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This is cute.
Portland actor Isaac Lamb proposed to his girlfriend Amy Frankel using their friends and family lipsyncing to Bruno Mars' "Marry You."
Isaac got his brother to put Amy in the open back of a Honda CRV, according to Oregon Live (which mentions the car make as though it is an important part of the story. As I don't drive or know what a CRV is, I don't know why it matters but....maybe it does) and put on headphones.
Then this happened.
Ryan Seacrest just celebrated getting over 100 million views on his YouTube channel. That's a lot if you're a normal person, and it's certainly more than you or I have -- well, I don't have a YouTube channel, but if I did, it wouldn't have 100 million views (also, unless you're a really famous person who just happens to be reading this and your channel does have 100 million views, in which case - Hi! Wanna read my screenplay?) -- but compared to, oh, say, Justin Bieber? It's chopped liver. Kid's stuff.
The Bieb's "Boyfriend" clip pretty much broke the internet after it was uploaded this week. At least, it broke Vevo's 24-hour watch record, according to a tweet from Vevo: “Final count coming in a couple of days, but it’ll well over 5 Million. #BoyfriendBrokeTheRecord. Already. @JustinBieber swag.” (via Idolator)
So, Seacrest enlisted The Bieb's help in pushing him past the 100 million mark. What did the Biebster suggest? Puppies, babies, a cover song and dance moves - all the things required to make a video a big hit. Watch below.
 Rebecca Black's infamous "Friday" looks to have slipped in the unofficial Hot 100 charts for "Worst Song Ever."
The early candidate for Worst Song of the Year, the amazingly titled and wretchedly off-key "Hot Problems" by Double Take, took a turn for the viral over the weekend as it seems people with Internet connections can't get enough of young American women singing horrible lyrics in an awful pitch.
YouTube views for the high school duo's sensation have surpassed 4 million since last check, and probably are over 6 million by the time you read this.
The duo was a bit coy about their project when interviewed by MTV.
"We're working with a production company, but it's more of a behind-the-scenes thing," Lauren, one of the young ladies saddled with the problem of being hot, explained. "We don't like to talk about it that much."
According to MTV, the girls wouldn't give their last names, and explained the popularity of "Hot Problems" with this:
"We are getting some help, but in the end we have friends helping us out, a bunch of different people. We don't want to drag them into this," Lauren said, not confirming what the role of Old Bailey Productions has. "It's been crazy for us too to get so much attention and we don't want this to affect their lives too much."
"It was all just for fun and to just have something we could share with our friends," Drew, the other girl with a "mo' hot, mo' problems" dilemma told MTV. "We enjoy writing funny lyrics and songs and we decided that we really liked this one. So we decided to make it into a song and video, eventually. We really had no intentions when we put this up to begin with, so seeing it take so rapidly, we haven't really had a chance to decide what we want to do. I think that hopefully there could be a future with it."
So maybe this is the beginning of a promising new career?
"I don't think we're going to be the next Adele, but we do really like writing songs and coming up with lyrics," Lauren told MTV. "Who knows? Maybe we'll get into that."
Watch the clip after the jump, and let us know how it compares to "Friday."
 Another spring, another round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, another musical parody that mixes a big pop tune with the Vancouver Canucks with humour, with aspirations for viral results.
Last year, "Canucks Rule" a music video spoof of Cee Lo Green's "Forget You" that contained way more hockey references, racked up more than half a million YouTube plays. And although the 2012 Canucks are in danger of being swiftly swept out of the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings, that hasn't prevented the team's fan base from getting creative.
Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), which the two performed on Saturday Night Live on the weekend, gets the parody treatment here by some sad yet hopeful 'Nucks supporters. Take a look.
 Bad karaoke is generally hilarious is small doses. It's also hilarious, apparently, in tall doses.
Watch as the Minnesota Timberwolves players, for reasons unclear, attempt to sing Britney Spears' teen classic "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time."
We're guessing this off-key montage is designed to encourage NBA fans to attend more Wolves games? Or more Spears concerts? Or invest in earplugs?
 Instead of downplaying his potentially street-cred-damaging past as wheelchair-bound Jimmy, a TV character he played on Canada's Degrassi: the Next Generation prior to his massive rap breakthrough, Drake has incorporated a little Jimmy into his performance.
Footage from a recent live show in California shows the Toronto MC debuting "The Wheelchair Jimmy" dance onstage to the sounds of his hit "The Motto." The original, fictional "Jimmy" was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by another student.
It'll be interesting to see if Drizzy's new dance catches on?
Ignore the distorted audio and watch footage of the dance after the jump.
 Borat's version of Kazakhstan's national anthem differs greatly from the real deal.
So when the person in charge of downloading the national anthems to play for the gold medallists at the 10th Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait accidentally played the offensive spoof, poor winner Maria Dmitrienko had to stand proudly on the top podium level and be "honoured" by such lyrics as this:
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world,
All other countries are run by little girls,
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium,
Other countries have inferior potassium
According to the BBC, the Kazakh team quickly demanded an apology from the contest's organizers. In a drastically less hilarious/offensive do-over, the medal presentation was held again, minus the Sacha Baron Cohen tune. But not before the original goof-up was recorded and uploaded to YouTube.
Cohen's 2006 film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, was a massive cult and box-office hit in North America but was banned in both Kazakhstan and Kuwait.
 While this video was officially released at the end of February, it is definitely worth a look for its inventive blend of animation and live action.
The clip is in support of the one-off three-way collaboration "DoYaThing" by Gorillaz, Outkast's Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy was released as part of Converse's "3 Artists. 1 Song" campaign.
But in the detailed video for the song, the oddball animation—handled by the Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett—upstages the hyper-kinetic track.
Watch the video, which plays like a curious five-minute mini movie, after the jump.
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