The Trololo Guy is really Russian singer Eduard Khil singing I Am Glad. Sadly, the famous singer passed last week.
In honor of the meme and the man, heavy metal cover master 331Erock worked his magic, and already has more than 500,000 views.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/06/13/heavy-metal-cover-of-trololo/
She just gets better with age.
Mark Seliger For Rolling Stone / Via rollingstone.com
You can read some of her interview with Rolling Stone here.
Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/julia-louis-dreyfus-is-naked-and-patriotic-on-the-cover-of-r
The ukulele is a springy, upbeat instrument. It’s not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of heavy metal music such as Slayer. Just for fun, musician Rob Scallon opted to cover Slayer’s War Ensemble with the electric guitar replaced with the ukulele. The resulting song is strange to say the least and has gone viral with over 200,000 new views.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2014/05/15/slayer-covered-on-ukulele/
Awesome sisters Lennon and Maisy are 12 and 8 years old, and unlike most siblings, have similar interests. They both love to sing, and perform a beautiful cover of Call Your Girlfriend by Erato with just their voices and a plastic cup. The girls went viral after being featured on Reddit.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/05/30/two-sisters-cover-call-your-girlfriend/
Runners, first responders and the Mayor of Boston join thousands of people for a special cover photo one year after the Boston bombings.
The people of Boston made a strong showing— would you expect anything else?— when SI put out a casting call for a photo shoot last Saturday at the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, steps from where two bombs exploded on Patriots’ Day last year. A crowd of 3,000, including runners who were near the blast, first responders and mayor Marty Walsh, arrived by 7 a.m. to celebrate the city’s—and the race’s—resilience in the face of the terror attacks.
Of the cover photo, SI’s Director of Photography Brad Smith said, “A year later, Boston has shown the strength to carry on. I’m proud that Sports Illustrated was able to contribute, in a small way, to that process with this cover. You can see in the faces of the people of Boston, how far they’ve come, together as a city.”
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Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/sports-illustrated-honors-the-boston-marathon-features-3000
Living in a big city, it’s hard to appreciate the natural beauty that surrounds you. Pleasantville simplifies things by transplanting the city kids to an idyllic small town, and brightening the world bit by bit in gradual pops of color. It’s a lot easier to remember to stop and smell the roses when they’re bright red against a grayscale bush.
Outside of nature, there’s manmade art, which can be equally easy to ignore when you’re a kid. Pleasantville captures the transgressive power of art: It’s a stunning form of protest, an ability to address and subvert societal norms without violence. And the results can be gorgeous, like the mural painted by Mr. Johnson and David toward the end of the film.
Reading is another form of protest, which is radical information to anyone who previously regarded it solely as homework. Books offer knowledge, but also the ability to escape past your surroundings. The boundaries of Pleasantville disappear when the teenagers start opening their minds, and that happens when the books fill in with words.
Ah, young love. While Jennifer brings sex to Pleasantville, David finds love. Real love, that is — not just baking cookies for the star player on the basketball team. But it was always under the surface, like the forbidden longing between Mr. Johnson and Betty. Just like that, color floods the scene. A life without love feels a little meaningless — or, you know, black and white.
With love comes sex, something of particular interest to a pre-adolescent watching Pleasantville. We get both sides of the equation in Betty’s bathtub masturbation scene: Her first experience with female pleasure is transformative, bringing color into her world. But there’s a scary power to it, too, as seen by the tree outside catching fire. The danger here is palpable.
You can’t let fear hold you back. Those raised with a religious education might flinch when Margaret offers David the apple, but it’s not about temptation — it’s about knowledge. And there’s no shame in opening your eyes and expanding your horizons. For Jennifer, it’s not sex that brings her color back: It’s staying in and reading instead.
It’s tempting to conform, because that’s the easier option. But David and Jennifer both end up changing Pleasantville for good, rather than letting the town’s restrictions hold them back. Following the examples of the outsiders, the townspeople learn to be independent, thoughtful, and complicated — they’re granted dimensions they never would have found otherwise. It’s thrilling to watch.
