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VIDEO FRIDAY

Turks Love Obama, Dancing, 3D Text

Here is something fun to lighten the mood on the day before the weekend! How to explain this one … It’s sort of like if the Scissor Sisters met Omar Sharif and directed an intergalactic cruise together, with a backup singer wearing cave-lady rags. Cocaine would almost certainly be involved. This might be talking it up a little too much. [YouTube]


10:30 AM on Fri April 17 2009
By Sara K. Smith
1792 Views

  1. hobospacejunkie says at 10:34 am, April 17th, 2009

    Do they realize a guy who wandered in from the neighborhood middle eastern cafe highjacked their video and started singing out of tune? That guy kind of ruined the video for me.

  2. CrunchyKnee says at 10:34 am, April 17th, 2009

    THEM PEEPLE AINT EVEN AMERICANS!

  3. Never again will I question the value of the contributions made to world music by Turkey.

  4. Larry Fine says at 10:38 am, April 17th, 2009

    Hopefully the Taliban will spread its moral law upon Turkey, and these dancers will get punishment.

  5. Dada lives!

  6. picyou: And Dinga Dinga Dee!

  7. FaunceyGardner says at 10:42 am, April 17th, 2009

    sweet, in a one-world kinda way. “Hello…”

  8. Doglessliberal says at 10:43 am, April 17th, 2009

    Thank you. Just thank you.

  9. donner_froh says at 10:46 am, April 17th, 2009

    Love the Frank Nitti meets Barry Gibb outfit on the guy.

  10. SmutBoffin says at 10:48 am, April 17th, 2009

    Why is the guy who starts dropping his lyrical bombs at the end all blacked out? Is he really an embarrassed Nelly or something?

  11. In the long list of those who perpetrate Crimes Against Humanity, the inventors of Youtube will not be overlooked.

  12. hockeymom says at 10:50 am, April 17th, 2009

    This felt Macarana meets Barbarella.

  13. hobospacejunkie says at 10:50 am, April 17th, 2009

    This is way too ghertto for me. Does Turkey offer music that is less obviously from suburban urban hip hop settings?

  14. PeteJayhawk v2.0 says at 10:51 am, April 17th, 2009

    I can’t stop giggling.

  15. AngryBlakGuy says at 10:52 am, April 17th, 2009

    …why?!

  16. SmutBoffin says at 10:54 am, April 17th, 2009

    TGY: Nor the commenters.

  17. CaliforniaMike says at 10:55 am, April 17th, 2009

    If Snowbilly were prez’nit, stuff like this would have been prevented.

  18. Guppy06 says at 10:56 am, April 17th, 2009

    FaunceyGardner: Welcome to presidency!

  19. SayItWithWookies says at 10:59 am, April 17th, 2009

    The life of a failed Turkish game show host is empty and bleak…

  20. CrunchyKnee says at 11:01 am, April 17th, 2009

    dang tiggers.

  21. Lascauxcaveman says at 11:06 am, April 17th, 2009

    Soooo … the disco kings of Turkey are middle-aged mobsters? American hegemony really has gone too far.

  22. SnarkNotFark says at 11:09 am, April 17th, 2009

    What was with the tacked on hiphop breakdown at the end? That was ghertto pandering at its worst.

  23. Lascauxcaveman says at 11:11 am, April 17th, 2009

    FaunceyGardner: “You had me at ‘Hello’.”

  24. BillyClubb says at 11:13 am, April 17th, 2009

    Bring back hopes

    I agree, and if it helps to have a giant, free floating trumpet in the background, let’s do it.

  25. “Do you expect me to talk?”
    “No, Mr. Obama. I expect you to dance.”

  26. V572625694 says at 11:50 am, April 17th, 2009

    TGY: Rat’s, that’s my line!

  27. A Better American Than YOU says at 11:56 am, April 17th, 2009

    Contrary to popular myth, L-tryptophan in Turkey does not make you sleepy. It’s teh popular music that does it.

  28. Custerwolf says at 12:04 pm, April 17th, 2009

    Is Dick Clark dead yet, or is there a way we can bring these guys overseas for an American Bandstand revival? Be sure to bring plenty of mescaline.

  29. MedianHater says at 12:06 pm, April 17th, 2009

    That lil blue-eyed baby needs botox.

  30. daisy chain says at 12:08 pm, April 17th, 2009

    At least he’s not in blackface. Cok guzel.

  31. proudgrampa says at 12:10 pm, April 17th, 2009

    Turkey has talent!

    “It has a beat, and you can dance to it.”

  32. A Better American Than YOU says at 12:14 pm, April 17th, 2009

    proudgrampa: I’d give it an 86.

  33. pondscum says at 12:14 pm, April 17th, 2009

    Min: win

  34. engulfedinflames says at 12:17 pm, April 17th, 2009

    where’d they find those hot triplets?also was that a rusty trombone?also

  35. slappypaddy says at 12:18 pm, April 17th, 2009

    Hello right back atchya, big fellow. You know, don’t you, that this video will be used by wingnuts to prove to themselves that our Prez is a secret muslin terriss, whose secret muslin code name is Obama Sin-Laden and who is receiving secret coded messages for our annihilation in this very video, which they don’t need to prove because they have faith in its so-ness, and faith is all you need to laugh in the face of reality, unless you’re playing hide-and-go-seek on the freeway or sumpin’.

  36. Is Mahir of “I Kiss You!!!” fame behind this? Because he should be.

  37. Nigel: Also, in Turkey the sun rises in the West and sets in the East (see spinning globe at 1:47). Is Obama messing with the time-space continuum? Someone should probably investigate.

  38. gurukalehuru says at 12:35 pm, April 17th, 2009

    Eat your heart out, Susan Boyle.

  39. american mutt says at 1:12 pm, April 17th, 2009

    The subtitles for that “rapper” at the end was weird. Was he really rapping, “We love you Obama”?

  40. american mutt says at 1:15 pm, April 17th, 2009

    In the future, I’ll be showing my children a scrapbook of terrible, terrible music videos inspired by the most wonderful man in history.

  41. assistant/atlas says at 1:42 pm, April 17th, 2009

    This is why MTV needs to start playing music videos again.

  42. Origami says at 2:19 pm, April 17th, 2009

    I like that funky sound!

  43. responsible commenter says at 3:22 pm, April 17th, 2009

    We coulda cleaned up in the campaign if we’d had this video a year ago.

  44. Guppy06 says at 3:48 pm, April 17th, 2009
  45. himalayancorpseeater says at 3:57 pm, April 17th, 2009

    what an adorable foreigner

  46. laziestgal says at 7:20 am, April 20th, 2009

    my turkish friend explained to me that the singer Mustafa Topaloglu thinks he’s an alien. he’s mentioned here, in a review of what sounds like an awesomely awesome movie:

    http://www.livefrommars.co.uk/Film_features.htm#gora

  47. Noyura says at 6:14 am, April 21st, 2009

    Im surprised no one recognized him; he produced the big hit
    from Return of the Jedi
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0LD-QAzg0&feature=related
    and made a cameo when Lucas remade it
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQzJlL1wqs&NR=1

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