The music video presentation, to air Sunday (2 p.m. EST), caps off the cable channel’s “Pay to Play for Hurricane Katrina Relief,” which raised over $200,000 for Mercy Corps, a humanitarian relief organization.
Viewers could request one video to be played on VH1 Classic for every $25 donation. For a $35,000 donation, they could select an hour’s worth of music videos from the 1960s through the early 1990s.
However, one viewer chose something different for his allotted hour, requesting continuous playing of “99 Luftballons,” said VH1 spokeswoman Maura Wozniak.
(via 7d)
Wow.
Well, I suppose playing that song does have some kind of point. I mean how can I knock a song Goldfinger remade to perfection. They even sung bits of it in the original german. Now that’s dedication.
Although, it can be a bit like having too much of a good thing. Like oceans of chocolate when all you really want is a pop tart. Song repeatability only falls in two modes:
1)angsty pain relief
2)”happy happy, joy joy” rockability.
99 Luftballoons, for me, falls somewhere’s inbetween. Kind of an 80s Cold War nostalgiac fetish.
I’m postive that I wouldn’t last a full hour.
Though ten minutes might be worth a try.
(update: I watched for 6 minutes. One in german. One in english. Rewound the german one for a bit, trying to get a handle on the language. Then gave up and went about my day.)
