May 24, 2011 Bad Lip Reading: Meta-Viral Video Phenomenon
This is simply amazing.
Someone is taking popular music videos, then changing the lyrics of the song to sync with the movement of the singer’s lips. [Hence the moniker “Bad Lip Reading.”]
From Douglas Wolk coverage of the phenomenon:
BLR first came to prominence with “Gang Fight,” a riff on Rebecca Black’s inescapable quasi-hit “Friday” that kept its video intact but constructed an entirely new song around what Black appeared to be singing–a different tune, a different arrangement, and a totally inverted if wildly incoherent sentiment.
Exhibit A: Original video for Ludacris’ “My Chick Bad”
Exhibit B: The Bad Lip Reading revision, “Magic Man”
I want to know you, Bad Lip Reading.