#dj earworm

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United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop) by DJ Earworm

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2024 MEGAMIX MASHUP 3 by @maea

Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga | Die With A Smile

Sabrina Carpenter | Please Please Please

Ariana Grande | we can't be friends (wait for your love)

Billie Eilish | THE GREATEST

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DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2023 (Cut The Flowers)

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2000s Decade Mashup by Dj Earworm

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Warning: Flashing lights, sexual imagery, violence, spoilers

Title: Anime Go Boom

Editor: StarGazerx777

Song: World Go Boom

Artist: DJ Earworm

Anime: Angel Beats!, Ao no Exorcist, Baccano!, Durarara!!, Eden of the East, FLCL, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Hellsing Ultimate, Howl's Moving Castle (film), The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mirai Nikki, Ouran High School Host Club, Princess Tutu, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Samurai 7, Sekirei, Steins;Gate, Sword Art Online, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Tiger and Bunny, Witchblade

Category: For fun

Award: Anime Iowa 2015 - Winner of Category X

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#OneNETnewsEXCLUSIVE: Californian Veteran Mash-uper 'DJ Earworm' drops newly-creative music video 'Blame It on the Whiskey'

(Written by Hailey Alohilani Banks / News Director of Disney XD News)

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- In a long-awaited musical release, California veteran mash-up artist 'DJ Earworm' unveiling his new annual mash-up "Blame It on the Whiskey" last Tuesday morning (December 10th, 2024 -- Pacific local time). As per the exclusive report from a Canadian magazine news outlet 'Exclaim!', this track goes on to blend the biggest hits of the year into a cohesive musical experience.

DJ Earworm, real name as 'Jordan Roseman' originally came from Iowa, now currently resides in his home state of California. He began his mash-up journey in late-2003 and has been releasing his "United State of Pop" mash-ups annually since the 1st of January in 2008. These mash-ups sparked international attention, which feature the top 25 songs of the year, according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart. It have become a beloved tradition for music lovers, celebrating nearly 2 decades of musical creativity.

"Blame It on the Whiskey" is probably a mash-up sequel to "Blame It on the Pop" that came out late in December 2009. This year's mash-up in 2024 tells the story about love, hurtfulness and escapism tale of alcohol. The track talks about frustration with relationships, self-deception and the cycle of emotional battles, such as mental illness and addiction issues. The video depicts escapism through the motif of alcohol by using whiskey as a way of dealing with life and all the emotional turmoil associated.

This new piece of mash-up song is also a social commentary to our American culture, because drinking represents both celebration and avoidance of certain issues, and this would only perpetuate dependency with temporary happiness. In all the lyrics, but not in the video editing, there's a repeated acknowledgement of accountability in relationships wherein both people blame each other and blame themselves, and this represents the complexity of love.

The annual mash-up of DJ Earworm have evolved consistently from pop classics to today's hits, creating a nostalgic, yet contemporary musical journey that resonates with listeners across generations. "Blame It on the Whiskey" is no exception, seamlessly blending the biggest year-end hits into a cohesive and emotionally charged track. You can listen the full mash-up music video, only on YouTube.

ALBUM COVER ART COURTESY: DJ Earworm via Soundcloud PHOTO BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Earworm *https://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_MS24146 and *https://exclaim.ca/music/article/dj-earworm-s-blame-it-on-the-whiskey-has-no-excuse-for-2024-pop-radio

-- OneNETnews Online Publication Team

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This mix sparked so many sense memories that I'm confident I can say that this is what the '90s felt like. Any other Elder Millenials/Infant Xers can confirm?

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have had doechii alter ego stuck in my head for three days but, new development this evening: the internal ear 'misheard' the involuntary musical imagery lyric ONE TIME as "sausalito" and it has stuck that way

so! that's tonight's earworm, lads!

