”Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video?” asks YouTube poster Dustin McLean. Well, no, quite honestly, I never did wish that. But after watching his literal translation of A-Ha’s “Take on Me,” in which McLean sings (doing a darn good impression of Morten Harket) a straightforward description of the video’s events (“I’m gonna kick some ass with my own pipe wrench!”), I have no idea why I never wished that before. Because it is pretty much the best thing ever to come from the Internet.
His latest literal video is a translation of Tears for Fears’ “Head Over Heels,” and it’s at least as good as, if not better than, the A-Ha one. I defy you not to pee yourself laughing somewhere between “Ghostbusters” and “Dave Coulier.”
