Video Hangover: Andy’s Val Talent - "Chacarron"
Twice a week, we dig in the MTV/VH1 archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. Is it crap, or is it the greatest video ever made? You decide.
"Chacarron"
Andy’s Val Talent, 2006
Some things to think about while you’re googling a translation of the chorus...
We recommend watching this once. After that, you're on your own.
We watch a lot of videos -- good and bad -- so when we stumble upon something this gleefully and unapologetically stupid, we take notice. Is it serious? Probably not. Has it brought much joy into our lives? Absolutely. Are we about ready for someone to beat it out of our heads with a lead pipe? In a word: uleeeleuuuuuuuhauuuuueelaaaauhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuu.
Actually, the lyrics were co-written by Fergie
This video only proves what we had suspected all along: You don’t have to make sense in any language to write a better song than "My Humps."
Mo' money, mo' Macarron
Given the obvious budget limitations for this project, we were impressed by all of the hip-hop and dance clichés Chacarron manages to incorporate. Sexy women, track suits, fish-eye lenses -- they even have a rap interlude. But unfortunately they forgot to read the most important chapter of Diddy For Dummies -- Chapter 1: Sample a Really Famous Song. If these guys had babbled nonsensically over, say, "King of Pain" they could have gone multi-platinum. As it is they’re probably doomed to obscurity.
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Posted at 12:25 PM in Video, Video Hangover
Oh wow. Wow.
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i had no idea this was actually a song. i originally heard it here:
http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/
enjoy.
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A classic.
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I always thought they were making fun of reggaetone music...I mean seriously this is what is played in my head everytime I'm dragged somewhere in Mexico that's playing Gassolina.
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Are you sure it wasn't co-written by the Swedish Chef?
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Does this guy do voices for the Sims?
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Oh dear god
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Apparently this song was huge in Miami a year or two back. Big in the clubs. The singer is deaf, hence the mumbling.
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Yeah, I remember being in Cancun 2 summers ago during hurricane Emily and this was the #1 disco dance hit. Whatever that means!
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seconding people visit the site linked above, which was where i first heard this song. and after you watch that, watch this version of it:
http://backingup.ytmnd.com/
horrifying
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erp, same user wrong link:
http://hannibaluealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/
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erp. i mean http://hannibaluealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/ - same user wrong website. oops.
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It makes sense that the singer would be deaf. The song sounds like a Hip Hop remix of a Helen Keller song. I think she taught him to dance too.
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Seriously. I liked this song better the first time around, when it was called The Miracle Worker.
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I live down in El Paso and this song is huge down here. Everytime I hear it at my work i just want to rip my ears off. According to previous posts, it's a couple of years old. But then again, everything is a couple of years behind down here. You should here the "modern rock" station. Yikes.
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I'm fairly certain I saw one of the dancers "getting jiggy with it".
Anyone else wish they could be on set when they filmed this?
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Actually, a famous song is indeed sampled during the so-called "rap break": I believe that would be "The Breaks" by Curtis Blow, although I could be wrong...
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