickelback as “Nickleback” in the name of the page. This is because Facebook doesn’t allow you to put the word Nickelback in the name of a page because I guess if someone did it would be copyright infringement.“

Also, the most famous pickle of this decade has now been forever immortalized on a t-shirt.

Speaking of fan pages, Songspeak now has a fan page on Facebook. Why not become a fan?