At the same time, there’s a risk to standing out. Pleasantville doesn’t shy away from the realities of being different, as the people with color are shunned by the conservative town. It’s an allegory for race relations — the “No Coloreds” signs spell that out — but it speaks to something larger, the fear that so many of us felt as kids that we weren’t normal, and we had to hide that.
It is terrifying, actually. But it’s also so, so important. Watching Pleasantville at 12 years old, there’s something comforting about the simple black-and-white world David and Jennifer get transported to. There’s also something frightening about the ways they change it. And yet, you know that it has to happen: Pleasantville can’t stay innocent forever, and neither can the people in it.
Risks be damned, if Pleasantville teaches you one lesson above all others it’s to be true to yourself. By the end, everyone has expressed his or her honest emotions, and they are better — and more human — because of it. The color that once was scary goes on to paint the entire town, proving that everyone has the capacity to be his or her own person with unique passions, desires, and needs.
Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/how-pleasantville-beautifully-captured-the-nature-of-change
karmincovers first went viral with their cover of Look At Me Now by Chris Brown. They are keeping their popularity strong with their newest release covering Lil Wayne’s new hit, 6 Foot 7 Foot. No one expects a girl like Amy to drop rhymes like she does. We’re all just listening with our mouths open. I like how she says, “Jiggas.”
Here’s the original Lil Wayne hit for some comparison.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2011/04/27/white-girl-covers-6-foot-7-foot-by-lil-wayne/
Popular YouTube singer nmckaig, most famous from his Simpsons theme intro cover, is at it again.
This time, he’s going viral with his Star Wars main title theme cover, done completely with his own voice. The video already has over 100,000 views, and is featured on TheFW.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/05/05/star-wars-intro-theme-a-cappella-cover/
Pentatonix is one of YouTube’s most popular vocalist groups, standing with over 1.3 dedicated fans. The crew has instantly caught viral fire again after pleasing their fans with this incredible cover of Macklemore’s hit single Can’t Hold Us.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2013/08/20/pentatonix-covers-cant-hold-us/
You can’t go anywhere without hearing Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off”, despite the fact it was pulled from Spotify along with the rest of her catalog.
But it will be OK: Popular indie rock and YouTube cover band Walk off the Earth created a stripped-down version of Swift’s popular tune using ukuleles, shakers and kazoos. Yes, kazoos.
If you didn’t have the song stuck in your head yet: Enjoy.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/shake-it-off-ukulele-cover/
Remember Carly Rose Sonenclar, the thirteen year old who took this season of The X Factor by storm? Her original performance singing Feeling Good currently stands with over 18 million views!
Her latest performance on the popular talent show, singing Adele’s Rolling In The Deep, debuted online last Wednesday night, and already, the clip has over two million hits.
The specifications of Motorola‘s upcoming Android smartphone, Droid RAZR M 4G LTE, have been revealed just a week ahead of its Sept. 5 event.
The device sports a 4.3-inch, 960 x 540 pixel, Super AMOLED Advanced display, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 8 GB of storage and 1 GB of RAM, as well as an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 3-megapixel one on the front.
LTE, HSPA+ and NFC are also on board the phone, which will be powered by Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich.
Other notable details include its scratch-resistant cover glass made from Gorilla Glass 2, a Kevlar-reinforced back and a set of virtual navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen.
We’ll likely find out more about the device, including price and availability, in a week’s time.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/08/28/motorola-droid-razr-m-4g-lte/
Rap star Iggy Azalea has a new single out, Black Widow. Cover artists The Gregory Brothers were quick, and have already debuted a unique cover of the song. But instead of covering it as a rap song, they reproduced it as a bluegrass country tune.
Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2014/08/15/black-widow-by-iggy-azalea-bluegrass-cover/
