If you've watched any television at all over the past several weeks, you've seen Apple's ad for the iPhone XR. It features a bouncy song and a flood of people doing parkour while wearing colorful jumpsuits. Here's an extended version:
I could swear that the first line of the song is 'Come along catch a heffalump'. Heffalumps, if you don't know, are imaginary elephanty creatures from Winnie the Pooh, objects of fear and anxiety for the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood. Y'all know how I feel about Pooh.
So I went looking for the song. It's from the debut album by a British artist named Cosmo Sheldrake, a multi-instrumental musical talent. Here he is playing it live in studio:
I'll be damned. The first line really does feature a heffalump drop. Sheldrake also works in a couple of Jabberwocky references in the second stanza. Have a little fun today, Gheorghies.
Monday, January 14, 2019
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Not quite as cool as Plant dropping LOTR references in Ramble On, but neat.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that was an Apple commercial.
There's no such thing as time to kill, nor time to throw away
ReplyDeleteAmen, Cosmo...
Is a Heffalump the house sigil for Hufflepuff?
ReplyDeleteI am digging this tune, Robert. Thanks for hoisting it into my acquaintance.
ReplyDeleteCurious if he actually played all the instrumentation or had them pre-programmed from digital tidbits. You know, as I build my music studio.
And Hugh Heffalump would be an interesting mash-up of styles.
ReplyDeletethe credits for the song suggest that he played many of the instruments himself. there are a handful of other artists credited, as well.
ReplyDeleteAs I was leaving my commuter ferry parking lot tonight in my car, a sedan came tearing out of a lane of parking and missed me by an inch. I saw it coming and had that split-second “alright, I’m about to get sideswiped” moment of realization. The car barely missed me, and then it stopped for a moment, realizing what it did.
ReplyDeleteI then broke into one of my most boisterous, yet least eloquent road rage moments of my life. I put the car in park, opened the door, turned to the driver and screamed “you’re a fucking asshole, motherfucker.” It probably looked like I wanted to fight. I didn’t want to fight. I wanted to go home and eat dinner. But I lost my mind for five seconds.
Road rage is a funny thing. Makes me bad at cursing. I’m much better at it when I have a moment to think.
“Fuck you you fucking fuck. Wipe that face off your face.”
ReplyDeleteYou should have offered him cool lessons.
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