Thursday, February 26, 2004
Strange animal music videos
Well, I've spent enough time bouncing around on Rather Good to at least notice, if not completely decode, Joel Veitch's love for mutant singing animals, and songs that involve them. The whole monkey thing with Elvis--find it yourself--is proof enough of a demented obsession taken to its pointedly disturbing extremes--though I'm not going to deny that it is funny. And the website is filled with loads of other, less offensive dancing, singing animals--or, in the case of the Pavarotti bit, animals being sung to or about.
I think, however, that Veitch's obsession is only indicative of a broader trend that lays somewhere else in the matrix of Dante's new digital hell--setting animals to music. I need only refer you to the now-ancient phenomenon of Hampsters dancing. Seems now the venerable hampsters have won their own little interactive world complete with a thumping remix of the original theme, and you have to navigate through a series of menus these days to even get to the evil thing that started off two whole genres of internet vice: the broader category of general things that dance, and the more specific topic at hand, animals set to music.
Now there's this whole thing about badgers, which I heard about on Elizabeth Lane Lawley's blog. I looked up the whole badger phenomenon on Blogdex, and it seems like this badger deal ran through the blogs a couple months ago, but on Blogdex it's referenced at a few different websites. Seems like the badgers, not unlike their rodent cousins, have become big enough for their own webpage now, too.
The Vietch phenomenon, dancing rodents, and now badgers and snakes--I suppose that's enough to triangulate the dancing animal theory. See you in hell, badgers.
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