Mash-up: "Call Me Maybe" vs. "Head Like A Hole"

Carly Rae Jepsen x Trent Reznor = "Call Me A Hole," by pomDeterrific.

(shoop by Rob Beschizza)

• [OtherMichael]

  A friend pointed out to me that David Ogilve did the mixing on ‘Call Me Maybe’ so these two songs were perhaps only separated at birth:

  My background in industrial music definitely helped in achieving this. I was trying to get the same feel in ‘Call Me Maybe’ as in a Nine Inch Nails song, making sure it had a pop sensibility, but with people not even noticing how aggressive the kick drum is.

  • [GawainLavers]

    “The Rave”!  Great catch.

  • [marilove]

    Maybe that’s why I love the song so much and don’t care who knows!

    The song is smarter than people realize, in my opinion.

  • [Richard Smith]

    Absolutely asdounding. I knew I heard some Skinny Puppy influence in “Call Me Maybe!” I now include this fact in a blog post I did with some artwork as a tribute to this: Call Me A Hole: Nine Inch Nails + Call Me Maybe = Awesome, with credit to this post as well.

    And what an incredible look at Ogilve’s process in the soundonsound article. He’s a real craftsman.

• [GawainLavers]

  Who was it who said that Trent Reznor brought the cheerleader aesthetic to nihilism?

  • [Preston Sturges]

    I heard a nice NPR interview with Trent, and he was a real band camp/high school musical nerd. 

• [Bradley Robinson]

  Brings a new breathy, air-like quality to Trent’s searing social commentary.

  I like this. 

• [Cowicide]

  Ugh… I needed to clear my ears out by listening to the good version… and get my angry mojo back in order.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg

  • [OtherMichael]

    eh. kick drum’s not aggressive enough.

    • [OtherMichael]

      and look on the bright side — it’s still not the opal mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQaOrNqYMs0

    • [Cowicide]

      kick drum’s not aggressive enough.

      Better?

      https://soundcloud.com/cowicide/satan-ramrods-dead-koch

• [Murphy]

  I am so offended by this.

  FU Carly Rae Jepsen

• [C W]

  I really wanted to hate this more than I do. I just… can’t.

• [jackie31337]

  They go together surprisingly well. I always thought Call Me Maybe and Call Me Al would also work well together, and it seems that I’m not the only one who thinks so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAM4a0XY5s

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Can you mash that with You Can Call Me Ray?

• [Greg]

  The “Semi-charmed life” + “call me maybe” mashup works surprisingly well also.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfihF5BD1Rs

  • [Kevin Pierce]

    This and 19 other awesome mashups are available on the Best of Bootie 2012 compilation, which I highly recommend. I hand out CDs of it as New Year’s tchotchkes.

    http://bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2012/

  • [Ladyfingers]

     That’s like mashing up cyanide with arsenic.

• [manybellsdown]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

  That’s right.  I went there.

  • [awjt]

     You’re a gentle soul.

• [karl schmieder]

  I expected more. Pretty disappointing.

  • [Gilbert Wham]

     That’s NIN for ya.

• [spejic]

  I can’t wait to hear this on Glee. It’s going to be awesome.

• [Gerald Mander]

  For beauty-and-the-beast mashups, it still doesn’t hold a candle to the Prodigy vs. Enya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLScpNjQbak

  • [millie fink]

    Hoo, that’s well done.

• [Ari B.]

  I shouldn’t like this. I *really* shouldn’t like this. Yet I do…

• [Ladyfingers]

  I remember my first reaction to NIN was that it was singalong pop music with distortion in some places. Which is fine, but it just makes this less surprising to me.

  I dare someone to find a way to mash up early Swans with… anything. I can’t see how it could be done.

• [Ratdog]

  What is this I don’t even

• [HappyGobo]

  needs more cowbell, hurr hurrr

• [Wesley Ellis]

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BO-prn8n3fI