Music Videos

"*I find music videos to be an often overlooked form of art.*"
―Erik
Music Videos is the 72nd lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on July 19, 2017.

## Summary

Erik watches the music video for Fell in a Well and is upset by how few views it has. However, he's so happy with the comment section that he gives it a Commentiqueward for Perfect Comment Section. Then he finds a mean comment so he rips up the award.

Erik finds some more successful music videos to see what they're doing right. First he looks at the video for "Rolex" and finds a comment etiquette recurring joke in the comments. Erik's take away is that young people will watch anything created by their own age group. Next, Erik watches "Believer" and uses the fair use button to play it. He finds another recurring joke and decides they're probably children, so he tells them a story about adulthood. Then Erik wants to find a more independent music video, so he watches a "Baker Street" parody called "ZodiaCruz Street."

Erik wants to see how an older band can remain relevant, so he watches a video for Weezer's "Thank God For Girls." He tries to use the fair use button, but it just kills a hostage in Rainbow Six Siege, causing his entire team to lose. Then he watches Disturbed's cover of "The Sound Of Silence" and he's surprised that there's no screaming in it. Erik realizes that cover songs are the answer and calls Hot Dad over hologram. Fell in a Well is Hot Dad's favorite song, so he makes a cover version of it in just a few seconds. Erik even performed in it without realizing when he did. They put VEVO in the cover's title just to be sure and then Erik uses the fair use button on Hot Dad.

Erik notices Long Hair Erik watching him and asks him if he wants to add anything. Long Hair Erik vanishes.

## Comments

*all i ever wanted was a rolly rolly*
- Erik

*This song makes 9/11 want to investigate the real story behind me while Ted Cruz sucks my mouth with his balls. Hey did you guys hear that America's taking away all its immigrants' jobs? I'd go protest but then a gun might shoot me with its cop. Peace out I make so much money that I donate charities to the bank.*
- Erik

*When I was a young boy, dreaming in the backseat of my parents' car, I used to fantasize about what it would mean to grow older -- to become my parents' age even with all oftheir knowledge about the world and the way things work. In my fantasies I imagined that perhaps we became telekinetic, could suddenly fly, or any myriad of superhuman abilities and grownups just couldn't tell us yet because we wouldn't understand. I dreamt that one day when I turned the right age, the grownups would sit me down with a "Hey there, here's the truth about it all." As I aged, this fantasy joined the rest of my juvenile mind in being stored away for memory's sake. As I grow older still, now near my parents' age when I was but a child dreaming in the backseat of their car, I realize the only thing the grownups hid from us is that no matter how many times you thumbs down an Imagine Dragons song, Spotify will continue putting it in your "discover weekly" playlist.*
- Erik

*@tedcruz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF9n-PrnEMI*
- @commentiquette

*These are the best looking grandpas I've ever seen holy shit, please tell me your secret so I can sell it to the shadow masters who have me in the hole for a lot of money because I made a bet with them that Weezer wasn't still making music as I figured the retirement home they all live in doesn't have a recording studio but hey shoulda known these scene point fucks were spirit cooking themselves into eternal youth. Keep it 100 Weezer, as in i hope you're still making music when you turn 100 next year.*
- Erik

*POOP POOP POOP DONT TRUST CHINA AND COPY PASTE PENIS (\_)\_):::::::::::::::D~~~~FART*
- Erik

*Dear Songwriter X and the Skeleton Band,
Big Fan Salvia here, I have scoured the depths of youtube to see how you fine boney boys can best optimize your music channel. My findings are as follows:**Put VEVO in your name, sing about materialistic needs, try to get a running joke going in the comments, act super mysterious in a cute way so that vice writes an article about you, do the festival circuit because it's the only way musicians make money, smoke weed on camera, stay away from politics, start a blog, get a SoundCloud before they go bankrupt, do a reddit AMA, apologize to your youtube fans for avoiding politics, make a song about gender fluidity, start drama with another skeleton based band, but most importantly put VEVO in your name. Anyway I can't wait to become a skeleton so I can play the bongos with you!*
- Erik

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