{"id":3142,"date":"2010-03-31T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:29:19","slug":"ben-folds-imitates-his-imitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/ben-folds-imitates-his-imitator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Folds Imitates His Imitator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatroulette.com\/\">Chatroulette<\/a>, the internet&#8217;s favourite new way of showing your genitalia to strangers. Well, it&#8217;s not all anonynmous wang; this increasingly famous chap called Merton has been entertaining his video partners with improvised songs about them as they appear on their webcams:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JTwJetox_tU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JTwJetox_tU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>His musical stylings were widely compared to a certain Mr. Benjamin Folds, who obviously got to hear about it, because Hypebot picked up the elaborate high-five he pulled by opening up Chatroulette during a live concert he was performing and copying Merton&#8217;s antics, making up the same sort of jolly little song.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LfamTmY5REw&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LfamTmY5REw&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now, what I really want to see is a fully improvised version of Trapped In The Closet in this style, or possibly U2 doing the same thing at their next massive arena gig. 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