June 21, 2025 • 20 mins
A Scotsman and a Bulgarian have another cup of wine.
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Hooked on a Feeling - David Hasselhoff Music Video
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Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede
Hooked on a Feeling - BJ Thomas
Hooked on a Feeling - Joanthan King
Hooked on a Feeling - Vonda Shepard
You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive
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Neli (00:00):
(Transcript is AI generated expect mistakes.) Hello and welcome to We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far, a podcast where we discuss…
Um, David, do you know the sexiest song in existence?
(00:21):
It's Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack.
Anyway, today we're discussing David Hasselhoff's rendition of hooked on a feeling
David (00:40):
It's just the bass.
Neli (00:53):
Also I was drunk when I wrote this.
It is, yeah, it really is.
Like especially when you're listening to headphones, it's like, oof, that… they
knew what they were doing with that song.
David (01:01):
It was Angel I used to use as a subwoofer test.
Neli (01:05):
Angel is another one.
It is worth saying to our lovely listeners that because the incredible amount of very,
very, very intimate talking we need to do today, which is required from us by this video,
David (01:14):
[LAUGH]
Neli (01:18):
we decided we'll do something else.
We'll do After Hours, you know, a couple of pints, just like, you know, talking about
the song which has changed our lives and perspective on men specifically.
Oh!
Indeed, and also it's lunchtime on a Saturday.
(01:45):
Not in here, here it's mild springy.
It's about low 20s.
Basically summer in Scotland.
Yeah, well, this is when you get fires is what happens.
So what beer are you having today, David?
Oof, nice, that's actually nice.
(02:11):
That is a great choice.
Completely accidentally, we went for the same color scheme.
I am having a Williams Brothers Caesar Augustus.
Is this kind of very similar?
Oh yeah, it's Williams.
Do they have bad beers?
(02:33):
Okay, cool, let's go.
The beginning?
Yeah.
Yes, decisions were made and we have to stand by our decisions from nearly six years ago
(03:13):
now.
So usually in this section we'll give you history and information about the music video
director, personnel, what's happening in the video.
In this case, we can't really do any of that.
The one thing I'd want to point out is video does have an IMDb page.
Actually, yeah, it does.
(03:35):
And when you open it, there's only one person mentioned in this.
Obviously our absolutely beloved American music hero, David Hasselhoff, also hero of
the small screen in Red Shorts, I think.
David (03:50):
Yes.
Neli (03:52):
He was in Baywatch, wasn't he?
Yeah, he was.
David (03:53):
My God, I'd actually totally forgotten he was in Baywatch.
Neli (03:54):
I mean, to be honest, he was as good as a musician as he was an actor, or is an actor,
David (03:56):
I'd completely accepted him as a musician.
Neli (04:07):
I guess.
It's very much worth going on that IMDb page because if you didn't know that a video has
7.7 out of 10 on IMDb.
David (04:16):
What?
Neli (04:18):
This is not a joke.
David (04:18):
Seriously?
Neli (04:19):
Absolutely.
David (04:19):
Okay, I'm looking at the bad music video fans have already got to this.
Neli (04:20):
I thought...
Obviously.
The video is a vibe as opposed to story.
If you want to imagine Michael Bolton's video that we discussed here, which song I can't
remember right now the name of, but imagine that, but at home.
This is Michael Bolton at home.
David (04:38):
Yes.
Neli (04:39):
I forget.
David (04:39):
Okay.
Neli (04:40):
Also, the animation is amazing, obviously.
David (04:41):
Very professionally done.
Neli (04:43):
I genuinely thought the video was from '92.
Turns out it was '97, for four years past Toy Story.
Take this as you wish.
David (04:51):
Yeah, it's a master class in green screen
because the entire video is just David Hasselhoff in front of a green screen
with various shit happening behind him.
It reminds me of those like, have you seen like,
Neli (05:00):
Yep.
David (05:01):
Joe when they record karaoke sessions
and they just have random like stock footage in the background.
Neli (05:04):
Yep.
David (05:06):
That's exactly what it looks like.
Neli (05:08):
It's kind of as if he was mo-capped into random screens, but really badly.
David (05:08):
Except David Hasselhoff has given it his all.
Neli (05:18):
Actually, do you want to talk about the history of the song itself?
David (05:21):
I think most people know this from the Blue Suede version.
Or is that Blue Swede? Am I saying that right?
Blue Suede or Suede, whatever.
Which was the one that's on the Gardens of the Galaxy soundtrack.
Neli (05:28):
Palette cleanser.
David (05:31):
I'll play that now.
(05:53):
There you go.
Most people probably know that one.
But I didn't realise that was a cover of a BG Thomas song.
(06:21):
Or possibly a Johnston King song.
There's four versions we've found of this song.
