Another request to find a lost MeFi post

July 30, 2009 2:44 PM

I am trying to find the MeFi post to a YouTube video that features a little girl singing. The video was processed by the video poster by taking several snippets of a little girl talking, squealing, screeching and clapping a pair of flip-flops together. The result was an absolutely endearing "song", with a little synthesizer thrown in.

The post was probably made around a year ago. The little kid is probably 3 or 4 and has long dark curly hair. It's difficult to search for it because a lot of the comments were people imitating the song:

aaah aaah OOOOH ah ah, ah ahhh ah oooo OOO!

etc.

I thought I had bookmarked it, but apparently I did not. I'd be grateful if anyone has the link, or has any idea what I'm talking about.

(I was humming it today for some reason, so now I need to find it)

Full Disclosure: I suck at MetaFilter. That's why I don't post much. I think this is where one posts these requests. I'll take my deletion with a smile if I'm wrong or if I'm displaying bad form. I hope I've given enough information.

posted by sidereal to MetaFilter-related at 2:44 PM (20 comments total)

Here!
posted by shakespeherian at 2:58 PM on July 30

(Full disclosure: I found it again because 1) I remembered it was double-posted and 2) I remembered that the double said something about Aphex Twin's daughter and 3) I did a Google search on the Deleted Thread blog)
posted by shakespeherian at 2:59 PM on July 30 [2 favorites]

I love that video. Crazy Song.

I didn't see it on MeFi, though. Got it from the everlasting blort.
posted by carsonb at 3:01 PM on July 30

Go' bless ye, guv. That's the one.

Where's the "Mark as best answer" thingy?

See? SEE? I just READ MetaFilter and try not to TOUCH it. Because I'm retired.
posted by sidereal at 3:04 PM on July 30

Bless ye both.
posted by sidereal at 3:05 PM on July 30

That's great -- Imogen Heap as a Young Girl!
posted by FelliniBlank at 3:08 PM on July 30

LiveLeak needs to work on their "Related Videos" algorithm. :(
posted by sidereal at 3:33 PM on July 30

eh, you can accomplish anything with autotune these days.
posted by shmegegge at 3:38 PM on July 30

Now I want to hear that little girl do Cornershop's "The Roll Off Characteristics of History in the Making."
posted by FelliniBlank at 3:46 PM on July 30

You were humming that today huh?
posted by netbros at 4:04 PM on July 30

Sure, it's pretty catchy.
posted by FelliniBlank at 4:10 PM on July 30

Having answered the question, I will now flame out.



fuckers
posted by shakespeherian at 4:19 PM on July 30 [2 favorites]

That's adorable. In an ear-splitting way.
posted by Phire at 5:28 PM on July 30

Love it.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 5:35 PM on July 30

netbros - yes, I was, and I don't know why. It was a happy sort of humming. It took me a minute to figure out what I was humming. Then I remembered. I don't know why these things happen, any more than I know why I occasionally think of Karl Malden or pepperoni pizza. These things are birthed fully formed from my forehead, unbidden.

shakespeherian - You are my hero. Flame out if you like, but it's customary to flame out with an unsettling off-topic derail.
posted by sidereal at 5:36 PM on July 30

I would (probably will) definitely hum this. But I like how it presents you first with the spectre of atonal child weirdness set to audio effects. A test, it is.

It's not until you see the flip flops for the first time that you have any inkling you're in for solid gold.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 5:50 PM on July 30

I'm really disappointed in that thread. Surely we could have used that video as all the evidence we needed to critique a complete stranger's clearly shoddy parenting ability.
posted by Ian A.T. at 9:51 PM on July 30

sidereal: shakespeherian - You are my hero. Flame out if you like, but it's customary to flame out with an unsettling off-topic derail.

NO U
posted by shakespeherian at 6:25 AM on July 31

I still love the little battle roar she ends it with.
posted by quin at 8:09 AM on July 31

I'm really disappointed in that thread. Surely we could have used that video as all the evidence we needed to critique a complete stranger's clearly shoddy parenting ability.

I think we need Louis C.K.'s comments on this video.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 2:21 PM on July 31