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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
waka47 said 6:00PM on 7-05-2007
what's funny is you can't watch this on the iPhone. Only in Flash for now...
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Dave said 7:06PM on 7-05-2007
I've got that rss feed in itunes so I did watch it on my iphone in h.264
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IanN said 4:15AM on 7-06-2007
Cheesy, cringe worthy and god damn awful. That video was pretty bad. It's just a phone, i'd quite like one but then i'd miss the built in flash from my k800.
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Fritz Laurel said 8:11PM on 7-05-2007
I sure hope he took out the lead and mercury before he chucked his old phone in the water.....
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me said 8:28PM on 7-05-2007
of course he is awesome!
oh and he through a rock in the water not his phone
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punkassjim said 9:06PM on 7-05-2007
Wow. Just....wow.
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david Pogue said 10:41PM on 7-05-2007
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
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Catt said 10:27PM on 7-05-2007
I was just about to shuttle off to sleep when i saw this what a stitch...
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Jacques Lema said 2:23AM on 7-06-2007
That was totally awesome! Made my day.
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basscadet said 3:02AM on 7-06-2007
LOL! AT&T part was ace!
youtube link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniMR6Ez9cE
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Chris said 3:37AM on 7-06-2007
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
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Victor Agreda Jr said 9:17AM on 7-06-2007
hey, Shawn King was in there!
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Shawn King said 12:38PM on 7-06-2007
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
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Phillip Platz said 1:21PM on 7-06-2007
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!
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Fritz Laurel said 3:04PM on 7-06-2007
Man, I can _never_ get sarcasm to come through in a comment...
Cheers,
FL
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Peyton said 3:15PM on 7-06-2007
Very awesome! Loved the creativity and brining in others from the iPhone line to sing as well. The AT&T part had me rolling.
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