dragostea din tei

some of you may have already seen this, but if you go here, scroll down a little bit and click on the video on the left (there's two), it's Gary Brolsma lip-synching to "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-zone. The latter are a Romanian dance/pop (synth wizard) group that were inadvertently made famous (in the U.S., since they already had had a big hit with the song across Europe) by the former, who spontaneously did a webcam performance of the song (which he had found on the net and thought it was funny) and sent the file to some of his friends. Little did he realize the chain reaction it would set off. His friends sent it to their friends, who sent to their friends, and so on and so forth, until the unknown kid from Jersey became world-famous. He was invited on Letterman, Good Morning America, etc. This was at the end of last year/beginning of this year...he has subsequently gotten VERY sick of his own mug and actually refused to go on one talk show. His video is seriously THE funniest lip-synching performance that I have EVER seen. I watched it over and over, and it never got less funny.

You can also watch the video for the original single, next to the video of Gary. It's vaguely a-ha "Take On Me".