I know this is meant to be silly — and it is, delightfully so — but for me, as an un-ironic ragtime person, what you’ve crafted here is Exhibit A in how ragtime musicians and composers shaped the geology of American popular music to this day. 😊
Absolutely. My favorite genre is early jazz which obviously flowed from ragtime. I sometimes wish I could experience that music with the ears of that audience who had never heard that kind of “ragged time” syncopation - must have really been an experience…it still is catchy as hell.
and I don’t think many video game enthusiasts even realized how much early Nintendo music was basically ragtime, you can definitely hear it in the 8 bit Super Mario Bros
Tried to show this to a few friends, but they couldn't appreciate how amazing it was. As a ragtime player from way back, you have done phenomenally with this sir. Thankyou!
The whole “ragtime as comedy music” vibe reminds me when I went to university several years ago, hoping to get a BA and eventually a doctorate in musicology (I got burned out after 24 years total in school and dropped out, but was trying for about two and a half years). Since I got into the program via a jazz audition, there was some confusion and I was put into the jazz program rather than the musicology program. I didn’t realize this for over a year because all the students at this level are required to play something and be part of some ensemble anyway. So, while struggling as part of the straight-ahead big band (I like this kind of jazz but it’s not my bag and I wasn’t there to try to learn to play that), the department director realized this and as part of the small combos, made a brand new “early jazz ensemble” and put me as the leader.
He didn’t realize at the time I had good experience as a sideman, and lots of study of vintage piano styles, but very little about horn players and even less experience as a bandleader. So I was sort-of drowning trying to lead this band and do my classes at the same time. Fortunately another student who was about 20 years older than me and an experienced jazzman stepped in to take over co-leading this ensemble. However his idea of early jazz was less King Oliver / Louis Armstrong / Red Nichols / Bix Beiderbecke etc and more like pop and novelty music of the time (which I love very much, but is no longer considered pure “jazz” by most of today’s pundits). So our co-leadership of the group diverged at times when I was trying to get the band members to play the real stuff (and also learn how to improvise) and he was perfectly happy with a sort of a cartoon version of it, and with less improvisation (we both eventually had to go with less improvisation because almost everyone else in the band had never played this kind of music before and were struggling to learn the precepts of an entire musical era, with me having no teaching experience and the combo slotted in our schedules between lots of other schoolwork). It was quite an experience, but somehow we made it work for a couple years before I finally quit. Without his patience I doubt we would have lasted more than a few months. But I’m still happiest when playing with musicians who know way more about this music than I do and who can kick my ass on their instruments.
I didn’t make a clear correlation to this video and comment there: Basically, I respect people from outside the scene doing vintage music the most when they do their homework and try to get it right and don’t just make a mockery of it, but also realize that a good amount of this is fun music and sometimes you have to have fun.
What is frustrating to me is that there are only like 5 or 6 early jazz and ragtime pianists / musicians whose work are widely reprinted and whose playing styles are taught in tutorials, method books etc.
The other 1,000 or so pianists (let’s say born before 1911, so what I would call “original era” artists; I had to draw a dividing line somewhere) who made from one to many records and/or piano rolls are basically left in the dust and out of the history books (or at best get a one sentence or maybe one paragraph mention in some of the books).
This includes some artists who were very good and/or very influential in their day, and several who left behind a large body of work to study (hundreds, or over a thousand, records and/or rolls).
There have been several people studying some of these musicians but relatively little formally published on them yet or made available in any kind of a useful-teaching way. I wanted to remedy this with a series of transcription / musical analysis / teaching books about some of these musicians, to fill the void that is there, and hopefully honor them and do them justice.
That is why I was even in university after graduating community college; I wanted to get a doctorate in musicology so I could learn how to do very high level musical analysis (I can only do rudimentary analysis now) and uncover deeper aspects of these artists’ styles and their musical thinking.
But as mentioned in the other comment I got burned out and in any case the pressing need to work and earn money and also personal issues intervened.
I’m still chipping away on this project anyway and may return to school at some point once I’m financially and otherwise settled.
*I’m not even including other instruments in the total I listed above, since ragtime era music and beyond was far from piano centric (although the piano was the primary home and solo instrument in those days; today it is the guitar, or the stereo or just one’s music playlist). In those days ragtime was sung, played on violin, mandolin, banjo, clarinet, trumpet etc and by various ensembles small and large, all over the place.
It wasn’t strictly piano solo music and many rags and pieces published for piano solo may have been intended for other instruments when first composed (but were brought out in piano editions because that was the most popular instrument).
The various musicians active influenced and cross pollinated each other in those days.
Some people and ill-informed historians act like these ensembles and cross pollination (as well as improvisation) started with jazz, but it actually goes back much earlier, before ragtime even got its name.
Fortunately we do have many recordings of some of these musicians as well.
@Andrew BarrettI’m a pianist but I know very little about ragtime. The piece used in this video (which I assume is something the creator of this video found somewhere?) seems quite a bit more complicated from the few pieces I have heard. Where does it fit in the history? Is it early or late, etc.? And how can I find more like this?
@There I Ruined It I like looking for mash ups so it is still part of my algorithm I suppose. I have seen at least three of your other videos. I really liked your 2021 holiday video too!
Can't. Stop. Listening. You failed to "ruin" this at all! Better than the original, better than other mashups of it... now convinced this IS the original from 100 years ago.
I'd love it if you did a bluegrass version of King of Pain by the Police. I remember as a kid seeing the lyrics not having heard the song and for some reason thought of it as a bluegrass song with a tune kind of like the song they sing in the first Veggie Tales video. Definitely seems like this channel's type of hilarity.
I am new to your channel, and I have never said this more sincerely: "Thank the universe for the Youtube algorhythm!" The editing, the sound design (how the hell do you isolate the vocals so cleanly?), the musicality...everything is world-class. Thank you for sharing your prodigious talent.
