"Chris Martin defeated by a naked frog, I'm a Coldplay fan and even I love to see it" as a Coldplay fan I love to hear this joke. The joke landed and I landed on the floor from laughing too hard at this one
"Crazy Frog was the Old Town Road of the 2000s" Mic, you're a genius critic, editor, explainer, and entertainer. I love your work. Thank you so much for sharing it
When I was a little girl I used to dream about the day I could have my first very own mobile phone and getting to customise it with a ringtone, which I hoped would be Ice Ice Baby. Every word of that sentence is 100% the truth
@@uidFluiq I used to get songs on my phone by holding the phone up to the computer speakers and recording it. It would have been appalling quality but it would definitely have been Ice Ice Baby, no mistaking!
This bought a very specific memory flooding right back to me. In 2005, my best friend got a Crazy Frog cake for his 11th birthday. It came with a little electronic device that, when you pressed a button, played Crazy Frog noises. We were very excited to take it to school the next day to see what havoc we could cause. The moment came in the middle of geography, our least favourite lesson due to it being taught by a bearded sociopath who hated children. My friend held the Crazy Frog device in his hand, declared "I swear, on this Holy Frog Grenade, to annoy all my enemies into little bits", and threw it across the classroom. The teacher was furious while we laughed harder than we ever had before or since. My friend never got his Holy Frog Grenade back, but it was worth it. It's been 15 years and we still laugh about it to this day. Can't believe that one of my favourite memories from school involves the Crazy Frog but there you go. Nostalgia is weird.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the elephant in the room...making songs that work for ringtones - short, ear wormy tidbits - is really similar to people designing songs for TIK TOK today. We've kinda come back to it, where songs like Savage, Old Town Road and Savage Love are only where they are because are PERFECT for TIK TOK.
Yup, I’ve come across this topic brought up on several different music channels. People getting discovered specifically for music they’ve made to be used in TikToks, and touching on the topic how it’s kinda worrisome for music as a whole with the market becoming so over saturated with short songs trying to create a catchy hook to be heard by millions … if found. Wonder how things will be in 10 years. 😬
David Byrne's book "How Music Works" talks a lot about how music has always been affected by technology in some form or another, and not just in the last 20 or so years: the three-minute pop song was the result of songs needing to be short enough to play on the radio in-between advertisements. Music on early records had a lot of treble in it because the microphones were better at capturing higher frequencies than lower ones. Big symphonies were written to suit grand music halls. Songbirds and whales have had to sing louder for the past couple of centuries to accommodate human construction and activity. Art challenges technology, technology inspires art.
I was shocked by the $1.1 billion, I thought pirating ringtones was very popular. In the early days of polyphonic ringtones that meant recording a song when it came on the radio but a few years later i remember websites that would either have a collection of ringtones or the ability to upload an mp3 to create your own and text yourself the file
11:47 Oh yeah that Live Aid performance was legendary. Thought his career took a bit of nose dive after the infamous Glass Frog tour, but he'll always be near and dear to our hearts.
This video made me remember what being a kid in Germany in the 2000's was like, and I have realized that what I know as my childhood, the time when I first began to grasp the world, will be to most people never anything more than memes, re-recordings of old VHS tapes, and re-uploads of old TV screens onto the Internet, itself a force beyond the comprehension of the boy I was back then and the man I am now. Thanks!
This unearthed some massive 00s nostalgia for me!! As a child in the UK I was 110% wrapped up in not only crazy frog (he was literally EVERYWHERE) but the constant pestering of my parents to let me spend a fiver on a 30 second mp3 of kiss me thru the phone to play on my Nokia (those adverts were at least twice an ad break on kids tv and I was obsessed with them lol)
There was a period of time in middle school when my ringtone was "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isenguard," and my summer camp roommate that year used "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" as hers. Those songs are permanently seared into my cranium, I'll tell you what
As a 00s' kid whose parents didn't get me a phone until around 2011 I remember seeing a ton of ringtone and being really confused about how the hell they worked
The one and only reason I stopped using ringtones in the mid 2000s was because the people on Laguna Beach used just basic rings. I immediately deleted all of my downloaded ringtones and just set my phone to a regular phone ring. I felt SO cool.
About 2000s rap: This explaines a lot... About Jamster/Jamba: I remember we even had school lessons on the dangers of these subscriptions. It typically came out when the child asked for a new cellphone "because the old one is kinda broken" = he/she can't use it for making calls because the monthly fees exceeded their pocket money. About my ringtone: My boss nearly jumped when i forgot to mute it and Slayer disturbed the weekly meeting. Worth it.
You could ring tones were obsolete at the time. I remember watching these ads on cable and bring like, "Why are you paying for these songs? They are free!" The only reason people bought them was because they didn't think they had an option. I'm the polyphonic era they were a little more correct, but I never encountered a phone that could do "truetone" that couldn't just record the song with the phone's mic, or transfer a .wav to the phone to be used as a ringtone if you wanted to. It wasn't like next level hacking either. I remember Bluetooth file transfer being a pretty simple thing that people just did in the mid 2000s, long before the first iPhone.
I remember my country had its own "ringtone culture": we got crazy frog and some of those cgaracters dubbed in my language, but there were also our own things, like the ringtones to celebrate when we won the World Cup in 2006. It was about the player who got headbutted on the field.
Honestly I've always kinda wanted this trend to make some kind of comeback. I remember seeing those commercials constantly during the 2000s and wanting a cell phone specifically to have a funny ringtone, but by the time I actually got my first phone, the whole fad had pretty much ended.
Somewhere in my mums house lies a Crazy Frog CD that I once got for my birthday. A hole CD full of "The Ketchup Song" remixes is the second clue that I had a very bad taste in music as a kid. I also had a Crazy Frog racing game my dad downloaded from somewhere. My first phone (around 2006) could save three whole songs and I used them as ringtones so I never bought any. But I still remember the adds on TV and in every kids magazine at the time.
First off, just wanted to say I love the video as usual. Okay so my favorite story regarding this ringtones is that when I was in 1st grade, one of my classmates snuck a cellphone into class. In the middle of one of the teacher’s lectures, the ringtone went off and...it was A Milli by Lil Wayne. Needless to say, he was suspended for a couple of days and it’s one of my only fond memories regarding school.
I remember my mum giving me a completely non-functional flip-phone as a kid, and I would just spend hours and hours sitting and listening to all the ringtones. It was actually really weird they were all basically the same and this was in 2013
I use one of Dianes joke ringtones from Bojack as my actual ringtone (when I don’t have my phone on silent) so loved the reference hahah. The Serial one
I remember spending UNITS on TracFone ringtones. It was wild to pay the equivalent of about $4.25 for a super low quality version of "OMG" by Usher. OMG was my ringtone from 2011 until probably 2014 🙈
bro your content is so good you really pick the best topics to talk about and always have quality research to back up your claims hope your channel blows up soon
I just remembered the time when I wanted a song as my ringtone, tried to download it on limewire, got all the porn and viruses, then cried while trying to catch the perfect moment on radio to record a part of the song I wanted. After like 15 tries I was SO PROUD of my success (and this was like 10 days later, because songs don't just play on repeat on radio) and my friends were also impressed, so I sent the song to them as well and soon everyone in my school had that clip as their ringtone and I no longer liked that song or wanted it as my ringtone...
It's funny to hear someone explaining early ringtone culture in this way because I was old enough to be immersed in it at the time and none of it seemed that weird. I never paid for any ringtones but I would spend a lot of time using the composer function on my Nokia 3310 to recreate melodies from songs I liked with the help of people online who worked out which buttons to press in which order. I remember finding it funny when I'd finish the process and listen to the result and find out I'd pressed a wrong button at some point and part of the tune was super sped up. Also, I remember back in high school when I was maybe 15 or something and used to watch funny videos on sites before TH-cam existed. I found the original audio of the guy doing the moped impression being played over a still or an animation of a bike or a moped or something (just Googled it and it was called the Insanity Test) and it was funny and I got told off for playing it in computing class. Then, a while later, I saw the Crazy Frog advertised on TV and was like, oh they've ruined another good thing.
"Does anyone not have their phone on vibrate these days?" Yeah. Everyone else at the airport, unfortunately. Also, they have their keyboard tap sounds on max, and that stupid whistling alert sound, still. Well, at least a year ago when I was last at an airport.
