00:00Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the music-related cultural
00:09events that blew up online before social media became as prominent, or at least as algorithm
00:13driven, as it is today.
00:15I'm pretty much thinking how am I going to sing this next song while I'm crying, so
00:20I don't know, I don't know what to say.
00:24Number 10, Lazy Sunday.
00:27Saturday Night Live has had several of its sketches go viral before, but one of the
00:31first digital shorts took the world by storm.
00:34The Lonely Island song featuring Chris Parnell sees Andy Samberg and Parnell rapping about
00:39an afternoon spent buying snacks and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia.
00:4268 to Broadway, good morning sucker, what you wanna do Chris, back attack mother
00:47f***ing The Chronicles of Narnia, yes The Chronicles of Narnia, yes The Chronicles of Narnia.
00:52Cachy, hilarious, and an overnight hit on broadcast, Lazy Sunday quickly went mega viral thanks
00:58to a little video sharing website called, am I pronouncing this right, YouTube?
01:03It's in my pocket, pull out some dough, girl acting like she's never seen a ten before.
01:08Countless versions were re-uploaded there, contributing to not only the digital shorts legacy, but also
01:13ensuring YouTube's initial success.
01:23Number 9, Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent audition.
01:27Sometimes, a moment inspires the world.
01:30Susan Boyle didn't look like the kind of singer who would appear on Britain's Got Talent
01:33when she appeared on stage for the first time.
01:35Okay, what's the dream?
01:38I'm trying to be a professional singer.
01:40And why hasn't it worked out so far, Susan?
01:43I've never been given the chance before, but here's hoping it'll change.
01:46However, once she opens her mouth and starts belting I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables,
01:51the judges and audience are blown away, along with everyone who watched the clip later.
01:55I Dreamed a Dream in Time Gone By
01:58I Dreamed a Dream in Time Gone By
02:02I'm close to smile, I'm close to smile, I'm close to you.
02:06Did you? No.
02:08Not only is Boyle phenomenally talented, but her viral audition is practically a modern day fable
02:13about not judging a book by its cover that everyone was eager to share.
02:17I'm so different from this day I'm living
02:21I'm so different now from what it seems
02:26Number 8. Here it goes again
02:28A good music video can always get people talking.
02:31This one by OK Go depicts the four members of the band
02:34performing a complicated routine on a series of treadmills in a single take.
02:45It was uploaded to YouTube, where it quickly became one of the most popular videos on the
02:49platform at the time. Here it goes again's rapid spread, also translated to awards, chart
02:55performances, and other accolades.
02:57Oh here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.
03:00Oh here it goes again, I shoulda known, shoulda known, shoulda known again.
03:05It's success marked one of the first examples of a viral music video translating to real-world profit,
03:10effectively paving the way for more artists to follow OK Go's example.
03:14Oh here it goes again, I shoulda known, I shoulda known, I shoulda known, baby it goes again.
03:21Number 7. The VMA's Kiss
03:23Britney Spears has broken the internet at the MTV Video Music Awards several times,
03:28while her performance at the 2001 ceremony with a snake certainly made headlines,
03:32and launched millions of searches.
03:39She and several other pop stars surpassed that a few years later.
03:43Britney began singing a cover of Madonna's Like a Virgin,
03:46only to be joined by Christina Aguilera and Madonna herself soon afterwards.
03:50Everybody comes to Hollywood
03:56What got everyone talking though, was Madonna locking lips with the other two singers.
04:00However, since the camera crew cut away to audience reactions before Aguilera's kiss,
04:05it was the one between Madonna and Britney that broke the internet.
04:11Yo, yo, yo, who that be?
04:14Depictions of same-sex kissing were uncommon at the time, which got everyone either upset,
04:19supportive, and or excited.
04:25Number 6. Kanye Interruptus
04:28Speaking of the VMA's, arguably the craziest and most viral moment for the event occurred during the 2009 event.
04:34So thank you so much for giving me a chance to win a VMA award.
04:40During Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for receiving the award for Best Female Video, she was interrupted
04:45when Kanye West climbed up on stage, took the microphone, and proclaimed that Beyoncé deserved the award more.
