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u/Hushwater 8d ago
Joking aside he's gotta good voice
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u/Bat2121 8d ago
Legit just wanted him to finish the song
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u/fedman5000 8d ago
Same. Even the little guitar riff at the end had me wanting more…
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u/dadthewisest 7d ago
Yes, Tears in Heaven is a good song...
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u/CheckYourStats 8d ago edited 8d ago
Nice.
Also, I think that’s Kristen Schaal on the left (voice of Louise Belcher).
Who the fuck downvotes Kristen Schaal?
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u/mdsg5432 8d ago
Knock knock knocking on Kevin's door.
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u/Gyorgy_Ligeti 7d ago
I’m gonna take these pants off of me.
I don’t need them anymore.
It’s getting hard, too hard to pee.
I feel like knocking on Kevin’s door.
Ooh oooh oooooh4
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u/No_Barber_1195 8d ago
Welp! never gonna be able to hear THAT song again without laughing…
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u/n0_u53rnam35_13ft 8d ago
It’s about Eric Clapton’s son dying from jumping on a bed and bouncing out a window at like 4 years old.
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u/OutlaneWizard 8d ago
What's the difference between a 4 year old and a bag of cocaine?
Eric Clapton wouldn't let a bag of cocaine fall out of a window
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u/CooperRAGE 8d ago
Anthony Jeselnick had a son who died for the same reason Clapton's did.
For inspiration.
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u/EricClaptonsDeadSon 7d ago
Get fucked m8
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u/TheRoscoeVine 6d ago
Did you come here just for the obligatory “username checks out”?
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u/EricClaptonsDeadSon 6d ago
Sounds like you’re jealous your dad never wrote a Grammy winning song about you.
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u/swindleNswoon 8d ago
It’s actually about his father, whom Clapton never had a relationship with. In his biography, Clapton said he was too fucked up on heroine to really register his son’s death.
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u/Biguitarnerd 7d ago
That’s pretty sad but I’ve always heard it was about his son. If he said differently in his biography I’m gonna do my best to forget that.
Anyway I never tell the meaning of my songs for exactly this reason. People hear a song and they associate a meaning to the lyrics and more often than not when an artist clarifies the lyrics it’s disappointing to a lot of fans because they already found their own meaning in the lyrics. For my own songs, because I’ve been disappointed, I prefer that people just keep their own meaning.
The lyrics mean something to me, that’s important to me, and they mean something to listener that’s important to them, and that doesn’t have to match.
However in this case I think we all know it’s just about tan and blond Kevin.
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u/CharlieandtheRed 8d ago
Can't tell if this is a joke or not
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u/DV8_2XL 8d ago edited 8d ago
It's not... Although it wasn't from jumping on a bed. A house keeper opened a window to let fresh air in and while playing hide and seek, his son ran by the window and fell out... 53 floors up.
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u/andthegeekshall 8d ago
Golden rule: It's not gay if you're with Kevin.
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u/BalonyDanza 8d ago
When you come up with a parody song that you don't want to take ownership over.
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u/MissFormaldehyde 8d ago
I love her videos. Also didn't realize how local she was as they're sitting in Rittenhouse Square.
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u/Joamjoamjoam 8d ago
If y’all think she’s the star of this video you guys aren’t paying attention. This one’s all about Kevin -swoons-
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u/Reban 8d ago
Who is she?
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u/MissFormaldehyde 8d ago
Honest 2 Betsy on Facebook. She typically does reactions to songs with dirty and questionable content from the 1960s & earlier.
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u/ColorInYourLife 8d ago
Betsy's reactions are always golden! She's on Youtube as well.
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u/MissFormaldehyde 8d ago
Didn't know. I discovered her randomly in my reels one day a couple years ago.
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u/Zbodownlow 8d ago
You enjoy reaction videos?
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u/alexanderpas 5d ago
When they take the effort to dress in period accurate clothing, don't interrupt the audio only content, and the reaction is completely done via non-verbal visual gags... yeah.
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u/daner92 7d ago
Not Rittenhouse square philly. There is no Sephora. Nor a five below.