In college, my ringtone for my boyfriend was "My Phone's on Vibrate For You" by Rufus Wainwright. And I knew when I called my friend I would have to wait 15 seconds for her to pick up because she would enjoy the song for a while before picking up.
To think I was so excited when I bought my first ringtone, and even more so after managing to "compose" a Sublime ringtone knowing jack-all about music, and now I keep my phone on vibrate/silent at all times.
My friend had a “ring back” tone which was set to T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life.” She had it from the song’s peak in popularity until she got a new number in...2017? How it functioned was when someone would call her, the caller would hear that song instead of the normal ringing tone you hear while waiting for an answer on the other line.
I remember going on a church youth group trip to Six Flags in 2006. My friend just got a cell phone and played his "My Humps" and "LEMME RIDE THAT DONKEY DONKEY" tones nonstop on the way over.
I remember when I was younger I set my ringtone for whenever I called my mom to be Stewie griffin saying “mom, mom, mummy momma, etc.” funniest thing is she actually kept it on for a long time
Man what a great nostalgic video! Was i the only one who unironically loved Crazy Frog as a kid? In australia he was everywhere, we had toys, cds (i still have the orange one) music vids on tv, and the mobile ringtone ads. Awesome video dude. I hope you do more of these kind of videos
Oh yeah the adverts to buy ringtones I remember we had a new girl come into our year maybe like grade 10 & she had Fall Out Boys Thanks For The Memories as a ringtone & everyone wanted it but it would for some reason only send to certain phones via Bluetooth others would have a lock on it for some reason mine being one. I can't remember really what songs I had as ringtones. I know I had the Doogie Howser theme song once but that's all I remember I never have my phone on loud now so I don't really hear a ringtone only tone I hear is an alarm which is a BTS song called Awake bc I thought yeah I want to wake up to a song called Awake😂
The funny thing is I have absolutely NO memory of any of this. I graduated from high school in 2001 and so the 00s were mostly my college years, a few years in grad school, and then my 'adult' job. By around 2002 I had checked out of most pop music/radio and I was behind the curve on having a cell phone - I didn't even get one until grad school in 2005 (a no frills Nokia) and avoided getting a smart phone until 2013. Ringtones were just not on my radar, aside having a general knowledge that you could download/buy song clips if you wanted but I don't even remember commercials for stuff like this. Really, my main exposure to ringtones is Weird Al's Ringtone song! Which his totally worth a mention in ringtones as pop/music culture!
I remember having all the...."lyrics"...to crazy frog memorized 😅 I would delight in annoying the heck out of my friends and classmates in highschool. I miss the age of ringtones. I miss pulling up the voice recorder function on my Motorola kRazr flip phone and having my friends record their own custom ringtones for me to use. Who needs caller ID when you phone is literally talking to you in that person's voice! But I'm also one of those old farts who misses BlackBerry and their physical keyboards 😭
Axel F is the 3rd best selling song of the century in France. Also the French version of the Fat song by the mole ended up being the best selling song of 2010 in the country. This is why I love my country.
The first use of the ringtone concept was in Laurel & Hardy, when phones would only "ring" because they were shaking against metal. But, in various scenes in their films, when the phone would ring, It'd make a completely different nose, most notably a horn. So Stan Laurel invented ringtones in the 1920's
In the series of seemingly infinite collection CD's my mom would play in the car when i was young was the Crazy Frog album. One of the tracks is the Crazy Frog's cover(??) of "We Like to Party" from the Vengaboys. And now that song has just cemented itself in my brain and I just have to live with that from now on
How did I completely forget Crazy Frog? Not an “oh yeah, that thing!” like, COMPLETELY forgot! The song clicked, but gun to my head I would NEVER have thought *that* thing existed! Lol
Your genuine enthusiasm about finally getting to talk about Crazy Frog in length is delightful and has made following your content all the more fulfilling EDIT: CRAZY FROG HELPED MAKE THE JAMIE XX "GOSH" VIDEO HAPPEN?!!?!??!?
I was way too young for a phone so the ringtone magazine pages were always strange to me but one of my friends brought a crazy frog CD to school everyday, which was always a hit. I feel sorry for our teachers
Every time you upload a video looking back at past music I spend the next hour listening to songs you play short clips of. Tonight I shall be listening to black eye peas and Soulja boy.
