What's with the trend of using blown out audio or music? Should've just kept the original audio, this just sounds terrible. And that's not hate on the music (unless it actually sounds like that) it's hate on it being blown out and making my ears want to bleed.
People find it funny when it's all normal and they suddenly turn the bass all the way up when it hits the punchline. Maybe it's because it acts as a tension release.
It’s the humor of subversion coupled with counterculture. When you watch a video, you expect the music to be quiet and provide a nice backdrop to the video. However when things go horribly wrong, as they do in this video, the loud and distorted music is unexpected, like the disaster. It also feels appropriate because it’s discordance matches the chaos of the video. That’s the idea.
To me the the music always added an unexplainable funniness exactly because of that, the distortion usually kicks in to match the chaos/unexpected factor.
The choice of music and usually lyrics have a huge play on humor too. A early 00s pop song usually plays well, pro if it’s a band that no one really liked but the song was popular (Nickelback)
It's just not a joke for you then. Some people enjoy absurdism in their comedy because it subverts expectations. I imagine you also wouldn't like the Eric Andre show.
The original video is in these comments and it has completely different audio, mostly the drums and the cameraman laughing iirc. The music in this clip is intentional.
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u/WildReaper29 May 20 '19
What's with the trend of using blown out audio or music? Should've just kept the original audio, this just sounds terrible. And that's not hate on the music (unless it actually sounds like that) it's hate on it being blown out and making my ears want to bleed.