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

David Pescovitz at 10:28 am Tue, Mar 5, 2013

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

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  • http://www.xradiograph.com/ 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.

    • http://rsmithing.com/ 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

    • http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael

      eh. kick drum’s not aggressive enough.

      • http://www.xradiograph.com/ 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

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2C6ZLMTICDOZHQGW66SUEDARLQ 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

    • http://twitter.com/kpkpkp 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/

    • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

       That’s like mashing up cyanide with arsenic.

  • http://abrightcontainer.tumblr.com/ manybellsdown

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

    That’s right.  I went there.

    • awjt

       You’re a gentle soul.

  • http://twitter.com/karlschmieder 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.

  • http://arib.livejournal.com Ari B.

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

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ 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

  • http://twitter.com/HappyGobo HappyGobo

    needs more cowbell, hurr hurrr

  • http://www.facebook.com/secretevilplans Wesley Ellis

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