childish gambino ROUNDUP

"Mashup roundups are the wave of the future." ~Javier Nelson

It's time again for another one of those wonderful human endeavors: the roundup. You see, mashup roundups are the wave of the future and we're all about the future here at Javier Nelson dot com. This is not so much a mashup roundup as it is a "heads up". Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover (no relation) of Community fame is the freshest hotness in hip hop in the ENTIRE world! Right now, anyway. Refute the claim, I dare you. I'm going to need empirical evidence for your refutation though as I'm about to provide you with the empirical evidence of why you ought to be listening to (and going to the concerts of/by) Childish Gambino.

First documented evidence is in the form of a mashup, naturally:

Childish Gambino vs. Joker - Bonfire Vision (lobsterdust mashup)

No video as of yet, that must be a too fresh track for a video. Hopefully you heard it hear first, because the funny isn't all we're ahead of the game with. Check out the original Childish Gambino Bonfire:

The video is nuts. Plain and simple. There's nothing about this that makes me think Mr. Glover and myself aren't on the same page as far as reasonable (or rational) crazy goes.


Here's the obligatory "slow jam" (because he made it retarded), Heartbeat scroll down further and click the next video if you're scared.

As one scours the interwebs for music, one often encounters garbage or something they think may be a scam. I encountered this "gem" while searching for sources to embed to for this post. You're experiencing a very meta moment right now as you read this and I embed the following "raw mash" or "freestyle" I think they may call it. I mean, he's rapping over Grizzly Bear, after all:

Obviously (or not) the video itself is not the primary motivating factor here on how I "share" things, and since I'm a n00b when it comes to copyright infringement (or not), only embed what I can and don't evaluate the video itself (for the most part). Even though I did earlier when I said Mr. Glover (no relation) was crazy like me, I don't try to. One other thing, we end sentences with prepositions around here whenever we want to. Finally, and because I don't want to take up too much of your time, we have my final piece of evidence for the rightful claim of "king" for this "n00b":

"The joke is 'I got flow'" - Childish Gambino

multiple directions (one direction mashups)

"I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band." ~Waylon Jennings

I have been ignoring "boy bands" most of my "adult" life and right now I can't for the life of me discover why. I think One Direction is a boy band (possibly a christian one?) from what I've been able to gather from a cursory glance around the youTubes. The only reason I mention them is because of this "gem", a SoundOfFaz One Direction versus Jessie J mashup, Beautiful Domino:

And oh no, it doesn't stop there, read more about the wonders of One Direction mashups below:


This next is another SoundOfFaz mashed potato dinner, you get it with all the fixings when Katy Perry chimes in for Friday Makes You Beautiful:

Next up is a really fresh and fun dubstep remix that's not so bad for any summer mix tape:

And finally, for those of you that want a more traditional kind of hipster cover:

(Drumz)

some songs that I used to know (gotye mashups)

"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves." ~Jack Prelutsky

This is Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know. It's an all right song, if you like to feel like you're in a high school auditorium's xylophone jam band session with the creepy gym teacher crooning without clothes on in the video and the sultry lunch lady singing back up. I'm putting good stuff after the jump, so only jump if you're feeling like getting your ears sexed up. Otherwise, settle for this simple tune:

Creepy, strange, and eerie. It'd be much better if someone maybe sped up the tempo...

Granted: the video isn't as "art-house" as the first but this is a hot mash. Almost as hot of a mash as thewick is a hot mess.

This next one is a better version than the original but it's a fledgling attempt at a "true" mashup, one that's fully integrated. But hey, Florence + The Machine = damn fine. This one has the best video, by far, second best audio:

And last, and most absolutely not least is my favorite by far. Ignore the bieber hair cut on the fella (I'm assuming) crooning, but enjoy the perfection of an original work of art through combination and collaboration, kind of like this website...