Ringtones and specifically Jamba were so huge, it was downright weird. I mean, Jamba even had their own TV channel on digital satellite called Jamba TV and it was the channel that had the highest bitrate by far (iirc correctly it was about 6Mbit/s, while the next channel "close" to it had about 4)
I remember a flash games site called Game Sloth. I remember it having a few videos, including one called "The Insanity Test." The premise is that it would show you a perfectly mundane image. If looking at it made you laugh, you were certifiably insane. When we were still kids, my brothers and I gave it a click. The image was a racecar in action. The sound that played over the image ... was a sped-up recording of a man imitating a running motor and a car crash. We failed the test.
there was this ringtone ad that would play like twenty times over the course of the commercial breaks while i watched cartoons as a kid and it still haunts me. it was just some weird creature laughing. the whole point was that it was weird and it had an annoying laugh. i can still hear it. cackling in my head whenever someone mentions ringtones.
My Lady Gaga The Fame CD had a little card inside that said you could text a number to get a ringtone, and it makes me wonder if other albums came with cards like that too
“Swedish teenager recorded himself mimicking the sound of a motorcycle.”
*Oh no.*
all great musical achievements always have something to do with Swedish teens
Why oh no...
@@pinkajou656 🐸
Your analysis of ringtones in the 2000s just makes me want you to make a decade retrospective of the 2000s even more
Please i beg u. U can even make a series of short videos covering different genres to make it easier on you.
dude you definitely should i’d love to see something like that
Yes!!!
YES I WOULD LOVE THAT!
Please do this! I concur
"Chris Martin defeated by a naked frog, I'm a Coldplay fan and even I love to see it" as a Coldplay fan I love to hear this joke. The joke landed and I landed on the floor from laughing too hard at this one
"Crazy Frog was the Old Town Road of the 2000s"
Mic, you're a genius critic, editor, explainer, and entertainer. I love your work. Thank you so much for sharing it
When I was a little girl I used to dream about the day I could have my first very own mobile phone and getting to customise it with a ringtone, which I hoped would be Ice Ice Baby.
Every word of that sentence is 100% the truth
Did you make it happen?
@@googyta By the time I got my first phone I had become obsessed with The X-Files, so I had the theme tune as my ringtone instead
@@uidFluiq I used to get songs on my phone by holding the phone up to the computer speakers and recording it. It would have been appalling quality but it would definitely have been Ice Ice Baby, no mistaking!
This bought a very specific memory flooding right back to me. In 2005, my best friend got a Crazy Frog cake for his 11th birthday. It came with a little electronic device that, when you pressed a button, played Crazy Frog noises. We were very excited to take it to school the next day to see what havoc we could cause. The moment came in the middle of geography, our least favourite lesson due to it being taught by a bearded sociopath who hated children. My friend held the Crazy Frog device in his hand, declared "I swear, on this Holy Frog Grenade, to annoy all my enemies into little bits", and threw it across the classroom. The teacher was furious while we laughed harder than we ever had before or since. My friend never got his Holy Frog Grenade back, but it was worth it. It's been 15 years and we still laugh about it to this day.
Can't believe that one of my favourite memories from school involves the Crazy Frog but there you go. Nostalgia is weird.
That's absolutely hilarious and dope as heck. Your friend had balls of steel
I'm surprised you didn't mention the elephant in the room...making songs that work for ringtones - short, ear wormy tidbits - is really similar to people designing songs for TIK TOK today.
We've kinda come back to it, where songs like Savage, Old Town Road and Savage Love are only where they are because are PERFECT for TIK TOK.
Yup, I’ve come across this topic brought up on several different music channels. People getting discovered specifically for music they’ve made to be used in TikToks, and touching on the topic how it’s kinda worrisome for music as a whole with the market becoming so over saturated with short songs trying to create a catchy hook to be heard by millions … if found.
Wonder how things will be in 10 years. 😬
David Byrne's book "How Music Works" talks a lot about how music has always been affected by technology in some form or another, and not just in the last 20 or so years: the three-minute pop song was the result of songs needing to be short enough to play on the radio in-between advertisements. Music on early records had a lot of treble in it because the microphones were better at capturing higher frequencies than lower ones. Big symphonies were written to suit grand music halls. Songbirds and whales have had to sing louder for the past couple of centuries to accommodate human construction and activity. Art challenges technology, technology inspires art.