Yes!! Dude's like Weird Al-level genius but, instead of just straight-up parodies, with stylesand music. My GOSH, the MUSIC!! I love ragtime, and it's played PERFECTLY in this video!
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How is every new one better than the one before that was incredible in it's own right?! HOW DO YOU GUYS DO IT?! 1 MILLION STARS!!!
Having watched a couple of silent movie 20's comedies, the intertitle "I ain't no holler back girl" actually seems quite authentic, sounding like something studios would include to convey the sense of a sassy flapper girl. But I'm a fan of old slang terms, in general...
The creativity in making these videos is incredible and in a league of its own. Its packed with brilliant details. Chaplin skid on banana peel is an obvious one, but there are so much more.
Some of the songs you make don't ruin the original, they actually enhance and make them better. You should consider changing your channel name to "There I Made It Better" 😁
Fun fact; ragtime music was most popular WAY before beanies were invented - about 90-95 years apart. So I like to think that literally none of those people knew what the frick Gwen Stefani was wearing on her head.
I find them on YouTube, either the stems or digitally isolated. I should probably learn how to do it myself at this point, I’m just not an audio wizard :)
@Sam Hammoudeh the way they used to do it in the past was with phase cancelling filters, because usually voice is in mono (the wash effects might be in stereo though). With AI, I'm sure there's good ways to isolate the words now. I'm a musician, but I don't work on ripping out voices. Rather, I use software like Melodyne and Song Surgeon to study musician's work.
I used to think COVID needed to end soon so people could get back to work. Now I'm glad that you are stuck at home doing this and I am stuck at home watching it, over and over again! Thank you for elevating my mood 🤣
BTW, what is the source of the B&W clip of the threatening young men (also seen in your "Get Low" swing edition video)? It looks so familiar but I can't place it...
This video hits me in my classic Hollywood obsessed soul. Chaplin slipping on a banana, "I've been around that track" followed by a woman chained to train tracks. That split Second of Joan Crawford. My God!
Your version was awesome. You listen to the lyrics and realize what a completely inane song this is. Repeat "sh!t" over and over again and it counts as "art."
I can't believe you actually missed the opportunity to put Josephine Baker in the clip - the world famous promiscuous dancer who was best known for dancing in a banana skirt.
“I don’t know what a Hollaback girl is, but I have to imagine it’s a foul, disease-ridden thing that wears too much make-up to cover up the fact that it’s a 47-year-old fish dog.” — Cleveland
“I don’t know what a Hollaback girl is, but I have to imagine it’s a foul, disease-ridden thing that wears too much make-up to cover up the fact that it’s a 47-year-old fish dog.” — Cleveland, FAMILY GUY
I love your channel and I find pretty much every single one of your posts hilarious; that being said, this one is a rare miss miss for me. Not sure what else you changed besides the backing music. Not to say you didn't work hard on it (I am sure you spend many hours on each one), but this one didn't really fit the genre. Oh well, On to the next one! Can't wait to hear it! You did ruin it though, so good job!
Great work! Better than the original, where I I feel they should have removed 95% of the "this shit is bananas - BANANAS". It was not even funny the first time.
To steal and paraphrase from Brian Griffin, I still have no idea what a 'hollaback girl' is, but at least now I want Gwen Stefani dead maybe a little bit less.
Love how you ruined the original song, but that's that point, innit? XD. Truly though was one of the first pieces I learned how to play, simply title The Ragtime Dance.
I swear I'm not a bot! I just found this channel through the pearl jam video(🤣) and If the creator is reading this, I made a mash up a few months ago which is this channel completely! It's called "War Ensamba" 😂 i don't care for views only laughs
Should be all singing. Commit to the genre. This whole schtick doesn't work a well if you maintain so many elements of the original style. It doesn't need to sound like Gwen Stefani, it needs to sound like a 1920s gal. I love this channel, but I keep thinking you need to commit harder to the imposed genres. This is almost just switching the background music.
This is definitely something I've been wrestling with, Scott. In the "Bodies Hit the Floor" one, I think the original vocals added to the humor, but I definitely haven't turned my back on doing my own shitty vocals so I can completely change the melody. Just exploring the boundaries of ruination a little :)
"just switching the bg music??" I have to disagree here very much. I think - and you can hear that at the end of every verse (e.g. 0:19-0:23) - he also uses some kind of vocoder / harmonizer to adjust the harmonies/chords here ... or my ears and brain just process that to adapt correctly ;-) In my opinion - and the growth of his channel should prove that - he does it quite right and people love his work. Besides I think he indeed does change or interpret the vocals on some tracks if I remember it right. For example the Nirvana one .... that wasn't Cobain or was it? Might remember it weirdly ...thats possible....
To this day, I have no idea what that woman was singing about. Like, literally, no idea. I don't know what a "Hollaback Girl" is, but I have to imagine it's a foul, disease-ridden thing, that wears too much makeup to cover up the fact that it's a 47 year-old fish-dog.
"I don't know what a "Hollaback Girl" is, but I have to imagine it's a foul, disease-ridden thing, that wears too much makeup to cover up the fact that it's a 47 year-old fish-dog"
I know this is meant to be silly — and it is, delightfully so — but for me, as an un-ironic ragtime person, what you’ve crafted here is Exhibit A in how ragtime musicians and composers shaped the geology of American popular music to this day. 😊
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Absolutely. My favorite genre is early jazz which obviously flowed from ragtime. I sometimes wish I could experience that music with the ears of that audience who had never heard that kind of “ragged time” syncopation - must have really been an experience…it still is catchy as hell.
439 likesMARTIN!
4 likesand I don’t think many video game enthusiasts even realized how much early Nintendo music was basically ragtime, you can definitely hear it in the 8 bit Super Mario Bros
111 likesFo’. Shizzle.
4 likes@User, Super Mario Bros. 2 was straight ragtime. The first and third were more Latin/Caribbean.
30 likesthere, you ruined the comment section
6 likes@User This comment is spot on!
3 likes@Matthew Christian Murray This!!
1 likeHow so? I'm interested in hearing more about that.
