MithraPride

First off, this is not a joke. This is real. You can't make this sh*t up.

Alanis Morissette does a cover of Black Eyed Peas "My Humps" but slows down the song, sings it like a ballad, and has only a piano playing in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

Before this I was a huge Alanis fan. After seeing this, words cannot express how I feel.

Ugh,

I made it to a minute and a few seconds before my eyes and ears began bleeding.

I have liked a few songs the Black Eyed peas have produced in the past. the past couple of years from them and honestly most of the so called "Artists" out there, have been brutal. Alanis is much the same for me, I have not liked anything from her in years.

For me I guess its that modern music has too much hip hop influence, I fail to find any musical value in hip hop, just personal taste.

My eyes! I must rip out my eyes! If I don't, I might see it again!
*ahem*

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

/comfort

I think (at least I hope) she's taking the piss. Judging by the video it doesn't really look like she's being serious.

Black Eyed Peas are terrible... I hate them and their stupid songs with a passion. This is like trying to wrap crap up in silk, it's still crap in the end.

I....I don't get it....words do not match tone.... Something broke in my head again....

Eh, near as I can tell, Alanis did it as a parody of the original Black Eyed Peas version, sort of to poke fun at the less than thoughtful lyrics. But I think a lot of people don't realize that the main point of most songs now days isn't the words, it's the beat. The words are just thrown in to cover the beat really and make you pay less attention to it as you're listening. Most Rap and Hip-Hop, it's all about the beat, with words thrown in to make sure it's not the same four measures or so repeating endlessly. And the Black Eyed Peas, whether you like them or not, DO make songs that are catchy to most people. And in the end, that's what brings in the money.

blame canada!

(stops watching the south park movie) >.>;;

Sugami wrote:I think (at least I hope) she's taking the piss. Judging by the video it doesn't really look like she's being serious.

Black Eyed Peas are terrible... I hate them and their stupid songs with a passion. This is like trying to wrap crap up in silk, it's still crap in the end.

I don't understand your British slang but I think this was meant to be a joke.

Are you extracting the urine? I don't think I laced my lost post with any British slang.

Bugger, blast, bollocks, blimey. Pip pip honey nut cheerio.

Kintrra wrote:And the Black Eyed Peas, whether you like them or not, DO make songs that are catchy to most people.

Most people have no taste in music

Sugami wrote:Are you extracting the urine? I don't think I laced my lost post with any British slang.

Bugger, blast, bollocks, blimey. Pip pip honey nut cheerio.

Kintrra wrote:And the Black Eyed Peas, whether you like them or not, DO make songs that are catchy to most people.

Most people have no taste in music

WTF do you mean by "Extracting the urine?" I thought that was British slang.

It's pretty much common slang Keavy lol.

Extracting the urine=Taking the piss=Making fun of it.

Kinda like when some people say "take the mick", some others say "extract the michael" to be different.

thought everyone says "taking the piss" and "extracting the urine" is just a silly/posh way of saying it

Personally I've never used extracting the urine lol

I seriously have never heard of that phrase.

Keavy wrote:I seriously have never heard of that phrase.

Yup, gotta agree with Keavy, phrase doesn't ring a bell at all.

Gonna have to agree with everyone else- I've never heard of that phrase being used by Americans as slang.

Alanis did it as a parody I think- and yea, the lyrics are pretty ridiculous when you think about them.

From my favorite radio morning show in ATL's (<3 online streaming radio) website:

Did Fergie Send Alanis A Mixed Message?
After the video for Alanis Morissette's version of the Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps" became a sensation on YouTube, Fergie sent Alanis a congratulatory cake, but not just any cake. A source says Fergie "thought the video was brilliant. She sent Morissette a cake in the shape of a derriere." According to a Rosa Leung from Exotic Cakes in Los Angeles, a note on the flesh-colored cake read, "Alanis, you're a genius. Love, Fergie". The bakery made the specially ordered cake and delivered it to Morissette last Friday.

