Best Novelty Song of the '00s?

Weird Al? The Lonely Island? Someone else?
What's your choice for the best novelty song of the decade?

my humps

thong song

put a donk on it

ship otm

Danger High Voltage

The Cheeky Girls - The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)

I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE!

Ha! Two of these songs are in my top five (four, really) of the decade and one is in my top fifteen. So keep em comin you cheeky boys/girls.

My contribution is Fast Food Rockers: "Fast Food Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dPXxPGbmM

chocolate rain

"Rockin' the Beer Gut"

Tenacious D - "Fuck Her Gently" (plus essential Spumco video)
http://myplay.com/videos/tenacious-d/fhg

so what definition of novelty song are we working for? wikipedia's?

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs.

tenacious d are the worst

Yeah I fuckin hate that song

I must believe that "my humps" was performed principally for its comical effect.

Man idunno, in retrospect "my humps" legit seems like the best BEP single, while "choc rain" is so obviosly going after that viral audience and artists like sisqo will forever be associated with their "thong songs"

*obviously

i don't think "chocolate rain" was obv going for an lol viral audience!

"Acceptable in the 80s"

I don't believe in the concept "performed principally for its comical effect" because I don't believe in the intentional fallacy! carry on

tenacious d are the worst

― can i ox (J0rdan S.), Sunday, August 23, 2009 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Aren't you the collegehumor.com stan? stfu go watch the Whitest Kids U Know

haha you misstrawmanned me on both accounts, sorry

I kinda better the definition of novelty song as a song where the structure/whatever is so WTF that nobody would ever try to copy it i.e. Chocolate Rain or My Humps

United States Of Whatever

If The Darkness and Andrew WK count for this then I guess..

Because I Got High

^i'm gonna go with this

actually my favorite is this if this counts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKr0DeUuy-o

What What (In The Butt)

^not saying it is, but it should definitely be nominated.

Oh yeah Afroman is the clear winner here.

Man idunno, in retrospect "my humps" legit seems like the best BEP single, while "choc rain" is so obviosly going after that viral audience and artists like sisqo will forever be associated with their "thong songs"

― Alex in '83 (k3vin k.), Monday, August 24, 2009 12:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh it definitely is: best Black Eyed Peas single

I wonder how well "Boom Boom Pow" would do if that poll was made today.

Blink 182 - Fuck A Dog obv

;)

Feel Good Hit of the Summer

"Boom Boom Pow" would get -1 votes god willing

Daphne and Celeste - "U.G.L.Y."
Crazy Frog - "Axel F"
Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback Girl"
Lil' Mama - "Lip Gloss"
Young B and Webstar - "Chicken Noodle Soup"

You people are not trying hard enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbkxaHV4HkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MVCgoW7aa0

Dollyrots - "Because I'm Awesome"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Vze7ZlLH8

Yo Gabba Gabba - "Party in My Tummy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-nnauvOn4

Does "Trapped in the Closet" count?

Robin Sparkles - "Let's Go to the Mall"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF1b1pf9DRY

Make that Kidz Bop - Axel F (Crazy Frog)

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Er, right...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcsOyJZTrEc

Buckwheat Boyz - Peanut Butter Jelly Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

Soulja Boy - YAHHH!

White n Nerdy by a wide wide wiiiiiiiide margin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

das racist- combination pizza hut and taco bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04

(and arbitrary, considering how ridiculous their champions are)

part of what i love about popular music is how, from a certain angle, pretty much everybody looks like a novelty-shlepping ass clown. lou reed, godfather of alternative rock or mr. "walk on the wildside"? d'angelo, reclusive genius or that dude who stood around bare ass naked to whimpering sounds? to be any good you have to have a certain degree of ridiculousness.

NOBODY liked this song except me:

Dan Le Sac v. Scroobius Pip - "Thou Shalt Always Kill"

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, August 28, 2009 2:54 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark

^^ fucking hate this record

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - "I Keed I Keed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqJM4xM-oE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE

bitch, where'd the mothafuckin cheese go at?

posted it upthread, dude

"Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy"

I'm sure there's a whole thread worth of country novelties, but "Save a Horse" is the only one I'd really expect to show up prominently on most decade-end lists etc.

