Even Samara'd freak out watching this video ...

September 24, 2010 9:05 PM

If there is ever one song that you should not listen under the influence of hallucinogens or other mind-altering substances, it would be "Pizza Song," quite possibly one of the creepiest-sounding tracks in existence.
posted by WCityMike (55 comments total)

Wow, this is like a really, really, really fucked up The Knife.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 9:10 PM on September 24, 2010 [4 favorites]

Against all expectations, I found that entertaining. P-I-Z-Z-A.
posted by Huck500 at 9:11 PM on September 24, 2010

I kept thinking is that the Olsen twins? Then I saw the tags.
Song made me think of Ween. I'd put it up there with Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) on the creepy scale.
posted by Babblesort at 9:13 PM on September 24, 2010 [2 favorites]

I couldn't watch it to the end - did their eyes start glowing by any chance?

Another one to avoid under the influence - Skinny Puppy's Left Hand Shake.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 9:13 PM on September 24, 2010

I like the girl's crazy face at 3:10.
posted by MaryDellamorte at 9:16 PM on September 24, 2010

If there is ever one song that you should not listen to under the influence of hallucinogens or other mind-altering substances drunk, it would be "Pizza Song ,"
posted by oinopaponton at 9:17 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Looks, upon further investigation, like it's an excerpt of this longer clip, which is equally disturbing but may be too much of a good creepy thing. (By the way, the "normal" version of the song is inherently creepy, too, methinks, and the camerawork will give you seasickness, no joke.)
posted by WCityMike at 9:18 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Related; what the fuck?
posted by Threeway Handshake at 9:21 PM on September 24, 2010 [2 favorites]

This is somehow very, very creepy and also giving me VIVID AS FUCK flashbacks to the whole zeitgeist of the mid-'90s.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:26 PM on September 24, 2010

The "normal" version may be even creepier though (or since) it lacks the over-the-top deliberate craziness of the slow reverby PCP world version. It sounds less like the inside of Manson's head but the fact that some people went to a not insignificant expense and effort to bring it into existence as wholesome kid's entertainment...
posted by Babblesort at 9:26 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

Whipped cream pourin' like waterfalls...

holy crap.
posted by Huck500 at 9:36 PM on September 24, 2010 [15 favorites]

Song made me think of Ween. I'd put it up there with Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) on the creepy scale.

Perhaps because of this little jingle??
posted by mannequito at 9:38 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

You know what this video is? It's Deee-Lite, on even more drugs than usual.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:42 PM on September 24, 2010 [5 favorites]

AH good. A whole thread full of nightmare fuel. Right before bed.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 9:50 PM on September 24, 2010 [5 favorites]

I am under the influence and I think this is hilarious.
posted by clockzero at 9:55 PM on September 24, 2010 [4 favorites]

Related, previously.
posted by hermitosis at 9:59 PM on September 24, 2010

Now i know why i bought an ipad. It's the easiest way to throw youtube into the fucking bathtub when boy yells spaghetti.
posted by condour75 at 9:59 PM on September 24, 2010 [2 favorites]

This is like something manifested fully-formed from the mind of Andy Samberg.
posted by hermitosis at 10:05 PM on September 24, 2010

creepy? - no, that's funky as hell
posted by pyramid termite at 10:22 PM on September 24, 2010 [6 favorites]

Why can't I stop watching this?
posted by dead cousin ted at 10:31 PM on September 24, 2010

I think music's quality is directly proportional to how much it's been slowed down.

Consider Justin Bieber's U Smile, and then it slowed down 800%. It becomes the best meditation song ever, rather than a mediocre pop song by an overrated tween idol.

I suppose that every song is probably just a snipped, slowed down, from the ur-song, a song that lives in the collective unconsciousness. It's a blaring, horrid blast that's over in under a millisecond that sounds truly awful, but from it, we can derive every song that we have ever enjoyed.

They'll find it as scientists learn to better reverse-engineer brains. But it will take audio technology beyond what we currently possess to process it.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:49 PM on September 24, 2010 [6 favorites]

That's pretty awesome. I must have a high tolerance for creep. I don't know what I would think without the visuals though, they add sooooo much.
posted by acheekymonkey at 10:55 PM on September 24, 2010

Pizza song?

Video pizza. Handmade in Portland, Oregon, by pizza lovers.
posted by redsparkler at 11:16 PM on September 24, 2010

Wow. The new Das Racist really is good.
posted by bardic at 11:36 PM on September 24, 2010 [2 favorites]

Video pizza. Handmade in Portland, Oregon, by pizza lovers.
posted by redsparkler at 1:16 AM on September 25 [+] [!]

With intro music by Boards of Canada.
posted by onehalfjunco at 11:45 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

I like it. It's got a good eat and you can dance to it.
posted by loquacious at 11:51 PM on September 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

That is such a sweet break. I'm trying to learn it on guitar.
posted by chillmost at 4:36 AM on September 25, 2010

i couldn't figure out why this was made in the first place, let alone why it was 'enhanced.' so, from wcitymike's normal link above:

Gimme Pizza music video from "You're Invited To Mary-Kate and Ashley's Sleepover Party" Staring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and featuring Cara DeLizia (Fi from "So Weird"). Composed by Jeremy Sweet, Ron Kenan, Kussa Mahchi, and Shuki Levy.

video aside, those olsen twins are creepy in any context.
posted by msconduct at 5:34 AM on September 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

The original is more disturbing than the slow version. Gooooourmaaaay.
posted by nickrussell at 6:41 AM on September 25, 2010

Feels like 5 AM the morning after too many pints of dark ale, with the half awake compulsive mental repetition and nausea. I could only handle 20 seconds.
posted by fleetmouse at 7:03 AM on September 25, 2010

Just want to chime in as a counterpoint that I am about the right age to have seen this as an actual under-ten year old, and my sister and I LOVED this video, though I still have nightmares about being forced to eat the pizza created in this song. That said, this version is creepy as sin.
posted by Polyhymnia at 7:15 AM on September 25, 2010

Maybe it's 'cause I just woke up, but I laughed for the entire 3:41. Happy Sunday!!

Pizzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
posted by bayani at 7:36 AM on September 25, 2010

I almost posted this. I watched this twice last night, and then I showed it to my wife, who tolerated it for about 30 seconds. That's kinda a metaphor for our relationship.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 7:42 AM on September 25, 2010 [2 favorites]

That reminded me of drinking an entire bottle of Robitussin DM to get fucked up on the codeine.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:45 AM on September 25, 2010

I adore artistic interventions like this—a found object, given the most minimal, Zen-like, almost thoughtless of treatments—like being brushed with a feather—and coming out the other end as something profoundly different and strange and magical and glorious.

Or perhaps I'm overthinking this. P-I-Z-Z-A, GIMME PIZZA
posted by ixohoxi at 8:34 AM on September 25, 2010 [2 favorites]

This is so addictive. And concur, the original is just as creepy. Those are some of the fastest edits in the history of asscinema. The editor must have been on ridic amounts of amphetamines. I can just picture the director, high as a kite, late night editing this kidlet video screaming "FASTER, make it FASTER! I'm a genius!"
posted by Smegoid at 8:41 AM on September 25, 2010

She totally wants it and she totally wants him to give it to her.

Also, it's care-ah-mell you fucking heathen!
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:57 AM on September 25, 2010

What was creepiest to me was that I didn't recognize the Olsen Twins, because I just saw a pair of healthy little girls instead of sallow, drug-addled waifs.
posted by Countess Elena at 9:06 AM on September 25, 2010

My cats do not appreciate that I've been bellowing "PIIIIZZAAAAAAAA" at them all morning as a result of this video.
posted by Greg Nog at 9:37 AM on September 25, 2010 [2 favorites]

Creepin? What? No way!

This is sold-hard core FUNKIN!

THIS IS FRIED CHICKEN FUNK

GOD! IM TRIPPIN ON THAT!

KAAA! KAAA!
posted by humannaire at 9:58 AM on September 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

KAAA! KAAA!

Put down the Robitussin and back away. Slowly.

Either that or pass it to me.
posted by bayani at 11:47 AM on September 25, 2010

I am under the influence and I think this is hilarious.

This.
posted by Joe Beese at 12:05 PM on September 25, 2010

This may be the closest thing yet to the Entertainment from Infinite Jest.
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:44 PM on September 25, 2010 [7 favorites]

The weird thing about the full-speed one is how unnatural the voices are. Slowed down, sure, it's all hellish, but at full speed it becomes apparent that the voices are just overdubbed by adults putting on falsettos.
posted by kafziel at 1:12 PM on September 25, 2010

Who's the girl with the fish?
posted by doublehappy at 1:21 PM on September 25, 2010

I am so fucking hungry.
posted by box at 1:49 PM on September 25, 2010

Okay. Thanks guys, thanks for coming over and doing the pizza thing. But... um, well... we're billionaires, and you... you've got to go now.
posted by Naberius at 1:52 PM on September 25, 2010

I think there's something in that pizza that they're not telling us about.
posted by SpaceJazz at 1:58 PM on September 25, 2010

My friends don't understand why I don't like the Beastie Boys. Now I can point to this video and explain to them that, to me, every BB song sounds exactly like this.
posted by Think_Long at 2:25 PM on September 25, 2010 [4 favorites]

Totally reminded me of The Residents.
posted by kinnakeet at 4:34 PM on September 25, 2010

I really like this guy's stuff. It's worthwhile to check out his youtube account.
posted by codacorolla at 5:11 PM on September 25, 2010

Also WCityMike -- I'm sad that you left. You have brought me so much joy with this pizza song, and now you leave because of a combative MeTa? Streets behind dude, streets behind.
posted by Think_Long at 6:27 PM on September 25, 2010

Uncannily Ween-like.
posted by Robin Kestrel at 6:40 PM on September 25, 2010

Ha, I love their fucked up lil' trance faces. ♪ In-A-Gadda-Da-Pizza Bay-Bay ♫ .
posted by dgaicun at 4:52 AM on September 26, 2010

Everyone's gone home and you're in the lounge with your feet on the heater and there are empties and chip packets and someone's wallet and a lighter and it's really bright and you're not drunk any more but every noise is an assault and your face is sore for some reason and you can hear "smack
my bitch up" through the wall of your flat and one of the neighbours is smoking on your shared balcony and it must be around five am because the recycling truck is idling outside and there's a bjork music video on tv and you're thinking of tidying up but you don't wanna fucking move and you there's a risk you'll wake up Simon's cousin, who's sleeping on the three seater, which is funny cause he's slept through almost everything else but yeah, and then your other flatmate comes home with burger king and a guy from the radio station where he works and he sits far too close to you for your liking and clearly hasn't showered in a while and wants to talk about soft cell and you're mostly sure he's being ironic but he doesn't seem smart enough and about four years later the bjork video ends and this begins and on the first impression you're confu by the fact that she ordered the pizza and it was not only ready but delivered immediately but by the end of the song it's changed your life and you're never gonna sleep well again.
posted by doublehappy at 5:30 AM on September 26, 2010 [4 favorites]