#Scatman

[paprikaries]

_"A STAR IS BORN"_ wip exercises Fanart: Snow White (Snow White by Walt Disney); King Dice (Cuphead the game by mdhr studio / The Cuphead Show by Netflix); "Dandy" Jim (Dumbo by Walt Disney) So... I was doing some exercises sketching stuff about Snow White, and while I was drawing the crow in the 4rth image, Dandy Jim inadvertently came up to my mind... and the little crow started to dance. Then King Dice came to my mind, and I thought "ok Snow White can talk with lovely birds and teach them how and what to sing, but what if King Dice was able to to the same ? Crows are super intelligent animals and are able to mimic human voice!" So, yeah, that's how my mind works.

[giapponetvb]

Scatman John and Ultraman at the press launch for the single: 'Scatultraman' in Japan, 1995.

[slazzerslaz]

Shoutouts to YTP / Mashup Spamtons, they're such fascinating specimens

[bell20x]

This is Scatman John!🕺🕺🕺

I recently watched his biography, I cried

But in the videos he has an awesome image, just cool

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Это же Скэтмэн Джон !🕺🕺🕺

Недавно смотрела его биографию, всплакнула

Но в клипах у него обалденный образ, прям класс

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

If you haven't heard one or both of the songs before, it's recommended that you do so before voting!

Define "better" in any way you wish :)

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 07/05/2024

Rooftop Bop

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI

Ripped by Mitchell

Requested by InitialDDD! (Request Form)

Man, Scatman John...what an interesting relation he has to the internet, huh? For whatever reason back in the early days of YouTube, his titular hit song Scatman became really prevalent to use in amateur comedy videos, most notably with the "Super Mario 64 Bloopers!"-genre of video. These are actually videos that I have memory of watching - people just playing around in their childhood 3D game and making up their own little stories and sketches to the tune of silly music. But Scatman, and its less-viral sibling Scatman's World, are more than just nonsense, there's an emotion to John's two legendary songs, a distillation of raw nostalgia - one that the internet suddenly rediscovered back in 2019, and one that SiIvaGunner itself celebrated in bursts throughout the whole year, with Rooftop Bop being an absolute standout example.

Like with most memes, its hard to really trace down a logistical reason for their upbringing - check any KnowYourMeme page, and its bound to just say something along the lines of "on this date, this video/image was posted, and gained tons of attention". The Scatman-posting of 2019 was a pretty interesting case on top of that - the "AWESOME - HE FINALLY" memes that initiated it all were like a big mishmash of memes old and new. Part of the joke was in using nostalgic pieces from the old internet, the music and the "black border" template, over clips from Vine or elsewhere edited to have a positive, borderline innocent outcome, as if to intentionally turn the "Loud equals funny" format that so much of Vine fell under on its head. It's like three layers deep into irony, to where it loops around into finding sincere happiness funny - but it is genuinely still just a really good bit, the perfect kind of stupid comedy that's at once unexpected yet also brings its audience together over the nostalgia it evokes - nostalgia for two different eras of the internet, even! Despite being so core to the old internet days, Scatman wasn't very prominent on the Unregistered Hypercam 2 takeover of 2018, taking a backseat to other internet anthems like Never Gonna Give You Up in Never Gonna Give Up Mahjong and Dreamscape in How 2 Do Anything. But, as if it was fated to be, just a few months later in 2019 Scatman John would once again be made relevant - and the SiIva team was right on top of things.

A lot of Scatman John's prominence on SiIva in 2019 was, of course, on the legendary Not Funny Didn't Laugh day - on the 10th of September (whats 9 plus 10?), a series of shitposts intentionally drenched in as much irony as possible were featured on the channel, the depths of which I explored back in Sex - Steve Harvey. But beyond giving us all brain damage, the event was like a huge shot in the arm for Scatman Stocks - and just two weeks later, we would receive perhaps the best Scatman rip yet. The guy had been lurking as a meme on SiIva before, notably being in some Season 1 rips here and there - and so his return on Not Funny Didn't Laugh day felt like just one more piece of internet history to be nostalgic for. Early YouTube, Vine, and the very first months of SiIvaGunner - all rolled into two songs filled with such whimsy, yet also filled with pure emotion. Now: Does that ring a bell to anyone else?

I feel like Rooftop Bop is the definition of a "more than the sum of its parts" rip, if that makes any sense. It's an excellent melody swap/mashup no doubt, the kind that almost makes you wonder how it was even done with how authentic the violin's lead melody sounds, and the chorus returning to the original Rooftop Run: Act 1 theme with Scatman John's vocals hits oh-so-hard - its an amazingly paced out rip throughout, ping-ponging between melody swap, mashup and both at once throughout - but like I said, the rip is so much more than all of that. It feels almost like a universal experience (at least, for my generation) to have an attachment to Scatman John - but more than that, we all have an attachment to the very thing his two hits represented. Because his balance of silliness and genuine heartfelt emotion is the exact thing that made SiIvaGunner so special all the way back in Season 1, the kind of balance that has made us all smile, laugh, empathize and outright cry, althewhile never losing its core of pure whimsy. Be it The Paragoomba and the Wiggler, Aphex, Planet Wisp Mashup Medley, Turnabout Fishters, or indeed Rooftop Bop - SiIvaGunner, very much like Scatman John, has gotten so many emotions out of us, and made us all too attached to an entity others may consider naught but a silly gimmick.