...it sometimes alternates with the first, like, five seconds of the end by bilmuri. I do not know what the terrible DJ in my head is working on

[measuringbliss]

Current song that I can't get enough of

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United State of Pop 2019 (Run Away) by DJ Earworm

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Fu-Schnickens

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

I can't remember where I first heard dancehall reggae, but I do remember where I bought most of my dancehall cassettes: at Play De Record, a great hip hop/reggae DJ store on Yonge Street in Toronto whose bins were all killer, no filler. I'd go into the store every couple weeks and more or less pick three albums at random and love every one of 'em. I just discovered that PDR is still in business, which makes me extremely happy:

https://www.playderecord.com/

Look, I know that mostly I use this blog to talk about tech politics, monopoly, impending fascism and the climate emergency, with the odd science fiction review. But all that other stuff (modulo the sf novels) are weighing on my heavily this week, and I feel like posting something a little more lighthearted. So I consulted my editor (me), who called a special meeting of the editorial board (also me), who kicked it up to the publisher (still me), and they all agreed that I could write a post about a weird hip-hop album that's been earworming me in the best way imaginable since 1992.

I'm pretty sure I bought Fu-Schnickens' debut album "F.U. Don't Take It Personal" at Play De Record. Certainly, I have a memory of stopping on the sidewalk outside of the store to wrestle the cellophane off the cassette and pop it into my walkman. I definitely remember my first walk through the city with the music in my ears. I laughed aloud. Several times. I might have even danced a little:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wD7FbIzGI&list=PLJw–ySHyZNwsmLcxfW3NWTyxQX7mARas

At the time, I knew nothing about Fu-Shnickens. In the years since, I have listened to F.U. Don't Take It Personal approximately one heptillion times and somehow managed not to learn anything about Fu-Schnickens. Today, I read their all-too-short Wikipedia article and learned that the group was together between 1988 and 1995, that their second album (which I remember not being as impressed with) had a top-40 novelty track with vocals by Shaquille O'Neal, who said the Schnickens were his favorite hiphop group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Schnickens

I get it, Shaq. They're great. First of all, they're incredibly silly. Long before Wu-Tang Clan, they were doing this weird kung-fu movie schtick in their songs (which, admittedly, walks an uncomfortable line between "parodies of racist depictions of Chinese people in the movies" to "racist parodies of Chinese people in the style of those movies"). Their songs are jammed with pop culture references in a way that puts, say, Paul's Boutique to shame. You can get a sense of this by looking at the lyrics transcribed over at Genius (where they are criminally under-annotated):

https://genius.com/artists/Fu-schnickens

Take "La Schmoove," a song that references "The Jeffersons," "Leave It To Beaver," "Superfly," Honey-Nut Cheerios, Popeye, Elmer's Glue, Elmer Fudd, Pippi Longstockings, "Married With Children," "Three's Company," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Do-Wah-Diddy," the board game Battleship, and Pepe Le Pew. It features rhymes like "we in there like swimwear," "Adios muchachos dorme vous unbuckle my Fu-Schnick shoe," and "Yo zilch kaput me nada none son." It's legit bonkers.

But also: they're really good. The frontman, Chip Fu (Roderick Roachford) raps really fast, has amazing flow, and periodically just starts rapping backwards, like literally saying the same syllables he just said, but backwards, with that same amazing flow. They are steeped in old dancehall, and it shines through (they more-or-less single-handedly revived Tenor Saw's now-familiar "Ring the Alarm").

Many of their songs feature a kind of hiphopified Phil Spector wall of sound, a kind of melodic drone that underlays the beats and lyrics. As soon as I hear that drone, I start smiling, because I know what's coming.

I have been earwormed by these tracks for this entire century and much of the past century. It's always really hard to explain why you like something, but I think that Fu-Schnickens' pop culture stream of consciousness and nonsense syllables are a kind of rhythmic version of my own internal monologue, which is a kind of endless babble of fragments of books, music, movies and TV; dumb jokes; words repeated until they lose all meaning and become meaningless phonemes, all kind of splinters of ideas and words floating around, bumping into each other.

There's lots of dancehall and dancehall-adjacent stuff that's arguably better than this album, like "The Good The Bad The Ugly & The Crazy," the amazing and underappreciated collaboration between Necka Demus, Junior Demus and Super Cat:

https://www.discogs.com/master/158493-Super-Cat-2-Junior-Cat-Junior-Demus-Nicodemus-The-GoodBadUgly-The-Crazy

And I could listen to Shaggy's cover of "Oh Carolina" all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLqmWt2h2g

Or Apache Indian's "Boom Shack-A-Lak":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw

Or even better, "Ragamuffin Girl":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGhrpajNtKk

But none of music is on continuous shuffle-play in the back of my brain the way "F.U. Don't Take It Personal" is and has been since the Clinton administration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2wD7FbIzGI&list=PLJw–ySHyZNwsmLcxfW3NWTyxQX7mARas

What's more, this is one of the very few (non-Talking Heads, non-David Byrne) albums that my daughter and I like listening to together in the car. It's so perfectly silly, virtuosic, funny, and danceable. Still as good as it was when I was young and had the hips I was born with. I've owned it on cassette and CD and as MP3s. I somehow own the vinyl (though I have no turntable).

