I watched this bit from Norway’s Got Talent, featuring a pianist/composer from Romania:
The judges all speak English — their common language — to Bogdan, and switch to Norwegian when speaking to his Norwegian boss.In my experience, a lot of Scandinavian pop/rock/metal bands perform primarily in English. I assume it’s due to a high rate of bilingualism and the fact that the English-speaking market is so huge compared to the Norwegian/Finnish/Swedish/etc.-speaking markets.
I like this parody of it:
Smelt of trying-too-hard to me 
Nice idea, could work on the execution a little though 
That’s great. Never forget that Nelson Mandela lives in Massachusetts.
F*** the apartheid!
Saturday Night Live just did a parody of the song called What Does My Girl Say - I would link to a video, but they keep disappearing. Maybe if you search you can see one quickly. 
It was horrible. My friend was showing it to me, but I made him take it off after about a minute. I don’t see any humor in it at all.
Hulu doesn’t work for non-US locations without redirecting.
I thought the “What Does the Fox Say” video was hilarious. Probably watched it half a dozen times.
And this is a nice parody:
The give-away to me was the subtitles. Twice, a “J” is used to indicate what, in English, would be the “Y” sound. I noticed that the first time I viewed it, and then looked at the people in the video and thought: Scandinavian.
I loved the “fox” video. I think its because of how much the singer commits to the bit. Too many parodies have people kinda winking at the camera, or rolling their eyes along with the audience. That guy manages to make eye contact with the camera while jumping around in a fox onsie and look like he’s deadly serious about emoting to his audience through his moving lyrics about not knowing what sound a fox makes.
Yeah, that’s exactly it. Committing. Appropriate that SNL is brought up because that’s how they handle satire. No smirking, no trying to hold back a snicker, just full on taking it deadly serious and thats what can make it hilarious. I grew up with Carol Burnett who would, along with the rest of the cast, regularly lose it during a sketch. Yeah, fun but when SNL came along and, ironically, “played it straight” it took comedy to a new level.
I can’t quite buy into satirizing a satire though. Ylvis scored with their satire of cheesy pop artists so try something else SNL.
You didn’t see the opening skit on SNL last night then. In fact, that’s a common attribute of SNL’s skits.
I wonder how long it will be before a Klingon version appears, asit did for Gangnam Style.
What’s Klingon for “geringdingding dingdingeringeding”?
My friend has a DJ business and if he has a room full of kids he can put this song on and they will go nuts dancing to it. I have seen it. It wasn’t pretty.
This thing is horrible, and its struggling for views, having only 215 million after 2 months. 
I think I have it figured out now.
Step one, make the video. Don’t worry that it’s going to be terrible. You’ve never done anything like this before, of course it’s going to be terrible. That doesn’t matter. Just make something. Put lyrics on paper, get the band and instruments and costumes, perform, shoot.
Then put it on a website. Preferably YouTube, of course, but anything accessible and with at least reasonable quality will suffice. The beauty of YouTube is that you bypass the biggest stumbling block with bad music videos, namely, getting anyone to watch them. Online shoppers don’t want to pay to see your dreck. Advertisers won’t pay to get your dreck on television. Taking money out of the equation fixes this. As an added bonus, most viewers will be a lot more forgiving of a work that they don’t have to pay or sit through commercials for.
Then sit back as the ever-predictable Internet outrage machine does all the publicity work for you. You know these guys. They can never just say “this is bad” and be done with it. No, it has to be a 10,000 word essay explaining how much your video sucks, or shrieking to the high heavens over four minutes they’ll never get back, or a fire-and-brimstone denunciation of your very existence, or a smear job that would make a presidential candidate blush, or a point-by-point comparison of 25 things they’d rather do than watch your video, or that dependable standby, the dead-horse-o-rama (“This video’s suckitude is over nine thousaaaand! It sounds like it took an arrow to the knee! Oppa crappam style! Chuck Norris!”). And no matter what, they absolutely will not shut up, ever, and your notoriety will grow and grow. Trust me, these idiots NEVER learn. Bonus points if there are strident cries for everyone to ignore you, which is an ironclad guarantee that everyone’s not going to ignore you.
And finally, people pay money for it, maybe out of spite, maybe because if you’re getting this much hype you must be doing something right, maybe because they genuinely like you better than Justin Bieber (yeah, talk about a low bar…). Either way, it’s the start of your musical career, or at worst a nice windfall and a funny story you can tell your grandchildren.
Okay, maybe it doesn’t always work like that. But hey, you already paid for the video camera, whaddya got to lose, eh?
(Oh, and before anyone asks, I don’t think Rebecca Black intended to use this formula, she just caught a lucky break and wisely decided to run with it.)