38: Hooked on a Feeling - David Hasselhoff

Neli: (Transcript is AI generated expect mistakes.) Hello and welcome to We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far, a podcast where we discuss…

Neli: Um, David, do you know the sexiest song in existence?

Neli: It's Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack.

Neli: Anyway, today we're discussing David Hasselhoff's rendition of hooked on a feeling

David: It's just the bass.

Neli: Also I was drunk when I wrote this.

Neli: It is, yeah, it really is.

Neli: Like especially when you're listening to headphones, it's like, oof, that… they

Neli: knew what they were doing with that song.

David: It was Angel I used to use as a subwoofer test.

Neli: Angel is another one.

Neli: It is worth saying to our lovely listeners that because the incredible amount of very,

Neli: very, very intimate talking we need to do today, which is required from us by this video,

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: we decided we'll do something else.

Neli: We'll do After Hours, you know, a couple of pints, just like, you know, talking about

Neli: the song which has changed our lives and perspective on men specifically.

Neli: Oh!

Neli: Indeed, and also it's lunchtime on a Saturday.

Neli: Not in here, here it's mild springy.

Neli: It's about low 20s.

Neli: Basically summer in Scotland.

Neli: Yeah, well, this is when you get fires is what happens.

Neli: So what beer are you having today, David?

Neli: Oof, nice, that's actually nice.

Neli: That is a great choice.

Neli: Completely accidentally, we went for the same color scheme.

Neli: I am having a Williams Brothers Caesar Augustus.

Neli: Is this kind of very similar?

Neli: Oh yeah, it's Williams.

Neli: Do they have bad beers?

Neli: Okay, cool, let's go.

Neli: The beginning?

Neli: Yeah.

Neli: Yes, decisions were made and we have to stand by our decisions from nearly six years ago

Neli: now.

Neli: So usually in this section we'll give you history and information about the music video

Neli: director, personnel, what's happening in the video.

Neli: In this case, we can't really do any of that.

Neli: The one thing I'd want to point out is video does have an IMDb page.

Neli: Actually, yeah, it does.

Neli: And when you open it, there's only one person mentioned in this.

Neli: Obviously our absolutely beloved American music hero, David Hasselhoff, also hero of

Neli: the small screen in Red Shorts, I think.

David: Yes.

Neli: He was in Baywatch, wasn't he?

Neli: Yeah, he was.

David: My God, I'd actually totally forgotten he was in Baywatch.

Neli: I mean, to be honest, he was as good as a musician as he was an actor, or is an actor,

David: I'd completely accepted him as a musician.

Neli: I guess.

Neli: It's very much worth going on that IMDb page because if you didn't know that a video has

Neli: 7.7 out of 10 on IMDb.

David: What?

Neli: This is not a joke.

David: Seriously?

Neli: Absolutely.

David: Okay, I'm looking at the bad music video fans have already got to this.

Neli: I thought...

Neli: Obviously.

Neli: The video is a vibe as opposed to story.

Neli: If you want to imagine Michael Bolton's video that we discussed here, which song I can't

Neli: remember right now the name of, but imagine that, but at home.

Neli: This is Michael Bolton at home.

David: Yes.

Neli: I forget.

David: Okay.

Neli: Also, the animation is amazing, obviously.

David: Very professionally done.

Neli: I genuinely thought the video was from '92.

Neli: Turns out it was '97, for four years past Toy Story.

Neli: Take this as you wish.

David: Yeah, it's a master class in green screen

David: because the entire video is just David Hasselhoff in front of a green screen

David: with various shit happening behind him.

David: It reminds me of those like, have you seen like,

Neli: Yep.

David: Joe when they record karaoke sessions

David: and they just have random like stock footage in the background.

Neli: Yep.

David: That's exactly what it looks like.

Neli: It's kind of as if he was mo-capped into random screens, but really badly.

David: Except David Hasselhoff has given it his all.

Neli: Actually, do you want to talk about the history of the song itself?

David: I think most people know this from the Blue Suede version.

David: Or is that Blue Swede? Am I saying that right?

David: Blue Suede or Suede, whatever.

David: Which was the one that's on the Gardens of the Galaxy soundtrack.

Neli: Palette cleanser.

David: I'll play that now.

David: There you go.

David: Most people probably know that one.

David: But I didn't realise that was a cover of a BG Thomas song.

David: Or possibly a Johnston King song.

David: There's four versions we've found of this song.

David: But the original was by a guy called BG Thomas.

David: And that's also really good.

David: The Blue Suede one's really good.

David: I've not heard the Johnston King one.

David: This is David from the future doing the edit.

David: And it's a correction for all these covers.

David: First one was BG Thomas.

David: Then it was Johnston King.

David: Then it was Blue Suede.

David: Then it was David Hasselhoff.

David: The Oogachoogas were originally in the Johnston King version.

David: Which Blue Suede then copied.

David: Then David Hasselhoff copied.

David: I'm going to say that Blue Suede started the Oogachoogas in the rest of the episode.

David: But that is not true.

David: So, yeah.

David: Back to the episode.

David: Bye.

Neli: Because my connection to this song, or memory of this song, is Blue Sweet's version, I've

Neli: always found it in Craze a bit cheesy and was not really interested in it, even during

Neli: the Guardians of the Galaxy craze.

Neli: I knew it existed, I just didn't pay much attention to it.

David: Yeah.

Neli: Sorry, I'm just looking at David Hasselhoff flying in the sky and I just can't...

David: Yeah.

David: It's hard to look away from.

David: But I would say this is specifically a cover of the Blue Suede one.

David: Because they were the ones that added the Oogachooga, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that shit.

David: It's like a cover of a cover possibly of a cover.

David: It's possibly proof that every time you remake something, it gets slightly worse.

Neli: I just wonder, what was he thinking?

Neli: There's a lot of what I would assume is them just trying to convey the feeling of David

Neli: Hasselhoff flying in the sky and...

Neli: Sorry, he's eating a raw fish right now.

Neli: And I guess being so in love with the person he's thinking to.

Neli: He flies high with the angels and also...

David: Yeah.

David: There's a lot of flying, a lot of angels appearing.

David: And just David Hasselhoff.

David: Now he's doing a backflip.

David: David Hasselhoff and like a.

Neli: [laughs]

David: No, he's just.

David: Sorry.

David: I usually have these videos playing.

David: But just every time I look at this, I burst out laughing.

David: Because something ridiculous is happening.

David: But yeah.

David: I think it's trying to portray a feeling of ecstasy about whoever it is David Hasselhoff is singing about.

Neli: I mean, I don't know about feeling of ecstasy, but I feel like you need to be on ecstasy

Neli: to understand it.

Neli: Maybe that was his point, because it's kind of like more disco vibe.

David: You could interpret it as like a drug trip actually.

Neli: Yeah, definitely, 100%.

David: It's just him travelling the world.

Neli: Yeah, and also it's a massive ego trip, and that's probably the one thing I want to point

Neli: out, that video.

Neli: The only...

Neli: It genuinely feels like he's singing to himself.

Neli: He can't believe that he's in love with himself.

Neli: At no point do we see the person of his affection.

David: Yeah.

Neli: At no point do we see anything that could resemble the person of his affection, because

Neli: every single person is him.

David: You see like multiple David Hasselhoffs.

David: I think the only other people in the video is two wee girls dressed as angels.

David: I kind of thought maybe that's his kids or something.

David: But I never looked into it because we're professionals in this podcast.

Neli: [laughs]

David: But.

David: And there's a couple of dogs.

Neli: Does he have children?

David: I have no idea.

Neli: Okay.

Neli: To be honest, there is...

Neli: Well, actually, a bunch of people.

Neli: The first thing is... the very, very first thing you see, which is him blue-screened

Neli: against...

Neli: It looks like a corporate party at the background, and everyone doing line dancing.

David: Oh yeah.

David: When I say people, you see the people who aren't like, you know, stock footage.

David: Is what this appears to be.

Neli: Yeah, yeah.

David: But yeah, I suppose you could get the people in the green screen footage though.

David: Maybe that's who he's thinking about.

Neli: Yeah.

Neli: Maybe, maybe.

Neli: That or the...

Neli: I don't want to say what kind of tribe they are.

Neli: They kind of... they are a form of native tribe, probably in Africa.

David: Yeah.

Neli: Could be also anywhere else.

Neli: I have absolutely no idea, because they're just a prop for him.

David: Yeah.

Neli: Yeah.

Neli: And that's, you know...

Neli: We can joke about videos as much as we want to, but holy fucking Christ, this is so offensive.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: You don't see people anywhere else, but...

Neli: As in, defined people you see, like, with faces and features, except for that one shot.

Neli: And what the fuck was he thinking?

David: I don't think much thought went into this.

Neli: [laughter]

Neli: Yeah.

Neli: If you were to cover this masterpiece with a video, whereabouts in the world would you go?

Neli: What would be your preferred background to emulate and show off your enormous '90s hairdo ego?

David: Keep all the dancing stuff exactly the same.

David: The exact same level of enthusiasm.

David: But just have all the horrible shit in the world happening behind me.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: [laughter]

David: That's like a juxtaposition.

David: So me as David Hasselhoff would be completely oblivious to all the horrible shit that's happening behind me.

David: That's probably a bit of a depressing answer, but that's where my brain went.

Neli: So we're basically saying it's not going to be just your face CGI'd on top of his face.

David: [LAUGH]

David: [LAUGH]

David: I presumed I was like doing the performance.

David: I've not got the same moves as David Hasselhoff, but I can certainly try.

Neli: Yeah, I mean, that's what I mean.

Neli: It's much easier to GI yourself as opposed to learn how to fly in the sky without parachutes.

David: I don't know if I could pull off the level of smugness.

Neli: Let's talk about his mugness.

David: Yes.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: Thanks for the segue.

David: You're welcome.

David: I guess the first time we've done one, my God, we're learning.

Neli: [laughter]

Neli: I noted in the beginning where the line where he sings "you're so in love with me",

Neli: I for some reason thought that the song went "I'm so in love with you",

Neli: and I thought, "Wow, he's so egocentric, he flipped the song to make it about himself."

David: Huh?

Neli: It's not true.

Neli: The actual song goes "you're so in love with me", but the way he sings it feels like he flipped it.

David: Huh.

David: It's a bit weird for a love song to be singing about the other person being like you're...

David: [LAUGH]

David: Because I'm that amazing.

Neli: Yeah, obviously, yeah.

David: Obviously you would be David Hasselhoff.

David: I can catch fish.

Neli: He got you with your mouth.

Neli: He's Gollum. Oh my God, he's Gollum.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: Is this the starting point of Gollum? Is this what he's trying to tell us?

Neli: Does he have the One Ring?

David: It would make sense.

Neli: He's just, yeah, that would make so much sense.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: That's him just trying to run away from Sauron.

David: It's interesting though that none of us ever clocked that that lyric is kind of feels like it's the wrong way around,

David: but nobody clocked it until he sang it.

David: I really embraced the smugness.

Neli: Yeah, when you listen to the Blue Sweet Song version, they still have the same line,

Neli: but the way it's sung, I did go back and check, the way it's sung was so normal,

Neli: like as genuine, it sounds much more like he's in awe,

Neli: the point of his affection is that he's in love with him, as opposed to "in love with him!"

David: Yeah.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: The beer might be kicking in.

David: I'm going to get a second beer.

David: Please enjoy this intermission.

Neli: We did it.

David: Dave Dranghang, yay.

Neli: Woo, we are adults, we can do that.

Neli: So Gollum, right, that's a good movie.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: If I may point out, the movie, the Love of the Rings trilogy, as directed by Peter Jackson,

David: Yes, sirs.

Neli: started to being shot around this time, I think '98, thereabouts, so...

David: Wow.

David: You've really got the spectrum of media that year.

Neli: Yeah.

David: It's so bad it's good like gem because it is so bad.

David: Like I can't believe a professional musician is making this video.

David: So it's a fucking hilarious.

David: Maybe he saw the funny side of it.

David: I don't know.

Neli: Possibly, but also, if you saw the funny side of it.

Neli: There is, for the people who are actually not going to spend the 3 and a half minutes to watch this music video,

David: Shame on you.

Neli: which, fair enough, there's a scene where... yes.

David: Shame.

Neli: There's a scene where he's flying in the sky, like actually flying in the sky, CGI'd,

David: So very high.

David: Yeah.

Neli: not CGI, sorry, blue-screened, green-screened, and he's just flapping his hands,

Neli: and there's like eagles and whatever crap flying around him.

Neli: Maybe he was in on the joke, but also...

David: Speaking of being in on the joke, sir, I just saw something that I never noticed before.

David: The very opening with the who got chaga ba ba ba.

David: It actually does have the karaoke like lyric thing with the wee ball bouncing across it.

Neli: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw, yeah.

David: So maybe it was actually deliberate.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: I tried to tell me that he was recording this to be specifically in the background,

Neli: whenever people sing the song with karaoke.

David: I think the joke would have landed about harder if the karaoke carried on through it because I literally only just noticed that.

Neli: It's kind of one of those things where we, like, occasionally criticize this.

Neli: If you're trying to make a joke, but you don't do it correctly or competently,

Neli: or go into the joke deep enough, is the joke worth it?

David: Do I have to give this credit for the fact of this is the most I've laughed at a video.

David: I think so far of all the ones we've done.

David: I think it's just it's just because David Hasselhoff is giving it his all like flying off his motorbike and flying in space and stuff.

Neli: Yeah, fair enough.

Neli: Maybe you're right, maybe he's in on the joke.

Neli: The problem is, nobody else knows what the joke is.

David: [LAUGH]

Neli: I personally will stand behind the opinion that he's Gollum,

Neli: and he's running away from Sauron, and it kind of made sense.

Neli: So first you have the introduction, so you have, like, for the people who are not going to see the video why,

Neli: it's a cube where it just has different scenes on each side, and it rotates,

Neli: and then it zooms into one of the scenes.

Neli: And you have David Castlehoff singing in front of those line-dancing people,

Neli: but then suddenly shoots up in space, as you do.

Neli: And my opinion is that's what's happening here.

Neli: He's at his office party, and then suddenly he realizes that he has the ring,

Neli: and he doesn't want to be at that office party, so he disappears,

Neli: metaphorically, he flows into the sky, and then you see him running around everywhere,

Neli: like, just through different parts of the world, trying to hide away, because he's used the ring.

David: So.

David: So he's on the run.

David: That's why he's like teleporting from place to place.

Neli: He is on the run.

Neli: Yes.

Neli: Indeed.

Neli: And this is why it looks like the way it does, because he's just running away from the Nazgûls,

Neli: and that's, and the eagles you see are actually the Nazgûls running after him.

Neli: Those are not eagles, those are goose, sorry, geese.

David: But he's flying with him.

Neli: But, you know, the Nazgûls, definitely.

David: He's he's he's blending in so well.

David: He's pretending to be a goose goose.

Neli: Goose, geese. Geese, goose.

David: And the angels are still following him.

David: So I don't know if I trust them either.

David: Kiss kiss. And the angels are still following him so I don't know if I trust them either.

Neli: No, no, those are elves.

David: Ah okay.

Neli: He didn't have the right to actually show elves, so he showed Christian angels.

David: Right.

Neli: I can pitch it to Scott. I can pitch it to Scott. Hold on.

David: So

Neli: Scott, come here for a sec.

Neli: It will work out, I'm telling you. It's a masterpiece.

Neli: Of a modernized version of Lord of the Rings.

Neli: Okay.

Neli: Where Gollum is played by David Hasselhoff.

David: I had no part in this pitch so I don't know what I say but yeah. Could you convince your

Neli: Okay. What is the precious ring that David Hasselhoff is trying to keep?

Neli: He might have a Prince Albert, but he's not asking questions.

Neli: He's modernizing this.

Neli: Can he dug too greedily and too deep?

Neli: If you have any questions for him.

Neli: Yes.

Neli: Yeah.

Neli: Could I?

Neli: I mean, they do all kinds of random stuff at school plays.

David: students to to get on board with this plan?

Neli: So doing a Lord of the Rings where everyone's wearing baseball caps and saying, yo,

Neli: it's probably like, it's perfectly normal.

Neli: For David Hasselhoff to be there, that's definitely a safeguarding issue.

Neli: And I would probably think that he's at least banned from most schools by at least 100 meters.

Neli: So they should use it as a safeguard.

Neli: He's at least bad for most schools by at least 100 meters.

Neli: That's all based on vibes.

David: Wow okay we cannot we cannot use that.

Neli: Please don't sue us.

Neli: Allegedly.

David: Allegedly okay that's fine now that's fine now I think that's how it works yeah yeah.

Neli: Allegedly.

Neli: I'm going to pass the microphone back to Danny before I get sued.

David: Right right.

Neli: Oh, yes.

David: Yeah yes yeah.

Neli: The children are in the Nazgul.

Neli: That is absolutely true.

Neli: The flying children in the video.

Neli: 100% on the Nazgul.

Neli: Anyway, take this off me before I get you in legal trouble.

David: Uh yeah I think there's not much not much more to say about this.

Neli: Yeah, it's one of those things that you should watch it, although maybe have a cup of pints before that.

David: Right.

David: Right.

Neli: I'm just going to.

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