Continuing Weezer’s collaboration with YouTube stars to promote their new single Pork and Beans, Tay Zonday sings his own version of the media independence anthem.

A friend of mine is taking heat from a local media mafia for displaying independent thought in a recent article. I dedicate this song to her. :)

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Tay Zonday Sings Weezer’s Pork and Beans

\\r\\n\\r\\nCan you believe it\\\’s been a year since Tay Zonday\\\’s Chocolate Rain hit YouTube? Thanks to its Creative Commons licensing, the thing\\\’s picked up a truckload of remixes since. Twenty million views and an ad tie-up later, Tay\\\’s now selling some of those remixes in the album Chocolate Rain: Benefit Power.\\r\\n\\r\\nHalf the money in the first thirty days goes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which spends a lot of time defending online video publishers against legal harassment from offline media. The album is distributed by Amie Street, which recently hit it big with the girl in the Spitzer sex scandal.\\r\\n\\r\\nToo bad my personal favorite, the Chocobeatz Remix, didn\\\’t make the cut. It\\\’s exactly that abundance of fan remixes, enabled by Tay himself, which keeps us listening to this quirky song one year later. Had Tay been a copyright troll like Prince, Chocolate Rain would probably have dried up by now.

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Chocolate Rain Anniversary Album

April 1, 2008 is not the best day to hit the YouTube Featured Videos list. You may be familiar with Rickrolling, the practice of posting a deceptive link that leads to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. This April Fools’ Day, YouTube Rickrolls everyone as Featured Videos links all lead to Rick’s immortal hit.

Congratulations to YouTube on demonstrating a deep understanding of Internet culture. May I respond with Tay Zonday’s version of Never Gonna Give You Up.

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YouTube Rickrolls Everyone!