But the original was by a guy called BG Thomas.
(06:43):
And that's also really good.
The Blue Suede one's really good.
I've not heard the Johnston King one.
This is David from the future doing the edit.
And it's a correction for all these covers.
First one was BG Thomas.
Then it was Johnston King.
Then it was Blue Suede.
Then it was David Hasselhoff.
The Oogachoogas were originally in the Johnston King version.
Which Blue Suede then copied.
(07:04):
Then David Hasselhoff copied.
I'm going to say that Blue Suede started the Oogachoogas in the rest of the episode.
But that is not true.
So, yeah.
Back to the episode.
Bye.
Neli (07:15):
Because my connection to this song, or memory of this song, is Blue Sweet's version, I've
always found it in Craze a bit cheesy and was not really interested in it, even during
the Guardians of the Galaxy craze.
I knew it existed, I just didn't pay much attention to it.
David (07:28):
Yeah.
Neli (07:29):
Sorry, I'm just looking at David Hasselhoff flying in the sky and I just can't...
David (07:32):
Yeah.
It's hard to look away from.
But I would say this is specifically a cover of the Blue Suede one.
Because they were the ones that added the Oogachooga, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that shit.
It's like a cover of a cover possibly of a cover.
It's possibly proof that every time you remake something, it gets slightly worse.
Neli (07:48):
I just wonder, what was he thinking?
There's a lot of what I would assume is them just trying to convey the feeling of David
Hasselhoff flying in the sky and...
Sorry, he's eating a raw fish right now.
And I guess being so in love with the person he's thinking to.
(08:13):
He flies high with the angels and also...
David (08:18):
Yeah.
There's a lot of flying, a lot of angels appearing.
And just David Hasselhoff.
Now he's doing a backflip.
David Hasselhoff and like a.
Neli (08:26):
[laughs]
David (08:28):
No, he's just.
Sorry.
I usually have these videos playing.
But just every time I look at this, I burst out laughing.
Because something ridiculous is happening.
But yeah.
I think it's trying to portray a feeling of ecstasy about whoever it is David Hasselhoff is singing about.
Neli (08:45):
I mean, I don't know about feeling of ecstasy, but I feel like you need to be on ecstasy
to understand it.
Maybe that was his point, because it's kind of like more disco vibe.
David (08:54):
You could interpret it as like a drug trip actually.
Neli (08:57):
Yeah, definitely, 100%.
David (08:57):
It's just him travelling the world.
Neli (09:01):
Yeah, and also it's a massive ego trip, and that's probably the one thing I want to point
out, that video.
The only...
It genuinely feels like he's singing to himself.
He can't believe that he's in love with himself.
At no point do we see the person of his affection.
David (09:20):
Yeah.
Neli (09:21):
At no point do we see anything that could resemble the person of his affection, because
every single person is him.
David (09:26):
You see like multiple David Hasselhoffs.
I think the only other people in the video is two wee girls dressed as angels.
I kind of thought maybe that's his kids or something.
But I never looked into it because we're professionals in this podcast.
Neli (09:38):
[laughs]
David (09:38):
But.
And there's a couple of dogs.
Neli (09:41):
Does he have children?
David (09:41):
I have no idea.
Neli (09:42):
Okay.
To be honest, there is...
Well, actually, a bunch of people.
The first thing is... the very, very first thing you see, which is him blue-screened
against...
It looks like a corporate party at the background, and everyone doing line dancing.
David (09:55):
Oh yeah.
When I say people, you see the people who aren't like, you know, stock footage.
Is what this appears to be.
Neli (10:02):
Yeah, yeah.
David (10:02):
But yeah, I suppose you could get the people in the green screen footage though.
Maybe that's who he's thinking about.
Neli (10:07):
Yeah.
Maybe, maybe.
That or the...
I don't want to say what kind of tribe they are.
They kind of... they are a form of native tribe, probably in Africa.
David (10:16):
Yeah.
Neli (10:19):
Could be also anywhere else.
I have absolutely no idea, because they're just a prop for him.
David (10:24):
Yeah.
Neli (10:25):
Yeah.
And that's, you know...
We can joke about videos as much as we want to, but holy fucking Christ, this is so offensive.
David (10:33):
[LAUGH]
Neli (10:34):
You don't see people anywhere else, but...
As in, defined people you see, like, with faces and features, except for that one shot.
And what the fuck was he thinking?
David (10:43):
I don't think much thought went into this.
Neli (10:46):
[laughter]
Yeah.
If you were to cover this masterpiece with a video, whereabouts in the world would you go?
What would be your preferred background to emulate and show off your enormous '90s hairdo ego?
David (11:09):
Keep all the dancing stuff exactly the same.
The exact same level of enthusiasm.
But just have all the horrible shit in the world happening behind me.
