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Cheer Me Up. Jon Daly's shot for shot remake of The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" Music Video. (SLYT)
Which is amazing, because the original wasn't that good.
posted by Gelatin at 10:46 AM on March 31, 2020
posted by Gelatin at 10:46 AM on March 31, 2020
(To be clear, part of the entertainment value is parodying the ways the original was bad -- poor lip synching, half-assed instrument miming, Keith Richards staring into space, etc. -- as well the way Jagger's energy propelled the clip.)
posted by Gelatin at 10:51 AM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Gelatin at 10:51 AM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is so, so stupid. I love it.
posted by saladin at 11:00 AM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by saladin at 11:00 AM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
At first I was kind of on the fence, but then Charlie Watts won me over.
(Also, I recently learned, after reading the Wikipedia entry for 'Start Me Up,' as you do, that Microsoft paid $3 million to use the song to market Windows 95. It was the first time the Rolling Stones had licensed their songs in an advertising campaign [citation needed]. Which raises some questions in my mind. Like, they're the freaking Rolling Stones. $3 million is not a lot of money to these guys. Did something happen to make them change their anti-commercial stance? Did they ever have an anti-commercial stance to begin with? Sorry to derail the post with Rolling Stones trivia, but, yeah, I've got questions.)
posted by box at 11:24 AM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
(Also, I recently learned, after reading the Wikipedia entry for 'Start Me Up,' as you do, that Microsoft paid $3 million to use the song to market Windows 95. It was the first time the Rolling Stones had licensed their songs in an advertising campaign [citation needed]. Which raises some questions in my mind. Like, they're the freaking Rolling Stones. $3 million is not a lot of money to these guys. Did something happen to make them change their anti-commercial stance? Did they ever have an anti-commercial stance to begin with? Sorry to derail the post with Rolling Stones trivia, but, yeah, I've got questions.)
posted by box at 11:24 AM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
The Stones? Anti-commercial? Well, there's this ad (co-written by Brian Jones!) from 1964 selling Rice Krispies that says they weren't ever too concerned about those kind of issues.
posted by frodisaur at 11:46 AM on March 31, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by frodisaur at 11:46 AM on March 31, 2020 [4 favorites]
Is that the words? Hunh.
posted by wenestvedt at 1:31 PM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by wenestvedt at 1:31 PM on March 31, 2020 [1 favorite]
I remember Steve Ballmer dancing in Windows 95 to the tune, which at the time was considered classic rock. "Start Me Up" was 14 years old at the time, which made it as old then as say "The Funeral" by Band of Horses is now.
posted by St. Oops at 3:31 PM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by St. Oops at 3:31 PM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
Shortly after this song was released I recall a radio DJ joking that the title must have been a reference to Mick Jagger pleading for someone to jumpstart his pacemaker. Har har ‘cause they’re so old!
Mick Jagger was 38 years old at the time.
posted by Atom Eyes at 4:43 PM on March 31, 2020 [7 favorites]
Mick Jagger was 38 years old at the time.
posted by Atom Eyes at 4:43 PM on March 31, 2020 [7 favorites]
I'm not sure I get the joke.
Tattoo You is like season 8 of The Simpsons. They found a groove so satisfying, it's absolutely worth listening to, yet there's no freshness left and everything that they produced afterward is completely ignorable.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:18 PM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
Tattoo You is like season 8 of The Simpsons. They found a groove so satisfying, it's absolutely worth listening to, yet there's no freshness left and everything that they produced afterward is completely ignorable.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:18 PM on March 31, 2020 [3 favorites]
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