They knew that I would be reunited with my ancestors instantly

February 20, 2022 12:49 PM

The wildly inimitable Chris Fleming sings his Boba (Tea) Manifesto. When you talk to me in the morning, / I talk like the owner of a wolf sanctuary, / but after boba, I talk like the owner / of a boutique children's clothing store.
posted by rorgy (13 comments total)

I routinely get this song stuck in my head and frankly those are my favorite days.
posted by Lyn Never at 1:07 PM on February 20, 2022 [4 favorites]

Just on its face, if this turned into the most absurd "if you can't handle me at my..." meme ever, I wouldn't mind
posted by rhizome at 1:58 PM on February 20, 2022

I think about Sick Jan every tax season.
posted by offalark at 2:05 PM on February 20, 2022 [5 favorites]

I routinely get this song stuck in my head and frankly those are my favorite days.

It's weird how a song with virtually no rhythm, literally no rhymes, and something that only vaguely approximates a melody manages to be so catchy, because I am absolutely in the same boat as you.
posted by rorgy at 2:32 PM on February 20, 2022 [4 favorites]

What a treat!
posted by brainwane at 3:21 PM on February 20, 2022

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EEEeeeeeEEEEeeeeethere's new ones!
There's finally like four or five new ones!
posted by Don Pepino at 4:14 PM on February 20, 2022

Like a gen-xer selfie lol
posted by maggiemaggie at 5:25 PM on February 20, 2022

a song with virtually no rhythm, literally no rhymes, and something that only vaguely approximates a melody

Surely a scathing post-structural rebuke of the music lovers who don't own lizards and aren't his fans. They also can't wear his jacket, because it has his name on it. They may drink boba, but it won't save them, is what he's saying.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:34 PM on February 20, 2022 [2 favorites]

If you liked that you need to watch him in My Day with the Alien which includes the classic Chris Fleming exhortation, "Ah, c'mon man! You hit that boba too hard!"
posted by rogerroger at 8:21 PM on February 20, 2022 [1 favorite]

I just accidentally played like 15 seconds of the middle of this song on a work call while waiting for others to finish a task. I did not know they could hear it. Two of them thought the call had been hacked somehow.
posted by brainwane at 10:00 AM on February 21, 2022 [5 favorites]

Gawd thank you. I almost never click on links to videos and this one time I thought, eh, I’ll click it. And saw YouTube and thought, eh, I’m here. I guess I’ll unmute it.

And I’m so glad I did - I have a smile stuck on my face & a song in my heart.
posted by hilaryjade at 10:34 AM on February 21, 2022

As I am both

newly under doctors’ orders to carefully monitor my fluid intake and water weight

and also

currently enjoying a series of stay-at-home dates with my husband we call "Boba and Boba" where, as we did this morning, we drink bubble tea and watch Boba Fett

this video is very, very precisely my jam.
posted by pickles_have_souls at 2:04 PM on February 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

I love Chris Fleming so much. If you don't know about it already, you have to check out his Gayle series.
posted by Jess the Mess at 3:23 PM on February 21, 2022 [1 favorite]