I wrote previously about the Barack-roll:
Mash-up culture is funny, it was always when not if someone would produce an Obama Rick Roll. There’s kind of a monkey’s producing Shakespeare effect: get enough people out there pounding away and there are just some pieces of media that HAVE to exist.
Earlier, a commenter of Ezra Klein’s wrote about John McCain’s inability to count his own homes:
“maybe Feist can make up a new numbers song for a political ad.” Oh, if only. “1,2,3,4, lost a house right by the shore, 5,6,7,8, gotta find it before debates…”
And sure enough:
It’s not feist herself, obviously, but in the age of mash-up culture, who cares?
[...] written before about pieces of mash-up media that are so conceptually perfect that simply by virtue of the number [...]