![]() On the creation of the song, Gordon told Vox via a representative that he’d been doing the DJ Crazy Times character since college with his a capella group, and that he always loved Eurodance because “it always stood out as being so fun and strange against a lot of American rock and pop that took itself so seriously.” The costumes, too, are pitch-perfect: Trullinger’s bottle-blonde hair is crimped into beach waves and her bronzer remains aggressively unblended, while Gordon plays the token ultra-masc hypeman in a burgundy wig, baggy cargo pants, and sunglasses that look like a child’s swim goggles. The video was shot at the Oculus, a creepily all-white mall in Manhattan’s Financial District that also sort of looks like a spaceship and therefore makes for a pretty good dupe of the techy, sleek set of every music video from the era. It’s “ DJ Crazy Times,” a European DJ from the turn of the millennium who is the creative impetus behind “Planet of the Bass,” a delightfully nonsensical parody of ’90s Eurodance songs in which a beautiful woman sings about love and unity while a deep-voiced rapper hypes up the crowd in bungled English. Gordon first went viral on TikTok in 2020 with his character impressions of “the kid who’s no fun,” white hip-hop critics, and foreign depictions of Americans. As of press time, the video had 5 million views on TikTok and nearly 90 million views on Twitter, striking a chord with millennials with a fondness for a highly specific period in pop culture. ![]() This is what happened when, on July 28, comedian Kyle Gordon and singer-influencer Audrey Trullinger released a video clip called “ Every European Dance Song in the 1990s.” It’s gone so viral on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram that the original Spotify release date for the full song, dubbed “Planet of the Bass,” was moved up a week from August 22 to August 15, and had a live premiere last night at a club in Brooklyn. It’s no longer rare for artists who get big on TikTok to channel that virality into the mainstream music industry - Flyana Boss’s infectious “You Wish” is a contender for song of the summer after the duo’s mesmerizing running videos, and it was all the way back in the spring of 2019 when Lil Nas X shook the country scene with “Old Town Road.” What’s still rare, though, are non-artists who make parodies of a niche genre of music that then, against all odds, become surprise hits before they’re even released.
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