Apart from the ironic bit. That’s just a shame.
I think it was as much a sendup of Tori’s cover of *Smells Like Teen Spirit * as it was of My Humps. SLTS was the first thing I thought of when I watched this- same sort of haunting melody, slowed way down, very self-important and overly serious. It was pretty much a template for this.
That’s what I figured, but it did amuse me to imagine her desecrating states.
Of course, now I have to deal with the fact that I’ve seen Fergie’s urine. On her pants. While she’s wearing them. Ewwwwww. The claim that it was just sweat is ridiculous. Even if you were running in 90 degree weather in 100% humidity you wouldn’t get sweat like that.
I’m watching Alanis’ video now. It’s great! I didn’t think she had that good of a sense of humor. I definitely prefer it, especially because it doesn’t have that catchy tune that Fergie’s version does that gets stuck in your head and even when you realize in horror that you’re singing “My humps” you still can’t get it out of your head.
that was the FIRST thing I thought! oh god, can we please just have Fergie cover “You Oughta Know” or some other overly-angsty Alanis song PLEEEEEEEASE
I definitely disagree. MOST people wouldn’t, but believe it or not, there are some people in the world who just have unusually sweaty crotches. I would know… I’ve washed their pants.
Besides, if she’d peed herself, it would’ve probably spread fairly quickly and half the damn audience would’ve noticed at once, whereas sweat would leak through over time. And a pee spot would’ve been a lot bigger.
She admitted to peeing herself in an interview. I read it in a magazine so I’ve got no links, but she claimed that she had drunk a whole heap just before going onstage then just got “So pumped a little just leaked out”
On preview - not quite the same quote, but still. She admits it.
I think it’s great. On a par with Weird Al at his weirdest.
That would require her to sing a song with more than fifteen different words.
I have loathed the dumbed down “thug homie” culture since Marky Mark showed his boxers back in the early 90’s. It was refreshing to see Alanis skewer “My Humps” like she did. I was sipping the sarcasm like a fine wine.
OK. Now I’ve got a Weird Al parody running through my head, video and all.
My Gump
My Gump
My Lonely Forrest Gump…
(Yeah, I know he already worked Forrest Gump into a parody. Probably why I thought of it.)
Sailboat
OK, I had to see the original BEP version.
I just threw up in my mouth a bit there.
Haven’t seen or heard the original or cover of My Humps, but you can be deliberately sexy and a parody at the same time, for instance, when Natalie Merchant wore a little red thing in her SNL performance where the Maniacs did “Candy Everybody Wants,” a song about contentless TV with just sex and violence. It was simultaneously parodic and sexier than usual for Merchant.
Sadly, no. 
You and I should form a club. Not a very fashionable or trendy one, though.
Um… Who is Fergie?
Seriously?
MTV, MTV2, and VH1 show music videos a lot more than people think they do. All three have a weekly top-video countdown each week, IIRC.
My Humps
My Humps
My Humps are on Fire…
I got nothin’.
Must be during the hours I’m not watching, and I even spend a little time on VH1 and VH1 Classics. I know MTV still has the Video Music Awards, so I guess they must show them sometime.
So… I guess I’m the only one who liked the original song more than the cover, huh? Mind you, I didn’t like either video, I tend to dislike most BEP videos, except for the one about the dating show.
For what it’s worth, Weird Al sings “You Oughta Know” far better than either Alanis Morrissete or Richard Cheese does, but he only sings a couple lines of it.