Nothing can replace the look on Mic’s face when he finally got to talk about crazy frog....an experience 10/10
So happy to have manifested something so blessed/cursed into the world
Before it was super memed, Owl Cities ‘Fireflies’ was, and continues to be, a ringtone bop for me
The jamster ad with the KKK guy, eye-
That's not even the most 'problematic in hindsight' ad they ever put out. Look up 'Der Bonker'
How is the name of that Jamster ad? Is it in TH-cam? I'm looking it up and I can't find it lmao
@@klinchrx I can't find it either! Very strange...
I'm in fucking tears.
@@klinchrx still looking for it and nothing shows up
This is what Arctic Monkeys warned us about. If not for ringtones I would never have learned about ASBOs.
Knew A Certain Romance was going to make an appearance in the comments
What’s an ASBO?
Hazel Singh A restraining order for “anti-social” (read: stereotypically lower-class) crimes in the British legal system.
My first thought when I hit play
My first phone was a Samsung flip phone. I bought a polyphonic version of "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand for the ringtone. What a time to be alive.
Thought this was gonna be about 100 gecs
Still not disappointed
I'm glad he mentioned it
The ringtones might have cost $2-4 but they were free when you recorded them yourself from your friends phone after they bought it :)
I was shocked by the $1.1 billion, I thought pirating ringtones was very popular. In the early days of polyphonic ringtones that meant recording a song when it came on the radio but a few years later i remember websites that would either have a collection of ringtones or the ability to upload an mp3 to create your own and text yourself the file
This is also my memory
11:47 Oh yeah that Live Aid performance was legendary. Thought his career took a bit of nose dive after the infamous Glass Frog tour, but he'll always be near and dear to our hearts.
I lost it at this moment in the video and you hit me with more
This video made me remember what being a kid in Germany in the 2000's was like, and I have realized that what I know as my childhood, the time when I first began to grasp the world, will be to most people never anything more than memes, re-recordings of old VHS tapes, and re-uploads of old TV screens onto the Internet, itself a force beyond the comprehension of the boy I was back then and the man I am now.
Thanks!
for the longest time I had the Kim Possible "do do do do" as my notification tone, which gave me some the BEST interactions with strangers in public
This unearthed some massive 00s nostalgia for me!! As a child in the UK I was 110% wrapped up in not only crazy frog (he was literally EVERYWHERE) but the constant pestering of my parents to let me spend a fiver on a 30 second mp3 of kiss me thru the phone to play on my Nokia (those adverts were at least twice an ad break on kids tv and I was obsessed with them lol)
Be honest you just wanted to make this to talk about crazy frog for 10 minutes.
Talk about Eiffel 65 next
You’re not gonna believe this but he did
flashback to actually buying a polyphonic ringtone as a preteen and immediately feeling scammed
Mic: And it's leading figure was arguably... you.
Me: Me?
"Crank That by Soulja Boy plays"
Me: Oh. I should've seen that coming, but I didn't.
C! G! N! U!
Me?
There was a period of time in middle school when my ringtone was "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isenguard," and my summer camp roommate that year used "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" as hers. Those songs are permanently seared into my cranium, I'll tell you what
As a 00s' kid whose parents didn't get me a phone until around 2011 I remember seeing a ton of ringtone and being really confused about how the hell they worked
This was a hell of a nostalgia trip
The one and only reason I stopped using ringtones in the mid 2000s was because the people on Laguna Beach used just basic rings. I immediately deleted all of my downloaded ringtones and just set my phone to a regular phone ring. I felt SO cool.
i just can't stop laughing at 10:25 when she opened her phone and had excel open
Surprised you didn't talk about the Crazy Frog discography
Don't worry it's in the works 😂
@@MicTheSnare WHERE
@@MicTheSnare we're waiting for it...
@@MicTheSnare Do it you coward
So glad you credited Thomas Dolby! He's a legend. His book Speed of Sound is a great as well.
Love the 2000s lookbacks, keep it up Mic.
I had a whole CD of Crazy Frog in 2005-ish. I think there were 16 tracks, of which the first 6 were increasingly bad variations of Axel F.
About 2000s rap: This explaines a lot...