1 like@Matthew Christian Murray And then every game thereafter was big-band jazz
0 likes@There I Ruined It Ragtime and Swing 500/10
0 likesToday I learned that unironic ragtime people exist.
10 likesart8zt collaboration is 😂
0 likesOoohhh oooohhhh this mah shit, this mah shit!😆
1 like@techexpress I am one of them as well
0 likes@techexpress Our population is vast. We number in the tens? (Or so. Something like that. Maybe a little less.)
4 likes@T.C. THOMPSON You, my friend, represent the fun part of the internet. 😄
1 like@User Tom Brier sight read all of it so yes much of the Nintendo theme structures are ragtime or easily riffed into ragtime.
0 likesUnironic ragtime person. We number over 100 but are spread rather thinly around the world.
0 likesThe ragtime community is a bit like a big (sometimes dysfunctional) family.
Geology? Lmao
0 likesYup, so ONCE AGAIN, failed to ruin it, only made it better. Sometimes I'm thinkin the name might be all ironical n shit.
0 likesI don't think geology is the word you meant to use
0 likesTried to show this to a few friends, but they couldn't appreciate how amazing it was. As a ragtime player from way back, you have done phenomenally with this sir. Thankyou!
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Aww thank you! I love ragtime (can’t play it well though - had to steal this piano track)
63 likesEven if the ragtime element had sucked, Id still thank you, Good Sir, for ruining this particular song
10 likesAWESOME
2 likesthey're acting like we don't live in the time of tiktok
0 likes@There I Ruined ItWhat is the ragtime piece used here?
0 likesCharlie Chaplin slipping on the banana peel set to the whistle is my favorite moment in any of your videos to date.
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Hahah. Sometimes it all just comes together 😆
86 likes@There I Ruined It chef’s kiss
14 likesLMFAO I LOST IT
4 likesAbsolutely bananas 😂😂😂
5 likesThat shot was bananas...
0 likesThe whole “ragtime as comedy music” vibe reminds me when I went to university several years ago, hoping to get a BA and eventually a doctorate in musicology (I got burned out after 24 years total in school and dropped out, but was trying for about two and a half years). Since I got into the program via a jazz audition, there was some confusion and I was put into the jazz program rather than the musicology program. I didn’t realize this for over a year because all the students at this level are required to play something and be part of some ensemble anyway. So, while struggling as part of the straight-ahead big band (I like this kind of jazz but it’s not my bag and I wasn’t there to try to learn to play that), the department director realized this and as part of the small combos, made a brand new “early jazz ensemble” and put me as the leader.
1 likeHe didn’t realize at the time I had good experience as a sideman, and lots of study of vintage piano styles, but very little about horn players and even less experience as a bandleader. So I was sort-of drowning trying to lead this band and do my classes at the same time. Fortunately another student who was about 20 years older than me and an experienced jazzman stepped in to take over co-leading this ensemble. However his idea of early jazz was less King Oliver / Louis Armstrong / Red Nichols / Bix Beiderbecke etc and more like pop and novelty music of the time (which I love very much, but is no longer considered pure “jazz” by most of today’s pundits). So our co-leadership of the group diverged at times when I was trying to get the band members to play the real stuff (and also learn how to improvise) and he was perfectly happy with a sort of a cartoon version of it, and with less improvisation (we both eventually had to go with less improvisation because almost everyone else in the band had never played this kind of music before and were struggling to learn the precepts of an entire musical era, with me having no teaching experience and the combo slotted in our schedules between lots of other schoolwork). It was quite an experience, but somehow we made it work for a couple years before I finally quit. Without his patience I doubt we would have lasted more than a few months. But I’m still happiest when playing with musicians who know way more about this music than I do and who can kick my ass on their instruments.
I didn’t make a clear correlation to this video and comment there:
1 likeBasically, I respect people from outside the scene doing vintage music the most when they do their homework and try to get it right and don’t just make a mockery of it, but also realize that a good amount of this is fun music and sometimes you have to have fun.
What is frustrating to me is that there are only like 5 or 6 early jazz and ragtime pianists / musicians whose work are widely reprinted and whose playing styles are taught in tutorials, method books etc.
The other 1,000 or so pianists (let’s say born before 1911, so what I would call “original era” artists; I had to draw a dividing line somewhere) who made from one to many records and/or piano rolls are basically left in the dust and out of the history books (or at best get a one sentence or maybe one paragraph mention in some of the books).
This includes some artists who were very good and/or very influential in their day, and several who left behind a large body of work to study (hundreds, or over a thousand, records and/or rolls).
There have been several people studying some of these musicians but relatively little formally published on them yet or made available in any kind of a useful-teaching way. I wanted to remedy this with a series of transcription / musical analysis / teaching books about some of these musicians, to fill the void that is there, and hopefully honor them and do them justice.
That is why I was even in university after graduating community college; I wanted to get a doctorate in musicology so I could learn how to do very high level musical analysis (I can only do rudimentary analysis now) and uncover deeper aspects of these artists’ styles and their musical thinking.
But as mentioned in the other comment I got burned out and in any case the pressing need to work and earn money and also personal issues intervened.
I’m still chipping away on this project anyway and may return to school at some point once I’m financially and otherwise settled.
*I’m not even including other instruments in the total I listed above, since ragtime era music and beyond was far from piano centric (although the piano was the primary home and solo instrument in those days; today it is the guitar, or the stereo or just one’s music playlist). In those days ragtime was sung, played on violin, mandolin, banjo, clarinet, trumpet etc and by various ensembles small and large, all over the place.
1 likeIt wasn’t strictly piano solo music and many rags and pieces published for piano solo may have been intended for other instruments when first composed (but were brought out in piano editions because that was the most popular instrument).
The various musicians active influenced and cross pollinated each other in those days.
Some people and ill-informed historians act like these ensembles and cross pollination (as well as improvisation) started with jazz, but it actually goes back much earlier, before ragtime even got its name.
