An animated frog which became famous for starring in Jamba's ringtone commercials, using a sample of someone impersonating a race car. As the frog became increasingly popular (or notorious), more ring tones, wall papers and other items became available, and even a record was released, a cover version of "Axel F", produced by Reinhard Raith and Henning Reith of the German Bass Bumpers production team and Andreas Dohmeyer and Matthias Wagner aka Off-Cast Project.
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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.
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.
'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.