Noise du Jour’s Monster Mash: “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys
Posted by Eliza Gauger
This video (and stupidly enjoyable track) must have cost at least a cool million, but the Backstreet Boys didn’t care. They were riding high on Lou Perlman’s buggery adoration, they had legions of teenage girls at their beck and call, and it was the nineties, so nobody bothered telling them (to their faces) how stupid they looked, acted, and sounded.
When you’re that rich, that vaunted, and that young, what can you do? Why, a Thriller rip-off that will live in infamy for a chosen few, of course. Namely, me and the rest of the malcontents who were impressionable youth during that cursed era.
And by impressionable, I mean we thought backflipping werewolves were pretty much the golden apex of comedy. We still think that.
Why am I posting this on Cthursday? Pay attention to the gangly gentleman in the deceptively intellectual glasses, with the briefcase and the obsession with staring away from the camera at exactly a ninety-degree angle. I assume he’s supposed to be some sort of Jekyll/Hyde manifestation, but his bifurcation is less monstrous than it is piscean. My hypothesis is that some concept artist snuck that one past the board, giggling into his dog-eared copy of the Compleat Works of Lovecraft the while.
But I don’t think backflipping werewolves had to be snuck past anyone.
Categories: Perverts, Stupidity, Exploitation, Supernatural, Anthropomorphism, Mummification, Humor, Hollywood, Victorianism, Boys Boys Boys, Monsters, Horror, Furries, Cthulhu Cthursday, Noise du Jour, Time Travel, Lovecraft, Vampires, Homosexuals, Transhumanism, Ephemera
Posted at 1:55 pm on December 6, 2007
8 Comments -
God, the choreography.
Comment by Rit — December 6, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
TAG OF THE DAY: back street boys and homosexuals
Comment by Adam Cybulski — December 6, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
Hmmmm……never expected to see the Backstreet Boys here, that in and of itself seems the work of some malevolent elder god :). While not a fan of Robbie Williams, that vid had a considerable amount of charm, I don’t know that I can get on board with this one though (backflipping lycanthropes aside).
Comment by Peter — December 6, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Wow, that’s a lot of tags.
Comment by Mike — December 6, 2007 @ 3:25 pm
“Beck and call” vs. “beckon call” - which is better and which is more proper?
Comment by jim — December 7, 2007 @ 12:42 am
I believe it’s beck and call.
Comment by Mike — December 7, 2007 @ 3:45 am
It shames me to know this, but Robbie Williams was actually in Take That, not the Backstreet Boys.
Also, any music video with wannabe Michael Jackson choreography is instant comedy — just watch any one dancer and imagine that he’s doing those moves all by himself.
Comment by Benjamin Rooney — December 7, 2007 @ 11:41 am
I watched it with the sound off because I didn’t want to pause the music from Super Glove Ball on my .nsf player… I like the mummy girls.
Comment by Evil Jim — December 8, 2007 @ 7:06 am