Zonday Uploaded a Cover of Carly Rae Jepsens Number One Single Call Me Maybe
Spider web Yet Crazy For Call Me Perhaps Miracle
What practise Randi Zuckerberg, President Barack Obama, Tay Zonday, Justin Bieber, Star Wars, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ben Howard and Sesame Street have in common?
The answer … they all are hooked to the highly infectious melody and 2012 summertime hit "Call Me Maybe" by Canadian vocalist-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, currently ranked number ane on the Billboard Hot 100.
Information technology's the perfect popular song that won't die, not on the radio, Tv or internet. As many times as people think the craze is over, it just pops up again. In the four short months after being published in early March on VEVO, 'Call Me Maybe' has collected over 410 million (true reach) views and 800,000 comments from over 120 videos, including copies, spoofs, and mashups co-ordinate to Visible Measures on its blog June 25th. The original video has racked upwardly over 175 million views to engagement.
Social video views "Call Me Possibly" vs "Babe" 4 months after release
"Call Me Possibly" from Carly Rae'south kickoff EP album Curiositywas released in Canada in September concluding year. On December 30th (2011), the song gained international exposure after being tweeted by boyfriend Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, and retweeted over 15,000 times. The Twitter endorsement came later on Justin Bieber was in his native Stratford, Ontario for the holidays and one vocal in particular on the radio that night caught his ear: Carly Rae Jepsen'due south dance-popular tune most hoping for a call dorsum from a trounce.
From that moment onwards the endorsement helped Carly Rae Jepsen to gain worldwide stardom and spread the song around the world. Since its release, "Call Me Perchance" has attained commercial success worldwide (selling iii.two million singles), reaching number one in the music and digital charts in over 20 countries including Australia, the Usa, Republic of finland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, while peaking inside the top 3 in Austria, Belgium, Deutschland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Lip dubs, tv shows, mashups, covers and parodies
Two months after the Twitter endorsement it was again youth idol Justin Bieber who promoted the vocal, this time via a lib dub video on YouTube uploaded on February 18th 2012, together with fellow celebrities Selena Gomez and Ashley Tisdale, that became the format for many other lip dub versions of "Call Me Maybe". Justin'due south lip dub video of the catchy tune currently has an impressive 46.five meg views.
The official music video (written and directed past Ben Knechtel) for the song was uploaded to the singer's YouTube VEVOchannel on March 1st, 2012 and features the brunette vying for the attention of a cute neighbour busy with a sexy car wash, only to observe something totally shocking in the end.
The release of the video managed to go some news coverage in March by entertainment blogs like Gawker, AOL, Vulture and traditional news media similar The New York Times whom focused purely on Justin Bieber'due south involvement in "Call Me Maybe's" success.
Carly Rae'south appearance in The Ellen DeGeneres Show and covers by Megan Nicole (with 1 one thousand thousand YouTube subscribers) on March 23rd and Cimorelli (sim-or-ELL-ee), a singing group popularized on YouTube (with over 800,000 subscriptions), on March 24th was the offset of a chain reaction of various "Call Me Possibly" versions that fuelled many other popular viral formats (lip dubs, mashups, covers and parodies) .
In Apr 2012 Katy Perry uploaded a lip-sync video featuring several of her friends to YouTube, followed by James Franco on Who Say a day later. Other notable videos and parodies: Aussie's blokes version, Manly? Maybe, Hunger Games and Wassabi.
In May 2012 Ben Howard performed the song live at BBC Radio ane and furthermore covers, lip dubs by E!'s Fashion Constabulary, Call Me Maybe VEVO fan version, Barely Political, Filipino A-List, MattyBRaps & Cimorelli, Fun covers Call Me Perhaps, Romney vs Barack in The This night Testify, Harvard Baseball Squad and many other universities sports teams.
Ben Howard performing Call Me Possibly on BBC 1
In June 2012: Barack Obama, Tay Zonday, Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, Jimmy Falon, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pet Parody, Miss USA Contestants & Donald Trump, U.S. Marines, Call Me Maybe Disco version, Call Me Possibly Dirty version, Overly Attached Girlfriend version.
The Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders' version became a smash hit with x million views
In July 2012: "Share it maybe" past Sesame Street, "Fund me maybe" by Randi Zuckerberg, Star Wars mashup, 2012 USA Olympic Swimming Team, Gotye vs Carly Rae Jespen, Crystal Palace, Hollywood Heights, Phelps Lochte Music Parody, Xavier'south Chris Mack And Family, Call Me Maybe Spoofed by U.S. Marine'due south, Farm it Maybe, Call Me Batman, Call Me Perhaps/Payphone mashup
Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte's rivalry parodied in "Call Me Perchance" spoof
In August 2012: Call Me Maybe Chatroulette version, Telephone call Me Peradventure Hebrew Parody, Elmo, Grover & Greg James sing Telephone call Me Maybe, Miss Globe Group Phone call Me Possibly
Call Me Maybe Chatroulette version
More "Call Me Maybe" versions can be found in the following playlist.
Meme with snowclone captions
The chorus of the song too spawned a number of epitome macros featuring altered captions of the lyrics.
Business organization cards & testing pick up line
In addition to the image macros, the chorus lyrics besides establish its way into greeting messages on business cards. The very first sighting of a "Call Me Maybe"-themed business card was submitted by Gawker reader Sarah and published on May 21st, which got further virally spread via Twitter and Pinterest.
The "Call Me Maybe" business card story was later syndicated through its affiliate women's interest weblog Jezebel, cartoon further contributions from readers.
And yes, even web shows trying the lyrics out in real life with quite some success.
And yous know what the funny thing is, Carly Rae Jepsen would never give a guy her number …
Source: Rolling Stone, Know your meme
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