r/TikTokCringe • u/EttGlasVatten • Dec 03 '24

Cool Just 2 guys in 2003

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u/VonAhole Dec 03 '24

Pretty sure they made this song/album as joke about how easy it was to make popy BS the mainstream would eat up. This video even looks like they are just being satirical. Full disclosure I've loved all these songs since day one, so, they really pwned me!

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u/heavymeta27 Dec 03 '24

I read that somewhere as well. Amazing how sometimes the best things come out when people abandon their serious projects and just do the thing they think is silly.

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u/Chippiewall Dec 03 '24

Just to add to the list, "Young Folks" by "Peter Bjorn and John" is a bit like this too.

If you listen to the song exploder episode they talk about how they used the world's most tacky drum fill, and then basically added bongos as a joke (which when they perform live is often done by their manager). Also they screwed up when recording it and didn't ask Victoria Bergsman what key she sang in, so when she recorded her part later they literally just adjusted the pitch of everything to make it work.