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HAHAHAHA SO I AM WEIRD.
I mean, you all already know this about me. But I feel better starting this post with that disclaimer.
I talked about that video a few days ago! I enjoyed it! I ... am still enjoying it, because I am still watching it! I don't really know why! I mean, it's adorable and I know exactly why I like it, but I'm not sure why it struck such an intense chord with me. Or why I laugh every. single. time. at 1:26. But I want to talk about it more, so I'm going to here.
(I feel like I have lost it.)
So apparently, this video is kind of famous?? It was posted last fall but it started making the link rounds last month; Queerty, Towle Road, Perez Hilton, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. I went to read the articles on the queer sites and some of the comments surprised me. /Made me lol a little. My favorite (and I saw this multiple times) was probably "WHAT THE FUCK the jock-guy's ex should have been a dude!!!" Well! "You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset"; "she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts"; "she wears high heels, I wear sneakers." The whole song is she, she, she.
I mean -- I know it would have been possible to just ignore the pronouns and do the video with all men, but a huge part of the fun of the parody for me is that they didn't have to change a single word and it fit delightfully. These commenters were in HIGH DUDGEON that the ex was a WOMAN. HORRORS. Oh, indignant dude (most of them were dudes, from what I could tell) commenters. I totally get wanting to queer up narratives, but female-ex or no female-ex, it's already a queer narrative; bisexuals/people who are somewhere on the queer-identifying spectrum other than 'gay'/people who realize their sexuality later in life do exist. It's not a calamity that the character has an ex-girlfriend.
ANYWAY.
I think what I mostly enjoy about the video is how goofy-and-yet-genuine it feels. It's funny, but it pokes fun gently and -- in my mind, at least -- without doing any disrespect. I just find it really fun. The two leads are easy on the eyes, are funny, and have pretty good chemistry; the audience reaction (cheering the guys on once they realize what's happening) amps the whole thing up for me; and the shots are just so on when it comes to parodying the Taylor Swift original. It's lighthearted and silly and sweet and makes me laugh. That is why I like it.
(Here ends any halfway coherent commentary. The rest will involve me going: BWAHHHHH and FAAAAAAACE.)
Meanwhile, Male Taylor Swift is reading Twilight. Seriously! Look at the book!
If dude had hair, it would have swung magnificently when he made this turn. Hilarity.
I want to icon this. I would use it pretty much all the time.
And this.
Yeah, I just want to icon everything involving signs. (But then I get into the murky area of "is it weird to have icons of a parody video made by people who really aren't professional actors or in the public eye?" I would personally be weirded out to discover that someone had made an LJ icon out of my face, even after my video had gotten 100,000 hits on YouTube.
I guess it can't be much weirder than the fact that I'm requesting fan fiction about their characters for Yuletide.)
But I am still naming the characters for my own nefarious purposes.
This makes me laugh EVERY TIME. What is he even??
Male Taylor Swift has some pretty fucking sweet air guitar moves.
But this is my favorite. Right here. I love that he just GOES FOR IT, and also what an amazing approximation this entire sequence is of the original.
I do not doubt Male Taylor Swift's commitment to sparkle motion.
All of the comments on Towle Road and Queerty were about how hot Baseball Player was. And while I agree that he is good-looking, I do not agree that he is the more attractive of the two dudes. HELLO, MALE TAYLOR SWIFT.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SLOW MO 1:26. The combination of the slow motion, the audience dying, and a catch in the singer's voice that hints to me that he's trying not to crack the fuck up gets me every time.
I really, really enjoy how awkwardface and smitten Male Taylor Swift is throughout this entire scene.
The moment where the audience's collective gleeful shriek won me over.
Also where the guy playing Male Taylor Swift totally won me over.
LOOK AT HIS LITTLE "YOU JUST BRUSHED MY HAIR WITH YOUR FINGERS" FACE.
That is a hilarious face, Baseball Player. Side note: while I did not particularly enjoy the group's Glee parody, this dude was a perfect Finn.
This is the other part where I laugh every time. This entrance is so good.
I actually really enjoy the way this video was shot. Weird yellow sky! Fun fact: the dude playing him is, in fact, actually on the baseball team as well as being a member of the a cappella group, so that is his for-real uniform. The big dude who the girlfriend hits on is also in the group. I got curious and started Googling these guys.
