I Really Really Really Like You
March 9, 2015 10:53 AM Subscribe
Another video featuring Tom Hanks dancing, also rapping. (And Dan Aykroyd, too!)
posted by Atom Eyes at 11:03 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 11:03 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
My favourite detail: The 🏃🌳🏃 text message. "Run, Forest (okay, tree), run!"
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 11:18 AM on March 9, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 11:18 AM on March 9, 2015 [12 favorites]
Nice product placement on whatever that yellow car was.
posted by madajb at 11:25 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by madajb at 11:25 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
I thought she was asking him if he was bringing pot.
posted by tofu_crouton at 11:25 AM on March 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by tofu_crouton at 11:25 AM on March 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
My favourite detail: The 🏃🌳🏃 text message. "Run, Forest (okay, tree), run!"
Signing a ping pong paddle is a call-out to Forrest Gump as well.
posted by madajb at 11:27 AM on March 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
Signing a ping pong paddle is a call-out to Forrest Gump as well.
posted by madajb at 11:27 AM on March 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
There's been some Skynet level meme-hacking lately. This is a particularly good example. It's an engineered virus, and I say that not un-fondly.
The song is a well-produced series of hooks sung by a woman who ALREADY had a gigantic memey hit (so her voice already calls that sort of thing to mind). The video is weird, and cute, and has some good gags in it. And it has Tom Hanks, who I like. So do you. Everyone likes Tom Hanks. That's why he's here. Multiple points of entry.
Once someone works out how to attach this to a payload more dangerous than "spend $.99 on iTunes so your kid can listen to this on their iPod" we are really chumped.
posted by dirtdirt at 11:29 AM on March 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
The song is a well-produced series of hooks sung by a woman who ALREADY had a gigantic memey hit (so her voice already calls that sort of thing to mind). The video is weird, and cute, and has some good gags in it. And it has Tom Hanks, who I like. So do you. Everyone likes Tom Hanks. That's why he's here. Multiple points of entry.
Once someone works out how to attach this to a payload more dangerous than "spend $.99 on iTunes so your kid can listen to this on their iPod" we are really chumped.
posted by dirtdirt at 11:29 AM on March 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
The song is a well-produced series of hooks sung by a woman who ALREADY had a gigantic memey hit (so her voice already calls that sort of thing to mind). The video is weird, and cute, and has some good gags in it. And it has Tom Hanks, who I like. So do you. Everyone likes Tom Hanks. That's why he's here. Multiple points of entry.
Yes. The idea of a popular singer producing a song intended to be popular by creating a video designed to appeal to people and get talked about is a stunningly new cultural development.
posted by yoink at 11:37 AM on March 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Yes. The idea of a popular singer producing a song intended to be popular by creating a video designed to appeal to people and get talked about is a stunningly new cultural development.
posted by yoink at 11:37 AM on March 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Nice product placement on whatever that yellow car was.
It's a Fiat 500X, their brand new crossover SUV. This is the sequel to the product placement of the Fiat 500 in Good Time. I've been seeing the 500e around South Bay (Silicon Valley not LA) a bit in the HOV lanes so maybe it's working?
posted by Talez at 11:37 AM on March 9, 2015
It's a Fiat 500X, their brand new crossover SUV. This is the sequel to the product placement of the Fiat 500 in Good Time. I've been seeing the 500e around South Bay (Silicon Valley not LA) a bit in the HOV lanes so maybe it's working?
posted by Talez at 11:37 AM on March 9, 2015
that's the only time I've ever not been annoyed by Bieber.
posted by gaspode at 11:42 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by gaspode at 11:42 AM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
AAAAH I LIKE THIS SO MUCH. The song hits all my pleasure points. The dancing at the end is filled with joy. No time for haters I'm aboard this train.
posted by naju at 11:42 AM on March 9, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by naju at 11:42 AM on March 9, 2015 [5 favorites]
I like you too, Tom Hanks!
posted by cmoj at 11:47 AM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by cmoj at 11:47 AM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's a Fiat 500X, their brand new crossover SUV.
That's why it looked familiar!
Fiat is definitely working that brand identity.
posted by madajb at 11:48 AM on March 9, 2015
That's why it looked familiar!