About Jamster/Jamba: I remember we even had school lessons on the dangers of these subscriptions. It typically came out when the child asked for a new cellphone "because the old one is kinda broken" = he/she can't use it for making calls because the monthly fees exceeded their pocket money.
About my ringtone: My boss nearly jumped when i forgot to mute it and Slayer disturbed the weekly meeting. Worth it.
1:29 I...HATE... that I know exactly where that soundbite is gonna come back up
You really tapping into my childhood with this one
You could ring tones were obsolete at the time. I remember watching these ads on cable and bring like, "Why are you paying for these songs? They are free!"
The only reason people bought them was because they didn't think they had an option. I'm the polyphonic era they were a little more correct, but I never encountered a phone that could do "truetone" that couldn't just record the song with the phone's mic, or transfer a .wav to the phone to be used as a ringtone if you wanted to.
It wasn't like next level hacking either. I remember Bluetooth file transfer being a pretty simple thing that people just did in the mid 2000s, long before the first iPhone.
I remember my country had its own "ringtone culture": we got crazy frog and some of those cgaracters dubbed in my language, but there were also our own things, like the ringtones to celebrate when we won the World Cup in 2006. It was about the player who got headbutted on the field.
Honestly I've always kinda wanted this trend to make some kind of comeback. I remember seeing those commercials constantly during the 2000s and wanting a cell phone specifically to have a funny ringtone, but by the time I actually got my first phone, the whole fad had pretty much ended.
“And it’s leading figure was arguably YOOOOOUUUU”
Best part
Somewhere in my mums house lies a Crazy Frog CD that I once got for my birthday. A hole CD full of "The Ketchup Song" remixes is the second clue that I had a very bad taste in music as a kid. I also had a Crazy Frog racing game my dad downloaded from somewhere.
My first phone (around 2006) could save three whole songs and I used them as ringtones so I never bought any. But I still remember the adds on TV and in every kids magazine at the time.
First off, just wanted to say I love the video as usual. Okay so my favorite story regarding this ringtones is that when I was in 1st grade, one of my classmates snuck a cellphone into class. In the middle of one of the teacher’s lectures, the ringtone went off and...it was A Milli by Lil Wayne. Needless to say, he was suspended for a couple of days and it’s one of my only fond memories regarding school.
I met Thomas Dolby once. I was an intern at a radio station where he came in for an interview. Swell guy
In 2030 you'll be making
How Tik Toks Dominated the Music Industry | Mic The Snare
I remember my mum giving me a completely non-functional flip-phone as a kid, and I would just spend hours and hours sitting and listening to all the ringtones. It was actually really weird they were all basically the same and this was in 2013
I use one of Dianes joke ringtones from Bojack as my actual ringtone (when I don’t have my phone on silent) so loved the reference hahah. The Serial one
i have a weird obsession with the 2000s and videos like this give me life thank you,,,
I remember spending UNITS on TracFone ringtones. It was wild to pay the equivalent of about $4.25 for a super low quality version of "OMG" by Usher. OMG was my ringtone from 2011 until probably 2014 🙈
The deep set childhood memories you unleashed in me with the words “Schnuffle Bunny”
bro your content is so good you really pick the best topics to talk about and always have quality research to back up your claims
hope your channel blows up soon
I just remembered the time when I wanted a song as my ringtone, tried to download it on limewire, got all the porn and viruses, then cried while trying to catch the perfect moment on radio to record a part of the song I wanted. After like 15 tries I was SO PROUD of my success (and this was like 10 days later, because songs don't just play on repeat on radio) and my friends were also impressed, so I sent the song to them as well and soon everyone in my school had that clip as their ringtone and I no longer liked that song or wanted it as my ringtone...
It's funny to hear someone explaining early ringtone culture in this way because I was old enough to be immersed in it at the time and none of it seemed that weird. I never paid for any ringtones but I would spend a lot of time using the composer function on my Nokia 3310 to recreate melodies from songs I liked with the help of people online who worked out which buttons to press in which order. I remember finding it funny when I'd finish the process and listen to the result and find out I'd pressed a wrong button at some point and part of the tune was super sped up. Also, I remember back in high school when I was maybe 15 or something and used to watch funny videos on sites before TH-cam existed. I found the original audio of the guy doing the moped impression being played over a still or an animation of a bike or a moped or something (just Googled it and it was called the Insanity Test) and it was funny and I got told off for playing it in computing class. Then, a while later, I saw the Crazy Frog advertised on TV and was like, oh they've ruined another good thing.