05:01Naturally, this drew massive backlash, both during the event and after the fact, and led to a feud between Swift
05:07and West.
05:08The incident was also memed out to an insane degree, as West's clueless remarks were easy to slot in with
05:13other people or opinions.
05:19Number 5. JLo's Dress
05:22At the 2000 Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez turned heads with a distinctive green Versace dress with high legs and a
05:29plunging neckline.
05:30As it turns out, the dress seen around the world was almost left on Jennifer's dressing room floor.
05:36While the dress drew plenty of attention at the ceremony, it made bigger waves online.
05:40In the wake of the broadcast, the most popular Google search query was Jennifer Lopez's green dress.
05:46Ex-Google president Eric Schmidt has cited the massive attention as a major factor leading to the creation of Google
05:52adding an image search.
05:53Believe it or not, Google Images was invented because of the dress.
05:57So many people went searching for this, and they had no way to search a picture at that time on
06:03the internet, so they created Google Images.
06:06You know you've broken the internet when you not only break Google, but also force the internet's number one search
06:11site to add more functionality.
06:13Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about meeting this six million dollar woman, so.
06:18I'm not bionic.
06:20What do you say we hand out some Grammys, huh?
06:23Number 4. Evolution of Dance
06:25Early YouTube had several notable music-related hits, but perhaps the most famous was Evolution of Dance.
06:40The video shows motivational speaker Judson Leipley go through a performance of various dances featured in hit songs and movies
06:47from the last 50 years or so, one after the other.
06:50Lapli's enthusiasm and the catchy and nostalgic nature of many of the songs made the video an instant hit.
07:09In fact, its popularity led Evolution of Dance to become YouTube's most viewed video, not just once, but several times.
07:16YouTube's beginnings were truly magical.
07:19This is masking the music, the moment you want it to be.
07:23Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it,
07:28shake it, shake it, shake it like a polar bear on me.
07:29Yeah!
07:30Number 3. Janet Jackson's Wardrobe Malfunction
07:33Nobody remembers what songs were performed during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
07:37All anyone could remember was an apparent gaffe involving the performers, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson.
07:49While performing a dance, whose new choreography he'd only been informed of minutes before the show, Timberlake accidentally exposed Jackson's
07:56nipple.
07:56While quickly covered up, the fact that, however briefly, Jackson had appeared partially nude on national television, unleashed a firestorm
08:04of controversy.
08:05The incident quickly became the most searched for thing in air net history until that point, and also allegedly spurred
08:17the creation of a certain video sharing website, beginning with why.
08:27Number 2. Ashley Simpson's Lip Syncing Incident
08:30Some things are so disastrously cringe, you can't help talking about them.
08:35Ashley Simpson was a musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 2004.
08:47After her first song, the singer was revealed to have been lip syncing her performance, after the vocal audio from
08:53the previous song played again, after it had already finished.
08:56Simpson, at a loss of the mistake, probably did a jig and left the stage.
09:06While Simpson had apparently lost her voice and was merely using the pre-recorded vocals to supplement her performance, she
09:12still faced a mountain of backlash over the incident, and her impromptu hoedown earned her even more mockery.
09:18I feel so bad my band started playing the wrong song, and I know what to do, so I thought
09:21I'd do a hoedown.
09:22Number 1. Rickrolling
09:24If you're surprised, welcome to the internet.
09:27During the latter half of the 2000s, it became common practice to prank people by redirecting them with false links,
09:34or beginning videos with misleading opening clips, before switching to something else.
09:38Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
09:42For some reason, the most popular of these pranks involve swapping to Rick Astley's 80s pop song, Never Gonna Give
09:48You Up.
09:49I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling, gotta make you understand
09:56The joke, called Rickrolling, spread like wildfire online, quickly becoming the go-to practical joke of the internet.
10:03While not quite as prevalent today, the internet has never quite given up on it.
10:07Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie, and hurt you
10:14Is there an internet-breaking music moment we forgot? Tell us your favorites in the comments.
10:19We'll see you next time.
10:19Thanks for having me.
10:23I'll see you next time.
10:23Bye bye.
10:25Bye bye.
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