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Lionel Richie’s “Hello, Is It Me You’re Looking For?” created with movie clips? Wave goodbye to the Internet as you knew it. Wave hello to the new Internet.
“I’m just going to find a bunch of people saying ‘Holy Moly!’ in different movies and put that together and that will be enough.” No. It won’t. Not anymore. Note to Tumblr: YOU BETTER DRUMLINE! (Via AnimalNY.)
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IT’S STARTING. Can you feel it? The beginning of the end. The prophecies are true…
Why would you even bother with this? The original video is already PEFRECT.
You guys, I really, REALLY just feel like this pales in comparison to the actual video for this song, which features, as its crowning moment, teacher Lionel Richie calling blind high school student who is INTO him on her phone, and saying “Hello, is it me you’re looking for,” and then hanging up.
no. we’ve all seen the video. this is not trying to be that video. that type of video is dead. all music videos must now be submitted in the form of a supercut. thank you.
Ooh. Now do “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”
True story. Sometime last century I was in a high school history class in which everyone had to write a brief report on one of the references made in We Didn’t Start the Fire. It was epic.
Ha, we did that in 7th grade. I did Bay of Pigs because I thought it sounded funny.
Gabe, the song is just called “Hello.” It was from the “Can’t Slow Down EP,” released in 1983 as a followup to his self-titled debut album. Everyone knows this as it marked a definitive shift from Lionel’s earlier work as a Commodore and as a new solo artist.
now tell us about Huey Lewis and the News
Okay, but I have to return some videotapes first.
Excuse me, professor Brainiac, but Lionel Richie had already marked the shift from R&B to a more pop sound with his collaboration with Kenny Rogers and the song, “Lady”, released in 1980, which Richie wrote and produced. The “Can’t Slow Down” EP was just the culmination of that potential.
You are absolutely correct, though because it was a commissioned ballad with a country-leaning pop singer it is vastly overlooked. (And his collaboration with one Ms. Diana Ross on “Endless Love” was barely a deviation from the R&B genre, though one could make the case that the Commodores were primarily a funk band and funk was more pop-leaning than R&B but were pigeonholed into the genre because disco was taking over the pop charts and, well, racism.)
(Of course this is provided that one is looking directly at the funk spectrum with James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone on one end and Earth, Wind and Fire and Herbie Hancock’s jazz-fusion works at the other with the Commodores placed almost directly in the middle.)
Your homework is to listen to the early works of Parliament Funkadelic and write an essay on how it influenced the early-80s New York hip hop scene… and please do not forget to reference last week’s discussion on the influence the 1970s punk scene also had on the genre. Don’t forget to cite your sources and please do not go directly to Wikipedia as it will be shutting down tomorrow for a SOPA protest.
Crying! these are REAL TEARS….too beautiful….
“THIS IS…” — King Leonidas, “300″
“…really, really…” — Derek Zoolander, “Zoolander.”
“…well done!” — Dr. Watson, “Sherlock Holmes”
“Hahahahahahahaha,” -Max Cady, “Cape Fear”
“Thank you…” — Chip Diller, “Animal House”
“…Jeb.” — Barbara Bush, “W.”
one day all humans will only use the recorded voices of others to communicate.
Just one of the ways robots are already way ahead of us.
I call Werner Herzog.
I’m still waiting on Mystic River Pizza to change the Mashup game.
I have this on a shirt….it does not make girls want to party, karamu or fiesta forever
One one hand, I want to thank whoever has all the time in the world to create this masterpiece of viral entertainment. On the other hand, I have to wonder…actually, ya know what? I’m just going to enjoy this for what it is.
I think Gabe reposting what Kelly did just yesterday is proof positive that they’re different people.
Or maybe it’s to trick us into thinking they’re different people who don’t read each others’ blog posts when actually they are one in the same.
Masterful.