TS: Alanis Morissette "My Humps" vs. Aztec Camera "Jump"

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I won't vote cuz I like Aztec Camera so much.

― peepee, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

For those who haven't seen it

― peepee, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

I usually love Aztec Camera, but "Jump" was one of the worst covers ever and a crime towards the original.-

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

What the fucking fuck?

― The Reverend, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Single of the year.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

I am mind-boggled.

― The Reverend, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, awesome! like tori's smells like teen spirit or veruca salt woman's nwa tribute. i like this best though.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's awesome, though I wish she'd gotten some raspy Hinder type to emote the dude's part (like that dude on "Bring Me To Life").

― da croupier, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

milky cocoa RAWWWWWWWWWWWWGHT!!!!

― da croupier, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

which do people prefer: the super-slow rendition of an uptempo song or a speedy take on a slow song? i guess it depends. sometimes i think the slow ones run the risk of being like steve allen's mock-serious readings of songs like i want to hold your hand on the tonight show or something. i eagerly await fiona apple's version of laffy taffy.

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Is that really Alanis?

― milo z, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

i dont get it

its like she said "here's an even more boring take on an already shitty song plus 'lol urbanwear'"

― deej, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

what don't you get? it's just silly. cuz it's a silly song. get it?

― scott seward, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

The funny part is that Alanis is much better looking than busted-ass Fergie Ferg.

― The Reverend, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know too much about the original of "My Humps", but ain't the gal who sings it suggesting that she likes the attention to her humps, whereas AlanisM is dreading such attention?

Just like in "Jump", which I don't think was originally intended as a suicide note.

I appreciate the effort.

― peepee, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

what. the. fuck.

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

are half the people in this thread living in an alternate universe that never knew dr. demento

― A B C, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

i like that she's changed it to just 'My Hump'. It really puts a whole new level of disturbing on the situation.

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is dr demento? [/surly tuomas]

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! Alanis is a better singer than Fergie.

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

scott otm on the tori comparison...i almost wonder if she's making fun of tori here.

anyway. alanis looks like jennifer love hewitt kinda in the video. it's pretty fun.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

lol rap videos are so funny

― max, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

alanis looks mega hott in this.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

This, uh, blows.

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

ILM now awaiting 4000-word essay from one of the usual suspects on why Fergie version is better...

― M.V., Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the fact that the Fergie version is better wz self-evident!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

ILM now awaiting 4000-word essay from one of the usual suspects on why Fergie version is better...

-- M.V., Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:47 (7 minutes ago)

Hahahah.

― Turangalila, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

what makes it work isn't so much the slowness as the mournfulness. how to "whacha gonna do with all that junk" becomes like an existential crisis. what ARE you gonna do with all that junk?

i think it's funny. the original is pretty funny too, of course.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Needs Hype Williams -- cheapness and self-mockery undercut it too much. Kill the laughter at the end (i.e., would be funnier if it wasn't so eager to give the "joke" away).

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

*thunderclap*

ALANIS...

HYPE...

MY HUMP...

― blueski, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Excuse me, which way to the "I Hate Music" board?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

You're soaking in it.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

In both cases, the cover artist had no clue how funny -- intentionally funny -- the originals were. Smirky covers won't work when that's the case, especially when it comes to mopes like Frame and Morissette.

― The Deacon, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Alanis' ironic sensibility has graduated to undergraduate!

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ocolly.com/read_story.php?a_id=32381

Apparently, thanks to Fergie (and only Fergie), Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, and Donna Karan are now household names.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

So you're telling me The Daily O'Collegian isn't actually handwritten by God at dawn each day, thus eternally flawless and without blame? Your mouth is full of lies.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like it mostly because she's mocking herself just as effectively as the Black Eyed Peas song. She's kinda taking the most grotesque extremes of two decades and slapping them together.

― Mr. Perpetua, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Perpetua OTM.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

So you're telling me The Daily O'Collegian isn't actually handwritten by God at dawn each day, thus eternally flawless and without blame? Your mouth is full of lies.

Oh, I'm sorry... some people find bad journalism humorous. I'll go back to being a cynical asshole now.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Article is crazy bad, I'll give you that.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

So you're telling me The Daily O'Collegian isn't actually handwritten by God at dawn each day, thus eternally flawless and without blame? Your mouth is full of lies.

C'mon, it's shitty, sub-junior high school writing, and we all know it.

