5 Music Videos That Justify the Existence of the Internet

Jason Yang is better with a violin than you are with your own genitals, and has already made more people happy than you ever will. Roger Lima of White Noise Lab is proof that one-man bands don't have to suck, if that one man has the intelligence to stay at home and use a mixing desk instead of bugging people. Director Paolo Dy cunningly crafted their work together. And these people have never met. The Internet isn't just causing collaborations between people who would otherwise never have got together, it's creating collaborations between people who still haven't got together. There's just so much creativity being uploaded that we've reached collaboration critical-mass, where mixes can be generated across the world with nothing but HTTP.

The result is a "super-feit" -- a copy superior to the original. The official Game of Thrones theme sounds as if an orchestra clocked in at the Epic Theme Factory and dutifully completed its shift. The fan-made version sounds as if people really wanted to grab their swords and epically murder each other's families. But, you know, heroically.

I'd point out how this is better than the original "Baby" if that weren't true of everything up to and including screwdrivers through the eye. It's also a music video with a twist: What seems like a simple mockery of a Zerg Baneling Bust rush (an intricate strategic plan made entirely of alien suicide bombers), morphs into scenes from: a Terran counter-strategy that involves flying bases, a hidden island fortress, a Lamborghini and a swarm of female backup dancers. Clearly, this game is more complicated than we thought.

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This is not the normal environment of people complaining about OP (OverPowered)

For most of the song people are thinking, "It's just a couple of gamers with better than normal cameras"; then you find out that they did have access to all the usual cars and women -- they just knew it was more important to talk about the game first. Nerd Alert also made an original romantic ballad portraying a pair of interstellar military T-280 space construction vehicles as hunky gay lovers. It's still better than most pop songs, and uses probably the only analogy which hadn't already been used for a love song.

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Not what first comes to mind when thinking of StarCraft players.

Who is Nerd Alert? StarCraft expert Husky lives a gamer's dream, commentating on StarCraft games so hard he ended making a living from it, teaming up with music producer Kurt Hugo Schneider to appear in pop songs that have ended up for sale on iTunes and are listened to by millions of people. That is the exact opposite of what StarCraft mastery normally gets you.

Gentlemanly rap has already reached the level of spontaneous battle. (Although in rap that only requires two people.) The genius responsible is Professor Elemental, who decided that lyrics are a lot more fun when you can use words like "impertinent." He also has songs about tea, Frankensteinian animal experimentation, and others that generally prove that the most ridiculous idea can be awesome if you love it and work hard. Instead of sitting around strumming half-assed covers of other people's material. In case you're wondering, his target for this song was Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer. To show there were no hard feelings, Mr. B gave Professor Elemental a cameo in his latest video.

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As you can see, they're now best of friends

If you even tried to explain these songs to a record company you'd be escorted out of the building, and the security guard who failed to prevent you from getting in would be fired.

It's great, and like everything else great, up to and including sex, the Internet has done its level best to destroy it. You'd have to live on International Space Station during a power-cut to avoid it, and then drop the entire station on Shergar's grave to reach the level of dead-horse-beating the Internet managed in a week. There is not a single series, instrument, video game or body part that has not been Gangnam-styled. And one band still managed to come out and make it all worthwhile.

UC Berkeley-based rock band Ra-On did things most of the other covers didn't: thought, and knew about music. It has the same effect that I described with German madman Peter Fox: Disconnect the language center and the voice becomes another instrument. With him, German became a combine harvester eating itself while singing about how much it needs oil. In Ra-On's lounge style, the Korean pours out like warm honeyed butter -- butter which is at that moment lubricating slow fireside audiosex. Tongues can't normally make you feel that way through your ears without licking them. Those voices come together better than most people's entire bodies do, even when those bodies also have a cameraman and people with instruments to help them.

Also, attention every asshole with a guitar at a party in my first year at college: THAT is what guitars are for. That guitar player is essential, far better than you, and he still knows his role is to make the music possible instead of trying to be the center of attention.

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At no point will this man destroy all conversation to make people listen to "Wonderwall."

And this was only made possible by the Internet's saturation coverage, which let Ra-On know about the song and motivated them to care enough to make their own version. Thus making the whole horrid meme-overdose worthwhile. Because that's the point of the Internet: Most people might be crap, but now and then we all get to see the few that aren't.

Luke looks at The 4 Craziest Things People Do With Sex Dolls and the new Halo series. Luke also has a website, tumbles, and responds to every single tweet.

For more musical opinions, read 5 Cover Songs That Stole the Show From the Originals and 5 Rock Radio Classics That Actually Suck.