Fiat is definitely working that brand identity.
posted by madajb at 11:48 AM on March 9, 2015
Am I wrong, or does Hanks mouth "want you" instead of "like you", twice? Still charming as heck, of course.
posted by schoolgirl report at 11:51 AM on March 9, 2015
posted by schoolgirl report at 11:51 AM on March 9, 2015
This is shot and lit and edited basically exactly like a commercial. Which I know isn't saying a whole lot, as there is a lot of crossover between commercial and music video directors, but seriously I feel like this video should be selling insurance or a prescription drug or yogurt or something.
posted by sleeping bear at 11:51 AM on March 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by sleeping bear at 11:51 AM on March 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
Yeah I kept expecting a voice-over for a text asking me to talk to my doctor if Eliftia is right for you
posted by The Whelk at 12:05 PM on March 9, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 12:05 PM on March 9, 2015 [6 favorites]
Am I wrong, or does Hanks mouth "want you" instead of "like you", twice?
This whole video made me realize that Hanks's mouth moves like he's a product of supermarionation. He must be hell for lip-readers.
F.A.B!
posted by yoink at 12:10 PM on March 9, 2015
This whole video made me realize that Hanks's mouth moves like he's a product of supermarionation. He must be hell for lip-readers.
F.A.B!
posted by yoink at 12:10 PM on March 9, 2015
This is shot and lit and edited basically exactly like a commercial. Which I know isn't saying a whole lot, as there is a lot of crossover between commercial and music video directors, but seriously I feel like this video should be selling insurance or a prescription drug or yogurt or something.
Fiats. It's selling Fiats.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:14 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Fiats. It's selling Fiats.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:14 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
For what it's worth, Hanks is friends with Scooter Braun, who manages both Jepsen and Bieber.
posted by How the runs scored at 12:20 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by How the runs scored at 12:20 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
An argument against net neutrality. I wouldn't mind having this throttled.
posted by phaedon at 12:24 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by phaedon at 12:24 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Scooter Braun
How can anyone actually be called 'Scooter Braun'? If you wrote a music manager in a book and called him 'Scooter Braun' you'd be publicly and brutally ridiculed. And yet there's Scooter Braun just wandering around, answering his phone saying 'Hi, Scooter Braun speaking', and making dinner reservations in the name 'Scooter Braun'. Possibly 'Mr and Mrs Scooter Braun' if he's feeling kinda chauvinistic.
In short: Scooter Braun.
posted by howfar at 12:26 PM on March 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
How can anyone actually be called 'Scooter Braun'? If you wrote a music manager in a book and called him 'Scooter Braun' you'd be publicly and brutally ridiculed. And yet there's Scooter Braun just wandering around, answering his phone saying 'Hi, Scooter Braun speaking', and making dinner reservations in the name 'Scooter Braun'. Possibly 'Mr and Mrs Scooter Braun' if he's feeling kinda chauvinistic.
In short: Scooter Braun.
posted by howfar at 12:26 PM on March 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Watched this last night, and pitched it to my wife saying I wanted to watch the new Carly Rae Jepsen video. She was flummoxed until it started.
I enjoyed it, except for when the women swiped right on Tom Hanks in Tinder. What are you doing on Tinder, Tom?! What would Rita say??
posted by staccato signals of constant information at 12:27 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
I enjoyed it, except for when the women swiped right on Tom Hanks in Tinder. What are you doing on Tinder, Tom?! What would Rita say??
posted by staccato signals of constant information at 12:27 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
(well, there is convicted felon scooter libby.. ) Where was Bieber in the video ? (since I totally missed it .. )
posted by k5.user at 12:32 PM on March 9, 2015
posted by k5.user at 12:32 PM on March 9, 2015
What are you doing on Tinder, Tom?! What would Rita say??