"Does anyone not have their phone on vibrate these days?"
Yeah. Everyone else at the airport, unfortunately. Also, they have their keyboard tap sounds on max, and that stupid whistling alert sound, still. Well, at least a year ago when I was last at an airport.
In college, my ringtone for my boyfriend was "My Phone's on Vibrate For You" by Rufus Wainwright. And I knew when I called my friend I would have to wait 15 seconds for her to pick up because she would enjoy the song for a while before picking up.
I SCREAMED when I realized we were gonna talk about Crazy Frog.
When you get a notification from MictheSnare while watching MictheSnare.
Oh and there's an Official Crazy Frog Discord.
and I can't believe you forgot about Crazy Butt! th-cam.com/video/OGiIfPyUtk8/w-d-xo.html
I'm 25 and I love watching videos like these... It reminds me of how old I'm getting...
why is this the best music commentary channel on youtube
To think I was so excited when I bought my first ringtone, and even more so after managing to "compose" a Sublime ringtone knowing jack-all about music, and now I keep my phone on vibrate/silent at all times.
Ringtone Rap video lets gooooo
3 minutes into animated moles: *uh ok sure*
Bless you, you cursed, righteous man
I recurring joke in my DND group is that my sending stone’s ringtone is The Gummy Bear Song, and I don’t know how to change it
My friend had a “ring back” tone which was set to T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life.” She had it from the song’s peak in popularity until she got a new number in...2017? How it functioned was when someone would call her, the caller would hear that song instead of the normal ringing tone you hear while waiting for an answer on the other line.
I literally had Soulja Boy as my ringtone when I was a teen. Gotta love the 00s.
Oh man what a joy it was when you created your own ringtone in composer...
but does my boy have his own?
is it the only one i know?
is it one i answer?
I remember going on a church youth group trip to Six Flags in 2006. My friend just got a cell phone and played his "My Humps" and "LEMME RIDE THAT DONKEY DONKEY" tones nonstop on the way over.
I remember when I was younger I set my ringtone for whenever I called my mom to be Stewie griffin saying “mom, mom, mummy momma, etc.” funniest thing is she actually kept it on for a long time
Ah yes, Crazy Frog one of the greatest artists in recent memory
one of my friends whose older then me recomended this video when i was surprised that ringtones used to cost money. very informative thanks!
Man!!! Apologize was my ringtone for a long while. This was a nice trip down memory lane. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
that jamie xx fact hit me outta NOWHERE
I've spent years tearing Crazy Frog from my mind, and you brought it back to the forefront. I hate how much I love you.
Man what a great nostalgic video! Was i the only one who unironically loved Crazy Frog as a kid? In australia he was everywhere, we had toys, cds (i still have the orange one) music vids on tv, and the mobile ringtone ads. Awesome video dude. I hope you do more of these kind of videos
I always keep my phone on maximum volume to assert dominance with my Annoying Thing ringtone in public
Oh yeah the adverts to buy ringtones
I remember we had a new girl come into our year maybe like grade 10 & she had Fall Out Boys Thanks For The Memories as a ringtone & everyone wanted it but it would for some reason only send to certain phones via Bluetooth others would have a lock on it for some reason mine being one. I can't remember really what songs I had as ringtones. I know I had the Doogie Howser theme song once but that's all I remember
I never have my phone on loud now so I don't really hear a ringtone only tone I hear is an alarm which is a BTS song called Awake bc I thought yeah I want to wake up to a song called Awake😂
The funny thing is I have absolutely NO memory of any of this. I graduated from high school in 2001 and so the 00s were mostly my college years, a few years in grad school, and then my 'adult' job. By around 2002 I had checked out of most pop music/radio and I was behind the curve on having a cell phone - I didn't even get one until grad school in 2005 (a no frills Nokia) and avoided getting a smart phone until 2013. Ringtones were just not on my radar, aside having a general knowledge that you could download/buy song clips if you wanted but I don't even remember commercials for stuff like this.
Really, my main exposure to ringtones is Weird Al's Ringtone song! Which his totally worth a mention in ringtones as pop/music culture!