[LAUGH]
Neli (11:20):
[laughter]
David (11:20):
That's like a juxtaposition.
So me as David Hasselhoff would be completely oblivious to all the horrible shit that's happening behind me.
That's probably a bit of a depressing answer, but that's where my brain went.
Neli (11:29):
So we're basically saying it's not going to be just your face CGI'd on top of his face.
David (11:33):
[LAUGH]
[LAUGH]
I presumed I was like doing the performance.
I've not got the same moves as David Hasselhoff, but I can certainly try.
Neli (11:44):
Yeah, I mean, that's what I mean.
It's much easier to GI yourself as opposed to learn how to fly in the sky without parachutes.
David (11:52):
I don't know if I could pull off the level of smugness.
Neli (11:55):
Let's talk about his mugness.
David (11:55):
Yes.
[LAUGH]
Neli (11:57):
Thanks for the segue.
David (11:58):
You're welcome.
I guess the first time we've done one, my God, we're learning.
Neli (12:01):
[laughter]
I noted in the beginning where the line where he sings "you're so in love with me",
I for some reason thought that the song went "I'm so in love with you",
and I thought, "Wow, he's so egocentric, he flipped the song to make it about himself."
David (12:19):
Huh?
Neli (12:20):
It's not true.
The actual song goes "you're so in love with me", but the way he sings it feels like he flipped it.
David (12:23):
Huh.
It's a bit weird for a love song to be singing about the other person being like you're...
[LAUGH]
Because I'm that amazing.
Neli (12:32):
Yeah, obviously, yeah.
David (12:32):
Obviously you would be David Hasselhoff.
I can catch fish.
Neli (12:36):
He got you with your mouth.
He's Gollum. Oh my God, he's Gollum.
David (12:40):
[LAUGH]
Neli (12:41):
Is this the starting point of Gollum? Is this what he's trying to tell us?
Does he have the One Ring?
David (12:46):
It would make sense.
Neli (12:47):
He's just, yeah, that would make so much sense.
David (12:47):
[LAUGH]
Neli (12:49):
That's him just trying to run away from Sauron.
David (12:52):
It's interesting though that none of us ever clocked that that lyric is kind of feels like it's the wrong way around,
but nobody clocked it until he sang it.
I really embraced the smugness.
Neli (13:00):
Yeah, when you listen to the Blue Sweet Song version, they still have the same line,
but the way it's sung, I did go back and check, the way it's sung was so normal,
like as genuine, it sounds much more like he's in awe,
the point of his affection is that he's in love with him, as opposed to "in love with him!"
David (13:18):
Yeah.
[LAUGH]
Neli (13:23):
The beer might be kicking in.
David (13:25):
I'm going to get a second beer.
Please enjoy this intermission.
Neli (13:43):
We did it.
David (13:43):
Dave Dranghang, yay.
Neli (13:44):
Woo, we are adults, we can do that.
So Gollum, right, that's a good movie.
David (13:48):
[LAUGH]
Neli (13:49):
If I may point out, the movie, the Love of the Rings trilogy, as directed by Peter Jackson,
David (13:49):
Yes, sirs.
Neli (13:55):
started to being shot around this time, I think '98, thereabouts, so...
David (13:58):
Wow.
You've really got the spectrum of media that year.
Neli (14:03):
Yeah.
David (14:03):
It's so bad it's good like gem because it is so bad.
Like I can't believe a professional musician is making this video.
So it's a fucking hilarious.
Maybe he saw the funny side of it.
I don't know.
Neli (14:17):
Possibly, but also, if you saw the funny side of it.
There is, for the people who are actually not going to spend the 3 and a half minutes to watch this music video,
David (14:25):
Shame on you.
Neli (14:26):
which, fair enough, there's a scene where... yes.
David (14:27):
Shame.
Neli (14:30):
There's a scene where he's flying in the sky, like actually flying in the sky, CGI'd,
David (14:31):
So very high.
Yeah.
Neli (14:35):
not CGI, sorry, blue-screened, green-screened, and he's just flapping his hands,
and there's like eagles and whatever crap flying around him.
Maybe he was in on the joke, but also...
David (14:44):
Speaking of being in on the joke, sir, I just saw something that I never noticed before.
The very opening with the who got chaga ba ba ba.
It actually does have the karaoke like lyric thing with the wee ball bouncing across it.
Neli (14:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw, yeah.
David (14:56):
So maybe it was actually deliberate.
[LAUGH]
Neli (15:00):
I tried to tell me that he was recording this to be specifically in the background,
whenever people sing the song with karaoke.
David (15:05):
I think the joke would have landed about harder if the karaoke carried on through it because I literally only just noticed that.
Neli (15:12):
It's kind of one of those things where we, like, occasionally criticize this.