Fortunately we do have many recordings of some of these musicians as well.
@Andrew BarrettI’m a pianist but I know very little about ragtime. The piece used in this video (which I assume is something the creator of this video found somewhere?) seems quite a bit more complicated from the few pieces I have heard. Where does it fit in the history? Is it early or late, etc.? And how can I find more like this?
0 likesEnough said about the audio work, but your choice of clips, and the general taste when it comes to styling the overall look and feel is PERFECTION.
380 likesI was in a foul mood and ready to be fuming angry for the 8 hours.
173 likesThen I watched this ridiculousness and realized anything I did angrily in the moment would be to the tune of this mix, which would just be absurd.
So now I feel far less fury.
Thank you.
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Hahah, thank you! How’d you hear about the video? I just saw a flurry of traffic.
24 likes@There I Ruined It I like looking for mash ups so it is still part of my algorithm I suppose. I have seen at least three of your other videos. I really liked your 2021 holiday video too!
12 likesIn this exhibit, we see a retrospective of how people truly remain the same a century later.Nicely done!
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Hahah. It’s kind of true.
30 likesCan't. Stop. Listening. You failed to "ruin" this at all! Better than the original, better than other mashups of it... now convinced this IS the original from 100 years ago.
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Amen
0 likesThat is so great! The piano accompaignement fits perfectly. Pure, immense musicality (in all your videos), I am delighted!
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Aww, thanks!
11 likesThis cover is bananas!
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If only I knew how to spell that
49 likesB R E N D A N
14 likes@Bum Ditty Brendan Damn autocorrect!
5 likesB A N D E R O S
5 likesB A N A N A S
5 likesBE AI EN AI EN AI ES
6 likesI feel like I’m this version she’d say “this shit is the cats pajamas - p a j a m a s”
3 likes“Yes, We Have No _______”?
0 likesI'm glad these are getting longer, so fun to listen to.
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Fun? This one was really tough for me 😜
0 likesWell this was just hysterical.
19 likesI'd love it if you did a bluegrass version of King of Pain by the Police. I remember as a kid seeing the lyrics not having heard the song and for some reason thought of it as a bluegrass song with a tune kind of like the song they sing in the first Veggie Tales video. Definitely seems like this channel's type of hilarity.
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Oh, man, YES
2 likesI am new to your channel, and I have never said this more sincerely: "Thank the universe for the Youtube algorhythm!" The editing, the sound design (how the hell do you isolate the vocals so cleanly?), the musicality...everything is world-class. Thank you for sharing your prodigious talent.
22 likesI feel like Gwen would actually love this. At least I hope she would, 'cause it's awesome.
97 likesIt's amazing how well this fits! Wish there were full length versions.
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We all do...
0 likesWhy are these videos not more popular? They are hilarious and so well done!
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Yes!! Dude's like Weird Al-level genius but, instead of just straight-up parodies, with stylesand music. My GOSH, the MUSIC!! I love ragtime, and it's played PERFECTLY in this video!
1 likeHow is every new one better than the one before that was incredible in it's own right?! HOW DO YOU GUYS DO IT?! 1 MILLION STARS!!!
9 likesThese productions are so incredibly clever and well made. Thank you for putting in so much hard work to entertain us. Fab stuff.
4 likesYouve improved this song so many times over its incredible, no doubt!!!
1 likeThe quality of this production is so great - my mind is blocking the original score
53 likesJust went through your entire channel once I saw your creep rendition on reddit, and this one is my favorite! I unironically enjoy ragtime music.
8 likesI've played my share of ragtime - and I gotta say this definitely made me laugh 🤣
5 likesI just discovered your channel and this is literally a work of art. I am struggling to comprehend the genius at work here, LOVE IT
0 likesFor the past days this has been stuck in my head. The music, the visuals, the guy with the tophat, it's SO GOOD! I listen to this unironically.
1 likeHaving watched a couple of silent movie 20's comedies, the intertitle "I ain't no holler back girl" actually seems quite authentic, sounding like something studios would include to convey the sense of a sassy flapper girl. But I'm a fan of old slang terms, in general...
4 likesThe creativity in making these videos is incredible and in a league of its own. Its packed with brilliant details. Chaplin skid on banana peel is an obvious one, but there are so much more.
1 likeThis was your best one yet. Excellent work!
18 likesI mean, this is genuinely good in and of itself.
5 likesIf I could time travel to the beginning of the 20th century, I would totally make this song and pop a few monocles.
11 likesVery well done, better and more entertaining than the original.
4 likesThis one fits perfectly and does not fit totally at the same time. Sir, you are genious! We need more ruined music.
0 likesBetter, than the original
43 likesI keep coming back to this one, of all your work this one is still my favorite!
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Thanks! I dig it too :)
2 likesI LIKE THIS VERSION BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL. LOL.
6 likes😉👍
After watching a bunch of videos I can say this guy’s in love with his zip whistles.
0 likesWhy am I actually jamming to this right now.
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Because no one thought you'd hear it
0 likesTHIS NEEDS TO BE ON SPOTIFY
0 likesBest use of a slide whistle yet IMHO!
15 likesSome of the songs you make don't ruin the original, they actually enhance and make them better. You should consider changing your channel name to "There I Made It Better" 😁
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I don't think he's ruined any of them yet, they're all just as good or better
3 likes@Jason Strigle indeed!
0 likes... and then K-Pop Nirvana happened
3 likesi needed this today, fridays always end well with these, THANKYOU!
0 likesI would argue that this version is no sillier than the original.
49 likes(But I'm just being slightly sarcastic -- I love what you did with the song!)
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I would argue it's made it actually better!
7 likes@Eduardo Chagas - I didn't say it wasn't better, just not sillier!
1 likeI wasn't disagreeing, on the contrary!
1 like@Eduardo Chagas - 👍
0 likesSo, yeah, not sillier, but definitely better!
The original song sucked.
4 likesI've never listened to more than a few seconds of the original, long enough to change the radio station, but this is well done.
