I was also fascinated by fact that they still function as pop songs, even with those ridiculous lyrics. If I’m forced to do it, the results are never going to be as good as if I get into that state of being creatively invested. VV: How did you move from the pop music videos to the political figures? It was hard for everyone, but it was very hard for her. I wanted to comment on that. And that’s not because I have any fixation on chicken, it’s just, apparently in the English language, people’s mouths make that shape a lot, so it fits. It’s not always about being funny. VV: How long do the spoken videos take to put together? they’re not actually singing along, they’re just watching. That guy is now a completely different character in my mind, who exists completely apart from the real guy. Because I didn’t think many people were going to see it. BLR: I really don’t. As for the spoken-word ones, there are phrases that stick with me. It’s not even the style of music that I typically make. They encouraged me to make a YouTube channel. Are you going to pursue any of them? Beyond the novelty aspect and the parlor trick aspect of it, it was interesting from the standpoint of context – how I could change the way the images onscreen were perceived dramatically by changing the audio. But when you’re saying no words are out of bounds here, there’s a ton of food names, and a ton of animal names, and if you allow yourself to be open to all words, there’s this big pool of nouns that you can pull from all of a sudden, that would never have been sung about previously. Someone had sent it along to him, and he loved it, so he had label people track me down so we could talk.

It’s a more instant gratification.

I sit there and my brain will come up with stuff, and I’ll say, “Nah, that’s not funny.” There’s stuff that’s not very funny: a lot of mundane lines, like “How are you.” Or things that are extremely foul. VV: Can you tell us anything about those? As for the other questions though, he had a lot to say: Village Voice: So what’s the origin story on this whole project? I usually finish these things by myself at 3 a.m. and I’m just ready to get it up. Plus I have my professional workload as well. There are a lot of things that I strive for that I was actually pulling off in that one. BLR: I find that getting to that point where I’m about to fall asleep is really productive. So I made a channel, and I named it Bad Lip Reading, and then it just kind of went crazy. The only measure of success I have of anything I do creatively, is I have to like it. It was very impressive to watch.

I didn’t expect it to do as well as it did. Some videos lend themselves to the process better than others. VV: So after you fool around with each shot, you’ve got a working script? I use Logic. VV: Yeah, it seems like you’ve been conspicuously PG-rated in your work. It’s like hunting for treasure. VV: Do you have a trusted audience you test your material with? Even though nothing had changed on screen, what you felt about it, and the people, changed a lot. It seems like a sort of homage to Weird Al or something. I knew the spoken word pieces don’t take that long, because it’s just strictly the words. If you look at all of the videos together, there must be something you can distill about me. saying, “This is my life in a nutshell. Justin Bieber, “Gang Fight,” I wasn’t too worried about it. It’s just that, when I’m sitting there trying to let my brain be open to this process, there’s this huge segment of the English language that doesn’t get used in songs, and that is food and animals. It’s also interesting to watch someone saying “Ah this is the worst one you ever did, followed by someone saying “This is the best one you ever did.” You just have to accept that, and do it for yourself. VV: All right. There’s no ill will. She suffered rapid and complete hearing loss. BLR: Rick Perry was done in two and a half days. BLR: Actually, I’m taking audio notes, instead of writing down things. This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on November 8, 2011, How To Win Contracts and Influence People, The Untold Story of the Tompkins Square Murder, Bernie Goetz: The Black Community at Gunpoint, “Oh yeah, he fed her to the homeless,” says Hank, who lives on East 5th Street. I’m not a particularly political person, but I landed on Rick Perry. But there’s also some electronic trickery involved. It was remarkable how quickly she picked it up and how skilled she became at it. Because even though I can be a silly person, there’s a very serious aspect to a lot of the work that I do. I never thought anyone else would hear it. BLR: Unfortunately she passed away like a year prior to this all blowing up. It …

Wiz Khalifa, dry heaving on the interstate.

And when I saw that I did what I do: I pull the video and hit the mute button and see what my brain lands on. Sometimes I know what they’re going to be. VV: What’s your actual work process on these videos? Psycho Crooner: Michael Buble wants to kill a Russian Unicorn. It’s interesting to me to create this little alternate universe of music videos. But that’s where that started.

