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There's a silly joke in newsrooms about how to decide when a story's worth covering. If something happens once, it's an aberration. Twice, a coincidence. Three times? THE NEWEST HOT TREND. This accounts for 90 percent of what is covered in the New York Times' Styles section.
The guideline for scientifically determining what you all will be interested in reading is pretty simple. If eight people email me the same link in 12 hours, I'm gonna pass it along! Power to the popnographers!
So:
Go watch the Alanis Morrissette cover of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps."
The CliffsNotes of commentary:
Pitchfork: "Morissette can barely keep a straight face in this quick, one-off video, so we're happy to see that she's in on the joke from the beginning."
Amy @ PopGurls: "Her voice has this way of illustrating the inanity of each lyric, her video mocks the ridiculousness of each bend-over, booty shake."
Idolator: Download the mp3, and "just think of the looks that will come over your friends' faces when they slowly realize just what song they're hearing."
What do you think?
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