In my eyes you are still a bot
June 18, 2007 12:48 AM   Subscribe

 
From Swedish musician Jonas Erik Altberg^ a.k.a BassHunter (warning: embedded audio).

Also check out "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" on DotA .
posted by lenny70 at 12:51 AM on June 18, 2007 [1 favorite]


This is why I am proud to be one-quarter Norwegian.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:59 AM on June 18, 2007


Oh dear god no. Please don't turn "Jag känner en bot" into an international meme, us swedes got quite enough of that song last summer, thank you.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 1:16 AM on June 18, 2007 [1 favorite]


The second video has 2,000,000+ views.

That's like every man, woman, and child in Alaska watching it three times. Three!
posted by mdonley at 1:41 AM on June 18, 2007


welcome to 3 years ago
posted by Addiction at 1:42 AM on June 18, 2007 [2 favorites]


And for completeness' sake: here's Basshunter's Myspace page.
posted by mdonley at 1:43 AM on June 18, 2007


I was deeply confused by the part where Anna is revealing herself to be a real girl and the editing makes it seem for a second that BassHunter is rocking a really nice manicure job.
posted by thatswherebatslive at 1:55 AM on June 18, 2007


LOLZSWEDEZ
posted by zardoz at 2:21 AM on June 18, 2007


This is old crap.
posted by homodigitalis at 2:36 AM on June 18, 2007


WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
BASSHUNTER?
posted by Effigy2000 at 3:13 AM on June 18, 2007


while browsing the basshunter myspace page, i discovered this gem:

mullet + moustache + large black sunglasses + blue steel + Swedish accent = Günther
posted by Merik at 3:32 AM on June 18, 2007


That's twenty seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Damn, now that's like 40...
posted by pompomtom at 3:37 AM on June 18, 2007


WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
BASSHUNTER?


He's a fisherman!
posted by malaprohibita at 4:03 AM on June 18, 2007


/set mode #thispost +rules
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 4:25 AM on June 18, 2007


Merik, some people are actually attempting to make the mullet come back in style. :(
posted by taursir at 4:32 AM on June 18, 2007


"how many people can look and sound so good while singing about a robot? not many. :]"

laugh, then cry
posted by sunexplodes at 4:39 AM on June 18, 2007


She blocked me
posted by deusdiabolus at 4:40 AM on June 18, 2007


Khaled Mardam Bey must be proud.
posted by splatta at 5:00 AM on June 18, 2007


I know people that seriously appreciate Basshunter's work, as fine music.

I shit you not.
posted by mek at 5:36 AM on June 18, 2007


[This is poo.]
posted by dobbs at 5:48 AM on June 18, 2007


First, this freaks me out that I understand the lyrics without the subtitles.
Second, I have this very unnatural urge to go dance in a paddle boat.
But first I am going to consult with my Rice Krispies and do what ever the voices in the bowl tell me to.

Vi driller bare, ikke.
posted by MapGuy at 6:01 AM on June 18, 2007


Yes, I prefer Günther myself. He touches my tralala. My ding ding dong.
posted by miss lynnster at 6:16 AM on June 18, 2007


That was a beautiful and heartwarming tale. Better than Spiderman 3. Or Cats, for that matter.

Jeg snokker ikke so got norsk.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:17 AM on June 18, 2007


OHMYGAWD - the cover of Gunther's CD "Pleasureman" may be a candidate for one of the worst covers of all time. It's right up there with DJ Dave the Turntable Slave.
posted by Ber at 7:39 AM on June 18, 2007


I feel like I've been transported back to 1997 or so.
posted by bhouston at 7:43 AM on June 18, 2007


Merik:

Jonas Erik Altberg != Mats Söderlund
jeez, get it right, Swedist.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:18 AM on June 18, 2007


Anna may be a bot, but I am a a camera!
posted by janetplanet at 8:33 AM on June 18, 2007


“Jeg snokker ikke so got norsk.”

Ufda! I didn't say I know the language. But I think you just insulted my ancestral people. Or you like to masturbate with lefse. I'm not sure.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:43 AM on June 18, 2007


I'll see your Basshunter and raise you one Gebroeders Ko.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:24 AM on June 18, 2007


Wait, scratch that - I'll see my own Gebroeders Ko and raise myself one Sinterklaasboot.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:28 AM on June 18, 2007


That Günther concept reminds me of Dieter Gold.
posted by cx at 11:01 AM on June 18, 2007


goodnewsfortheinsane FTW
Sinterklaasboot?

wtf? Am I crazy or did that video contain a bunch swedish people in black-face and medieval clown suits wrapping presents... on a boat? Can someone please translate this both linguistically and culturally?
posted by Merik at 11:53 AM on June 18, 2007


Ironically, EB, what I just said was "I don't speak Norwegian." Or, according to my ex grandmother in law, "I don't talk such good Norwegian," which seems an excellent way to get the point across.

As part of an abortive plan to visit the ex's ancestral lands, I can also ask "Do you speak English?" (snokker du engelsk?), "Are you married?" (er du gift?), and I used to know how to ask "Would you like to meet behind the schoolhouse?"

I prefer masturbating with lutefisk, myself. The lye gives it an exciting tingle.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:07 PM on June 18, 2007


ROU_Xenophobe, du får antakelig bedre respons dersom du sier 'snakker' i stedet for 'snokker'.
posted by klue at 12:55 PM on June 18, 2007


I'M IN UR BASE, HUNTIN UR ANNA'S.
posted by Effigy2000 at 1:12 PM on June 18, 2007


Merik, that's just crazy talk.
posted by sebastienbailard at 2:49 PM on June 18, 2007


No boat ride is complete without Ajdar, the Turkish hunk
posted by zany pita at 3:35 PM on June 18, 2007


merik - those guys are Zwarte Piets. its pretty messed up... see here:

wikipedia
posted by joeblough at 3:35 PM on June 18, 2007


Merik -- Sinterklaas.

