To further your enlightenment, you need to investigate “Betty Boop.” She’s the original that this singer is attempting to imitate.
Fifty years ago in Caracas, TV was in its infancy and the national network spent mucho hours playing old cartoon clips, including Betty Boop; they also played innumerable clips of big bands and soloists from the forties.
Now that I’ve given you lots of leads, your musical education can continue unabated.
You never asked.
I didn’t know I didn’t know!
To further your enlightenment, you need to investigate “Betty Boop.” She’s the original that this singer is attempting to imitate.
Fifty years ago in Caracas, TV was in its infancy and the national network spent mucho hours playing old cartoon clips, including Betty Boop; they also played innumerable clips of big bands and soloists from the forties.
Now that I’ve given you lots of leads, your musical education can continue unabated.
That’s odd, I thought Betty Boop was herself a parody
Is the life-art imitation relationship bi-directional?
I have had the good fortune to run across some old Betty Boop ‘toons which are basically animated wrappers around Cab Calloway numbers:
http://www.archive.org/details/bb_snow_white
http://www.archive.org/details/bb_old_man_of_the_mountain
I must say, they stack up quite favourably against the modern music video.