iPhone: The Musical

David. Pogue. Is. Awesome.

Aside from the obvious reasons -- creator of the "Missing Manual" book series, New York Times Circuits columnist, all-around-great guy -- he does one thing no other tech pundit can pull off: he parodies well-known songs and turns them into tech classics. He usually debuts a new one every year at Macworld, and each year they get better and better.

And Pogue's done it again, this time creating an original music video called "iPhone: The Musical" about the drudgery of owning a Phone of Yesteryear, longing for an iPhone, and finally making the glorious purchase. Both the song and video -- some of it recorded with guest singers at the Apple Store Fifth Avenue iPhone launch -- are incredibly clever and humorous, and definitely worth a watch.

You can also check out some of Pogue's older song parodies at his website.

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pdiddy

Very awesome! Loved the creativity and brining in others from the iPhone line to sing as well. The AT&T part had me rolling.

July 06 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

Man, I can _never_ get sarcasm to come through in a comment...

Cheers,
FL

July 06 2007 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phillip Platz

I told David about how the AT&T part made me laugh uncontrollably...

He said the NYT video people held it back for couple hours because they thought there were audio problems. Haha!

July 06 2007 at 1:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shawn King

LOL Yes, I was. And so was my wife. :)

You can see a bit of Pogue "practicing" the "Musical" on this video:
http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/?q=node/976

There's a YouTube version and a high rez version at the above link and, for those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone, I even managed to embed (my first!) video for the iPhone (link will *only* work from the iPhone):
http://www.ymlmedia.com/iPhoneLine.html

July 06 2007 at 12:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

hey, Shawn King was in there!

July 06 2007 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

Wow is that cool! Pogue's Posdcasts are awesome, THE highlight of the week, but this is even cooler! I'm sure he gets an Oscar for it! LOL

July 06 2007 at 3:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

basscadet

LOL! AT&T part was ace!

youtube link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE

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Jacques Lema

That was totally awesome! Made my day.

July 06 2007 at 2:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Catt

I was just about to shuttle off to sleep when i saw this what a stitch...

July 05 2007 at 10:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

david Pogue

Man, all day long I deal with hate mail, nasty blogs, and unpleasantness--this blog post SO made my day!

(P.S... I didn't throw a real phone into the water! If you look closely, there was a camera cut right there. What REALLY fell into the water was a rock!)

--David Pogue

July 05 2007 at 9:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply