YouTube’s 10 years of hits: Global recognition at last for Rick Astley YouTube’s top 10 most watched non-music videos of 2015 feature a rapper from Atlanta (Silento #WatchMeDanceOn), Liam Neeson's spot in a US Superbowl ad, the Star Wars Episode Seven (or is it VII?) trailer, and a US law enforcement official busting some rhymes from behind the wheel (carefully captured on his dash cam). But …
What? No mention of "Indiscretions the politicians didn't want you to see?".
I'd never heard it, nor had I heard of it. I tried to watch / listen to it but I couldn't do it; I couldn't make it through the first chorus. I found it "insanely" puerile and moronic. And if there was anything catchy in there, it didn't catch me. Furries are stupid, the video was stupid, the song is stupid.
Which brings us to, perhaps, the in-article observation that "somewhat strangely, it’s often foreign releases that have major breakthroughs".
I listen to a considerable amount of foreign music and the reason is fairly simple: When the lyrics are sung in a language that I don't understand, I do not need to know how fatuous and inane those lyrics are. If I assume that most Youtube viewers are English-speakers, then this factor could also be operative for at least some of them too. And considering how many Youtube users there are, a fraction of them could still translate to a very large number.
Whoa calm down there Turtle, you'll have an attack if you're not careful!
It's pop music, all pop music is shite, it's designed to be catchy, annoying, crap, moronic, packaged and sold. If you want depth in your music then you tend to head of in the direction of the likes of Steve Wilson. I dare anyone to watch Routine or or Drive Home and not cry!
I don't think it's nearly as catchy as an actual fox call.
Now that I could listen to anytime. You might want to listen to the full collection.
It's well-known that "foxes have the finest call in nature".
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I can't believe that Steve Winwood/Eric Prydz did not make the list - A bit NSFW.
Or for something cool from 1965: Jaan Pehchan Ho - Mohammed Rafi, Gumnaam
"NSFW"? Gosh we used to have a morning "exercise class" on TV every day while the kids were eating their Kornflakes, with two or more girls dressed exactly like this. And one extremely camp guy, who naturally (being the "male") was the one giving instructions.
And *NO-ONE* did the exercises. But everyone watched.
Never! I don't believe this figure at all.
Going to say that I've been personally responsible for more than 118m Rick Rolls.
To say that RR has only had 118m views just seems very, very wrong.
Give us some credit, most RR videos appear as people learn the URIs
You can't have added them all up, they appear all the time.
Up that number anyway because I've just found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ - look at the number of views.
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