# Call me Maybe mashed up with Head Like a Hole **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083 "2013-03-05T12:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/21 "2013-03-05T20:08:46Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > My wife doesn’t like it and doesn’t think it works because it, as she says it, “sounds off.” There is something that sounds a bit off to me as well, and I notice it in the verse, mostly. I haven’t bothered trying to figure out the melody notes and chords though to figure out what exactly it is. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/22 "2013-03-05T21:15:27Z")
I like it, because I’m a conformist pop lover who think NIN is just too harsh, thank you. The standard against which all other mashups measure inferior is [_Smells Like Rockin’ Robin_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUTYHJrutw). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/23 "2013-03-05T21:23:25Z")
Personally, my favorite Call Me Maybe mashup/remix/interpretation/whatever you want to call it would have to be [this version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ure6I6mRyDc) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/24 "2013-03-05T21:30:31Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I like it, because I’m a conformist pop lover who think NIN is just too harsh, thank you. > > The standard against which all other mashups measure inferior is [_Smells Like Rockin’ Robin_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUTYHJrutw). I had never heard that before. That’s pretty damned good. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/25 "2013-03-05T21:33:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Personally, my favorite Call Me Maybe mashup/remix/interpretation/whatever you want to call it would have to be [this version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ure6I6mRyDc) Holy shit? That video is serious business. I wrote off Pomplamouse years ago thinking they just did the same gimmick every time. Was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/26 "2013-03-05T21:49:30Z")
So I’ve been running through different songs all day and I’m starting to suspect that you can play _any_ pop song over the instrumental portion of Call Me Maybe. Well, not just laying it straight over necessarily, due to differing verse/chord structures, but basically, yeah. I’m starting to think. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/27 "2013-03-05T22:46:30Z")
Oh that was beautiful. The Nirvana/Jacksons one was great too. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/28 "2013-03-06T03:29:50Z")
The original “Call Me Maybe” was mixed by a guy named Dave Ogilvie, who earlier in his career was a noted industrial producer who remixed Nine Inch Nails. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/29 "2013-03-06T04:45:25Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I like it, because I’m a conformist pop lover who think NIN is just too harsh, thank you. > > The standard against which all other mashups measure inferior is [_Smells Like Rockin’ Robin_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUTYHJrutw). That is awesome. I could listen to that all day. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/30 "2013-03-06T16:03:21Z")
Just heard this last night. I’m a huge fan of the NIN song but haven’t actually heard the other one all the way through. They fit together in a jarring way. Most songs can be mashed up though. It’s the four chord thing: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5pidokakU4I/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHuBIAC4AKKAgwIABABGHwgIyh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLBTWBQ7OCsntnT61Pl-AftCyWmotw "Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083/31 "2013-03-06T16:29:18Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > Just heard this last night. I’m a huge fan of the NIN song but haven’t actually heard the other one all the way through. They fit together in a jarring way. > > Most songs can be mashed up though. It’s the four chord thing: > > [http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I](http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I) Well, yeah, but you have to be a bit clever and surprising about it. Mashing up songs with exactly the same chord progressions is boring and lazy, in my opinion. It’s like mashing up one blues song with another. Big deal. But Rockin’ Robin with Smells Like Teen Spirit is kind of interesting. With Rockin’ Robin, you got a standard I-IV-V rock-and-roll number. With Smells Like Teen Spirit, you’ve got i-IV-bIII-bVI, a rather modern and unusual progression. However, somebody noticed that Kurt’s minor key melody works perfectly over rock-and-roll chords, and the sparseness of the Rockin Robin arrangement helps. What impresses me most is how well the chorus of Teen Spirit meshes with the bridge of Rockin’ Robin. That’s kind of inspired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-maybe-mashed-up-with-head-like-a-hole/652083.md?page=1)