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Miscellaneous Amusing Items I’ve Come Across #28
Okay, I got this from Mark Little’s Twitter feed. It came to his attention via multiple sources…
February 22nd, 2010.
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:14 pm
that’s a whole bucket of yikes right there. is it just me, or is there a low-grade hum of ‘dark family secrets’ coming off this lot?
February 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Well Derek and Dearbhla are definitely fucking. I’ll tell you right off the bat. My favourite bit is 3:30-40 when Mary clearly hasn’t a clue what the words are…
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
oh dear
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:50 am
Well you’d have Derek to contend with for starters…
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:18 am
She can talk dirty in Spanish any time she wants…
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 am
The mother looks drunk.
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 am
I think the mother looks quite like the actress Christine Baranski.
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Disturbingly inappropriate song alright… but it’s those eyes, Derek’s eyes. He has killed, and he’ll kill again!
Dearbhla will end up like her mother.
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
@ Colin – re: “Dearbhla will end up like her mother”
I could live with that!
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
I dunno, Mary’s complacency can’t be overlooked. Her choice of songs seem to spell out the dark family secret:
“Mary Anne Regrets”
“If we only had old Ireland over here”
“Courtin Time In Tennessee”
“Everybody is somebody’s baby (and there’s no exception to the rule)”
…. the list goes on.
Anyway, look forward to their appearance at Oxegen this year alongside Jedward. And their inevitable interview for Saturday’s edition of the Irish Times.
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Not bringing up any redneck stereotipes (spel? but did she just tell her bro yyer so naughty likc my body??”
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 pm
@han shan: The sister to brother line is “You’re so naughty, kiss my body and just call me pretty…”
Harmless they say, if so, why do I feel sick?
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:14 pm
This song came to my attention yesterday as I was doing singles reviews for Ticket so I reviewed it for the crack. Said its a little bit country, a little bit rock and a little bit disturbing. Or words to that effect.
Re: Han Shan. I suspect he’s stoned off his block. (Apologies Han Shan if I’m wrong!)
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Jesus. Your man is well creepy, the crazy eyes on him. The website is brilliant too. The bit I love most is on the ‘About Crystal Swing’ page, where you have the option of listening to each member’s ‘special talent’. Instead of something along the lines of ‘volume up/volume down’, they have ‘Can’t hear it?/Too Loud?’ for their presumably elderly fanbase. They might as well have put ‘turndatuptherenowwudya’ and ‘ahwudyaturnthatjaysusracketdownnow’.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:10 am
@ Lauren – Homeschooled. He has to have been. Any schoolyard bully worth their salt would have beaten that chirpyness out of him by the second week of junior infants!
February 25th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Heh. I’d say the oul’ ones absolutely love him, and he loves that the oul’ ones love him.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Yeah, but why the hell should any normal young man, independently wealthy to the extent that he can buy his own share of sweets and chocolates, really give a shit what auld ones think about him??
It’s the Daniel O’Donnell conundrum all over again.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Don’t all gang up on me here but Crystal Swing are actually not that bad at all. They can both sing. They’re both good looking. Mum a bit bonkers but looks great for her age.
If they could just rein in Mr Crazy Eyes they’d do really well on something like AllIreland Talent Show (ducks runs for ccover!)
February 25th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
@Fiona: Yeah, they can sing and would do well on something like All Ireland Talent Show.
It’s just classic cheese with a fantastically inappropriate song. Least it got them some national notice, and shame.
Oh and Derek and Fiona sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…..
February 26th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Pretty funny drag parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHrxROTYQs
February 28th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
[…] me if this is weird or not… A week on, Crystal Swing’s raunchy He Drinks Tequila is still playing on a constant rotation in my head. Stranger still, when I hum the song to myself, […]