OTHER FUN FACT THAT I JUST REALIZED: if you look at the back row of the bleachers when the video is showing the slo-mo reaction shots to the home run, you can see Male Taylor Swift hopping up and down in besotted excitement, clasping his hands over his heart and beaming with pride, while all the dude-bros around him throw their arms up and scream.
I deeply enjoy this video.
For some reason this face cracks me up every time. Oh dude. You and your bizarre tuxedo-with-tails.
This is my favorite facial expression in the entire video.
No, seriously.
I will be presenting the rest of this bizarre entry without commentary.
NOPE THAT WAS A LIE. I have such a thing for someone-taking-glasses-off-someone-else's-face. I think it's super hot. I can't explain it. Okay, I probably can. There is something weirdly intimate and vulnerable about it; taking away a shield, and having to be gentle.
I stand by my assessment of this being the cuter one.
(Whoops glasses continuity error, gentlemen, but that faaaaaace I don't even care.)
THE END.
I seriously am soliciting name suggestions for jock-gentleman. Also, it is SO HILARIOUS trying to actually make this whole set-up make some sort of cohesive sense (are you in high school? are you in college? why do you have a small child's bedroom??). Not that I'm writing stuff. Or anything.
ETA 11/22/11: So the YellowJackets posted a new version of the video late last year and I've just recently noticed it. In addition to running the professionally-recorded audio track over it and adding a few little quick clips here and there, they changed the last shot, presumably because of the glasses continuity error. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT:
Do my eyes deceive me or is that a hand tipping his chin up??
I don't think my eyes deceive me!
(FAAAAAACE!!!)
I mean, you all already know this about me. But I feel better starting this post with that disclaimer.
I talked about that video a few days ago! I enjoyed it! I ... am still enjoying it, because I am still watching it! I don't really know why! I mean, it's adorable and I know exactly why I like it, but I'm not sure why it struck such an intense chord with me. Or why I laugh every. single. time. at 1:26. But I want to talk about it more, so I'm going to here.
(I feel like I have lost it.)
So apparently, this video is kind of famous?? It was posted last fall but it started making the link rounds last month; Queerty, Towle Road, Perez Hilton, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. I went to read the articles on the queer sites and some of the comments surprised me. /Made me lol a little. My favorite (and I saw this multiple times) was probably "WHAT THE FUCK the jock-guy's ex should have been a dude!!!" Well! "You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset"; "she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts"; "she wears high heels, I wear sneakers." The whole song is she, she, she.
I mean -- I know it would have been possible to just ignore the pronouns and do the video with all men, but a huge part of the fun of the parody for me is that they didn't have to change a single word and it fit delightfully. These commenters were in HIGH DUDGEON that the ex was a WOMAN. HORRORS. Oh, indignant dude (most of them were dudes, from what I could tell) commenters. I totally get wanting to queer up narratives, but female-ex or no female-ex, it's already a queer narrative; bisexuals/people who are somewhere on the queer-identifying spectrum other than 'gay'/people who realize their sexuality later in life do exist. It's not a calamity that the character has an ex-girlfriend.
ANYWAY.
I think what I mostly enjoy about the video is how goofy-and-yet-genuine it feels. It's funny, but it pokes fun gently and -- in my mind, at least -- without doing any disrespect. I just find it really fun. The two leads are easy on the eyes, are funny, and have pretty good chemistry; the audience reaction (cheering the guys on once they realize what's happening) amps the whole thing up for me; and the shots are just so on when it comes to parodying the Taylor Swift original. It's lighthearted and silly and sweet and makes me laugh. That is why I like it.
(Here ends any halfway coherent commentary. The rest will involve me going: BWAHHHHH and FAAAAAAACE.)
Meanwhile, Male Taylor Swift is reading Twilight. Seriously! Look at the book!
If dude had hair, it would have swung magnificently when he made this turn. Hilarity.
I want to icon this. I would use it pretty much all the time.
And this.