Why is he in any way at risk of a pregnancy scare with a 20-something pop singer? This video pegged my creepmeter, and I am otherwise a Hanksophile.
posted by Lyn Never at 12:50 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Why is he in any way at risk of a pregnancy scare with a 20-something pop singer? This video pegged my creepmeter, and I am otherwise a Hanksophile.
posted by Lyn Never at 12:50 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
So in a Venn diagram with a circle each for Tom Hanks and Bill Murray, how can I get more of the sweet, fun, likable stuff in that oval where they overlap?
posted by wenestvedt at 12:52 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by wenestvedt at 12:52 PM on March 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
Why is he in any way at risk of a pregnancy scare with a 20-something pop singer?
I actually read the entire video as Tom Hanks playing Jepsen's dad and doing embarrassing Dad things like lip syncing to his daugther's "cool" music in public. So the pregnancy scare line (which is just a weird line even in this context) is either just: playing along b/c that's what the song says, or a daughter playing that prank on her father (implication being that the child's father is her boyfriend). Still a little weird.
And I don't know if it helps anything, but Jepsen will be 30 in November.
posted by sparklemotion at 12:59 PM on March 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
I actually read the entire video as Tom Hanks playing Jepsen's dad and doing embarrassing Dad things like lip syncing to his daugther's "cool" music in public. So the pregnancy scare line (which is just a weird line even in this context) is either just: playing along b/c that's what the song says, or a daughter playing that prank on her father (implication being that the child's father is her boyfriend). Still a little weird.
And I don't know if it helps anything, but Jepsen will be 30 in November.
posted by sparklemotion at 12:59 PM on March 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
The Beib is dancing at the end, on the other side of Carly Rae. At least that's the only place I saw him, and I would happily have missed him if The Verge hadn't mentioned he was in the video. He didn't make it any less enjoyable to watch.
I happily admit to a lifelong weakness for this kind of happy pop music. I bought her first album, and nothing short of bankruptcy will stop me from buying this one as well.
posted by lhauser at 12:59 PM on March 9, 2015
I happily admit to a lifelong weakness for this kind of happy pop music. I bought her first album, and nothing short of bankruptcy will stop me from buying this one as well.
posted by lhauser at 12:59 PM on March 9, 2015
Why is he in any way at risk of a pregnancy scare with a 20-something pop singer?
Also, why is a 58 year old man at risk of a pregnancy scare??
posted by ftm at 3:59 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also, why is a 58 year old man at risk of a pregnancy scare??
posted by ftm at 3:59 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
It would have been even funnier with a Sally Field cameo.
posted by various at 4:48 PM on March 9, 2015
posted by various at 4:48 PM on March 9, 2015
How can anyone actually be called 'Scooter Braun'? If you wrote a music manager in a book and called him 'Scooter Braun' you'd be publicly and brutally ridiculed.
Yeah, whatever Gordy. "Sting," please, like I'm going to call you that.
posted by phearlez at 7:56 PM on March 9, 2015
Yeah, whatever Gordy. "Sting," please, like I'm going to call you that.
posted by phearlez at 7:56 PM on March 9, 2015
That was, really really fun. Thanks for a nice link.
posted by puddinghead at 8:19 PM on March 9, 2015
posted by puddinghead at 8:19 PM on March 9, 2015
that's the only time I've ever not been annoyed by Bieber.
This is a slight derail, but if you're interested in a technique that allows you to not be annoyed by at least early Bieber, I'll share. Basically you just have to watch the videos and imagine that the singer is an adorable babybutch lesbian. Think the kind of extras that hung out with Shane in The L Word. Look at how cute she is in this video with her wind-swept pixie haircut flirting at the bowling alley! Oh the sad teenage angst in this video as she pines away for the foxy blonde femme girl. And in this video, One Less Lonely Girl, we know she's actually singing about herself.
posted by tractorfeed at 6:08 AM on March 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
This is a slight derail, but if you're interested in a technique that allows you to not be annoyed by at least early Bieber, I'll share. Basically you just have to watch the videos and imagine that the singer is an adorable babybutch lesbian. Think the kind of extras that hung out with Shane in The L Word. Look at how cute she is in this video with her wind-swept pixie haircut flirting at the bowling alley! Oh the sad teenage angst in this video as she pines away for the foxy blonde femme girl. And in this video, One Less Lonely Girl, we know she's actually singing about herself.
posted by tractorfeed at 6:08 AM on March 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
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