If you're trying to make a joke, but you don't do it correctly or competently,
or go into the joke deep enough, is the joke worth it?
David (15:23):
Do I have to give this credit for the fact of this is the most I've laughed at a video.
I think so far of all the ones we've done.
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 (15:36):
Yeah, fair enough.
Maybe you're right, maybe he's in on the joke.
The problem is, nobody else knows what the joke is.
David (15:43):
[LAUGH]
Neli (15:44):
I personally will stand behind the opinion that he's Gollum,
and he's running away from Sauron, and it kind of made sense.
So first you have the introduction, so you have, like, for the people who are not going to see the video why,
it's a cube where it just has different scenes on each side, and it rotates,
and then it zooms into one of the scenes.
And you have David Castlehoff singing in front of those line-dancing people,
(16:06):
but then suddenly shoots up in space, as you do.
And my opinion is that's what's happening here.
He's at his office party, and then suddenly he realizes that he has the ring,
and he doesn't want to be at that office party, so he disappears,
metaphorically, he flows into the sky, and then you see him running around everywhere,
(16:29):
like, just through different parts of the world, trying to hide away, because he's used the ring.
David (16:30):
So.
So he's on the run.
That's why he's like teleporting from place to place.
Neli (16:34):
He is on the run.
Yes.
Indeed.
And this is why it looks like the way it does, because he's just running away from the Nazgûls,
and that's, and the eagles you see are actually the Nazgûls running after him.
Those are not eagles, those are goose, sorry, geese.
David (16:51):
But he's flying with him.
Neli (16:52):
But, you know, the Nazgûls, definitely.
David (16:52):
He's he's he's blending in so well.
He's pretending to be a goose goose.
Neli (16:55):
Goose, geese. Geese, goose.
David (16:56):
And the angels are still following him.
So I don't know if I trust them either.
Kiss kiss. And the angels are still following him so I don't know if I trust them either.
Neli (17:03):
No, no, those are elves.
David (17:05):
Ah okay.
Neli (17:07):
He didn't have the right to actually show elves, so he showed Christian angels.
David (17:10):
Right.
Neli (17:12):
I can pitch it to Scott. I can pitch it to Scott. Hold on.
David (17:22):
So
Neli (17:23):
Scott, come here for a sec.
It will work out, I'm telling you. It's a masterpiece.
Of a modernized version of Lord of the Rings.
Okay.
Where Gollum is played by David Hasselhoff.
David (17:36):
I had no part in this pitch so I don't know what I say but yeah. Could you convince your
Neli (17:38):
Okay. What is the precious ring that David Hasselhoff is trying to keep?
He might have a Prince Albert, but he's not asking questions.
He's modernizing this.
Can he dug too greedily and too deep?
If you have any questions for him.
Yes.
Yeah.
(18:00):
Could I?
I mean, they do all kinds of random stuff at school plays.
David (18:03):
students to to get on board with this plan?
Neli (18:06):
So doing a Lord of the Rings where everyone's wearing baseball caps and saying, yo,
it's probably like, it's perfectly normal.
For David Hasselhoff to be there, that's definitely a safeguarding issue.
And I would probably think that he's at least banned from most schools by at least 100 meters.
So they should use it as a safeguard.
He's at least bad for most schools by at least 100 meters.
(18:30):
That's all based on vibes.
David (18:32):
Wow okay we cannot we cannot use that.
Neli (18:32):
Please don't sue us.
Allegedly.
David (18:34):
Allegedly okay that's fine now that's fine now I think that's how it works yeah yeah.
Neli (18:38):
Allegedly.
I'm going to pass the microphone back to Danny before I get sued.
David (18:42):
Right right.
Neli (18:46):
Oh, yes.
David (18:46):
Yeah yes yeah.
Neli (18:47):
The children are in the Nazgul.
That is absolutely true.
The flying children in the video.
100% on the Nazgul.
Anyway, take this off me before I get you in legal trouble.
David (18:53):
Uh yeah I think there's not much not much more to say about this.
Neli (18:56):
Yeah, it's one of those things that you should watch it, although maybe have a cup of pints before that.
David (18:59):
Right.
Right.
Neli (19:05):
I'm just going to.
David (19:05):
Take a look at the show notes for links to today's video links to instagram also email
Neli (19:07):
Okay.
Okay.
David (19:09):
gone too far cast at gmail.com we'd love to hear your thoughts and any recommendations for videos.
Neli (19:11):
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
David (19:14):
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giving us a mention a couple of months ago it's been that long since we've had an episode out but
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(19:37):
and way is spelt w-h-a-y-h-a-e in the traditional fashion.
Neli (19:43):
It's actually on my rotation nowadays.
David (19:44):
Cool bye see you next time six to six to seven months.
