Saturday, December 04, 2010

Bemusing? Brilliant? You Make the Call!

Gylne Tider (Golden Times), a kitschy Norwegian show which chases faded celebrities, recently released a video--a promo for their fourth series--which has gone kind of viral, according to the Paper of Record:
And what better way to bring to life the concept of such a show than by bringing together dozens of these celebrities to sing and/or lip-sync “Let It Be”?

You’ll surely recognize some of the faces that turn up in the course of this video (including, sadly, Leslie Nielsen – R.I.P.) and even if you don’t read a lick of Norwegian, you should have no trouble discerning the meaning of identifying captions...

I honestly have no idea what I think of this whole thing: what do you think?

(Tonya Harding next to Glenn Close? Really? And they said postmodernism was dead!)

12 comments:

Billy B said...

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!

That really was great, NYM.

steve simels said...

That is the damndest thing I've ever seen.

I'm speechless. Seriously.

Larry Drake AND Milli Vanilli? It's mindboggling...

billy b said...

Who is Larry Blake?

steve simels said...

The actor -- a really good one -- who played the retarded guy on la law.

Billy B said...

Thanks, steve - I never caught that show, so I'm not familiar with the dude.

That video is amazing tho. Katrina Witt playing air guitar? heh.

Anonymous said...

so how much are the "beatles" (lennon/mccartney) making on royalities on this anyway? i guess music on apple itunes was just the beginning of the marketting madness. so much for not letting the catalog be devalued by crass commercialism.

pete said...

I'm going to make a rubber stamp and whenever I go through the grocery store checkout line I'm going to stamp the cover of every stupid celebrity-gossip magazine so they all say, "I don't care."

Marsupial said...

Wow -- some people age kicking and screaming, don't they? What the hell happened to George Wendt? He looks like a different person.

Terri Nunn looks fantastic, as always, even though they call her 'Berlin' (although I think she owns the sole rights to the band name now).

NYMary said...

@ Anon: actually, the recording itself is from Ferry Aid in 1987, and that really is Macca opening the song under the guise of Huey Lewis. (He said he'd provide a new vocal line, it says here, but actually just copied his vocal from 1970.) Here's what Wiki tells us about the original recording:

Ferry Aid were a British-American ensemble group, brought together to record the song "Let It Be" in 1987. The single was released following the Zeebrugge Disaster, which had occurred on 6 March 1987 involving the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise ferry, which killed 193 passengers and crew. All proceeds from sales of the single were donated to the charity set up in the aftermath of the disaster.

Now, I suppose Gylne Tider paid someone something to use it, but I assume that would be to whoever owns that version of the song--the producers, or the charity set up by The Sun, or something--but no, it doesn't look like this feeds Beatle coffers, which seems to be your main concern.

I dunno: I think they've done more for the world than Bill Gates and Warren Buffet put together: I'm okay with them being crazy rich. And a friend of a friend told me she'd met Yoko and Sean recently at an award ceremony in Iceland, delivering cash to someone working on overpopulation. So it's not like it's ALL going to Heather Mills or whatever.

edward said...

That was just creepy. The whole digitization of it made it look like a bad video game. I wonder if the participants got to choose how they were identified, or if the video producers decided what constituted the height of their careers. Darryl Hannah: "Roxanne"? Really? Seeing Bub Bundy in there reinforced the similarity to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKD0zTl4kCM

Faze said...

I'm surprised that no one's put 2+2 together with the content and song title: Let it "B". This is the biggest collection of "B list" celebrities I've seen in a long time.

Anonymous said...

dreadful - and it goes on for 6 agonizing minutes.