0 likes@Eduardo Chagas No argument needed. The original is a shit song. This is platinum!!
0 likes@Paul Drake "I've never listened to more than a few seconds of the original, long enough to change the radio station, but this is well done"
0 likesFor the longest time, I just thought of it as "the whiny cunt song". But then ALL female sang music became this.
Kudos to you mate, love your work.
3 likesWow, a Gwen Stefani song that is actually good.
4 likesThis one really fits! Love the video too
0 likesWhat a time to be alive
18 likesMagnificent as always, my good man. Cheers!
0 likesThis is unbeliavably good, thanks for this!
0 likesBrilliant. I am late to the party, but I am glad I can still pick up the bottles. FUCKING BRILLIANT!
0 likesi dont think i'll regret subbing to your channel, thank you for the quality content lol
2 likesthe fact that it fits so well though lol
1 likethe deepest lyrics ever- such a deep and meaningful song
0 likesSo love this! Why can I imagine Gwen and Blake having a dance along?!?!?!
2 likesI love the ones that use the original vocals. This one is good, but Bodies is my favorite.
0 likesWhen you're 99 years old but you still wanna throw it back.
0 likesRuined it? No my friend, this is fantastic.
2 likesWhen that slide whistle drops though...
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It’s why we are here!
0 likesWhere has this been all my life? I love it!
0 likesBrilliant! Plus the added extra of how the 1920's flappers had a similar attitude to Gwen Stefani et al.
1 likeFun fact; ragtime music was most popular WAY before beanies were invented - about 90-95 years apart. So I like to think that literally none of those people knew what the frick Gwen Stefani was wearing on her head.
1 likeThis is fantastic! I do have to ask though...how did you isolate the vocals? Is it some EQ magic or did you license the song and have the stems?
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I find them on YouTube, either the stems or digitally isolated. I should probably learn how to do it myself at this point, I’m just not an audio wizard :)
8 likes@There I Ruined It Yeah there's always issues when I try to do it, so good to know there's another method!
3 likes@There I Ruined It I know this is old, you might already know how to. But, there's ai that can do it for you.
2 likes@Sam Hammoudeh the way they used to do it in the past was with phase cancelling filters, because usually voice is in mono (the wash effects might be in stereo though). With AI, I'm sure there's good ways to isolate the words now. I'm a musician, but I don't work on ripping out voices. Rather, I use software like Melodyne and Song Surgeon to study musician's work.
1 likeOutstanding as ever!
6 likesYou improved it 1000%.
3 likesThe solidarity between flapper girls and female rappers is impeccable
0 likesLove it! So creative!
0 likesThis is EPIC!!! 💜
0 likesI made the mistake of trying to listen to this while taking a sip of my coffee - now my work monitor is covered in coffee/spit.
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no it's not
6 likes@Hidetoshi Tsu probably some other substance though, if you catch my drift..
0 likesAbsolute perfection.
0 likesI used to think COVID needed to end soon so people could get back to work. Now I'm glad that you are stuck at home doing this and I am stuck at home watching it, over and over again! Thank you for elevating my mood 🤣
0 likesBTW, what is the source of the B&W clip of the threatening young men (also seen in your "Get Low" swing edition video)? It looks so familiar but I can't place it...
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Haha thanks! Definitely this whole channel was born from COVID. I’d have to look up the film name in my computer - forgot it offhand.
1 likeThis video hits me in my classic Hollywood obsessed soul. Chaplin slipping on a banana, "I've been around that track" followed by a woman chained to train tracks. That split Second of Joan Crawford. My God!
0 likesI love how I get so lost in the ingenuity of the video that I always miss the slide whistle at first, lmao!
0 likesThank you, I haven't laughed so hard and lasting in a very long time!
0 likesThis channel is criminally underrated.
2 likesThis is wonderful! Thanks for the lift 😆👏👏
0 likesGODDAMMIT! I have to work! These are freaking addicting as hell! New favorite channel!
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Haha, thanks Kevin! Get back to work.
2 likesThis is a true work of art
0 likesI'm not into rag time, but I think this improved the song.
1 likeThis is just lovely!
0 likesAh this takes me back to have a sing-song around the piano. This certainly is my sh**. You're certainly on the trolley! x
0 likesI remember dancing to this with Tommy Shelby back in a fancy party in Birmingham
3 likesI never realized this song signaled the downfall of our society till I heard this version.
1 likeWhy does this one fit so well?
11 likesConsidering ragtime got it start in New Orleans brothels, I love this on multiple levels.
0 likesLove it!
1 likeThis hits harder than the world wars 💀
0 likesI've been watching all of your videos since you posted on Reddit and this is by far my favorite
3 likesAbsolutely brilliant. Liked and Subscribed!
0 likesAyo .. this shit goes hard AF
2 likesAlternate reality where Eric stayed with the band and continued working with Gwen on her solo career
1 likeHonestly like this version better than the original X10
2 likesI thought I would hate this one... It's one of the best
0 likesAbsolute banger
2 likesOkay, subscribed. This is amazing either as comedy or serious music
0 likesI love Hollaback Girl, it's one my favorites, this vid is even is better 😂
0 likesNice. Better than the original. Lol
3 likes100% pure awesome
0 likesRemember when she was in a band and the voice wasn’t whining? Knott’s Berry Farm remembers.
7 likesabsolutely brilliant.
2 likesThis channel is unparalleled and of YouTube’s best energy
0 likes1:15 that beautiful slide whistle, *chef’s kiss
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Just to be pedantic: it's a siren whistle.
8 likes@Sentient Meatbag yes that particular whistle is a siren whistle, but TIRI uses slide whistles a lot.
0 likesI love when he adds the goofy cartoony whistles
0 likesThe section about “you’ve been talking shit” flows so beautifully to that music.
0 likesI thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you
0 likesThis is million times better than original
1 likeI don’t know if you found that music and matched it or wrote it behind it, but either way it’s badassed.
