Where exactly is the groove? Ah, yes, I see it is in the heart. I never would have been able to understand the true meaning of Deee-Lite’s 1990 dance hit without this chart. But you must be wondering why there is a chart detailing the innerworkings of Deee-Lite’s music.
Livejournalers Boyshapedbox and Pacman Is Loving It have started an enormous online movement to capture the essence of popular music through song chart memes–and they didn’t even mean to!
Last week, this started as a humorous exchange between two peers. However, the audience reading the two blogs quickly took matters into their own hands and came up with well over 100 other song chart memes. They have all been posted together as a collection on Flickr, with their respective Livejournal authors being credited individually for each chart.
The range of songs represented in this hilarious collection is wide enough for me to guarantee that every one of you out there will find at least one chart that will make you laugh (dare I say, LOL?). I recommend creating new charts, especially if you realize an important song is missing from the compilation as a few other participants have done.
One reader immediately set to work to right the wrong of MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” being absent from the song chart memes, and now we can all rest easy knowing Hammer will be represented among other such notable artists as the Pussycat Dolls, the Black-Eyed Peas and Meatloaf. A couple of readers were distressed by the lack of rap and hip hop song chart memes and quickly whipped up a few themselves, including charts for Blackstreet and Dr. Dre.
To see the entire collection of song chart memes, head over to their Flickr group site.
Image: allanallanallan on Flickr