 
Give your ears a break, it may have been the first time in a while they've "made love" instead of just jumping into the sexy times. Read one of those stories ticking by on the right, seriously, over there ---> and up a bit ^ or just visit www.javiernelson.com

edit/addition (by reader suggestion):

how to dougie (scholarly reviewed version)

"Doug E. Fresh taught me how to dougie" -Javier Nelson

That's the official version of Cali Swag District's Teach Me How to Dougie. I am not an honest person and admit I lied when I said I learned to dougie from THE dougie. I still don't know how to dougie, I'm as white as a polar bear. Come on now. I do know that this song basically sucks. The video is worse and I'm sorry for including it but I need a point of reference for our scholarly beginnings. It kind of makes me feel like I'm on a boat about to get sea sick. Listing back and forth like a drunken sailor with some type of mental illness, off their medication. It's basically awful. "Read more" for better videos and the rest of the study.

Here's A Whole Lotta Extra Dougie. Courtesy of Dj Lobsterdust. Thank god for mashups. You can actually dougie to this song, dance, and revolt! (This is my favorite and will be yours as well by the end, I am sure of this, I included it here for reasons you will discover below)

In addition to that, to keep it light and keep you on that rollercoaster adventure for your ears: A WAY better version of Cali Swag's "official" video:

As you can see, we have video evidence of more of the history of this strange modern phenomena. 

And this modern "how to" that's just terrible with a capital tyrannosaurus T. 

Simply awful. And white boys get made fun of for dancing, my vapors are rising.

Hipsters, I don't have anything too fly for your white boy style yet, but here's a postal service one that's not the worst. 

Next is a kind of dirty house version, keep in mind that these are all improvements on the original cali swag garbage that's on the radio. Think of it as just a rawer version of a dance house dougie mix.

Finally, we have the "Official Remix" and I expected better from Jermaine Dupri but alas, this is what we get:

Not a strong showing on the field today and this is some of the better stuff out there. If you've got some of your own dougie'ing videos, post in the comments section.

let the mashups hit the floor

"As I type this I'm listening to mashups themed by 'Queen', it's a much better investment of your time" -J.Nelson

One of my favorite (and also one of the most romantic) songs ever is by the Drowning Pool, it's called Bodies:

I am fairly certain (without watching it) that is a Bodies video to 300 scenes. That sounds pretty awesome to me, but don't take my word for it...

Next we have the very first mashup of this post, an 'I know you haven't heard it because it has 269 views on the youtubes' kind of mash:

I liked it most out of the 'garbage' swill on the eastern end of 'what's hot on the youtubes' section of the interwebz that I frequent.

This is my favorite of the bunch today, Uprising Bodies by Dan Mei. It's drowning pool meets Taio Cruz, I think. If that means anything to you, you've already hit play. If it doesn't, I suggest you do on the following.

Lastly (but not leastly!) is Bad Things Will Roll With the Devil and it's more like a super dance mix than mashup but still worth it because of its thematic relevance to the current post you're reading.

I included the original even though that mashup does have a better video because this one links directly to the artist's channel so it's more legit in a mostly non-legitimate post.

who invited the red hot chili peppers?

Seriously, they're at Austin City Limits this year and I just found out they're playing Bonnaroo too. Whoever is the puppet master of that "come back" or "re-introduction to relevancy" is some sort of evil mastermind. I shudder at the thought of how truly nefarious this individual or shadowy cabal must be because it's 2012, not the 1990's and yet somehow, in some way, the Chili Peppers continue to trundle on. They're like a "pre-burned-out" version of the Rolling Stones, except terrible. They are like some sort of mythical creature that can only die if you cut its head off and separate it from the rest of the body and burn everything.




Ah, so that's much better. Before I worked myself into a frenzy of confusion over this whole "rotten peppers from the back of the vegetable drawer problem", I managed to find the above link. Young The Giant is also playing at Bonnaroo. The XX is a brit-pop kind of sensation that treads water somewhere in the back of a playlist or another I've assembled over the past couple years and are also worth a listen.



