Everybody Movement

August 16, 2023 9:11 AM

Planet of the Bass - DJ Crazy Times ft Ms Biljana Electronica As we proceed further along the Goncharov timeline, a 90s Eurotrash classic has been unearthed. Though if you missed the actual way you encountered it, someone uploaded their VHS copy.

If you've been wondering where the heck, "women are my favorite guy" came from, it came from this parody that originally went viral on TikTok. The American comedian behind the DJ persona, Kyle Gordon, explains the whole thing.

(Feel free to enjoy the comments where people are fully committing to the bit with their recollections of the European 90s clubbing scene)

posted by cendawanita (28 comments total)

I collected my favourite 'anecdotes' here.
posted by cendawanita at 9:12 AM on August 16, 2023 [4 favorites]

(I understand you can date it to the early 00s but hey, European dance music was never cutting edge at the time.)
posted by cendawanita at 9:16 AM on August 16, 2023

Christmas came early!
posted by Kitteh at 9:17 AM on August 16, 2023

JUSTICE FOR BILJANA
posted by allegedly at 9:19 AM on August 16, 2023 [8 favorites]

I found this NPR walkthrough to be useful, albeit dizzying.
posted by knile at 9:28 AM on August 16, 2023 [3 favorites]

Previously

Thank you for the update; wooo, party time!
posted by May Kasahara at 9:31 AM on August 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

Gonna tell my grandkids this was Good Omens Season 2.
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 9:32 AM on August 16, 2023 [6 favorites]

As we proceed further along the Goncharov timeline,

This is what the internet is for. This shit right here.
posted by mhoye at 9:32 AM on August 16, 2023 [12 favorites]

Previously

Damn, completely missed that. Glad to see it linked here!
posted by cendawanita at 9:33 AM on August 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

this bounced right off me, despite really liking the original tiktok post. it just feels like taking a keen and tidy 1-2-3 joke and stretching it out to the fifteen minutes wanda sykes would take to tell it. good to see the original actress back though.
posted by seanmpuckett at 9:38 AM on August 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

After listening to the full version I do think the teaser picked the best 1 minute out of the full song. The rest was a bit underwhelming.

Also the best part about the three versions of the video with different actresses is that none of those three are the woman who recorded the lyrics.
posted by allegedly at 9:58 AM on August 16, 2023 [4 favorites]

Agreed, seeing the entire video (on VHS) is great, but the teaser definitely got the best out of the concept.

I'm still going to have the song stuck in my head for the next few days, though.
posted by PussKillian at 10:03 AM on August 16, 2023

EVERYBODY MOVEMENT!
posted by moonmilk at 10:04 AM on August 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

After listening to the full version I do think the teaser picked the best 1 minute out of the full song. The rest was a bit underwhelming.

Which makes it an even more perfect parody. The lyrics might as well be "This is not the chorus yet / Don't worry the chorus will be here soon / I promise that the chorus you love / Is right around the bend / CHORUS"
posted by Etrigan at 10:34 AM on August 16, 2023 [11 favorites]

Best Youtube comment I've seen so far.

The moment when Biljana changes back into her iconic outfit from the first video is the moment that proved that, yes, it IS possible to be nostalgic for two weeks ago. A pure triumph.
posted by cirhosis at 11:08 AM on August 16, 2023 [15 favorites]

No, it's EVERYBODY MOOOOOOOVEMENT!
posted by Quasirandom at 1:12 PM on August 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

Any one of those lines of garbled English is hilarious, but the cumulative effect is too many errors to be plausible and it kind of breaks the spell for me
posted by Jon_Evil at 2:11 PM on August 16, 2023 [5 favorites]

Bratislava!

ALL THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD!
posted by chavenet at 2:36 PM on August 16, 2023 [2 favorites]

Even though it's a parody, When we out in the space in the planet of the BASS! is dope as hell! I hope somebody samples it.
posted by swift at 5:34 PM on August 16, 2023 [1 favorite]

Sorry, twitter link incoming:

saw miss Biljana in the flesh tn at, where else, the Jonas brothers concert in Boston
posted by LostInUbe at 5:42 PM on August 16, 2023 [7 favorites]

It's really cool of DJ Crazy Times and Miss Biljana Electronica to allow the Jonas Brothers to open for them like that.
posted by Etrigan at 6:00 AM on August 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Jonas brothers covid superspreader event
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:18 AM on August 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

A behind the scenes look at their world premier (TikTok from Miss Biljana Electronica)
posted by greenhornet at 6:05 PM on August 17, 2023 [2 favorites]

Pairs nicely with this parody of the iconic German eurorave group Scooter by a Swedish comedy sketch show: Party in Heaven.
posted by subocoyne at 7:32 AM on August 18, 2023

is this something you'd have to be nostalgic for the husk to understand
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 7:49 AM on August 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

It's unfortunate that he leaned in on making bad English grammar a part of the bit, because the English lyrics of Eurodance songs tended to be simple, but grammatically-fine.

Putting that aside, I'm surprised this comedian put together an otherwise clever and nuanced parody, considering that his other videos are... neither of those things.
posted by schmod at 8:05 AM on August 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

> It's unfortunate that he leaned in on making bad English grammar a part of the bit, because the English lyrics of Eurodance songs tended to be simple, but grammatically-fine.

i mean, the grammar generally isn't wrong, exactly, but it's not right either, and it's often pretty far from idiomatic english.

i recall reading — probably in something linked to by someone on metafilter — that the big-name scandinavian pop songwriters consider their distance from idiomatic english as one of the things that explains how popular scandivian-written pop is. gleefully ignoring idiom and grammar lets them use whatever words sound best for the song, without regard to whether those words make sense in any conventional way.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:36 AM on August 18, 2023 [2 favorites]

it's interesting how "novelty thing parodying off-kilter european pop but it turns out to be a kinda great song" is a recurrent theme across the decades.

please don't take this me being a cranky old person dismissing planet of the bass just because someone from like 20 years ago did something similar except shifted a little bit to the east. like, i'm not in this thread to be like "steve allen zladko already did it!" both planet of the bass and elektronik supersonik are undeniable unstoppable bops, and i will fite anyone who says otherwise.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 8:53 AM on August 18, 2023 [1 favorite]