I'm grateful to the management of this publication for the opportunity to share it with you.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/17/holy-batfu-its-an-apple/#ba-schnicker-bah-snchnucker

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DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop) was the closest thing we ever got to world peace

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simple question but i’m curious: what are everyone’s favorite songs/music genres?

Kai: Strong fan of Alternative genres, but also has a soft spot for whatever considered 'Oldies' (and will drive everyone nuts when they're all in the X-Charger and he pulls out an ancient song only he know the words to hgfds)

Jay: High-Energy Rock (hence his inspiration to learn guitar) but also has a secret Country playlist due to how much his parents have influenced his taste as well

Cole: Has a hand in a bit of everything (it's why his DJ setlists are also so popular; he manages a little something for everyone) but is partial to Soft Rock, some Hip-Hop, and (somewhat begrudgingly) Classical music

Zane: Classical fan, but generally likes any instrumental stuff he can just listen and vibe to as opposed to anything with lyrics. Also downloads 'popular but annoying earworms' to play strictly to annoy his friends from time to time

Nya: Is the type to be like 'let me just put on my mentally calming playlist :)' and it's the loudest, most abrasive songs you ever heard

Lloyd: PUNK

Jesse: 'Love songs' are certainly not a genre but he could make it so; also likes anything easy to dance and sing to (...so probably a lot more pop than he'd like to admit. ...and Japanese Electro-Swing because it's my oc and I said so NO I'm not projecting–)

Antonia: 'Lo-Fi Beats To Write a Strongly-Worded Newspaper Article To'

Harumi: As a youth, obsessed over the latest top pop 40; eventually finds more catharsis in Heavy Metal and Screamo

Miranda: Chiptunes, Electronica, and Synth-Pop. Maybe some Anime Theme Songs tossed in for zest hjgfdshgfd

Olivia: Punk-Rock, Punk-Pop, and Alternative. Can name bands you've never heard of and bands that probably shouldn't be bands

Pixal & Skylor: Both have their music tastes extremely influenced by the Ninja, but prior to meeting the main group neither of them really listened to much music at all (which Cole seeks to rectify immediately; time to catch up on like five decades worth of tunes, ladies kjhgfdgfd)

Sunni: Anything, any genre, as long as its upbeat! (Probably a pop girlie tho let's be real)

Harleigh: According to her playlists, plenty of sapphic stuff and lots of Chappell Roan

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i know what u did last summer

mashup w

Lizzo - About Damn Time

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

Jack Harlow - First Class

Harry Styles - As It Was

Joji - Glimpse of Us

Nicky Youre & Dazy - Sunroof H

arry Styles - Late Night Talking

Bad Bunny - Me Porto Bonito

Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa & Young Thug - Potion

KAROL G - PROVENZA

Camila Cabello (feat. Ed Sheeran) - Bam Bam

Doja Cat - Vegas

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CNN just showed the clip of Democrats at the 1996 DNC dancing embarrassingly to the Macarena and I feel like you should all know that in 1996, I was a junior in high school and went to Prom and naturally they played the Macarena, it was expected, obviously, it was 1996, that song was everywhere, much as My Heart Will Go On would be a year later

but what you would not expect and what was also COMPLETELY unnecessary was that they played the Macarena FIVE times throughout the night. Scattered about. Like a cable news network recycling their bloc of programming from earlier instead of bothering to report more actual news happening to the world. Like the DJ's choices were created by some terrible 2024 AI prompt for 1996 party playlist. Like I was not at a school dance but trapped in some sort of episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and we learn that a demon is responsible for the years biggest earworm, and the demon literally produced worms that crawl in my ears to make me forget shit and collect roadkill bears