Several people told me to check out the latest video from ICP, from their most recent album "Bang Pow Boom." I kind of dragged my heels before I finally got around to watching it, because at this point, making fun of ICP is kind of played out. I mean, what is left to say about them? I figured this video would just be more of the usual, familiar-yet-still-moderately-amusing Juggalo antics, but I was happy to find out this is a whole new side of Insane Clown Posse!
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I think my favorite line is, "Fuckin' magnets, how do they work??"
The lulz in previous ICP-related memes were essentially based on the obvious: They're fat, they dress up like evil clowns, and play terrible rap for subhumanly stupid white trash who do little more than eat and reproduce [via cockroaches]. "Miracles," on the other hand, is lolworthy because there are few things funnier than when trashy people try to be "deep and/or insightful/profound." As far as I can tell, this video is their hamfisted, Faygo-drenched attempt at articulating the popular notion "God must be real, look at all the beauty and magic around us!" Peep the first verse and chorus (complete lyrics here):
If magic is all we've ever know
Then it's easy to miss what really goes on
But I've seen miracles in every way
And I see miracles everyday
Oceans spanning beyond my sight
And a million stars way above em at night
We don't have to be high to look in the sky
And know that's a miracle opened wide
Look at the mountains, trees, the seven seas
And everything chilling underwater, please
Hot lava, snow, rain and fog
Long neck giraffes, and pet cats and dogs
And I've seen eighty-five thousand people
All in one room, together as equals
Pure magic is the birth of my kids
I've seen shit that'll shock your eyelids
The sun and the moon, and even Mars
The Milky Way and fucking shooting stars
UFOs, a river flows
Plant a little seed and nature grows
Niagara falls and the pyramids
Everything you believed in as kids
Fucking rainbows after it rains
There's enough miracles here to blow your brains
I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco bay
It tried to eat my cell phone, he ran away
And music is magic, pure and clean
You can feel it and hear it but it can't be seen
Music is all magic (Are you a believer in miracles)
You can't even hold it (Do you notice and recognize miracles)
It's just there in the air (Are you a believer in miracles)
Pure motherfucking magic Right?
This shit'll blow your fucking mind (Do you notice and recognize miracles)
Then it's easy to miss what really goes on
But I've seen miracles in every way
And I see miracles everyday
Oceans spanning beyond my sight
And a million stars way above em at night
We don't have to be high to look in the sky
And know that's a miracle opened wide
Look at the mountains, trees, the seven seas
And everything chilling underwater, please
Hot lava, snow, rain and fog
Long neck giraffes, and pet cats and dogs
And I've seen eighty-five thousand people
All in one room, together as equals
Pure magic is the birth of my kids
I've seen shit that'll shock your eyelids
The sun and the moon, and even Mars
The Milky Way and fucking shooting stars
UFOs, a river flows
Plant a little seed and nature grows
Niagara falls and the pyramids
Everything you believed in as kids
Fucking rainbows after it rains
There's enough miracles here to blow your brains
I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco bay
It tried to eat my cell phone, he ran away
And music is magic, pure and clean
You can feel it and hear it but it can't be seen
Music is all magic (Are you a believer in miracles)
You can't even hold it (Do you notice and recognize miracles)
It's just there in the air (Are you a believer in miracles)
Pure motherfucking magic Right?
This shit'll blow your fucking mind (Do you notice and recognize miracles)
As you may know ICP are more or less a Christian band. They are also oldz, now in their late 30s with children, and are beginning to act less like insane clowns and more like the out of touch, Bible-thumping parents they are. Much like when Kevin Seconds got butthurt after discovering Brokencyde, there is nothing funnier than yesterday's edgy counterculture icons acting like grumpy old farts [via the premise of this blog]. You can watch the video yourself, but here are some of my favorite parts:
The band delivers the entire song from atop their magical Juggalo observatory in space (srsly)
Violent J is amazed by a pelican-- he must know how cavemen felt when they saw fire for the first time
Violent J's kids in Juggalo makeup: the only music video moment more cringeworthy than Cher's son appearing in the "Turn Back Time" video where she cavorts around in a thong bodysuit in front of several hundred leering sailors [via seeing your mom's genitals]
"Magic everywhere in this bitch"
Shaggy II Dope raps from between his wife's legs as she gives birth to their children (srsly)
"I don't wanna talk to a scientist - Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed" [via disregarding the advice of his cardiologist]Bonus content: The NUCLEAR EDITION of "Bang Boom Pow" [via Victory Records 'package deal']
What is your favorite part of this video?? How would you prove the existence of God [via banal elements of everyday life/giraffes]? Will MXPX play the next Gathering?