― Tantrum The Cat, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

And we all know it. But laughing at shitty journalism in third-rate college newspapers is like laughing at poor hygiene in kindergarden. Fucking kid's running around with applesauce all over his face, can you believe it?

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, or bad spelling in kindergarten. Either way...

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Mr Perpetua is on the money. I don't think Alanis is taking the piss out of the BEP half as much as she's taking the piss out of angsty singer-songwriters. The song wobbles backwards and forwards between its two mirror universes and doesn't privilege either one.

Unfortunately, the cockwads in the Youtube comments don't get this:

this is an amazing critique of american "black" culture and the way it has come to mean ignorance, womanizing, and gross superficiality

but, y'know, smug morons will be smug morons.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Advantage Alanis, though the video gets it the wrong way round: it would be much funnier if she were seated at a piano Tori-style and looking anguished. (It works best as a joke about a category error, as if some miserablist moaner were looking for a song to cover and accidentally chose "My Humps.")

The Aztec Camera is only funny as a joke about Lou Reed!

xpost - amazing critique of American Scottish recovering crystal-meth addict culture?

― nabisco, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha before they started locking up the cold medicine I figured the only good thing about a meth epidemic would be that white people would have to stop being so damn smug about the crack era.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I am crushing on Alanis so hard right now

― Manalishi, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

yeah agreed abt that first part nabisco but itd also be funnier if it wasnt alanis fucking morrissette because then it just sort of comes across as elitist "you should be singing about prozac" type shit.

alanis version still 1000x better because she at least realizes it is truly awful & it will not be played on the radio 40x a day for the next four months. but jesus christ genuinely arguing over which is better is um, well its really stupid.

xpost yeah ive never thought alanis was the slightest bit attractive but she actually looked good in that video

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha noodle vague i would call you a moron for taking that yt comment seriously if i didnt (sadly) know a lot better about yt comments

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

but jesus christ genuinely arguing over which is better is um, well its really stupid.

Yea, smooth move dude.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

's okay, you can call me a moron for really liking both versions of the song.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

o. i will do that then. :)

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

arguing over the 'superior version' is insane.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

smooth man real smooth.

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Lotta smooth talk today.

― Pye Poudre, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

elitist "you should be singing about prozac" type shit.

Now that's a scene I wish to read a NYT article about.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Perpetua is mega-OTMFM. Plus it's a great sideswipe at Tori, who's given the same treatment not just to SLTS but to - let's see - "Angie," "Need You Tonight," "Kashmir," "Losing My Religion"...

― Erroneous Botch, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, what's the aztec camera? They covered Van Halen?

― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://homepages.theonion.com/PersonalPages/sB/images/smoove_b.jpg

Alanis I will drape you in the finest textiles and mutter sexy things as I pour exotic liqueurs into crystal glasses shaped like the Eiffel Tower (or other erotic landmarks)

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

the BEP original will always be better because it wasn't just a funny throwaway parody...er...well it's better to dance to anyway.

― blueski, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, this is just drained from any humour that the original has. Most horrendous thing I heard.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'd admit it would be much funnier if the male lines ("Whatcha gonna do with all that ass?") were handled by, say, Connor Oberst.

― Erroneous Botch, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

This reminds me most of k.d. lang's cover of "Johnny Get Angry" where she was getting slapped all over the stage by an imaginary Johnny and it was a critique of the song but also of all of us for having gone along with it once upon a time, but also just a song, a bit of theatre.

I also like it very much, because it is funny and because she really sings very well on it, big sad voice and such but also not really trying for the zingers but knowing exactly what she's doing.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

April fools, indeed.

― Spinspin Sugah, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like how it flashes her name in huge text at the beginning of the video. HEY REMEMBER ME?

― JW, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

i suspect the alanis morissette album is racist. can anybody confirm/deny?

― modestmickey, Sunday, 8 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

good showing all around guys.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 8 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

There is nothing rascist about this. Unless you consider hip-hop a part of black culture that has been there forever and always will be an integral part of black culture. She is mocking hip-hop, not black people.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

"My Humps" (the original) is sexist though.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.niftyfiftyscifi.com/Clash/c9.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

get you love-drunk, but you feel sober
cuz I got one hump in my pocket

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Lest we forget Tori's awful faux-meaningful cover of "97 Bonnie and Clyde."

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Btw the weirdest thing reading those comments is so many idiots don't tackle irony and sarcasm.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

weird

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

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