Well no one says "extracting the urine", that's just being silly but "Taking the piss" isn't far off "Taking the mick(y)", which I'm pretty sure you yanks use so just needed a bit of thinking to work it out

Hehe ass-cake

Nooo....tacking the mick isn't a familiar phrase either to me. Not that I'd use it anyway, since I'm Irish-American and mick is still considered a racial slur to a lot of us.

ScarlettPheonix wrote:Nooo....tacking the mick isn't a familiar phrase either to me. Not that I'd use it anyway, since I'm Irish-American and mick is still considered a racial slur to a lot of us.

Last I heard being Irish was a nationality, not race >_>b

he's got you there.

Actually if you're from Northern Ireland you'd be British by nationality

Mick sounds more Australian than Irish to me Irish names that come to mind; Paddy and anything that starts with O'

Point, but its still considered a slur against either Irish in general or Catholic Irish- and my family is from (and is still in) Galway

Anyway, from what this site has to say on the phrase- its pure English, and to be honest, even knowing what the phrase means/is in reference to- if someone said "taking the mick" around me, I'd probably still find it insulting.

ScarlettPheonix wrote:Point, but its still considered a slur against either Irish in general or Catholic Irish- and my family is from (and is still in) Galway

Anyway, from what this site has to say on the phrase- its pure English, and to be honest, even knowing what the phrase means/is in reference to- if someone said "taking the mick" around me, I'd probably still find it insulting.

That's rather ignorant if you know the phrase isn't meant in that way, but will take it offensively anyway <_<;

/sigh

It takes a few seconds for knowledge to catch up with instinctive reactions.

If you'd grown up knowing a word or phrase as insulting, even if you heard that word used in a benign manner- your (and my) gut reaction would be to take it as an insult at first.

So yes, my first reaction would probably be to take it as an insult, even though I do know better about that phrase.

I fail to see how that's an "ignorant" reaction.

ScarlettPheonix wrote:/sigh

It takes a few seconds for knowledge to catch up with instinctive reactions.

If you think with your head, not your heart, then it doesn't. I find quite a few words insulting, but if I know the person didn't mean it in such a way then I dismiss it.

Like when friends call each other names, sometimes I'll call a friend a "wanker" in jest, or he would do the same. It's an offensive word, but not meant in such a way between two friends. Such is a similar situation no?

No, not at all. Mick is a slur. Its as bad as n*****, g*** or sp** to alot of people in my area.

Somehow, "wanker" just doesn't seem as offensive.

All I said is that I'd probably find the phrase insulting at first- not that I would take it as an insult. Depending on how well I knew the person who said it- I (probably) wouldn't take offense at the use of the phrase.

Also, just because I might find something insulting, doesn't mean I'd react insulted or get emotional about it.

ScarlettPheonix wrote:

No, not at all. Mick is a slur. Its as bad as n*****, g*** or sp** to alot of people in my area.

Somehow, "wanker" just doesn't seem as offensive.

All I said is that I'd probably find the phrase insulting at first- not that I would take it as an insult. Depending on how well I knew the person who said it- I (probably) wouldn't take offense at the use of the phrase.

Also, just because I might find something insulting, doesn't mean I'd react insulted or get emotional about it.

It's cause wanker is very much an English word (No Americans know what it means when I say it to them in any way)

Oh, you might be suprised. English TV and Movies that have become popular over here have made some purely British insults more familiar to us, even if we prefer our own.

That being said, give it a rest. I find the word "Mick" to be offensive, and despite knowing that "taking the Mick" refers to Mickey Bliss and not a derogotory insult towards Irish, doesn't mean that I don't/wouldn't feel uncomfortable hearing that phrase if I'm not expecting it- simply because I'm not familiar with it.

Just because I find something distasteful/insulting doesn't mean I'm ignorant for feeling that way. It just means I'm coming from a very different view point than you are.