4 likesedit: For clarity, I’m talking about the piano music.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...... F'ing Genius!!!!
0 likesMy god the *cognitive dissonance*… unreal. Thank you for the amazing videos 😩❤️
0 likesThis is possibly one of the best ruined hits
1 likeWhen ragtime & pop music is real funny and with colourful language as well.
0 likesThis is the best!!! 😂😂😂
0 likes1:24 "A few times I've been around that track!"
16 likesBest use of a slide whistle in any There I Ruined It to date. And that's a high bar.
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Thank you sir! Sometimes the stars just align 😆
0 likesUnironically better than the original.
1 likeThis is genius!
0 likesWait this one is actually like really catchy. I don't like it ironically I just like it.
0 likesThis is glorious.
0 likesMasterclass !
0 likesA few times I've been tied to that track
9 likesThis is so delightfully charming
0 likesHOLY FUCKIN SHIT!
1 likethis is just beautiful
100% Excellent!!!
1 likeI love what you did with this!
0 likesCan you put this on Apple Music? I NEED IT
0 likesHonestly, this channel should have wayyy more subs...
2 likesDAMNNNN,, once again Pure Genius 🤯🤩👍‼️‼️
0 likesThe woman getting run over by a train was a nice touch 👌
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why
0 likes@Levmann Pe 'cause she's been around that track. 😉
0 likesCould have gone with a bit more blur on the original music video to make it fit in, music is amazing as always
0 likesOh dear God... You're killin' me ... 😂😂
1 likeDefinitely better than the original
1 likeThis pairs well with Caravan Palace's - Dramophone
1 likeShe holla'ed back a century
0 likesThis is something my great grandparents would watch back in 1899
0 likesCompletely B a n a n a s!
2 likesI think this is my favorite!
1 likeThis actually kinda works too well… you did not ruin it! Mission failed!
1 like1:15 wouldn’t be one of yours without the whistle
3 likesThe greatest thing I have ever seen. 😊
1 likeStraight up, i think you made this song better XD
1 likeIs that footage from Metropolis? Wow. Nice piano chops too - my favorite one so far
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Omg, he also had Diary of a Lost Girl? Or Pandora's Box...
0 likesDo I KNOW this Denton nerd??
DO I KNOW YOU GUYS???
Genius! Thank you 🙂
0 likesI gotta find where the original piano beat was this has no right to be this fire
0 likesYou greatly improved the musicality of this song, so this should have been "There, I Improved It."
0 likesPlot twist, Gwen always was a holla back girl.
1 likeI think this actually made it better.
1 likeThis is better than the original
1 likeThis is great, especially 1:17.
0 likesI'm not sure if I love you or hate you for this...
0 likesIt's love.
Every video you put out is awesome
1 likeIt's way better than the original
1 likeYT Algorithm strikes again. Just found this and gotta say: This cover is bananas - B A N A N A S ! ! !
0 likesWow! Well done!
0 likesThe intertitle at 1:25 - I lost it. WELL PLAYED!
0 likesBAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT
0 likesThe single best thing I’ve found on the internet this month!
0 likesRuined it? no it's perfect 👌
2 likesIt slaps too much...
2 likesSo brilliant
0 likesRagtimers would probably approve of this!
2 likesI would really like to see Gwen Stefani's reaction to this video.
0 likesYou didn't ruin it. It's the type of song that can only go uphill.
0 likesLol Scott Joplin's The Ragtime Dance mashed up with Hollaback Girl
4 likesFinally a worthy successor to Freelance Hairdresser's immortal Marshall's Been Snookered. :D
0 likesBrilliant😂
0 likesactually better than the original...again
1 likeThis is superior to the original.
1 likeWhen you wear stockings that don't cover your entire leg:
1 likeOH my God! 😂😂You're a wizard, Harry.
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Hah! Are you a ragtime player?
1 like@There I Ruined It Yes, indeed I am. I'm 14 years old.
0 likesCLEVELAND BROWN :
1 like" TO THIS DAY
I'M STILL NOT SURE WHAT A
HOLLABACK GIRL IS "
Your version was awesome. You listen to the lyrics and realize what a completely inane song this is. Repeat "sh!t" over and over again and it counts as "art."
1 likeYou accidentally made this much, much more listenable.
1 likeSubbed,liked and Shared
0 likesExcellent work! Keep it going
Thanks
BE BLESSED EVERYONE!
Amazing ‼️😍😍😍😍🥰
0 likes20's were wild
2 likesGenius editing !
0 likesgadzooks, what a smashing tune!
0 likesExcellent 😎 👌 👍
0 likesNo, sir you didn't ruin this one! It's so much happier!
0 likesWhen you're both types of 00's kid
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Hahah, nice.
0 likesI can't believe you actually missed the opportunity to put Josephine Baker in the clip - the world famous promiscuous dancer who was best known for dancing in a banana skirt.
0 likesThis is the bees knees!
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I was thinking the same thing. 🥰
0 likesIt's the cat's pajamas
0 likesP A J A M A S
Oops, it's actually better now 😂
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Damn it! Not again.
1 likeI work as a design engineer with Solid works. I changed my coworkers error noise so anytime he gets an error, this song plays
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That’s amazing :)
0 likesI might be many things, but one thing I ain't, is a hollaback girl. You can holla, but I ain't gonna hollaback
0 likesI still prefer the one where someone mashed up Eminem with Winifred Atwell’s recording of “Black and White Rag”, but this is fun.
0 likesGot a Scot Bradlee vibe going!
1 like“Modern culture is so sexual! My grandmother would be appalled!”
0 likesJazz Age: “Oh, yeah?”
I actually produced the real video with Paul Hunter directing. I give this a BIG thumbs UP!! 😊
1 likeI came here for the whistle at 1:15
5 likes“I don’t know what a Hollaback girl is, but I have to imagine it’s a foul, disease-ridden thing that wears too much make-up to cover up the fact that it’s a 47-year-old fish dog.” — Cleveland
0 likes“I don’t know what a Hollaback girl is, but I have to imagine it’s a foul, disease-ridden thing that wears too much make-up to cover up the fact that it’s a 47-year-old fish dog.” — Cleveland, FAMILY GUY
0 likesDoes anyone know the names of the movies shown here? Many of them seem pretty cool!
