Video Hangover: Crazy Town - "Butterfly"
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"Butterfly"
Crazy Town, 1999
How many dudes does it take to play a RHCP sample?
Seriously: that is not a rhetorical question. "Butterfly" is just Seth Green and some Russian mafia guy (c)rapping all over a RHCP sample ("Pretty Little Ditty" if you're scoring at home). Which is repeated over and over. For the entire song. I mean, the guys in the band must know it's a sample, right? They don't actually believe that music is coming out those instruments, do they? And yet the director keeps cutting back to band. This has to be at least a little embarrassing. Although I guess being a member of Crazy Town implies a high threshold for embarrassment. Also, Asian chicks!
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Posted at 10:40 AM by Jon in Video, Video Hangover
Tags: Crazy Town
"Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?"
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This video is certainly a laugh riot, but 3 Doors Down's "Kryptonite" and Papa Roach's "Last Resort" are even more jocular. Make those next, McMillan!
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Goddamn, the mid-late '90s were fucking weird
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you think shifty shellshock looks back on this video and goes "jesus, man...oh, wait...what was i looking back on...?" ?
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I love the way that they use this song in the movie, Orange County. Perfectly sums the shittiest and fanbase of this song up.
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there is *no* reason to **ever** - parody or not - reintroduce this song / video / "band" into the world.
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sure there is!
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any reason, in attempt to prove such point, is welcome.. .
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i agree!
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Back when the nu-metal thing was blowing up around 99, I told everyone that it was going to eventually go down in history as a fucking laughing stock, maybe worse than the 80s hair bands. It feels good to be right all the time.
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I remember when this shit first came out. All the nu-metal bands were always trying to somehow associate themselves with underground music, probably because they desperately needed credibility. Crazy Town were fond of covering a Refused song live, and saying shit like "I just wanna give a shout out to our homies Refused!" on stage. Seriously... they really did that.
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Refused. LOVE. "what frequency are you getting? is it noise or sweet, sweet music.. ?"
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=z1o6_Bw2FBo
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this video is actually from 2001. i know this because my stupid roommates at the dorm in evergreen state college were always watching the video when it was new on mtv2. fucking memories, i wish i had amneisa....
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Same thing happened to me with my roommates. I remember my left eye would start uncontrollably twitching every time I heard this song. I couldn't make it 20 seconds into this video without the same thing happening.
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i could only get through about 20 seconds before the immediate urge to vomit
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I take it back, make the new Disturbed video your next target! The part at the beginning when the singer (the most self-important and pompous guy in music not named Kanye West) walks in on his girlfriend (beard?) hanging from the ceiling and screams "NOOOOOOOO!" is one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I've ever seen. And what the fuck are those things hanging off of his chin? Lulz upon lulz.
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Ben is right, and it speaks to the general awfulness of turn of the century MTV (we'll say '98-'02) that you said '99 and no one blinked.
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the refused cover sucked HARD. what the...fuck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V0FAC4UyJ4
" SICK WIT IT SICK WIT IT SICK WIT IT! "
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favorite line from this song, "girl me and you are like sid and nancy" ummmm didn't he kill her?
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Why did I ever think this song was cool? This tells you volumes about the person I was back then.
"Hey, let's take a heavily pierced Fred Durst-look alike and stick him in a Eden-like garden with equally heavily pierced women! What could go wrong?"
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Oh, man. Ironic D.A.R.E shirts were so fucking hip.
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i have this great urge to kick the dare t-shirt guy hard in the face. while spinning my hand around, wigga-stylee.
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I love the DARE shirt! I can't believe this song was popular at one point.
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lost in this shuffle here is the fact that they're named CRAZY TOWN.... hey man we need a sweet band name, one that shows how crazy we are but also that we're more than one person... goddummit- crazy town sounds like a website where to buy kid friendly ringtones... Bozeman, MT-- now theres a crazy town!
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seth green yes, but i initially thought ben stiller. or maybe jerry seinfeld.
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at the beginning of the video when the camera is panning over the "forest" is that actually a bag of weed the guys poured out on a table?
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i miss those halcyon days when all bands had a member whose sole task was to dance and wave his arms around in a hardcore fashion. music today sucks.
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if i made this video i'd be in dr. drew's rehab too.
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has anyone else noticed the few numetal acts that survived trying to insert some subtle indie rock-isms into their new songs? the chorus to 'paralyzer' by finger eleven is almost a direct ripoff of take me out by franz ferdinand, if not the whole song.
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Man, I hope these guys are homeless and living under a bridge somewhere now . . .
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Man, those tattoos were a BAD investment.
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Because I have no shame, I am going to admit that back in the early Bush administration, I put this shit on mute when it came on and watched it to ogle Shifty's nice abs. And that's what I'm going to do again in a minute.
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i think you're on the wrong site.
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The video for Crazy Town's Toxic is even worse than this.
Also, Method of Mayhem - Get Naked. Classiccccc.
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I believe you mean "cla-SICK, bro!"
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This song is great simply for its ability to stop any party or bar dead in its tracks when it is played. I'll forever love it (ironically, of course) for that reason alone.
best part of the video is a tie between the drummer "playing" the obvious drum loop and shifty's shoulder "star" tattoos flying away. fuck thats amazing.
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Watch the three second from 1:53 to 1:56 a couple of times. Is that a nervous twitch, or has Seth Green got a stiff neck? Also, he's throwing his voice real good.
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producer: "a bunch of naked oiled up men in a garden.. I think we should get some playboy playmates to dance around before we tear the set apart"
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I just saw him (shellshock) on that rehab show........it all fits together now.
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i hope they fully understand and internalize their own humiliation. i'd be disappointed if crazytown still thought this was cool. although, they probably do.
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Didn't Rivers Cuomo collaborate with these guys?
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hey u guys can make fun of this all u want...but at some point in time, people SERIOUSLY listen to this and loved it. jsut like Limp Biskit, NsYNC, ETC,etc. Oh, gotta love the 90s and those horrible bands...
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funnier than the video itself...
the fact that this is one of the top ten most commented things on stereogum.
man, other than josh homme and kanye west freaking out, i guess things have been pretty slow.
i guess they always have been, though.
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