Narwhals .:. Blast From the Past!

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My last post began with "...and now something completely different...", so I can't use the same phrase again, but it is different from my ordinary content... And I used the phrase again... 😃 Sorry... But, if you go through this post, I suppose that I will have to ask for an apology many times at the end of the post... 😃

I can't remember that I was posting some "funny content" on my blog, but today, I was checking videos on YouTube and sometimes bumped into the video that I liked a lot when it was created, 14 years ago! Somehow, it looks to me that I have known about it whole my life and not just 15 years... :)

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I was trying to remember who introduced the song to me, but I have no idea anymore... But, as I like that kind of humor, I can understand why I fell in love with it... 😂

Let's get straight to the point... It is a funny, catchy video/song which is a bit absurd, but very catchy... Take your time to watch it and we can continue the discussion... 😃

As much as the video is absurd and weird, I have shown it to many people and I didn't find any person who didn't love it... And I know some very "conservative" people... lol... The creator of the video and the music is Mr. Weebl, aka Jonti Picking, and if you like this one, you can follow him on YouTube... After creating this, the video became ultra-popular (at the moment it has 63M views), but Jonti's work became even more popular when he accepted the offer to show part of Narwhals in the Sprint Commercial $50 Unlimited Plan...

I guess you'd say it's kind of surreal, absurdist humor made as catchy as possible to sort of stick in your head and annoy you. The earworm thing always struck me as something that is intensely annoying but at the same time kind of enjoyable. So I focused on that. It's very hard to explain because I try not to overthink the initial idea.

Mr. Weebl, aka Jonti Picking describing his videos for huffpost.com

But, Narwhals wasn't the first big success of Jonti... Even before YouTube, he created the popular Badger Badger Badger or The Badger Song back in 2003! By the way, all animations were made in Adobe Flash, which was one (if not the only) of the most popular animation programs... The Badger song has "only" 31 million views, but the main reason is that the song was the most popular BEFORE the YT era, and it was later uploaded to the platform...

Of course, when you have something so popular, you get FOMOed by other musicians and artists who want to jump on the celebrity train by creating covers, or their versions of popular songs... But before checking out them, we should take a look at Mr.Weebl's jazz version of Narwhals...

After this fantastic cover, we can check out other "independent" versions that are out there on YouTube... Like the electronic version signed by DJ Terrum Hands Up Remix

Btw, if you want to show the Narwhals song to a child, I suppose it would not be appropriate to do it with the original version... In that case, you can play the version by JellyBug that is more suitable (the video is changed a bit 😀)

There is a trap version of Narwhals and I was thinking about showing it or not as it's not the best quality, but you can decide if you like it or not...

Now that we have checked all available versions (as I know about), we have just one more video... In Mr. Weebl's interview, he mentioned that he likes animals a lot and it looks like he is especially interested in sea animals... So, they have a special video compilation where you can see 5 popular songs in 1 video, including Narwhals as a last one, but this time, with additional animation scenes that were not present in the original video! The video is named simply Sealife A selection of animated songs by Mr Weebl

There is another one more video that became very popular, but I will just leave the name of the video and if you liked the above, you will easily find it on YT... It is called Amazing Horse

Good luck forgetting the song! 😂

PS. If you like posts like this, please let me know in the comments, I have additional ideas for future ones... 😂 🤣

PPS. I hope that the Admin of the community will not kick my ass for publishing this...😃

Thank you for your time,

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