And they wanted more content. So Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video is seamlessly re-imagined as a narrative about a gang fight, Mitt Romney speculates on the benefits of Madonna marrying a giant, and Rick Perry grudgingly offers to share his Kwanzaa CDs with the press corps. It was just a stopgap. VV: Do you feel like there’s a sort of surrealist element of your process, using the randomness of your lip-reading to access a kind of creativity you wouldn’t otherwise have? The good thing is that this has led to a lot of interesting new opportunities that I can’t really speak about, but that are intriguing. In two or three weeks, it had passed a million views, and it had over 20k subscribers, which I hadn’t really anticipated. “Boy these rappers and their beautiful Mexicans… Gotta keep my mind free.” That matches so well to my eye, and there’s just the question of what exactly does he mean by that?

That was the first one where I thought, “Oh, I’ve really done what I really wanted to do.” Which is to take something and completely change the context and still have it be a satisfying musical production. (He's already done that, right?) It’s going somewhere. But like his fellow perma­nent Washingtonians, he thinks it only fitting to put Clinton in his place”, “Nobody who played jazz was considered able to walk in and do a studio call. By Wayne Barrett, William Bastone and Maria Laurino. But most of the time, I just have to be in the mood to do it, period. It’s just a thing I can do. VV: I wanted to ask you about that. They said “Do more!” So I did some more, but only of that guy, and they would only circulate between us. That fascinates me. “A few days after it happened, before it hit the pa­pers, while the rumors started spreading around the Village, the homeless in the park were going, ‘Yeah, Dan did give us soup yesterday.’ They were goofing on it but they were pretty much grossed out”. BLR: I like them both for different reasons. It was an inside joke.

But I’ve been surprised how popular the end tags have been. Whereas with the spoken word, I just have to figure out what they’re saying and how they’re going to present it and work on any post-production embellishments, and I’ll write a little score to accompany it. I find myself creating new characters for these people. It wasn’t making fun of him, it was just taking his video as the raw material to make something new. "Story of My Life" is a song recorded by English-Irish boy band One Direction. So I started doing more of them. Things like “bacon hobbit,” you know, weird stuff: “Poke me.

Herman Cain, only slightly less coherent when given the Bad Lip Reading treatment. There’s a point where a line reveals itself and I’m hearing it for the first time, So if it’s funny it makes me laugh, because I didn’t sit down and craft that line. "MORE STRANGER THINGS" — A Bad Lip Reading of ... - YouTube

And I thought the best line was where he talks about the centurions from East Asia, near Mumbai. In the beginning, I made no attempt to sound like the people in the videos. Written by band members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson, along with Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan, and Hanoch Dagan. The songs – I love making music, even if they’re just these silly songs, It’s just great to sit back at the end of the song to sit back and listen to the song, and to learn that other people are liking them too, as songs. Again, I was just doing this for my friends, to make them laugh. BLR: When I did “Gang-fight,” I didn’t spend long on that at all. Because if you start worrying too much about what people like or don’t like, you get into a really strange place. But it was more that I knew that newscasts, interviews, press conferences, and things like that would have a lot of face-time.

Let us know when some of these new projects come together. There’s that moment when it’s new to me. How did they get started, and what was their process? She suffered rapid and complete hearing loss. That’s just who I am. ©2017 Village Voice, LLC. Right at that same time, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video came out. I love how out of synch it was. It’s almost as though I serve as an editor. I’m going to be making music no matter what. But I’ll keep doing it as long as I find it interesting. That’s such a strange thing to say. Like everyone else, we were bewildered by it. The sound-bites are satisfying for how quickly I can do them, and my friends and I can sit back and laugh at them. When we spoke to him on the phone this week, he told us he doesn’t want to be identified because he doesn’t want the levity of the Bad Lip Reading series to impact his more serious work. The things you planned for don’t pan out, and the things you do just as a lark, end up taking off and leading to other things. I have to be the only person ever to have done that. Chicken comes up a lot. I had some interaction with him. So it’s a matter of figuring out which of these things I want to do.

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