I suddenly find myself wondering what a Tori Amos cover of Metal Machine Music would sound like.
kung foo lola, that would be all be true, and the end of it, if she wasn’t also known for all the covers she does in her live shows, done much the same style.
Still, I’m not complaining - her cover of the actual song Strange Little Girls, while not as good as the Stranglers original (few things are as good as good Stranglers) is at least quite good, and I like listening to it. What more could one ask for? Oh yeah, a nice video, which it has.
As for the Alanis - I love it, it is very funny (although I’m of the mindset that the BEP original is also a little tongue-in-cheek). I’ve thought Alanis looked really good since One Hand in My Pocket, though. Still, my ideal woman is Natalie Merchant, so it figures.
At least she’s smart enough to know she couldn’t do this without including self-parody.
Fwiw, I’d think it’s more than a dig at vapid pop, I suspect it’s also a feminist not happy with some of the values and self-objectification she sees being celebrated and promoted by her fellow artists.
Can feel the exasperation, well, anger really.
Love the guys bustin’ their moves, as well.
Ironically, I found her earlier “Ironic” incarnation much more attractive. In fact, I’m sort of appalled that some of y’all find her more attractive in this parody. And puzzled that you didn’t notice how hot she was before now. Makes me think all y’all really notice is the trappings (and that you have bad taste in trappings).
Unless you’re the label and you gleefully dump a shitty album on the market to embarrass the departed star…see Dylan.
OK, this is just weird . I just finished watching it (loved it, funny as all get-out) and I swear, not 30 seconds later, MSNBC did a short piece about it.
doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo…
I’ve always liked Alanis, though her work can be inconsistent. This, however, was great! I like the original, too; I think that adds to my appreciation of her parody.
Wonder what Fergie thinks of it?
Brillant!
I wonder if she thinks, period.
In the original Humps video Fergie was sprawled out on Louis Vuitton luggage.
Nah, I was just looking at her face for the purpose of my previous statement. It could simply be a matter of where my tastes were back then, and tastes change over time. I heard a lot of guys mention how “hot” she was, but I didn’t see it at the time. But in this video, I do like the way she looks. shrug Maybe it’s the straight hair.
I loved it. It’s the funniest song I’ve seen since “White and Nerdy.” I liked the part where she dances around and practically humps all the guys’ legs, then lays a beating on them for daring to think of her sexually. And the “drama” part. 
I would like to know who all the guys in the video were.
Luckily (or not, I guess), the Black Eyed Peas “My Humps” was also on YouTube. I’m blissfully free of almost any pop music radio in my life, I’d never heard the original or seen the video. Where do people even see top 40 videos these days? MTV is all Jackass and stuff like that, they do still have Headbanger’s Ball, but I don’t remember seeing any actual “pop” videos on there in forever.
But what’s up with Fergie? Seems like the last time I had to check out a BEP video it was her doing “Fergalicious” (or maybe it was her solo, who knows). Now this. Is that all she does, sing songs agout how fine she thinks she is?
That original won a Grammy. I wish to hell I was kidding.
She pees all over it.
Or maybe she just happens to be really close to it when she pees all over herself and there’s some, y’know, collateral drainage.
Whatever.
During her “Ironic” incarnation I was in the early stages of puberty and not willing to admit I could admire other girls as hot. I have an ironclad excuse! Woo!
<snerk> For the pop culture ignorant, I found you a picture to catch you up on things.
…Fergie peed on South Carolina?
that was absolutely hilarious! Just the fact that they bothered to produce it at all is just hilarious parody. I can’t wait to see if this gets a response from the Black Eyed Peas…
Methinks we are witnessing a clipboard malfunction.
for the record
That was great - and representative of what she’s really all about - funny, witty, ironic and ascerbic. I remember an album she released was reviewed in WIRED Magazine a couple years ago. The review said the lyrics “sound like the internal monologue of your psycho ex-girlfriend from college.” Brilliant.