Back in the day Radio One played Joe le Taxi, claiming that it was actually in English with a bad accent, reading out what they thought she was actually singing.

And 20 years on, I've taken it to the next level by reinterpreting the lyrics of this chinese pop song in English and making a basic animated video for it. 900 views in 24 hours on youtube, with comments such as:

"omg....that is the funniest thing ever"
"Yeah! This is hilarious"
"I think it's great!!! XDD Very funny"
"dude.. this is like the funniest thing i've ever seen"
"this stinks"
"retard"
"omg I want to punch you in the face"



(I removed the last two comments.) Some obsessive fans of the singer have been going through all my videos rating them as 1/5 as they hate what I've done, so I'd be gratefull for a few 5/5s

Your reward will be in heaven (oh, ok, and a bit in the bank!)

I gave it 5.

What's up with these people? It's hilarious!

Stretch

It`s fantastic Nath.
Somebody out there give this man a lot of money for his work NOW!!
Failing that, I will translate it all into a very obscure language and give the proceeds to the Save the Walrus fund, or in this case the Chinny Hill Benevlolent society for Misheard Violent Footballers, who say sorry later.
Very, very good use of Flash and wit in the video.
Just watch the hit counter wiz round on this one mate.

Flash looked too complicated to learn last time I dabbled with it.

Nothing but MS Paint and Photoshop '02 used here, young man.

Thanks for the positive feedback people, my day has been very pleasant because of it.

Quality, your lyrics make more sense than a lot of the tracks in the charts!!!

Do a Wombles one! You know you want to translate it into French really!

Very good Nath, watched 3 or 4 times now, Emailing the link to some friends too

Also quite good:

Kev: yep, I've seen that. It acted as a catalist for my ideas. The author (Kewen) & I have done some mutual back slapping since.

Martin: Wombles smell.

Ditto the other comments. I've linked to it from the site below.

I don't find the Wishmaster one nearly as funny as it's just a case of misheard lyrics which is somehow far less funny than the Chinese interpretation.

I don't find the Wishmaster one nearly as funny as it's just a case of misheard lyrics which is somehow far less funny than the Chinese interpretation. Agreed, but Nathan's one was a little too quick (not that it's your fault Nathan, although a slower song/less lyrics may have been better?), my wife gave up trying to watch it. I probably had more patience since I knew who had done it.

Thats very true Kev, I've since realised that the lyrics should appear slightly befor the action, it needs at least a couple of views to notice everything.

Nathan, all the people in our office are singing that tune - using the words you supplied ! (La Shoe ...) Brilliant!

Stretch

cracking job Nathan and well done. Really funny and imaginative. Would love you to do some work (yes paid) towards the end of this year on a forthcoming single. Up for it?

My creative juices should be replenished by then.

Meet me on the corner of myspace and let me know

Cheers

Nathan

nice one mate...speak soon.