Category Archives: music video

Corporate Advertising Wants Your Soul

By jonathan | Published: February 28, 2012

In this remix, reminiscent of some older EBN videos, MrMondialisation borrows fragments from hundreds of corporate TV commercials to illustrate the song “We want your soul” by English DJ Adam Freeland. It’s noteworthy that MrMondialisation also manages to avoid the “blame the people” trope (which some political mashup artists fall into) by having the perspective of the remix be that of a manipulative corporate propaganda machine repeating the montra [...]

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Remixing Muammar Gaddafi

By jonathan | Published: March 18, 2011

As the Libyan people rise up against their dictator, all over the world artists and video makers are showing support for the rebel’s cause by creating internet memes to relentlessly make fun of the tyrant. Below are a few of the best remix videos so far. First up Johan Söderberg brings back his famous “Read [...]

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There’s Nothing the Chinese Red Army Can’t Sing

By jonathan | Published: August 16, 2010

UPDATE: Looks like Tudou.com has followed the US entertainment industry lead and instituted its own geoblocking system. For all the Red Army Sings remixes we now get a message saying “对不起，你所在的地区不能观看这个视频” (Sorry, this video is not available for viewing in your country). We are looking for a way around this issues. Check back from more [...]

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Grover Sings Lollywood

By jonathan | Published: June 23, 2010

We at PRV like to think of “political remix” in the widest possible terms to encompass social, economic and cultural issues along side more traditional big “P” political issues like government and war. So what could be more culturally subversive in our current American socio-political climate than a beloved Muppet singing and dancing to a [...]

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Born Free

By jonathan | Published: March 18, 2009

Dictators and authoritarian leaders including Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet and Jean-Marie Le Pen lip sync to the 1966 hit song Born Free sung by Matt Monro. Remixed by Swedish filmmaker and musician Johan Söderberg as part of the Read My Lips video series created for ATMO Films between 2001 and 2004.

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Revolution ’08

By jonathan | Published: October 31, 2008

Remixer TV Sheriff has teamed up with drum and bass duo ColdCut to create a new multi-layered mash-up video just in time for the US election. In this blog I have tried to include election remix videos that are critical of the election process or the presidency in general rather than showcasing all the numerous [...]

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300: This is Revisionism

By jonathan | Published: July 17, 2008

A political remix video critique of themes in Zack Snyder’s blockbuster 300 using the gratuitous footage from the movie, short clips from other older Hollywood and government films, text title cards and comic book speech bubbles all set to the song “Killing in the Name Of” from the popular political band Rage Against the Machine. [...]

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Club Iraq

By jonathan | Published: June 17, 2008

A very disturbing remix from the video artist trio Wreck and Salvage. While not all of the collective’s work is political, this one definitely is. Titled “Club Iraq” because it combines rapper 50 Cent’s famous song “In Da Club” with audio of Bush’s invasion speech coupled with home videos taken by US soldiers in Iraq [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Flips Out: The Dance Mix

By jonathan | Published: June 12, 2008

The recent outtake footage posted on YouTube called Bill O’Reilly Flips Out has spawned a torrent of remixes including this one by Torrey Meeks using music by RevoLucian. The remix takes the disturbing raw footage of O’Reilly’s angry rant on Inside Edition and re-cuts it to creates a dance mix. Interestingly the remixes have become [...]

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Read My Lips (1992)

By jonathan | Published: March 26, 2008

A remix from 1992 called Read My Lips attacking George H. W. Bush on a range of issues. It was shown on MTV during the American presidential election campaign of that year. Following the video is a discussion about the mash-up on the Bill Moyers PBS program also in 1992.  ####

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