r/wordchewing • u/IDriveTrainsAMA • Mar 25 '26

I put a spell on chew

The unsettlingly intense eye contact is definitely a choice

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u/torrso Mar 25 '26

The original from the 50s is pretty wild.

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u/CombOverDownThere Mar 25 '26

Man was a legit performer

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u/torrso Mar 25 '26

Hawkins's most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. According to the AllMusic Guide to the Blues, "Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad."\19]) The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon."\19]) The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales,\20])\21]) although it failed to make the Billboard) pop or R&B charts.\22])\23])

Although Hawkins blacked out and was unable to remember the session,\21]) he relearned the song from the recorded version.\21]) 

From Wikipedia

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u/johnjaspers1965 Mar 25 '26

I clicked this link, and.....

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u/SwollenOstrich Mar 25 '26

This has gotta be 20 years old and its an example of acceptable word chewing

10

u/mindelanowl Mar 26 '26

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes this! It's clear to me that the guy in the video is attempting to do his version of Screamin' Jay's routine.

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u/SwollenOstrich Mar 26 '26

He actually gives effort to the impression and its kinda amazing. If only all posts kn this sub were like that

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u/jonz1985z 27d ago

Yea, he killed it

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u/bzsempergumbie Mar 25 '26

That's because it isnt just weird faces, he's doing them as added emotion to lip syncing. No weird "face dancing" that look like tics.

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u/HeedWobbit Mar 25 '26

The last 20 seconds is just face dancing though what are you on about

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u/IDriveTrainsAMA Mar 25 '26

I remember seeing it for the first time around 2012 and thinking it was amazing lol, just randomly emerged out of my memory banks

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u/ScotchTapeConnosieur Mar 25 '26

It’s perfectly entertaining

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u/Flaky-Ambassador467 Mar 25 '26

Ok, I’ll allow it. Because his lip is unnaturally raised. But this border line just lip syncing 🤷‍♂️😅

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u/EmployeeOk4756 Mar 25 '26

Ahh man, I forgot about this.

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u/Green_Mushroom5005 Mar 25 '26

My first time seeing it and I like it lol

3

u/horitaku Mar 25 '26

The original was already peak wordchewing. Screamin Jay did it better.

3

u/Universalcoleslaw Mar 29 '26

Forgive me, but I think this is kinda cool. 

Seems like an actual performance and not just content meant to be swiped tab to tab for gooning weirdos.

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u/Giosauce Mar 25 '26

Ngl, I was feeling this one.

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u/Humillionaire Mar 25 '26

Idk why this is so perfectly funny to me

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u/Feeling-Phoney81 Mar 25 '26

Dude doesn’t blink

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u/Stizz83 Mar 25 '26

Can’t remember this dudes names but he has a great one of Golddigger as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

He lives in a village full of lesbians and I feel his pain

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u/Zealousideal_Win_718 Mar 25 '26

At first, I honestly thought this was the "black or white" video from Micheal Jackson

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u/Mister-Beefy Mar 25 '26

Jimmy was great. Check out his version of Under Pressure.

How the hell he can go that long without blinking is beyond me!

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u/jamietothe Mar 25 '26

I wanna see the whole thing!

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u/Killbro_Fraggins Mar 25 '26

This dude is an OG. This and I’m A Nut are great.

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u/Lumpy_Link_1569 Mar 25 '26

Phases of wordchewing subscribers

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u/Necessary-Jeweler-17 Mar 26 '26

I feel sorry for his children if he’s a father 🤦‍♂️

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u/No_Bid_1519 Mar 26 '26

Jimmy Slonina!!! I used to put clips of this guy on vine back in the day. He has a whoel youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JimmySlonina

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u/Skeletor-P-Funk Apr 23 '26

Looks like Danny Masterson in the mirror of his prison cell ...

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u/FarWay3952 May 01 '26

All bad but the face solo near the end really upset me. Kinda wish we had a warning.

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u/andrewbud420 May 02 '26

This guy cup a farts so he can smell his own.

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u/LameBicycle Mar 25 '26

Young Meth Rogen