1 likeWhat is the opposite of majestic?
3 likesReally nice editing 😊
You say ruined.... I say improved, sir!
1 likeSweet Jesus of Latter Day Saints!! This is mounds better than the original!!!!
0 likesScott Joplin lives on!!
1 likePOV: your in the wild west after a long day and you walk into the local brothel to this
1 likeWhoever is making these has the darkest sense of humor
0 likesI really came here expecting it to be ruined…what a fool I was. 10/10.
0 likesOoh, this my shit!
0 likesThis shit is bananas.
0 likesPerfect.
1 likeRagtime makes everything easier to handle. Even the news. Try it sometime.
0 likesPostmodern Jukebox in a nutshell.
0 likesI hope Gwen sees this. She'd love it!
0 likesfcking masterpiece
0 likesGenius!
0 likesYou are a genius doomed to obscurity.
0 likesTake that, Postmodern Jukebox!
1 likeThis song was ridiculous before it was ruined...or improved by comedy.
1 likeEven better at 1.25 playback speed.
0 likesbonus upvote for using Box of the Pandora shots :D
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Good eye, Sammy!
6 likes@There I Ruined It hard to miss Louise Brooks ... or the horny dudes ;) good movie taste, T*I*R*I* !
1 likenot sure if even a ruin edit will salvage gwen
5 likesI need a flapper girl just once lol i love that look
0 likesThis is hilarious, but is this really classified as ragtime? Ragtime as I know it (mostly from New Orleans and Mobile) is a lot more jazzy and peppy.
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Scott Joplin wrote the tune used back in the early 1900's, so I'd say "yes."
2 likesAbsurdity, wonderful, beautiful, absurdity.
0 likesThis is wrong but so aesthetic
1 like1890s Version is the best
0 likesBeautiful. I prefer this.
1 likeNeeds more Clara Bow.
0 likesI am seriously beginning to wonder if you're ruining music just to showcase a whistle.
0 likesKeep going!
Bro I haven't felt such bliss since actual cannibal Shia lebouf
0 likesI disagree with this. You didn't ruin it. You improved it. Enormously.
0 likesThis song just became tolerable lmfao
2 likesFlappers had the best legs
0 likesThis is one of my favorites. It is...awful.
0 likesHOW FAR WE'VE COME AS A SPECIES.
0 likesThis is super-high effort for 122K views. Come on YouTubers, look away from minecraft for a second lol
0 likesJust proves that every decade got down.
2 likesI love these, but they were better when they were shorter.
0 likesI love your channel and I find pretty much every single one of your posts hilarious; that being said, this one is a rare miss miss for me. Not sure what else you changed besides the backing music. Not to say you didn't work hard on it (I am sure you spend many hours on each one), but this one didn't really fit the genre. Oh well, On to the next one! Can't wait to hear it! You did ruin it though, so good job!
1 likeI hate the original song but I love ragtime. what could go wrong
1 likeOk. But what's a hollaback girl for Christ's sake ?
2 likesAh yes, The Banana Rag
2 likesGenius sir. Genius. Huzzah 🎉
0 likesExpert incorporation of the slide whistle
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Hat tip to Mr. Chaplin on that one :)
3 likesSo wonderfully horrible I had to listen to it several times.
1 likeTo this day I have no idea what that woman was singing about...
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Me neither. But then again, I ain't no hollaback girl.
6 likessiren whistle intensifies
0 likes... How is the old footage more unhinged than the modern one?
0 likesawesome
0 likesUr a legend
0 likesI ain't no hollaback broad! I ain't no hollaback broad!
0 likesGwen would appreciate this
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*everyone liked that
1 likeGod help me 😂😂😂😂 this ma shit 😂😂
1 likeGo miss Gwendolyn!!!
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I miss her too!
0 likesBring back Gwendolyn
I know my great great grandpa would have loved it
0 likesYOU MADE IT BETTER.
0 likesGreat work! Better than the original, where I I feel they should have removed 95% of the "this shit is bananas - BANANAS". It was not even funny the first time.
0 likes0:48 guess who’s having nightmares tonight
1 likeBag, that was swell
0 likes😂😂😂
0 likesActually good
0 likesyou know you ruined it when Martin fuckin' Spitznagel likes it XD
0 likesThis should be uploaded on your alter channel "There I Fixed It"
2 likesI like this version better
1 likeLOL YESSSSSS!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
1 likeYou have improved it.
1 likeThe videos are as Great as the audio
0 likeswhat would Hoobastank and Hollaback Girl sound like?
0 likesi don't know but it would probably smell horrible.
This oddly works...
2 likesAre you kidding me? All that hard work!?
0 likes“Gwendolyn”😂
0 likesTo steal and paraphrase from Brian Griffin, I still have no idea what a 'hollaback girl' is, but at least now I want Gwen Stefani dead maybe a little bit less.
0 likesI can see Serafine from Lackadaisy jamming to this lol
0 likes🤣🤣🤣
0 likesSounds like Scott Joplin, but I can’t place it.
0 likesHello my baby,
1 likeHello my honey,
Hello my hollaback girl
This will dissuade any alien invasion.
0 likesHow dare you disrespect ragtime like this!
0 likes"Ruined"?? no Perfected!!
1 likeChills.....
1 likeOne person is a hollaback girl.
2 likesFuck youre a genius
0 likesThis melody with her saying sht LOL!
0 likesMy how times have changed
1 likeRuined??? This is BETTER 😀😀😀
1 likeWhy is Gwen telling her armpit to be quiet at 0:30?
0 likes1900 vs 2000 🎶😁
0 likesTIHI, well done
1 likeNO. You repaired it!
