A fun Gotye parody to get your week started right

DANG!

Don’t you just hate it when you write a whole post, and then go to get the embed code to the video that the whole post is about, and you see “Embedding disabled by request?” Well, I do. Like Barry in “High Fidelity,” I wanted to give y’all a fun Monday morning pick-me-up, and was prevented. Almost. I can still send you to the link, which is here. Enjoy the best you can…

First, you have to be familiar with the original Gotye video, “Somebody That I Used to Know.” You should be, but I realize not everyone follows these trends.

It’s my youngest granddaughter’s favorite video, or at least it was last year, when she was 2. I was a bit shocked at that when I first saw it, since it shows naked people, but I can see how she would like it — people with paint all over them. And may I add that I think it shows an exceptional creative judgment in one so young.

The video has sparked a host of parodies, but the one above is the best I’ve seen. [Actually, not the one above. This is the one that was the best, which I wanted to share, but there was no embed code. The Obama one is second-best.] Enjoy.

Oh, and for those of you who haven’t seen the original, it is below [Why the original allows embedding, but the parody does not, is beyond me.]…