With numerous covers of Carly Rae Jepsen's inescapable hit 'Call Me Maybe' already on the internet, sometimes viral hits like the Harvard baseball team cover video give the unlikeliest of people the courage to make one of their own. In this case, the staff at the famous Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Jorge Narvaez and his daughter Alexa's cover of the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros song ‘Home' has over 20 million views on YouTube.
However, impressing the internet and winning over the notoriously critical Howard Stern are completely different things. But that's what the father and daughter duo were tasked with when they took the stage on 'American Got Talent' during Stern's debut as a judge.
Usually, singer/songwriter Noah Guthrie covers tunes by the likes of musicians Bob Dylan, John Legend and John Mayer. But this time, he performs an awesomely soulful rendition of 'Sexy and I Know It' by goofball electropop duo LMFAO. And, man, he sure does it justice.
Road trips can often get boring. So what do you do when you run out of options to keep you occupied? If you are the boys from Harvard's baseball team, you put on a Carly Rae Jepsen's pop hit 'Call Me Maybe' and lip-synch to it while the camera's rolling.
Spoofs of Gotye's monster hit 'Somebody That I Used to Know' are starting to stack up. The ode to heartbreak was memorably parodied in a 'Saturday Night Live' digital short and even an a cappella group performed a rendition. And now, two six-year-old kids lip sync along to the song in this awesome music video.
It's 'Star Wars Day' and chances are you've heard the iconic John Williams' 'Star Wars' theme today at least 7,183 times. Here's number 7,184, but this one is worth sitting through all the way to the end.
In the spirit of nostalgic lounge acts, there is a group of hipster virtuosos staking viral claim in the worldwide Web's musical revolution. The group goes by the name CDZA, and their latest creative musical montage is entitled 'Opus No. 2. – The History of Whistling.'
While driving on their way to school, a father and his three kids break into a killer rendition of the Queen classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' Anybody else reminded of a similar scene from 'Wayne's World'?
We love kids. And they love school. Well, not all of them, but for many school can provide some of the best experiences growing up. We all have our special memories, but school kids these days are lucky enough to grow up in the YouTube-era.
Here are two videos featuring international students participating in choreographed performances at their school.
The first Radiohead song most people heard was 'Creep,' from the band's 1993 album 'Pablo Honey.' It's a unique and amazing tune about desperation and longing which signaled from the beginning that Radiohead was a different type of band.
During a recent show at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, singer and Broadway actor Carrie Manolakos did a cover of the song you have to hear to believe. (NSFW for a few beautifully sung f-bombs.)