Although, I definitely agree with the main review posted here, personally I find 'Crazy Frog' more of a (cultural) cancer caused on someone's brain. Pop charts may be a joke (and 'Crazy Frog' does represent such characters - take Britney or Tatu as an example) but pop charts still provide different sides of music (if not business) - be it for public entertainment or personal pleasure. Pop stars are illusive in themselves, but virtual characters grabbing for real attention... it should work as catchy cartoon but it is sadly a flop. In some other respect, 'Gorillaz' are far more intriguing. Their characters have soul.

'Crazy Frog' is intended more as a brainwash act, only helping to erase perception of choice, recognition, judgement or appeal. Maybe a child might like this in the wake of a cartoon but Crazy Frog was never there for the educational purpose, it is there only to improve already massive GSM sales while at the same time providing communication breakdown. The way it sings there is already a forced barrier - a non-articulate nonsense 'ring-ring' sound mercilessly ridiculing the listener.

When you think of Scatman John bastardizing jazz with the worst eurodance beat, or Rednex raping techno and country alike, think again - hearing 'Crazy Frog' and both - Scatman John or Rednex seem immediately avant-garde.

Crazy Frog is the generation gap personified. Twelve-year-olds have gone gaga over the mentally ill animated amphibian with the pixellated cock and his ringtone renderings of re-heated synth classics, while their parents are driven to distraction by the gurning little bastard and his helium jabberings. The antagonism is compounded by the fact that the parents generally have no clue what a ringtone is for, how to download one, or how, indeed, to prevent their young children accessing websites showing German people having conjugal relations with animals more traditionally used in dairy farming.

I think Crazy Frog is fantastic, for two reasons: 1) it supplies us with final proof, as if any were needed, that the pop charts are a joke; and 2) "Axel F" kept bedwetting kings of mediocrity Coldplay's "Speed Of Sound" off the number one spot in the UK, and for this reason alone, froggy deserves a knighthood.

But say "ding ding" to me one more time and you'll find yourself buried in a shallow grave somewhere outside Caister-on-Sea.