After that slight bit of introduction, I'd like to get into the real "ill-gritty" of the relevancy from earlier: Young The Giant's "remix" site. They offer stems (partial tracks, basically but with separated "sounds") for download so that any old asshole can "add their vision" to the tracks. A wonderful idea that I think was originally conceived of by those other brit-poppers, Radiohead. For their In Colours album, I could be wrong about that but I didn't bother to look into it very thoroughly because it's not that important. The above example is a great one from this type of "any asshole can join in" mentality and it works, sometimes it does not. For instance when Colbie Caillat, whose name happens to be ridiculous to spell, somehow gets involved:

I can't say for sure if I hate that or like it but here's another one, a DeadMau5/Hybrid/Young the Giant mash:

Oh, and by the way, I'd recommend taking some sort of hallucinogens before listening to those last two. Pretend like you're at Bonnaroo and go nuts. They're much better, cleaner and more palatable when you do imbibe. Or so I've heard.

Before I leave you broken, empty and wanting a refund, I'll finish off tonight's post with a mystery embed:

mashups (because it's been awhile)

K.I.S.S.

Comments/judgments in the comment area - this will have no commentary aside from this.

(G3rst - Pumped Up Baby)

Dj Lobsterdust - Maybe We Found Love

(The Reborn Identity - This Charming Video Game)

(DJs From Mars - DJ Got Us Falling In Hot Stuff)

shout my name

Can't say that I normally write that particular phrase that often. It's said, from time to time, with varying degrees of seriousness, yet rarely written.

It's January. Like, late January too. I am nearly a month behind in getting this easily shared but I want you to bask in the glory of the Best of Bootie 2012 Mashup Mania Mega Mix Tape Bonanza Extravaganza.

My favorite of the "20 Individual Tracks" option is "Shout My Name" - Ting Tings vs. Lulu vs. Green Day. You can listen to it here if you don't feel like going to the trouble of finding out for yourself by following the link above, lazy bastard. The more you know, right?

Here is another gem for some of the boy fans out there *wink*wink* as well as the rest of the world because the other half of this One Direction pairing is none other than Journey. This jam-a-lam-a-ding-dong-a-long tune is called "What Makes You Stop Believing" (obviously). You're also about to be treated to a wonderfully strange video of some ethnic looking teenagers (possibly American, who can even tell at this point?) in what is undoubtedly one of the first unveilings of the next generation's female Spike Jonze.

There is a very real possibility that this is part of some avant garde guerilla filmmaker's doctoral thesis on the timelessness of classics such as Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and the irrefutable power of "the boy band" over the young ladies (and often times grown men) of our country. It's cinema verite without all that pomp, nonsensical self referencing, and mutual self-gratification. Allegedly.

Also, it's noted that there has been quite some time since anything new has been posted here or on any of the other subdomains. Though, thinking of it just now, there may be a thriving subdomain somewhere since there are a few folks with author access, anyways I wouldn't know because I haven't checked. On a side-note, if you're reading this and are (obviously) bonafide, you are more than welcome to reign the helm until TBA. A philosophical decision that was made (belatedly in the instance of this particular site until the situation changes) with the best practices of search engine optimization/ease of user navigation dictates a full "re-organization." Currently, at work I do not have the technical capabilities, and at home I do not have a suitable workspace (and somewhat limited with technology due to my lack of a "normal" keyboard, seriously how do people type on laptops so easily? I type worse than Edward Scissorhands).

tl;dr: If you'd like to write here or any where else on this site (keeping more or less in tune with the general jovial atmosphere) you're more than welcome. I make no money off of this and neither will you, but that was never really the point. I don't know what the point was, at least not yet... This is getting extremely meta for me at the moment and I'm going to stop before I set off some kind of feedback loop and explode. Seriously though, email me or twitter at me (I still think they should call them "twats" instead of "tweets") or G+ at me or Facebook. It's 2013, you can figure it out. There's even a handy link immediately below these words.

Javier Nelson