I remember having all the...."lyrics"...to crazy frog memorized 😅 I would delight in annoying the heck out of my friends and classmates in highschool.
I miss the age of ringtones. I miss pulling up the voice recorder function on my Motorola kRazr flip phone and having my friends record their own custom ringtones for me to use. Who needs caller ID when you phone is literally talking to you in that person's voice! But I'm also one of those old farts who misses BlackBerry and their physical keyboards 😭
its okay, we all know you just needed a reason to talk about crazy frog. cool vid
you've reminded me of a memory I forgot I had.
in highschool(2008) music class the first lesson on DAW's was to make a ringtone
my dad’s ringtone on his Nokia was the Spider-Man theme song! Oh the memories I remember him being so proud of it and showing it off 😂😂😂
my boys got-
HIS OWN RINGTONE
ITS THE ONLY ONE I ANSEWER
Loving your video essays on modern music history. This is good shit, I completely forgot about those ringtones ads on TV lmao.
Axel F is the 3rd best selling song of the century in France. Also the French version of the Fat song by the mole ended up being the best selling song of 2010 in the country. This is why I love my country.
That youuuu drop was so fire!
The first use of the ringtone concept was in Laurel & Hardy, when phones would only "ring" because they were shaking against metal.
But, in various scenes in their films, when the phone would ring, It'd make a completely different nose, most notably a horn.
So Stan Laurel invented ringtones in the 1920's
In the series of seemingly infinite collection CD's my mom would play in the car when i was young was the Crazy Frog album. One of the tracks is the Crazy Frog's cover(??) of "We Like to Party" from the Vengaboys. And now that song has just cemented itself in my brain and I just have to live with that from now on
Crazy Frog did a cover of Vengaboys? What's next, an Aqua cover of Smashmouth???
How did I completely forget Crazy Frog? Not an “oh yeah, that thing!” like, COMPLETELY forgot! The song clicked, but gun to my head I would NEVER have thought *that* thing existed! Lol
Your genuine enthusiasm about finally getting to talk about Crazy Frog in length is delightful and has made following your content all the more fulfilling
EDIT: CRAZY FROG HELPED MAKE THE JAMIE XX "GOSH" VIDEO HAPPEN?!!?!??!?
I can absolutely confirm the fact that we Brits saw Crazy Frog many, many times every day at its peak. jeeez that was a trip
My younger cousin won a Crazy Frog very large plush at a carnival in the mid 2010s. It was horrifying!
I was way too young for a phone so the ringtone magazine pages were always strange to me but one of my friends brought a crazy frog CD to school everyday, which was always a hit. I feel sorry for our teachers
Every time you upload a video looking back at past music I spend the next hour listening to songs you play short clips of. Tonight I shall be listening to black eye peas and Soulja boy.
Another recent ring-tone reference: Lil Wayne's "Mona Lisa" ft. Kendrick Lamar (2019) includes a reference to a "Lollipop" ringtone.
Ringtones and specifically Jamba were so huge, it was downright weird. I mean, Jamba even had their own TV channel on digital satellite called Jamba TV and it was the channel that had the highest bitrate by far (iirc correctly it was about 6Mbit/s, while the next channel "close" to it had about 4)
First thing that came to my head when I saw the title was "girl shake that laffy taffy"
I remember a flash games site called Game Sloth. I remember it having a few videos, including one called "The Insanity Test." The premise is that it would show you a perfectly mundane image. If looking at it made you laugh, you were certifiably insane. When we were still kids, my brothers and I gave it a click.
The image was a racecar in action.
The sound that played over the image ... was a sped-up recording of a man imitating a running motor and a car crash.
We failed the test.
I completely forgot about all those ringtone commercials!
So niche but so interesting, another fantastic video!
I remember traveling to Europe in the summer of 2005 and it felt like every other commercial was for one of those ringtone subscriptions.
there was this ringtone ad that would play like twenty times over the course of the commercial breaks while i watched cartoons as a kid and it still haunts me. it was just some weird creature laughing. the whole point was that it was weird and it had an annoying laugh. i can still hear it. cackling in my head whenever someone mentions ringtones.
My Lady Gaga The Fame CD had a little card inside that said you could text a number to get a ringtone, and it makes me wonder if other albums came with cards like that too