A top selection of YouTube clips for your delight, featuring: Chemical Brothers vs Google Earth, buskers doing Oasis and pig love, Katy Perry style.
The Chemical Brothers’ mash up between Google Earth and home-made films of what their fans get up to at midnight is brilliant - although it’s not the actual official video which features a bald man in a spangly condom suit doing a spot of parqour...
Midnight Madness Google Earth Video:
Midnight Madness - Official Video:
Also fun – in a completely different way - are the many parodies of Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl, our favourite being the wonderful I Kissed A Pig. Especially the line “It felt so wrong, it felt so right, we rolled around in mud the whole night”.
The marketing people at Oasis’s US label hit on a great guerilla marketing idea for the band’s new album Dig Out Your Soul. To get the word out they leaked four tracks – but instead of using the internet they taught the songs to buskers and unleashed them on the streets of New York. The decidedly un-Oasis like Dagmar can be seen here performing (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady: