#EarWorm
1 Pen Pineapple... Apple Pen!
It’s just 51 seconds long, but is right on course to becoming the next Gangnam Style! Pen Pineapple Apple Pen— described as “Another BRAINWASH song!!” on YouTube — is the brainchild of Japanese comedian-DJ Kosaka Daimaou aka Piko Taro. The unintelligible mash-up of some curious words — among them “pen”, “apple” and “pineapple”— has Piko Taro sporting a pencil-thin moustache and dressed in gold print. It has wormed its way into the ears of millions worldwide ever since it hit the Internet on September 24. So much so that the song’s fans in Malaysia and Philippines have come up with their own versions. Its biggest fan? A certain Justin Bieber, who tweeted recently that Pen Pineapple Apple Pen is his “favorite video on the internet”. Total Pen-chants? A whopping 18,898,942 — and counting!
#PowWow
2 Trailer: Force 2
“Dedicated to the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country and yet remained unnamed and unrecognised.” The trailer of Force 2 starts on a telling note, with an eye on the current political climate. And as expected, the rest of this 3:05 watch is all crash, boom, bang! John Abraham returns as top cop Yashvardhan and does what he does best — wallop his adversaries to a pulp! Joining forces with him is RAW agent Sonakshi Sinha, simply called “KK” in the trailer. But lending the promo edge is hottie Tahir Raj Bhasin who returns with his bad boy walk and talk after his chilling turn in Mardaani. The Abhinay Deo film hits screens on November 18, but for now get your adrenaline dose from the action-packed trailer that already has 2,742,258 punches to its name. The big wow: That last shot of John “lifting” a car — yes, it was a bike in Force — with his bare hands!
#DanceBabyDance
3 Hillary shimmies, Trump scowls
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had a go at each other on the presidential debate last Monday night— and ended up giving the web a priceless 1:26 video called The Hillary Shimmy Song. The video picks up bits and pieces from the debate — a smiling Hillary to a scowling Trump — and comes up with some fun lyrics... supposedly “sung” in Hillary’s head. This dude is coming at me/ I just smile and let him be/ The dude brought his own rope/ He put the bullet in the gun so/ I’m just gonna shimmy! The video, that many on the Internet want to be made the “election anthem”, has been watched and rewatched 1,116,558 times.
#SherlockOnSong
4 Cumberbatch nails Comfortably Numb
What happens when the inasanely popular Benedict Cumberbatch lends his baritone to the Pink Floyd classic Comfortably Numb? Ovaries explode! The Internet had a collective meltdown after David Gilmour uploaded this video of the Sherlock star rendering Comfortably Numb... with the Pink Floyd man for company. Cumberbatch may have looked a little conscious about his rockstar role at the beginning of this 4:54 video, but he went on to quickly sing it with his trademark intensity, leading to instant combustion! Our favourite part? The hottie singing along, off mic, to Gilmour’s chorus, just like any other fan. Total singalongs: 613,989.
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What’s Joey Marie been up to since we featured her last? t2 revisits the cosplay cutie
DRESS ME UP, MAMA!
Los Angeles-based photographer Laura Izumikawa’s cosplay escapades — with daughter Joey Marie as her fuss-free subject — has already earned her 415k followers on Instagram (@lauraiz), up from 72k followers in end-August when t2 first featured the cute-as-a-button Joey dressed up, in her sleep, as some of pop culture’s most famous icons. Reason enough for us to pick our favourites again. Yes, they are a riot!