Neli (19:46):
Bye!
(Transcript is AI generated expect mistakes.) Hello and welcome to We Can't Rewind, We've Gone Too Far, a podcast where we discuss…
Um, David, do you know the sexiest song in existence?
(00:21):
It's Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack.
Anyway, today we're discussing David Hasselhoff's rendition of hooked on a feeling
David (00:40):
It's just the bass.
Neli (00:53):
Also I was drunk when I wrote this.
It is, yeah, it really is.
Like especially when you're listening to headphones, it's like, oof, that… they
knew what they were doing with that song.
David (01:01):
It was Angel I used to use as a subwoofer test.
Neli (01:05):
Angel is another one.
It is worth saying to our lovely listeners that because the incredible amount of very,
very, very intimate talking we need to do today, which is required from us by this video,
David (01:14):
[LAUGH]
Neli (01:18):
we decided we'll do something else.
We'll do After Hours, you know, a couple of pints, just like, you know, talking about
the song which has changed our lives and perspective on men specifically.
Oh!
Indeed, and also it's lunchtime on a Saturday.
(01:45):
Not in here, here it's mild springy.
It's about low 20s.
Basically summer in Scotland.
Yeah, well, this is when you get fires is what happens.
So what beer are you having today, David?
Oof, nice, that's actually nice.
(02:11):
That is a great choice.
Completely accidentally, we went for the same color scheme.
I am having a Williams Brothers Caesar Augustus.
Is this kind of very similar?
Oh yeah, it's Williams.
Do they have bad beers?
(02:33):
Okay, cool, let's go.
The beginning?
Yeah.
Yes, decisions were made and we have to stand by our decisions from nearly six years ago
(03:13):
now.
So usually in this section we'll give you history and information about the music video
director, personnel, what's happening in the video.
In this case, we can't really do any of that.
The one thing I'd want to point out is video does have an IMDb page.
Actually, yeah, it does.
(03:35):
And when you open it, there's only one person mentioned in this.
Obviously our absolutely beloved American music hero, David Hasselhoff, also hero of
the small screen in Red Shorts, I think.
David (03:50):
Yes.
Neli (03:52):
He was in Baywatch, wasn't he?
Yeah, he was.
David (03:53):
My God, I'd actually totally forgotten he was in Baywatch.
Neli (03:54):
I mean, to be honest, he was as good as a musician as he was an actor, or is an actor,
David (03:56):
I'd completely accepted him as a musician.
Neli (04:07):
I guess.
It's very much worth going on that IMDb page because if you didn't know that a video has
7.7 out of 10 on IMDb.
David (04:16):
What?
Neli (04:18):
This is not a joke.
David (04:18):
Seriously?
Neli (04:19):
Absolutely.
David (04:19):
Okay, I'm looking at the bad music video fans have already got to this.
Neli (04:20):
I thought...
Obviously.
The video is a vibe as opposed to story.
If you want to imagine Michael Bolton's video that we discussed here, which song I can't
remember right now the name of, but imagine that, but at home.
This is Michael Bolton at home.
David (04:38):
Yes.
Neli (04:39):
I forget.
David (04:39):
Okay.
Neli (04:40):
Also, the animation is amazing, obviously.
David (04:41):
Very professionally done.
Neli (04:43):
I genuinely thought the video was from '92.
Turns out it was '97, for four years past Toy Story.
Take this as you wish.
David (04:51):
Yeah, it's a master class in green screen
because the entire video is just David Hasselhoff in front of a green screen
with various shit happening behind him.
It reminds me of those like, have you seen like,
Neli (05:00):
Yep.
David (05:01):
Joe when they record karaoke sessions
and they just have random like stock footage in the background.
Neli (05:04):
Yep.
David (05:06):
That's exactly what it looks like.
Neli (05:08):
It's kind of as if he was mo-capped into random screens, but really badly.
David (05:08):
Except David Hasselhoff has given it his all.
Neli (05:18):
Actually, do you want to talk about the history of the song itself?
David (05:21):
I think most people know this from the Blue Suede version.
Or is that Blue Swede? Am I saying that right?
Blue Suede or Suede, whatever.
Which was the one that's on the Gardens of the Galaxy soundtrack.
Neli (05:28):
Palette cleanser.
David (05:31):
I'll play that now.
(05:53):
There you go.
Most people probably know that one.
But I didn't realise that was a cover of a BG Thomas song.
(06:21):
Or possibly a Johnston King song.
There's four versions we've found of this song.
But the original was by a guy called BG Thomas.
(06:43):
And that's also really good.
The Blue Suede one's really good.
I've not heard the Johnston King one.
This is David from the future doing the edit.
And it's a correction for all these covers.
First one was BG Thomas.
Then it was Johnston King.
Then it was Blue Suede.
Then it was David Hasselhoff.
The Oogachoogas were originally in the Johnston King version.
Which Blue Suede then copied.
(07:04):
Then David Hasselhoff copied.
I'm going to say that Blue Suede started the Oogachoogas in the rest of the episode.
But that is not true.
So, yeah.
Back to the episode.
Bye.
Neli (07:15):
Because my connection to this song, or memory of this song, is Blue Sweet's version, I've
always found it in Craze a bit cheesy and was not really interested in it, even during
the Guardians of the Galaxy craze.
I knew it existed, I just didn't pay much attention to it.
David (07:28):
Yeah.
Neli (07:29):
Sorry, I'm just looking at David Hasselhoff flying in the sky and I just can't...
David (07:32):
Yeah.
It's hard to look away from.
But I would say this is specifically a cover of the Blue Suede one.
Because they were the ones that added the Oogachooga, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that shit.
It's like a cover of a cover possibly of a cover.
It's possibly proof that every time you remake something, it gets slightly worse.
Neli (07:48):
I just wonder, what was he thinking?
There's a lot of what I would assume is them just trying to convey the feeling of David
Hasselhoff flying in the sky and...
Sorry, he's eating a raw fish right now.
And I guess being so in love with the person he's thinking to.
(08:13):
He flies high with the angels and also...
David (08:18):
Yeah.
There's a lot of flying, a lot of angels appearing.
And just David Hasselhoff.
Now he's doing a backflip.
David Hasselhoff and like a.
Neli (08:26):
[laughs]
David (08:28):
No, he's just.
Sorry.
I usually have these videos playing.
But just every time I look at this, I burst out laughing.
Because something ridiculous is happening.
But yeah.
I think it's trying to portray a feeling of ecstasy about whoever it is David Hasselhoff is singing about.
Neli (08:45):
I mean, I don't know about feeling of ecstasy, but I feel like you need to be on ecstasy
to understand it.
Maybe that was his point, because it's kind of like more disco vibe.
David (08:54):
You could interpret it as like a drug trip actually.
Neli (08:57):
Yeah, definitely, 100%.
David (08:57):
It's just him travelling the world.
Neli (09:01):
Yeah, and also it's a massive ego trip, and that's probably the one thing I want to point
out, that video.
The only...
It genuinely feels like he's singing to himself.
He can't believe that he's in love with himself.
At no point do we see the person of his affection.
David (09:20):
Yeah.
Neli (09:21):
At no point do we see anything that could resemble the person of his affection, because
every single person is him.
David (09:26):
You see like multiple David Hasselhoffs.
I think the only other people in the video is two wee girls dressed as angels.
I kind of thought maybe that's his kids or something.
But I never looked into it because we're professionals in this podcast.
Neli (09:38):
[laughs]
David (09:38):
But.
And there's a couple of dogs.
Neli (09:41):
Does he have children?
David (09:41):
I have no idea.
Neli (09:42):
Okay.
To be honest, there is...
Well, actually, a bunch of people.
The first thing is... the very, very first thing you see, which is him blue-screened
against...
It looks like a corporate party at the background, and everyone doing line dancing.
David (09:55):
Oh yeah.
When I say people, you see the people who aren't like, you know, stock footage.
Is what this appears to be.
Neli (10:02):
Yeah, yeah.
David (10:02):
But yeah, I suppose you could get the people in the green screen footage though.
Maybe that's who he's thinking about.
Neli (10:07):
Yeah.
Maybe, maybe.
That or the...
I don't want to say what kind of tribe they are.
They kind of... they are a form of native tribe, probably in Africa.
David (10:16):
Yeah.
Neli (10:19):
Could be also anywhere else.
I have absolutely no idea, because they're just a prop for him.
David (10:24):
Yeah.
Neli (10:25):
Yeah.
And that's, you know...
We can joke about videos as much as we want to, but holy fucking Christ, this is so offensive.
David (10:33):
[LAUGH]
Neli (10:34):
You don't see people anywhere else, but...
As in, defined people you see, like, with faces and features, except for that one shot.
And what the fuck was he thinking?
David (10:43):
I don't think much thought went into this.
Neli (10:46):
[laughter]
Yeah.
If you were to cover this masterpiece with a video, whereabouts in the world would you go?
What would be your preferred background to emulate and show off your enormous '90s hairdo ego?
David (11:09):
Keep all the dancing stuff exactly the same.
The exact same level of enthusiasm.
But just have all the horrible shit in the world happening behind me.
[LAUGH]
Neli (11:20):
[laughter]
David (11:20):
That's like a juxtaposition.
So me as David Hasselhoff would be completely oblivious to all the horrible shit that's happening behind me.
That's probably a bit of a depressing answer, but that's where my brain went.
Neli (11:29):
So we're basically saying it's not going to be just your face CGI'd on top of his face.
David (11:33):
[LAUGH]
[LAUGH]
I presumed I was like doing the performance.
I've not got the same moves as David Hasselhoff, but I can certainly try.
Neli (11:44):
Yeah, I mean, that's what I mean.
It's much easier to GI yourself as opposed to learn how to fly in the sky without parachutes.
David (11:52):
I don't know if I could pull off the level of smugness.
Neli (11:55):
Let's talk about his mugness.
David (11:55):
Yes.
[LAUGH]
Neli (11:57):
Thanks for the segue.
David (11:58):
You're welcome.
I guess the first time we've done one, my God, we're learning.
Neli (12:01):
[laughter]
I noted in the beginning where the line where he sings "you're so in love with me",
I for some reason thought that the song went "I'm so in love with you",
and I thought, "Wow, he's so egocentric, he flipped the song to make it about himself."
David (12:19):
Huh?
Neli (12:20):
It's not true.
The actual song goes "you're so in love with me", but the way he sings it feels like he flipped it.
David (12:23):
Huh.
It's a bit weird for a love song to be singing about the other person being like you're...
[LAUGH]
Because I'm that amazing.
Neli (12:32):
Yeah, obviously, yeah.
David (12:32):
Obviously you would be David Hasselhoff.
I can catch fish.
Neli (12:36):
He got you with your mouth.
He's Gollum. Oh my God, he's Gollum.
David (12:40):
[LAUGH]
Neli (12:41):
Is this the starting point of Gollum? Is this what he's trying to tell us?
Does he have the One Ring?
David (12:46):
It would make sense.
Neli (12:47):
He's just, yeah, that would make so much sense.
David (12:47):
[LAUGH]
Neli (12:49):
That's him just trying to run away from Sauron.
David (12:52):
It's interesting though that none of us ever clocked that that lyric is kind of feels like it's the wrong way around,
but nobody clocked it until he sang it.
I really embraced the smugness.
Neli (13:00):
Yeah, when you listen to the Blue Sweet Song version, they still have the same line,
but the way it's sung, I did go back and check, the way it's sung was so normal,
like as genuine, it sounds much more like he's in awe,
the point of his affection is that he's in love with him, as opposed to "in love with him!"
David (13:18):
Yeah.
[LAUGH]
Neli (13:23):
The beer might be kicking in.
David (13:25):
I'm going to get a second beer.
Please enjoy this intermission.
Neli (13:43):
We did it.
David (13:43):
Dave Dranghang, yay.
Neli (13:44):
Woo, we are adults, we can do that.
So Gollum, right, that's a good movie.
David (13:48):
[LAUGH]
Neli (13:49):
If I may point out, the movie, the Love of the Rings trilogy, as directed by Peter Jackson,
David (13:49):
Yes, sirs.
Neli (13:55):
started to being shot around this time, I think '98, thereabouts, so...
David (13:58):
Wow.
You've really got the spectrum of media that year.
Neli (14:03):
Yeah.
David (14:03):
It's so bad it's good like gem because it is so bad.
Like I can't believe a professional musician is making this video.
So it's a fucking hilarious.
Maybe he saw the funny side of it.
I don't know.
Neli (14:17):
Possibly, but also, if you saw the funny side of it.
There is, for the people who are actually not going to spend the 3 and a half minutes to watch this music video,
David (14:25):
Shame on you.
Neli (14:26):
which, fair enough, there's a scene where... yes.
David (14:27):
Shame.
Neli (14:30):
There's a scene where he's flying in the sky, like actually flying in the sky, CGI'd,
David (14:31):
So very high.
Yeah.
Neli (14:35):
not CGI, sorry, blue-screened, green-screened, and he's just flapping his hands,
and there's like eagles and whatever crap flying around him.
Maybe he was in on the joke, but also...
David (14:44):
Speaking of being in on the joke, sir, I just saw something that I never noticed before.
The very opening with the who got chaga ba ba ba.
It actually does have the karaoke like lyric thing with the wee ball bouncing across it.
Neli (14:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw, yeah.
David (14:56):
So maybe it was actually deliberate.
[LAUGH]
Neli (15:00):
I tried to tell me that he was recording this to be specifically in the background,
whenever people sing the song with karaoke.
David (15:05):
I think the joke would have landed about harder if the karaoke carried on through it because I literally only just noticed that.
Neli (15:12):
It's kind of one of those things where we, like, occasionally criticize this.
If you're trying to make a joke, but you don't do it correctly or competently,
or go into the joke deep enough, is the joke worth it?
David (15:23):
Do I have to give this credit for the fact of this is the most I've laughed at a video.
I think so far of all the ones we've done.
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 (15:36):
Yeah, fair enough.
Maybe you're right, maybe he's in on the joke.
The problem is, nobody else knows what the joke is.
David (15:43):
[LAUGH]
Neli (15:44):
I personally will stand behind the opinion that he's Gollum,
and he's running away from Sauron, and it kind of made sense.
So first you have the introduction, so you have, like, for the people who are not going to see the video why,
it's a cube where it just has different scenes on each side, and it rotates,
and then it zooms into one of the scenes.
And you have David Castlehoff singing in front of those line-dancing people,
(16:06):
but then suddenly shoots up in space, as you do.
And my opinion is that's what's happening here.
He's at his office party, and then suddenly he realizes that he has the ring,
and he doesn't want to be at that office party, so he disappears,
metaphorically, he flows into the sky, and then you see him running around everywhere,
(16:29):
like, just through different parts of the world, trying to hide away, because he's used the ring.
David (16:30):
So.
So he's on the run.
That's why he's like teleporting from place to place.
Neli (16:34):
He is on the run.
Yes.
Indeed.
And this is why it looks like the way it does, because he's just running away from the Nazgûls,
and that's, and the eagles you see are actually the Nazgûls running after him.
Those are not eagles, those are goose, sorry, geese.
David (16:51):
But he's flying with him.
Neli (16:52):
But, you know, the Nazgûls, definitely.
David (16:52):
He's he's he's blending in so well.
He's pretending to be a goose goose.
Neli (16:55):
Goose, geese. Geese, goose.
David (16:56):
And the angels are still following him.
So I don't know if I trust them either.
Kiss kiss. And the angels are still following him so I don't know if I trust them either.
Neli (17:03):
No, no, those are elves.
David (17:05):
Ah okay.
Neli (17:07):
He didn't have the right to actually show elves, so he showed Christian angels.
David (17:10):
Right.
Neli (17:12):
I can pitch it to Scott. I can pitch it to Scott. Hold on.
David (17:22):
So
Neli (17:23):
Scott, come here for a sec.
It will work out, I'm telling you. It's a masterpiece.
Of a modernized version of Lord of the Rings.
Okay.
Where Gollum is played by David Hasselhoff.
David (17:36):
I had no part in this pitch so I don't know what I say but yeah. Could you convince your
Neli (17:38):
Okay. What is the precious ring that David Hasselhoff is trying to keep?
He might have a Prince Albert, but he's not asking questions.
He's modernizing this.
Can he dug too greedily and too deep?
If you have any questions for him.
Yes.
Yeah.
(18:00):
Could I?
I mean, they do all kinds of random stuff at school plays.
David (18:03):
students to to get on board with this plan?
Neli (18:06):
So doing a Lord of the Rings where everyone's wearing baseball caps and saying, yo,
it's probably like, it's perfectly normal.
For David Hasselhoff to be there, that's definitely a safeguarding issue.
And I would probably think that he's at least banned from most schools by at least 100 meters.
So they should use it as a safeguard.
He's at least bad for most schools by at least 100 meters.
(18:30):
That's all based on vibes.
David (18:32):
Wow okay we cannot we cannot use that.
Neli (18:32):
Please don't sue us.
Allegedly.
David (18:34):
Allegedly okay that's fine now that's fine now I think that's how it works yeah yeah.
Neli (18:38):
Allegedly.
I'm going to pass the microphone back to Danny before I get sued.
David (18:42):
Right right.
Neli (18:46):
Oh, yes.
David (18:46):
Yeah yes yeah.
Neli (18:47):
The children are in the Nazgul.
That is absolutely true.
The flying children in the video.
100% on the Nazgul.
Anyway, take this off me before I get you in legal trouble.
David (18:53):
Uh yeah I think there's not much not much more to say about this.
Neli (18:56):
Yeah, it's one of those things that you should watch it, although maybe have a cup of pints before that.
David (18:59):
Right.
Right.
Neli (19:05):
I'm just going to.
David (19:05):
Take a look at the show notes for links to today's video links to instagram also email
Neli (19:07):
Okay.
Okay.
David (19:09):
gone too far cast at gmail.com we'd love to hear your thoughts and any recommendations for videos.
Neli (19:11):
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
David (19:14):
If you're enjoying the podcast please leave us a review in apple podcast spotfire or your
podcast player of choice. And we have to say thank you to the scotts we hate podcast for
giving us a mention a couple of months ago it's been that long since we've had an episode out but
thank you for the mention. If you want to listen to that podcast you can go to www.scotswhayhae.com
(19:37):
and way is spelt w-h-a-y-h-a-e in the traditional fashion.
Neli (19:43):
It's actually on my rotation nowadays.
David (19:44):
Cool bye see you next time six to six to seven months.
Neli (19:46):
Bye!
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