(From top) Swedish metal icons Meshuggah , dance sensation Prabhu Deva and punk chick Avril Lavigne all boast spoof music videos

My loony bun is fine, Benny Lava/ Minor bun engine’s fine Benny Lava/ Anybody need this sign Benny Lava/ You need a bun to bite Benny Lava/ Have you been high today?/ I see the nuns are gay,/ My brother yelled to me,/ I love you inside Ed...”

No, this isn’t nonsense rhyme (or is it?): this is the inspired subtitling that you will see, courtesy a person by the name of Buffalax at http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g. What you see is Prabhu Deva at his best, along with our very own Jaya Seal Ghosh. The visual is a song from a Tamil movie. The audio is untampered with. The subtitles are what the creator has interpreted phonetically — to hilarious results.

Spoof videos are the flavour of the day. And just to prove that racism isn’t an issue here, visit http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=judWB4Bn-3c. This one gives you misheard lyrics from the song Future Breed Machine by metal band from Sweden, Meshuggah. These guys are icons and Future Breed Machine is one of their most acclaimed songs — which doesn’t stop fans with a sense of humour putting up clips along with the words they think are being mouthed by scary looking growler frontman Jens Kidman. Thus, the lines “An even stobe a pulse of flashing/ Hatelights of synthetic souls mass-produced,/ Hammered to shaped a sign of times dreams/ Turn into systems a new way a new breed/ Implanted in our minds” becomes “Demon Store (with a pic of Wal-Mart thrown in)/ A mouse,/ Attacking eight guys/ Of Today’s (with a CNBC logo as visual) saws/ Mass two dudes/ Agreed to shake/ Satan” (phew)!

Though metal practitioners and followers are notorious for taking themselves too seriously, the fun continues with http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVPRFTUbRw. It’s simply called “Funny black metal video”. One look and you’ll know why. Or http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0RCfki6Io, which is a death metal cover of Canadian emo-rocker chick Avril Lavigne’s track Girlfriend.

But the best humour seems to arise out of our southern shores. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc is evidence enough, and will leave you unable to watch Michael Jackson’s classic video to Thriller again without at least one reminder of this take. Add the deliberately misheard lyrics that appear as subtitles, and you have another YouTube cult clip in the making. For starters, “Goli maar, (maar, maar, maar)” appears as “Girly man (man, man, man)”. A couple of lines later, there’s “Come down and park that comfy shin guard armour/ Welcome the dude who ain’t the buyer of mugs” and “Oooo, you’ll be pumping Ovaltine/ Or Salty Shanti’s one shot tea” — all this, with a Jacko lookalike in a crimson faux leather outfit throwing pelvic thrusts around with a bunch of zombies. You get the drift.

This one isn’t doctored, but who needs help when you have comedy of this calibre? Don’t miss http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-PFURM9eA_Q, if you want to catch some vintage Rajkumar and bad English. A sample: “Eef you come today, it’s too early,/ Eef you come tomorrow, it’s too late/ You pick the time/ Tick-tick tick-tick tick-tick,/ Ah tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick”.

Priceless.

Arka Das

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