It's a fantastic listen - but more than that, it's an incredible experience. The latter half of Season 4 Episode 1 of SiIvaGunner was perhaps the most exciting period to ever follow the channel during, and Rooftop Bop's unprecedented ability to unite us all through a raw dosage of nostalgic memories couldn't have come at a better time.

[oneheadtoanother]

[lejulillo]

Old art of a fanmade fusion between Steven and Spinel, Smithsonite

Heavily inspired by Scatman and his music

the hat has sharp edges and can be thrown as a fresbee

[catbasket]

I still think it's funny to record MIDI songs with drum sets made of weird improvised apartment sounds, so here's one last unnecessarily squeaky mix of songs

[monkey-network]

Scatman's World & the Revalue of Love

Memes can make for an out there rabbit hole for great things you never expected to cherish. I don't think I would've ever had a childhood without one instance of hearing John Larkin's 'Scatman's World' or 'I'm the Scatman' in some capacity. To me, they were just upbeat lol random tunes set to fast pace meme images. Jump to the 2020s to find out Scatman John was a real musician with three albums made by the century's turn; Scatman's World being his first aside his self-titled OG jazz score. Finally having a listen, I was touched by the passion that went into this and the message of it boosted by the knowledge of who made it. Consider this a simple review of the album, but I really wanted to talk about it, so let's...

A little background first. Scat song was of course not about colloquial fetish music but a harmonic part of the foundational jazz age, like a cappella only fittingly improvised. John Larkin was originally a pianist, but inspired by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and LOUIE, he got into scat vocals before utilizing it for the best thing it could fit with... eurodance and techno. With a trip to Europe, he found his voice with the dance scene and 'I'm the Scatman' with 'Scatman's World' were his first big single hits. Thus we got this album, a major international hit, especially in Japan. Having listened myself in 2023, I finally get it.

To me Scatman's World doesn't just have the two singles everybody knows, but an amazing flow of tracks that never feels homogenous with every listen. 'Only You' and 'Popstar' became my favorites the instant I heard them. There's just a great bounciness to every track and it felt like all of John's soul was put into this. Admittedly better than his other albums; not that they weren't good, but Scatman's World feels perfected in a sense. This I believe is because the album was not only made with it, but it is inherently about love.

You hear beyond the delicious beats and funny vocalization a tribute to that desire of seeing better, doing better, loving better. 'Quiet Desperation' slows things down as it discusses the average mindset of a destitute person. 'I'm the Scatman', his big single, was always about how he worked through his debilitating stutter that he had since a child and wants us to do the same. 'Time' being about breaking through alcoholism and taking the time to recover. The whole album is essentially a loose concept of the idyllic world John wants you to imagine with him where love empowers and trumps over the harsh and unfair machinations of our reality. The final song, 'Song of Scatland', hits this strongly and was basically the reason I'm making this review. It's the most calming track, a floaty melody that ties everything about the album together for a talk about self-love and togetherness. And it slowly hurts every time I listen to this song, because I feel like we've been failing him.

Lately felt like we've let down plenty of upstanding influences

This album has opened my eyes a bit to how things are and how I've felt personally. Beyond the madness of our world, self-esteem has felt... artificial. Not so much taking things for granted, but being uninspired and easily tempered for volatility and vices. I'll admit here that I can be a hateful person, a vindictive grouch because it's easy to be. I'm not a monster among humans reasonably, but for the pictured above I realize I've lived in disservice of them, the best I remember of course. Y'know, these entertainers that gave their lives looking for a more wholesome, thoughtful world and year after year, we squander their philosophies despite being fans of their work. And to be honest, I don't know the solution for this turmoil. I can say "do better, be better, live better" but I don't know how exactly with motivation and such. I do know this, though, something I've come to understand over the past couple years and fitted with this review.

Music IS Emotion

I learned about how Scatman John worked through his disability with his career and I could see how this album can do more than just give you fast grooves to rave or clean your room to. Scatman's World, like many things you see and hear that explore the elements of love, is a great album to listen when things are better. Basically, you'll feel how the music feels if you connect to it over time. The world will never be as utopian as John or Mr Rogers or Jim would've wanted and they knew this. Life won't be great all the time, but for those times when it is, you can appreciate works like this a bit more each time.

John Larkin lived up to December of '99, suffering from lung cancer and passing only half a year after his third album released. Ever since listening to all of his music, finally, I still wonder if he were alive, what would he have thought of the influence his tunes made today in the memescape. If he still would've made music afterward; with this year, it's hard knowing who stays, falls off, or retires on top after being an influence for so long. I do know that he has more than earned my respect, as minor an artist as he might be nowadays, and Scatman's World is worth a listen, for more than the tracks you're familiar with. The Scatman deserves more love as much as he wanted to provide and I hope this review offers this so.

[5-pp-man]

[boneghoulss]

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[sparrow-the-tired-lesbian]

the funny thing about me is one minute you’ll find me writing an intricate script for a play that’s essentially a build your own Greek myth, the next I’m singing beautiful music, the next I’m twerking along to Scatman Extended Radio Version in my room. What am I.

[tomcivic1]

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(Elevation)

[john-artbuckle]

Happy 82nd Birthday Scatman John!!!