I found the Aha one funny for the first minute or so. Now I fully expect this idea to be beaten to death like the re-cut movie trailer gimmick a few years back.
This is definitely "You Had To Be There"/"You Gotta Appreciate the Singing" territory, folks. My nephew doesn't get it, my best friend does. Life goes on...
Does anyone remember their video before the big-toothed, pretentious one took over the group? It wasn't a great song, but, at least there was less of the pretentious one in the video. Totally put me off the group when all we saw was the one guy... Felt sorry for the other one. Maybe he was the lesser talented, I don't know. But, man, I wish they'd done something else in their videos but focus on toothy!
Ah, Valerie, don't be mean to toothy. He was the original emo kid. Seriously, watch some of their old videos, and he just looks SO sad, and you know he's not faking it. (That's a boy who obviously got picked on a lot in gym class, poor thing.) If I remember, he wrote most of their songs, so it's natural he'd be upfront. Maybe it just seemed odd because there was this more conventionally handsome guy hiding in the background, while this toothy little guy was in your face singing.
Still gotta give them credit, though.
Take On Me was way better, though. It must be topped! (sorry, woogie)
do you like my mullet? Business in front...party in back.
i hope they make lots more of these :)
It already seems like it might be a new meme... Still, only one group has done it so far, so perhaps not.
They should do one of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by the one-and-only Rick Astley