MUSIC FROM SPACE: Cartoons - WITCHDOCTOR

Cartoons - Witch Doctor
by Deckx

Watching this music video has fried my brains pretty good, so I'll let Wikipedia fill you in on the salient details of what you are about to see: "Cartoons, also known as Cartoons DK are a technobilly/glam pop band from Denmark, best known for their 1998 Eurodance cover of the 1958 novelty song, Witch Doctor by Ross Bagdasarian, as well as for their outlandish plastic costumes and wigs used in live performances as caricatures of 1950s American rock and roll stars. Many of their hits are Europop covers of old rockabilly hits."

Somehow that paragraph doesn't come close to capturing the full fizzy soda and Poprocks horror show that is the Cartoons experience. If you need me, I'll be way at the back of my bedroom closet, hunched over, rocking back and forth and muttering gibberish as I try to process the trauma of what I have just seen. The chesty Elvis bimbos. The sponge hair. The questionable racial imagery... That freaking song...

You're to blame, Mark Evanier of Newsfromme.com!

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