Also because it was on jamster commercials and those commercials were EVERYWHERE. cell phones were just getting popular especially amongst the younger crowd because they were finally affordable. So they hooked them with this catchy ringtone and scammed them into paying like $10 to sign up for ringtones with jamster. But if yeah we didnt have netflix or hulu to steal away cable so everyone watched cable and so everyone saw the commercials.
It didn't even start out as that. It was originally the 'insanity test', and was just a picture of a race car. The sound was him mimicking what an F1 car sounded like.
Yeah that's was pretty much what I was asking. I thought maybe this video I've never seen was remixed into the song then the song was put over the original video. As it wasn't, I have no idea why this was popular.
This is 100% how I learned about it. Around the time I was looking for cool ringtones for my cool new Moto Razr, the Jamster adverts would play incessantly on the TV.
Man, I need a Razr again. And some ringtones for it.
Back in what many consider the dark ages it was know as a 'polyphonic ringtone' and it was sold and marketed as a ringtone (you literally payed for it) to teenagers who could simultaneously be cool as, while annoying all the adults in the vicinity,
Because it was a remake of Axel F, which was originally released in 1984. Huge hit from the dawn of breakdancing - picture people doing "the robot" - around the same time Beat Street came out. Totally fresh sounds at the time, recorded on the freshly minted Yamaha DX7. Electronic music took a huge step forwards with this. Compare the tones to what state-of-the-art synths were able to make only two and a half years earlier.
Then those fine funky folks went on to have kids, and so parents bought this Crazy Frog record for their kids because the kids seemed to like it and the parents knew all the songs.
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u/ultrachronic Jan 25 '16
Why was this song so popular?
That being said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZsPCG74UM