Would throw "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" in there with it, I think.

this thread should totally become a classic-style poll though. not the OMGWTFLOL one though b/c as observed that one is full of utterly ordinary good songs - I think "Return of the Mack" is in there for pete's sake!

"Ticks" isn't far from a novelty song.

yeah "return of the mack" was the one where i was like ok i give up

had no idea "Thong Song" was still this decade, seems older than "Blame Canada"

it was released in 2000 as the 2nd single from a 1999 album

No Aaron Carter so far, but here's two:

Aaron's Party (Come and Get It) (embedding disabled on the official video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSwXRqrJ0U

That's How I Beat Shaq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oITCug7v7Q

Dahv - Mean Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBpsmKhUFJk

No Youtube for Pass the Shirley Temple

Girlicious - Stupid Shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmdbZZ1kvg

Hmmmm, does "Teenage Dirtbag" count?

Yeah probably, great song

Schnappi Das Kleine Krokodil + dance remixes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3FG4EOgyU

Scooter - RAMP! The Logical Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tj6DDdzAQc

2Ge+her - "U + Me = Us (Calculus)" and "Before We Say Goodbye"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEKWZk16N_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTgCooAHI0

I'm going to say The Collected Works of Jonathan Coulton here, too. Esp "Re: Your Brains", "Code Monkey", "Still Alive", "The Future Soon", and "Chiron Beta Prime". Hear em all here: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads/

And an unplugged version of "Code Monkey":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8S7QxpjeY

whoever does a classic-style poll for this decade's novelty songs should have a stronge hand to make sure people don't vote for perfectly ordinary popular songs out of giggly nostalgia/racism, because i didn't

no need for a poll imo, but otm

did i miss it or has no-one posted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

Morningwood is borderline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YfJTOGg2M

And I don't think anyone mentioned any Electric Six yet...

Miley Cyrus - "Wake Up America"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytT-8n5IZE

^Uh, wouldn't argue this anywhere near "best," it's probably just her most WTF song. "Hoedown Throwdown" probably counts, I guess, as does (sort of) "Party in the U.S.A." I'm surprised more Disney stuff doesn't own this list, but they imported a lot of their straight-up novelty. Do like Skye Sweetnam's "Why Doesn't Santa Like Me" though, for one of their Xmas comps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYduaPNLSY

No one's mentioned Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction or Ying Yang Twins "Wait"

there was a day that I couldn't make myself stop listening to "tooth fairy": myspace.com/mademoiselleallegra

shout outs to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYvH7Gjbxh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX5_OWObA0

Should at least be one hyphy track here... Mistah F.A.B. "Ghost Ride It"?

Afroman, "Industry Diss"

Chacarron Macarron, obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkHIZg_954

"Hoedown Throwdown" is utter garbage on record. But to show I'm not a cold-hearted Disney hater, here's a song from Phineas & Ferb in German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDLYJ2_2Ro

Oh man, Dynamite Hack was 2000!

I listened to that myspace for that little girl singer (I posted a while back) for two hours straight.... I wonder if anyone else likes one or more of those tunes.

This thread is really entertaining! i haven't gone back yet to hear more yet, Captain, but i think i will!!

United States Of Whatever
― billstevejim, Monday, August 24, 2009 6:30 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

I think "The Bad Touch" barely missed out on this decade, but I like "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" better anyway.

Seriously if we're talking "Best" and not just "omg remember this random novelty song from the 00's" some of these are pretty piss choices.

Does "Purple Pills" count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gb4zj7M5ec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQTXawaAKNA

One slightly embarassed vote for Flight of the Conchords here, dead heat between "Bowie's In Space" and "Foux du Fafa". BOEUF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93FT-STxDGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWD2QlZS_yc

'gay bar'

Well, just naming the best novelty song of the decade wouldn't be a very interesting thread. As has already been mentioned, it's getting harder to understand exactly what a novelty song is this decade. But I think of this thread as, "if you made a 100-song CD-R of novelty songs from the 00's, what would have to go on there?" But to do something like that you have to both wade through and include a lot of utter shit (to someone); that's part of what makes it a novelty song!

And "Bad Touch" was a 2000 single from a '99 album.