The most terrifying song imaginable

October 24, 2011 8:21 PM

Halloween light show complete with grinning pumpkins. Warning: LMFAO.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn (39 comments total)

Yeah, you would. Poor neighbours.
posted by whyareyouatriangle at 8:25 PM on October 24, 2011 [2 favorites]

Yeah, you would. Poor neighbours.

I think there's a mis-communication. LMFAO is the group that does the song in the video, not a statement of mirth. They're trashy pop music, hence the warning I guess.
posted by codacorolla at 8:31 PM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

I wonder if this is the same guy who did his Christmas light display to Slayer.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 8:32 PM on October 24, 2011

Check out the older versions on the user's channel - I'm pretty sure the thriller one was posted here a few years ago.
posted by Big_B at 8:32 PM on October 24, 2011

Yeah, this guy does this every year, and it doesn't look like he's bought any new toys (same pumpkin faces, etc) from the last year or two.
posted by mrzarquon at 8:36 PM on October 24, 2011

I wonder if this is the same guy who did his Christmas light display to Slayer.

OMG IT WASN'T SLAYER IT WAS TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LRN2MUSIC NOOB!
posted by tumid dahlia at 8:36 PM on October 24, 2011 [3 favorites]

So - it's that shitty Mozeltov song + Boys Noize.
God, no wonder life sucks. We get dealt this shitty music.
posted by symbioid at 8:37 PM on October 24, 2011

My favorite bit of Halloween decoration insanity was my dad buying a spray that was supposed to smell like blood. But I grew up in the suburbs, and it was Serious Business there. I remember Don Imus always had the best house for trick or treating....
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 8:42 PM on October 24, 2011

SUCK IT HATERS.

THIS.

IS.

AWESOME.
posted by bitteroldman at 8:43 PM on October 24, 2011 [6 favorites]

I kinda liked last year's display better, but I admire that he continues to try new stuff. And why not, considering he must have several thousand dollars invested in the computer controls, no?
posted by crunchland at 8:47 PM on October 24, 2011

My favorite bit of Halloween decoration insanity was my dad buying a spray that was supposed to smell like blood.

Yeah I know the one you mean, it's called ART-erial Spray.

*guffaws*
posted by tumid dahlia at 8:47 PM on October 24, 2011 [2 favorites]

If only someone would come up with a catchy name for grinning pumpkins, Halloween festivities would be complete.
posted by Brocktoon at 8:48 PM on October 24, 2011 [3 favorites]

might just be time to move back to the suburbs
posted by philip-random at 8:49 PM on October 24, 2011

Ah the joys of the idle rich, err, middle class.
posted by filchyboy at 8:51 PM on October 24, 2011

it doesn't look like he's bought any new toys (same pumpkin faces, etc)

According to the description he made the pumpkins.
posted by kenko at 9:02 PM on October 24, 2011

> a catchy name for grinning pumpkins

Grumpkins?

...

idk maybe it needs work
posted by komara at 9:10 PM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

The auto-tune killed it for me.. otherwise fairly cool as evidenced by previous Thriller entry.
posted by edgeways at 9:16 PM on October 24, 2011

Grumpkins?

I've always wondered what the regional pattern was for saying "grumpkin" vs. the far more popular "blumpkin."
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 9:17 PM on October 24, 2011

The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.
posted by hypersloth at 9:47 PM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the tastes and priorities of this home-owner.
posted by midmarch snowman at 9:50 PM on October 24, 2011 [4 favorites]

The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.

So I'm old because I'm not doing what everybody else is doing?
posted by philip-random at 9:54 PM on October 24, 2011

Judging by the number of different houses with pretty much the same light show showing up in the 'related videos', I'd wager that there's a kit available to put this on.
posted by item at 10:33 PM on October 24, 2011

The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.

So I'm old because I'm not doing what everybody else is doing?

Data-point here: I am old (as evidenced by no one having taught me how to dougie, and only recently being exposed to Nicki Minaj) and I can't get enough LMFAO.

However, by being old, I am not sure if LMFAO is the Outkast "Hey Yeah" good type of inescapable, or the infuriating "My Humps" terrible type of inescapable.
posted by midmarch snowman at 10:40 PM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.

It's not that I'm old. It's just that I'm a cynical asshole. When that music plays all I hear is some synth mixed in with an endless stream of shit noises. The music, if you can call it that, is complete shit. And I don't mean that in a figurative sense. The whole thing just sounds like a non-stop chorus of assholes with Montezuma's Revenge.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 11:13 PM on October 24, 2011 [1 favorite]

METAFILTER: a non-stop chorus of assholes with Montezuma's Revenge.
posted by philip-random at 11:28 PM on October 24, 2011 [2 favorites]

Man, Jesusween is getting so commercialized.
posted by kcds at 3:08 AM on October 25, 2011

I've listened to this song all the way through and I gotta say, I'm not totally sure where the party rock is actually at.
posted by tumid dahlia at 3:20 AM on October 25, 2011

or indeed, when it is.
posted by kev23f at 4:00 AM on October 25, 2011

I HAVE 254 MILLION YEARS OF POWER
posted by buriednexttoyou at 5:22 AM on October 25, 2011

I like these halloween displays -- variations on the same theme -- Singing busts or pumpkins, version 1, version 2 or version 3. Interesting that it's taken 50 years for the rest of us to catch up to Disney technology.
posted by crunchland at 5:47 AM on October 25, 2011

The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.

All that proves is that a bunch of people made bad decisions 254 million times.
posted by elizardbits at 6:16 AM on October 25, 2011

This is the best thing ever and I wish it was next door to me, even though it would expose my one battered plastic skeleton, rotting pumpkin and threadbare flags for the lame attempt they are.
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:32 AM on October 25, 2011

Mister Fabulous: "The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are.

It's not that I'm old. It's just that I'm a cynical asshole. When that music plays all I hear is some synth mixed in with an endless stream of shit noises. The music, if you can call it that, is complete shit. And I don't mean that in a figurative sense. The whole thing just sounds like a non-stop chorus of assholes with Montezuma's Revenge."

Have I got the South Park episode for you!
posted by Deathalicious at 7:09 AM on October 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

hypersloth: "The actual video for this song has almost 254 million views right now. That's how old you are."

Also, you guys... I love this song. I mean, I could do without the blonde chick singing. There's something kind of pure about the synthed voices. But it is really pretty and has a nice beat. If I was the sort of person who rocked parties, I would rock parties to this.
posted by Deathalicious at 7:11 AM on October 25, 2011

I wasn't commenting on the quality of the song, and I'm late to the party too.. More and more lately, when I open the weekly publication to see what concerts are coming, all I see is Ø∏åß˚œ is touring with ß∫µ˜∂∑ and ı◊§•∆ø7 is opening, and both nights are sold out!
Saves me money on shows though.
posted by hypersloth at 7:34 AM on October 25, 2011

This is cool. The original video spawned a frenzy of T-stepping, shuffling and Sponge-Bobbing among the tweens of the quinby brood.
posted by jquinby at 7:37 AM on October 25, 2011

Weirdly, I just discovered LMFAO last week (and yes, I attribute this to my being old...) My wife has been obsessed with them ever since.

I find this ok, because they seem fairly ridiculous, and I like ridiculous.
posted by quin at 8:55 AM on October 25, 2011

(Although this strikes me as one of those things that the people in the house, once this Halloween is over, are never going to want to hear this song ever again.)
posted by quin at 8:58 AM on October 25, 2011

I would have no problem with the neighbours evicting him, and then burning the house to ground.
posted by clvrmnky at 9:45 AM on October 25, 2011 [1 favorite]