When off one’s trolley it’s always tempting (for me anyway) to rifle about in Youtube for some old classics to haphazardly jaunt around the front room to. Usually these take the form of complete and utter drivel from the 80s like Eric Carmen’s hideously sublime ‘Hungry Eyes’, or perhaps Men At Work’s mindless plodalong ‘Land Down Under’. Essentially, if it’s shit, it goes on.
Once in a while, you mistakenly click on a fan video – meaning some lonely internet berk has spent time and effort piecing together a visual for a song. This can take the form of them singing into a hairbrush in person in front of a webcam, but occasionally it’s just a badly constructed series of stills enhanced using low rent special effects.
The above video is one of the most disturbing examples of the latter that I’ve uncovered during one of these drunken trawls through Youtube’s seemingly infinite treasure chest of effluents.
The girl in the video will be well known to anyone who purchased, borrowed or shoplifted a copy of the reputable, high-street sperm-pamphlet Mayfair at any point between 1996 and, I estimate, 1999. Her name is/was Veronika and she was on the front cover of the mag regularly, probably because she provoked fevered onanists to scribble rapturous appraisals of her large hooters after they’d kleenexed their pen-hands, mailing their love-letters off to the mag in the hope their beloved would appear in the next issue. She was a very attractive jizz-model, it has to be said – in the mould of that overseas tit-carrier in American Pie. A lovely girl. It’s not entirely worrying for a heterosexual male to develop a two-dimensional crush on such a frequently disrobed glamour-bird, so long as the relationship is kept quiet – an unspoken love-triangle betwixt the glossy page, the right hand and the bachelor.
The song, as you probably know, is The Girl Is Mine – a weird collaboration between those two humbled titans of the music industry, Paul McPaul McCartney and Michael ‘Jesus-Juice’ Jackson. Both parties obsessively claim their right to an unnamed lady in an unintentionally amusing vocal scrap. After single-handedly removing usage of the word ‘doggone’ from the English language, they then indulge in a brilliantly rubbish spoken word segment (around the three minute mark).
When the two are juxtaposed as in the video I share with you today, the conglomeration of terrible music and creepy video takes on a life of its own. The girl they’re fighting over becomes Veronika, the familiar starlet of Brit grot mags.
It suddenly feels all sexual and perverse, as though Jackson and Macca are sharing a bedsit and sitting about in their off-white Y fronts, arguing over who gets to ‘date’ Veronika tonight, whilst tugging at either end of a dog-eared copy of Mayfair.
I can’t work out if this was made for a joke - if the man who created it was aware of what he was doing. I suspect and hope that he meant it sincerely, as this means it stands as an unironic testament to the web’s weirdness and Veronika’s unparallelled beauty.
Tags: Eric Carmen, Hungry Eyes, Land Down Under, Men At Work, Michael Jackson, Music Video, Paul McCartney, The Girl Is Mine, Veronica Zemanova, Youtube
January 14, 2008 at 11:05 am
Fucking hell
January 14, 2008 at 11:10 am
Is that disbelief at the song/vid juxtaposition or just an appreciation of Veronika’s form?
January 14, 2008 at 11:29 am
The former, the author needs fucking help
January 14, 2008 at 11:58 am
On recent performance, I reckon Macca would be odds-on favourite to win that doggone girl. She looks a little on the old side for Wacko McJacko, being a paedophile, allegedly.
January 14, 2008 at 11:59 am
It has to be said, that doggone girl is worth fighting over – but Michael’s so brittle he’d snap in a fist-fight and Macca’d probably put his back out.
January 14, 2008 at 12:09 pm
HOW DAR U GUYZ TALK ABOUT MICHEL AND PAUL LIKE THAT THEY ARE JEANIUSES WITH MORE TALLENT INTHER RUDY TOWS THAN ALL OF U
‘EBONY AND IVORY LIV TOGTHER IN PERRFECT HAMONIY” JUST U REMEBERS THAT U RAYSCISTS
January 14, 2008 at 12:21 pm
That was Stevie Wonder ‘n’ Macca, wasn’t it? So that means you, Piqued, are being both racist and blindest. I think, anyway.
That doggone girl IS worth fighting over, you’re right. I just don’t reckon Wacko O’Jackomo would think so. She looks like she’d take quite a few cans of ‘Pepsi’ to subdue. Plus, she’s a fully-grown woman and Jackola, being an alleged child molester, doesn’t supposedly like that sort of thing, allegedly.
Ahem.
January 14, 2008 at 12:24 pm
What are you on about? He married an Elvis woman. He had kids with a nurse. Are you mental?
That is a scurrillous rumour you’re attempting to spread and I won’t have it.
January 14, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It was all them kids accusing him of fiddling about with ‘em that’s led to my unfounded suspicions. That and the kid he paid millions to to shut the fuck up about Wacko allegedly diddling him up. That and the fact there’s something a bit wierd about a fifty-year-old sleeping with little boys.
Apart from that (and loads of other things), I see your point. I’m just muck-spreading without a scrap of evidence … except for all that evidence.
January 14, 2008 at 12:44 pm
One man’s ‘evidence’ is another man’s not-evidence.
January 14, 2008 at 12:58 pm
If Veronika were the leader of a fascist state then this video is what would play round the clock on state TV. Hypnotizing, terrifying and demanding allegiance. Vote Veronika I saw, for she is the glorious dictator at the heart of our tiny nation!
January 14, 2008 at 1:01 pm
That’s why I’m saying my allegations of Wacko La Jacko being a quite bloody obvious kiddly diddler are without foundation, old son. I, like Jacko’s millions of loyal fans, see nothing out of the ordinary in an old, freaky-lookin’ weirdo taking young boys to bed in a house filled with toys and funfair rides. I’m sure my father, who is of a similar age, would receive the same benefit of the doubt from society if he started doing that sort of thing.
January 14, 2008 at 1:04 pm
YEAH SO IF IT WERE STEVE WUNDERS AN ‘MACA’. SAME THING INNIT, A BLAK MAN AND WHITE MAN LIVING IN A HARMONNY (WEL A WHITE MAN AND A RED MAN N E WAY)
January 14, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I don’t think they actually live together. So you’re still a racist.
January 16, 2008 at 1:19 am
It’s like bottom on acid.