10:50 am February 8, 2008*sob*
Zoe and I both have a small crush on Jason Mraz. Sometimes in the afternoons we like to hook the iPod into the wireless speakers and blast “Wordplay” or “Remedy” or “Geek in the Pink” really loudly throughout the house. When the boys are home, they tire of us playing the same songs over and over… but when we are home along together, we both understand that sometimes you have to play the same song over and over while you daydream about being at a school dance, and you are really dancing the crap out of the song, and everyone is in a circle around you, and you have totally caught the eye of the boy you have a crush on. Oh shut up, you do too do that when no one is looking! Anyway, today I thought that it would be fun to finally put a face with the song for Zoe. She loves “Wordplay”. The girl will listen to it for hours. So I went to YouTube and pulled up the video. Having never seen the video myself, I watched for the first couple of minutes. Zoe was cracking up laughing because in the video sweet, adorable Jason Mraz is sitting on a log and stupid, poor people are throwing rocks at him because these dumb villagers just don’t appreciate his dope rhymes. And his guitar is getting busted up. Hilarious!! So I walk back over to the sink to load the dishwasher, leaving Zoe at the laptop to continue watching the end of the video.
All of the sudden, her beautiful little face twists up and she starts bawling. I walk back over to the laptop just in time to see poor, pummeled Jason Mraz with blood squirting out of his shoulder, his arm half severed. See for yourself (it’s a very feel-good song)
Why would people do that??? How is he supposed to continue on playing the guitar and laying down phat verses?
I closed the video window (it was over anyway) and hugged her and told her that it as a joke, it was fake. It was supposed to be funny. Someone was standing behind him squirting ketchup over his shoulder, to be funny. But she continued to bawl. I played the video for “The Remedy” to show her that he still had both of his arms and look, he is smiling and singing… but I fear that the song will be ruined for her forever. Memories will flood back about how a bunch of ignorant peasants killed off her boyfriend because they just not accept him as anything other than a one-hit-wonder.
Kind of like me and the Milli Vanilli debacle… only with a tad more fake blood.
(This adorable dance number may finally make it all okay for her, though)
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It looks like they’re actually throwing baked goods, some Pillsbury rolls and I think I even saw a doughnut in there.
Comment by Sam — February 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
I used to watch MTV in front of my little sister, who at the time was about Zoe’s age. Anyway, whenever the song “Land of Confusion” by Genesis came on, she would yell out “yucky face, yucky face” and would completly freak out. Then, I was like yeah whatever, but now looking at it, I can see why she was so tramatized when she saw it. It is scary. I don’t know why they have to make some of these music video’s so scary.
Comment by Cassie — February 9, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Well, I guess you can be happy that Zoe had a caring reaction. It’s better than pounding the table and screaming for more blood. I mean, that reaction would be worse, I think.
The part of the video I found most disturbing: the guy spanking the animal around 2:48.
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