2 likesWhat are the silent era films used here? I need to watch all these flappers going ham
1 likeHAHAHA LAVERNE LOOK HE FELL DOWN! THIS WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY HAHAHA
0 likesand of course it's 4:3!
1 likeYou used Metropolis footage! Nice!
0 likes0:43 I guess this is the guy who was talking shit 😂
0 likesYou should rename your channel to "There, I fixed it"
2 likesI would really like to know who that is/what scene that is @0:32.
0 likesDoes anybody know what silent films were used here?
1 likeI hate this song. And I love this
0 likesEveryone in the old timey footage are very dead.
0 likeswhy are you using 1920s flappers in a ragtime video? ragtime had its highest popularity way before that
1 likeI forgot about this channel. Happy surprise in my feed
9 likesthis sounds right
0 likesEven the great piano playing can't cover up how bad this song is.
2 likesThis really highlights how inane the lyrics of this song are.
0 likesOh TIRI you so bananas. B A N A N A S
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Or should it be ThIRI so it's like Mike Tyson saying Siri?
0 likesNotable
0 likesThere you Fixed it.
1 likeThis my chit, this my chit
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The amount of money owing is yellow fruit!
1 likeBest
0 likesThere, you certainly did.
0 likesLOL
0 likesYou need to change the name of the channel to "There I Fixed It."
0 likesThe like-dislike ratio says it all. Yup, you failed to ruin the song lmao
2 likesFor a second I thought that was Jello Biafra from Dead Kennedys at 0:42
0 likesYou can’t ruin a turd
1 likeTOOL - Bottom
0 likesPlease!!!
Love how you ruined the original song, but that's that point, innit? XD. Truly though was one of the first pieces I learned how to play, simply title The Ragtime Dance.
0 likes😆😆😆😆
0 likes♥️🌈🥰🤖👻👽
0 likesThat was Bananas B an ana's !!!
1 likeLol!
0 likesYour channel name sure doesn't lie.
0 likesI swear I'm not a bot! I just found this channel through the pearl jam video(🤣) and If the creator is reading this, I made a mash up a few months ago which is this channel completely! It's called "War Ensamba" 😂 i don't care for views only laughs
0 likesHow about ruining a Duran Duran song next?
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Ooh, lemme think about that!
3 likesShould've put the vocals through a really ol timey grainy filter like there singing through a shitty tin can and some string.
0 likesThis is inspired lunacy.
0 likesНормально
0 likesDidn't think it was possible to make this song any worse but hey presto would you look at that.
0 likesI don't think you did what you meant to do.
1 likeOh my golly! It´s a tally ho!
0 likesOK you have ruined the 20-30's for me thanks
1 likeHas Blake seen this? ;-P
0 likeslol
0 likesDuuude
0 likesBro, why did you rui.... oh, the channel's name.
0 likesscandalous shoulders
1 likewhat is a holla
0 likesI love you
0 likesThanks I really hate that one :D
0 likesFleas on rats
0 likesFlappers
0 likesstooooooop xdd
0 likesjeeepers bruuuh
0 likesIts horrible. Perfectly executed.
0 likesThanks, I hate it!
1 likereally shows how terrible this song is, ugh
1 likeYeah this is ruined
0 likesSo horrible 👍🏻
0 likesthanks, i hate it
0 likesYou ruined it!
1 likeShould be all singing. Commit to the genre. This whole schtick doesn't work a well if you maintain so many elements of the original style. It doesn't need to sound like Gwen Stefani, it needs to sound like a 1920s gal. I love this channel, but I keep thinking you need to commit harder to the imposed genres. This is almost just switching the background music.
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Disagree. This was hilarious!
6 likesYou can proceed to postmodern jukebox then. The channel is trying to ruin things, and people like it that way.
9 likesThis is definitely something I've been wrestling with, Scott. In the "Bodies Hit the Floor" one, I think the original vocals added to the humor, but I definitely haven't turned my back on doing my own shitty vocals so I can completely change the melody. Just exploring the boundaries of ruination a little :)
9 likes@There I Ruined It don't worry it was awesome, just perfect!
0 likes"just switching the bg music??" I have to disagree here very much. I think - and you can hear that at the end of every verse (e.g. 0:19-0:23) - he also uses some kind of vocoder / harmonizer to adjust the harmonies/chords here ... or my ears and brain just process that to adapt correctly ;-) In my opinion - and the growth of his channel should prove that - he does it quite right and people love his work. Besides I think he indeed does change or interpret the vocals on some tracks if I remember it right. For example the Nirvana one .... that wasn't Cobain or was it? Might remember it weirdly ...thats possible....
5 likes@Totô Ji came here to say just that, Scott could pitch it to PMJ. And I'd watch that too!
0 likesIdk, Gwen Stefani kinda sounds straight out of the 20s in this song
0 likesThe queen of culture appropriation.... can't stand this pos.
0 likesThis song helps people realize her music is shit !
0 likesTo this day, I have no idea what that woman was singing about. Like, literally, no idea. I don't know what a "Hollaback Girl" is, but I have to imagine it's a foul, disease-ridden thing, that wears too much makeup to cover up the fact that it's a 47 year-old fish-dog.
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I'm not sure either but I've gained a few facts
0 likesHollaback girl
□been around the track
□poop is made of banana
□talks but is unaware that it will be heard
□doesnt like being called it
□takes ownership of own poop
Not ruined but improved. I mean the song was shit originally.
1 likeAnd people still accuse Gwen Stefani of being a candy-ass flapper...
0 likes"I don't know what a "Hollaback Girl" is, but I have to imagine it's a foul, disease-ridden thing, that wears too much makeup to cover up the fact that it's a 47 year-old fish-dog"
0 likesThank you for proving how inane and basic this stupid song is.
1 likeI don't know what a hollaback girl is but I want her dead.... Yep I understand it now
0 likesIf everyone would ruin the world as you ruin these songs, the world would be a better place.
6 likesYou sure did. You ruined ragtime for me. You bastard.
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