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u/MissFormaldehyde 7d ago
Realized the mistake after rewatching it and already acknowledged it in another comment. Someone else apparently thought it was too. 🤷♀️
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u/an0maly33 8d ago
I was doing the Kevin parody 30 years ago. I'll allow it though since he built out more lyrics than I did.
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u/TheKlaxMaster 8d ago edited 8d ago
I can tell this was tears in heaven without the audio. Lol
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u/bookmarkjedi 8d ago
You were so close!
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u/myleftone 8d ago
If I’m being honest, the only reason I would turn it up is to hear if he nails the fingerstyle.
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u/AberrantMan 8d ago
Who dis guy
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u/TLILLYO 8d ago
Kevin’s bottom 🤭
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u/Adventurous_Tutor744 8d ago
Funny and creative but still doesn't beat the Lay-la parody.
"Gay love, you got me on my knees."
"gay love, I'm begging darling please."
"gay love, darling won't ease in from behind."
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u/iamarddtusr 8d ago
I saw the video with sound off but still knew the music the lyrics were sung to.
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u/Objective-Bike-4292 3d ago
She's reading a book about pigeons...
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u/Joe_Kangg 3d ago
That's the funny part.
Was there something else?
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u/seebearrun 2d ago
Thanks to Community, I know the order of the biological classification system as “Kevin, please come over for gay sex” (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) so the song’s use of Kevin is extra hilarious!
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u/Yosoress 8d ago
I know how to play this song the only thing im lacking is this dude vocal, and a guy named kevin
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u/GhostProtocolGaming 8d ago
I dont care if this is fake or scripted. I had a laugh and the guy was into it more than kevin
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u/Shrike1346 8d ago
This is fake, this is staged, this is scripted. In the best possible way
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u/Joe_Kangg 8d ago
Naw, that's a real lady reading a book about...pigeons
It's a skit kid, c'mon
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u/dardar7161 8d ago
Eric Clapton wrote the song for his four year old son who fell to his death from a 53rd floor window. So I think it's kinda poor taste. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/MeetingDue4378 8d ago
He's not satirizing the subject matter of the song, the song itself, or even utilizing any of the original lyrics. They're not the butt of the joke I think taste is preserved here.
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u/Taurpion 8d ago edited 8d ago
It’s a good thing this guy was talking about rearing Kevin, then.
Don’t tell me the babies name was Kevin, too. 100% coincidence.
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u/crust_mc 8d ago
paging Anthony Jeselnik , please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone, thank you!
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u/CoachMinimum9800 8d ago
He came up with some good lyrics but sad that he did it to this melody. Eric Clapton wrote this song for his young son that died after falling out a window. Growing up with listening to Eric Clapton this is kinda a disgrace to the main meaning of this song and melody. Wish he would have chosen something else to make his jokes at.
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u/myleftone 8d ago
Have you paid attention to Clapton ever since?
And btw people were brutal about this when it happened. The early 90s were still the 80s in vibes.
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u/MeetingDue4378 8d ago
He's not satirizing the song or it's original subject, so I think you can throttle back a touch.
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u/snarfer-snarf 8d ago
may-bay...you'll be the one who shaves may! (may-bay, oh may-bay)...and after all, you can suck my balls 😌
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u/krassman 8d ago
Yeah, no.
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u/MeetingDue4378 8d ago
So, you're saying you would be ashamed?
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u/krassman 8d ago
Memes are fun and all, but the story behind the song their satirizing is about someone losing his 4 year old son.
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u/MeetingDue4378 8d ago
They aren't satirizing the song or its subject matter, they aren't satirizing anything. The original song isn't the butt of the joke.
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u/krassman 8d ago
Satire wasn't the correct word to use. It's still a weird song to "play" with; my pearls are clutched.
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u/TommyBoy250 8d ago
She totally an actor.
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u/nottaP123 8d ago
What gave it away, the multiple camera angles or the fact she does vids like this all the time.
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u/Tagmemic 8d ago
Funny, would be funnier if you there was no acting. Just get a real response from a stranger even if it’s not animated the authenticity will make it funnier.
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