“Shine On Me” Will Burn Out All Your Irony Receptors
Oh… my. Wayne just memed my ass out with the most astonishing OMGWTFBBQ music video of the year. Imagine what might happen if the rennies spiked your mead with DMT at Medieval Times. It is Epic. It is Über.
Meet Chris Dane Owens. He is here to fuck you, amigo. Fuck you earnestly, somberly, savagely, without the courtesy of a reach-around. For he is Legolas on a meth binge. He is Limahl with brass balls. His “Shine on Me” video is the prodigious, tumescent, chain-mail-piercing, pirate-booty-plundering, Adobe After Effects-abusing, alligator-exploiting, stock footage-pillaging D&D Destructo Dildo to the insidious butt plug of Brokencyde’s “Freaxx”.
Keep watching. Don’t click away. Follow that sparkly green Gretsch all the way to the finish line. Take it to the hilt, paladin.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Owen’s blithe earnestness is certainly the main thing that makes this video compelling but I balance that against the fact that I much prefer the song in the My Barbarian video. My willingness to laugh at the cheesiness of Owen’s song peters out somewhere around halfway through the video, at that point I am enduring the rest of the song so I can laugh at the rest of the video.
My Barbarian’s carefully crafted ridiculousness seems self-parodic rather than ironic for whatever that is worth.
Plus Unicorns LA has sparkly stickers.
December 8th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Oh, how it burns like so many habaneros a day later.
December 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I haven’t laughed so painfully in years and years. But I couldn’t actually hear the song. I have to figure out how to inflict this on everyone I know.
December 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
This could easily become the Rick Roll of 2009.
December 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
And yet, through it all, I am most offended by the blatant lifting of the musical hook from Roxy Music’s More Than This.
December 10th, 2008 at 12:59 am
I am moved to tears.. by the fact that this albino wunderkind produced a video titled “Sing Like The Stars”. Sweet sweet irony.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I am totally and completely in love with his cheekbones.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:55 am
I think somebody’s been watching too much Princess Bride…
January 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Is it wrong that I enjoyed this? I mean yea, I got the flaws and what have you, but I want to know the story, and the horrible song was fun too.
That being said, I am rooting for the Doom-Phantom character already…