Yeah, I just want to icon everything involving signs. (But then I get into the murky area of "is it weird to have icons of a parody video made by people who really aren't professional actors or in the public eye?" I would personally be weirded out to discover that someone had made an LJ icon out of my face, even after my video had gotten 100,000 hits on YouTube.
I guess it can't be much weirder than the fact that I'm requesting fan fiction about their characters for Yuletide.)
But I am still naming the characters for my own nefarious purposes.
This makes me laugh EVERY TIME. What is he even??
Male Taylor Swift has some pretty fucking sweet air guitar moves.
But this is my favorite. Right here. I love that he just GOES FOR IT, and also what an amazing approximation this entire sequence is of the original.
I do not doubt Male Taylor Swift's commitment to sparkle motion.
All of the comments on Towle Road and Queerty were about how hot Baseball Player was. And while I agree that he is good-looking, I do not agree that he is the more attractive of the two dudes. HELLO, MALE TAYLOR SWIFT.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SLOW MO 1:26. The combination of the slow motion, the audience dying, and a catch in the singer's voice that hints to me that he's trying not to crack the fuck up gets me every time.
I really, really enjoy how awkwardface and smitten Male Taylor Swift is throughout this entire scene.
The moment where the audience's collective gleeful shriek won me over.
Also where the guy playing Male Taylor Swift totally won me over.
LOOK AT HIS LITTLE "YOU JUST BRUSHED MY HAIR WITH YOUR FINGERS" FACE.
That is a hilarious face, Baseball Player. Side note: while I did not particularly enjoy the group's Glee parody, this dude was a perfect Finn.
This is the other part where I laugh every time. This entrance is so good.
I actually really enjoy the way this video was shot. Weird yellow sky! Fun fact: the dude playing him is, in fact, actually on the baseball team as well as being a member of the a cappella group, so that is his for-real uniform. The big dude who the girlfriend hits on is also in the group. I got curious and started Googling these guys.
OTHER FUN FACT THAT I JUST REALIZED: if you look at the back row of the bleachers when the video is showing the slo-mo reaction shots to the home run, you can see Male Taylor Swift hopping up and down in besotted excitement, clasping his hands over his heart and beaming with pride, while all the dude-bros around him throw their arms up and scream.
I deeply enjoy this video.
For some reason this face cracks me up every time. Oh dude. You and your bizarre tuxedo-with-tails.
This is my favorite facial expression in the entire video.
No, seriously.
I will be presenting the rest of this bizarre entry without commentary.
NOPE THAT WAS A LIE. I have such a thing for someone-taking-glasses-off-someone-else's-face. I think it's super hot. I can't explain it. Okay, I probably can. There is something weirdly intimate and vulnerable about it; taking away a shield, and having to be gentle.
I stand by my assessment of this being the cuter one.
(Whoops glasses continuity error, gentlemen, but that faaaaaace I don't even care.)
THE END.
I seriously am soliciting name suggestions for jock-gentleman. Also, it is SO HILARIOUS trying to actually make this whole set-up make some sort of cohesive sense (are you in high school? are you in college? why do you have a small child's bedroom??). Not that I'm writing stuff. Or anything.
ETA 11/22/11: So the YellowJackets posted a new version of the video late last year and I've just recently noticed it. In addition to running the professionally-recorded audio track over it and adding a few little quick clips here and there, they changed the last shot, presumably because of the glasses continuity error. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT:
Do my eyes deceive me or is that a hand tipping his chin up??
I don't think my eyes deceive me!
(FAAAAAACE!!!)
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*loves this vid anew*
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I CAN'T TYPE
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*sprinkles hearts on you, this video, Edluke, and Male Taylor Swift*
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<3333333
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That's how you know you've made it. *nod* :P
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(SIGH, I am so making icons.)
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:DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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and I totally was like AHAHAHA, because previously I'd gotten to this post via the direct link on your letter? And, um, apparently I actually hadn't stalked you before (oddly enough) and thus had NEVER SEEN THE TEXT OVER THE LJ-CUT. Ahahahahahaha, "incisive commentary with illustrative pictures."
Oh, man, probably this level of amusement is a sign I should go to sleep.
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My journal is actually mostly not-fic! I just f-lock all my other content. Which totally reminds me that I was going to friend you, so I am going to go do that now!
(I hope you slept.)