YouTube presents a look back at 2012 with "Rewind YouTube Style," a quintessential mashup parody of "Gangnam Style" and "Call Me Maybe" starring the who's who of this year's viral video fame, including PSY, Walk off the Earth, MysteryGuitarMan, Jenna Marbles and more!
The saxophone solo at the end of M83's Midnight City might sound like a retro throwback, almost like the sonic version of Instagram, but it's easy to forget that the saxophone was once a synonym for cool in popular music. To jog your memory, here's Midnight City's chorus mashed up with a video from a time when even the president played saxophone.
Right now you're thinking "Gee, this is a great way to show off my love of '80s science fiction AND my preference for '60s pop music. If only I could emblazon this on my chest!" Stop right there. We have a solution.
YouTube performer Chad Neidt revisits the concept for his one-minute Blink-182 mashup by doing the same thing with a different '90s pop-punk band: Green Day.
Someone was bound to do it eventually, but luckily the person who did it could do it well. Scenes from Woody Allen's latest movie, Midnight in Paris (nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming Academy Awards), are spliced with Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Ni**as in Paris." Note the neat dialogue switch at 2:30 if nothing else.
Mash-up maker Norwegian Recycling made this tribute to Whitney Houston. It samples six (6!) songs:
