OK! Internets, are you ready to take this viral?
What’s “this,” you ask? Well, of course, it’s video of National Public Radio employees dancing, vamping, singing, and reading along to Lady Gaga.
Best parts are definitely Nina Totenberg and Robert Siegel doing readings from “Telephone.” (Totenberg adapts her reading-in-voice-of-a-Supreme-Court-justice style for the occasion.)
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I so totally heart Nina Totenberg.
#1 Posted by murph, CJR on Thu 6 May 2010 at 03:43 PM
no, best part was pretty Ari Shapiro in the hallway -- tied wtih rooftop dancers. the lamest was the 2 directors. ... viral, we'll try. it's just that NPR is a lil nerdy to go viral. but if they keep up such schtick, they may have a shot!
#2 Posted by malik, CJR on Thu 6 May 2010 at 06:07 PM
Dear NPR employees, that's not a parody. That is a bunch of people covering a Lady Gaga song in what should have stayed in a karaoke bar.
This is a parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvOucvTpKrE
And this is may not be parody, but it's pretty awesome all the same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr8KiihK3ks
Want a video to go viral? Make it slightly interesting.
#3 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Fri 7 May 2010 at 10:54 AM
Not that there's anythign wrong with a good cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vEStDd6HVY
#4 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Fri 7 May 2010 at 11:15 AM
I am hoping and praying for a CJR does Gaga video. Get on it!
#5 Posted by Katia, CJR on Fri 7 May 2010 at 01:39 PM