Comments on: “Shine On Me” Will Burn Out All Your Irony Receptors

By: fortheloveofthestars

fortheloveofthestars — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:46:43 +0000

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…

By: Meridian

Meridian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:08 +0000

I think somebody’s been watching too much Princess Bride…

By: Seamyst

Seamyst — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:14:49 +0000

I am totally and completely in love with his cheekbones.

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:59:51 +0000

I am moved to tears.. by the fact that this albino wunderkind produced a video titled "Sing Like The Stars". Sweet sweet irony.

By: foxtongue

foxtongue — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:27:19 +0000

And yet, through it all, I am most offended by the blatant lifting of the musical hook from Roxy Music's More Than This.

By: Hill Rat

Hill Rat — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:37:04 +0000

This could easily become the Rick Roll of 2009.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:23:00 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:06:18 +0000

Oh, how it burns like so many habaneros a day later.

By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:57:29 +0000

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.

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:27:47 +0000

Is that a crocodile or an alligator?

My Barbarian is self-aware and trying very, very hard to be ridiculous. They succeed, too. But in my opinion, they ain’t got nothing on earnest, seemingly clueless Sir Owens.