I can't believe how heavily this song was re-covered. I think the language ambiguity described in the Wikipedia article covers it pretty well, but good lord, wouldn't one get tired of hearing this after, like, months and months, no matter what the lyrics were?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:46 PM on June 18, 2007


Ogre, I truly wish I had an explanation for that. All I can say is this song has contributed to my insanity for more and longer than I could have imagined a song to do, and now it's spread to Metafilter I see no option other than to remove this otherwise kind and caring website from my bookmarks. Farewell.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:53 PM on June 18, 2007


I know I'm supposed to be too cool to love this, but love it I do. So splendidly goofy. Everything from the paddle-boat ride channel pun to the to the nerdy dancing in the light of his laptop screen to beating his fist in the air from the dune buggy to the Norwegian pronunciation of spammers being the reggae-sounding "Spam-Mon." I WUV IT IN ALL CAPS AND IT CAN NOWAY BE TAKEN OVER!
posted by straight at 4:59 PM on June 18, 2007


Also awesome: in one of his other videos, the fans are holding up a big BASSHUNTER! sign and you can't see the 'B'.
posted by straight at 5:01 PM on June 18, 2007


Why does Ajdar dance with radishes? Feta cheese, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes & cucumbers I might understand. But radishes?
posted by miss lynnster at 6:09 PM on June 18, 2007


That's like every man, woman, and child in Alaska watching it three times. Three!

I only watched it once, but I made my dog watch it too.
posted by rhapsodie at 6:37 PM on June 18, 2007


The pitch correcter must be uninvented. Now.
posted by pmbuko at 7:13 PM on June 18, 2007


du får antakelig bedre respons dersom du sier 'snakker' i stedet for 'snokker'.

ROU Xenophobe smells what you are snakkering.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:24 PM on June 18, 2007


I 100% loved this video. That is my opinion.
posted by facetious at 8:30 PM on June 18, 2007


Reminds me of this NYT image about IRC.
posted by furtive at 8:31 PM on June 18, 2007


“ROU Xenophobe smells what you are snakkering.”

When I tried to get a translation for your comment, it was obvious that snakker might be slang. I found it, it is. It means wanker. Thus my comment.

My paternal grandmother's parents both came from Norway to the US to Minnesota and Wisconsin (where else?). Or perhaps all four of her grandparents did. Either way, she is 100% Norse-American and is either first-generation of second-generation.

As I'm sure you know, but perhaps our Norwegian friend klu does not, ethnic Americans can be funny about their ethnicity. My paternal grandfather was ethnically English or Scottish, the family had been in the US for many generations. Anyway, there was no relationship with my dad's family and my grandfather's relatives regardless of the fact that the ethnicity didn't matter.

That left my grandmother's 100% Norwegian blood and retained ethnic customs, including some food, and so my dad and his siblings were raised with a strong Norwegian ethnic flavor. Then when we grandkids came along, my grandmother pushed it even more, with most of the grandkids (not me) going to Norwegian language camp and participating in the dance stuff with the local ethnic organization.

Most of my dad's siblings are blond and blue-eyed. My grandfather wasn't, so two of the kids are brown-haired. My dad is one of them. Brown-haired and brown-eyed. So am I. My sister also has brown eyes and has very light brown hair, but it was blonde until she was 12, believe it or not. Mine was blonde until I was two or so.

So I don't look like I have any scandinavian in me, but I do, even though it's only one-quarter. But it's the only portion that matters as there's no ethnicity, really, on my mom's side. So I'm sort of proud to have that Norse in me.

The disease I have came through that grandmother, she has it, too. That's why my family is here in New Mexico—they moved here from Wisconsin in 1950 or so for the much drier climate for her joints. And there's not many scandinavians around here, quite unlike the upper midwest. That's probably the other part of why it matters to me. If I lived in Minnesota, that small portion of Norwegian blood probably wouldn't matter to me.

My grandmother and especially her relatives that still live up there, all talk just like the characters in Fargo. When I watched it the first time with friends, I kept telling them that this wasn't exaggerated and joke, that's exactly how they talk and sound.

Sorry this was so long and personal. I'm sort of gossipy today. If anyone read it and found it profoundly boring, I apologize.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:34 PM on June 18, 2007


When I tried to get a translation for your comment, it was obvious that snakker might be slang. I found it, it is. It means wanker. Thus my comment.

Well, I learned something.

I only meant that I think I got the message that "talk" is snakker, not snokker.*

For some reason, I chose to express this by paraphrasing Mr. The Rock, who sometimes asks "DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?"

I had no idea that snakker could also be wanker.

*If that's what klue was saying. As I noted, my Norwegian is limited to a few useful phrases. So is my German. I know "NICHT SCHIESSEN!" and "Ich habe in meine Hosen gescheist." I admit that the second is probably not grammatically correct, but I'm only shooting for a child's fluency here.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:20 PM on June 18, 2007


Well ROU... I got what you were trying to say and my fluency in German is that of a five year old. So... bullseye.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:37 PM on June 18, 2007


Whoops, iy'd snokker which means wanker. It's the difference between the a and the o.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:03 AM on June 19, 2007


I know I'm supposed to be too cool to love this, but love it I do. So splendidly goofy.

It is chock full of dorky joy. Even his despair at finding that Anna is not a bot is full of joy.

Also, we has a house and move early July
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:24 AM on June 19, 2007


The pitch correcter must be uninvented. Now.

I definitely find it annoying, too. But annoying as it is, it would still improve Ajdar's "singing". The radishes are awesome, though...
posted by klausness at 4:46 PM on June 19, 2007


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