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Saturday, January 24th, 2015
hey ha ketchup ho
Saturday, January 24th, 2015 03:22 pmI was enjoying the upbeat background music in a video; a song I've heard before but couldn't place. It sounded Spanish, but the foreground noise in the video made it difficult to hear the lyrics. All I could make out was "I say hey ha...", and supposed that searching on that would give a ton of unrelated results. But I did the search anyway, and after only a few clicks I found the song (much to my surprise).
Aserejé aka The Ketchup Song, which according to Wikipedia was an international hit in 2002. The part of the lyrics I heard were really "Aserejé ja de je de jebe..." which isn't actually Spanish but rather a non-sensical translation of a line from "Rapper's Delight".
The actual song, while still fun-sounding, didn't sound upbeat as the one in the video, so I thought that maybe it was a remix. But after comparing them again, they are the same version. The distracting foreground noise in the video - excited young people screaming/cheering on a group of dancers - affected my impression of the song, making it seem more exciting and cheerful.
Aserejé aka The Ketchup Song, which according to Wikipedia was an international hit in 2002. The part of the lyrics I heard were really "Aserejé ja de je de jebe..." which isn't actually Spanish but rather a non-sensical translation of a line from "Rapper's Delight".
The actual song, while still fun-sounding, didn't sound upbeat as the one in the video, so I thought that maybe it was a remix. But after comparing them again, they are the same version. The distracting foreground noise in the video - excited young people screaming/cheering on a group of dancers - affected my impression of the song, making it seem more exciting and cheerful.
Amazon has the whole first season of Transparent watchable for free (today only), so I wanted to watch some more episodes.
I again spent over an hour unsuccessfully trying to get the video to play full-screen on the TV over the HDMI cable (like I do for YouTube and Netflix videos).
Using Flash, the video is so jerky that I don't want to watch it.
Using Silverlight, the video doesn't even start - it does some kind of looping/buffering thing.
I cleared all application data from Silverlight. I uninstalled and reinstalled Silverlight. I disabled hardware acceleration in both Firefox and Silverlight. I tried using IE and Chrome. The problems persisted. I was able to get a few short clips to play ok... but they weren't full screen, so maybe that is why they worked.
Anyway, back to admitting failure and watching it on the laptop screen.
...
Geez, even playing it on the laptop, the sound stutters somewhat.
Oh good lord, maybe all I had to do all along was click the button to turn off HD? ... ::sigh:: No, even then it's still jerky on the TV.
I again spent over an hour unsuccessfully trying to get the video to play full-screen on the TV over the HDMI cable (like I do for YouTube and Netflix videos).
Using Flash, the video is so jerky that I don't want to watch it.
Using Silverlight, the video doesn't even start - it does some kind of looping/buffering thing.
I cleared all application data from Silverlight. I uninstalled and reinstalled Silverlight. I disabled hardware acceleration in both Firefox and Silverlight. I tried using IE and Chrome. The problems persisted. I was able to get a few short clips to play ok... but they weren't full screen, so maybe that is why they worked.
Anyway, back to admitting failure and watching it on the laptop screen.
...
Geez, even playing it on the laptop, the sound stutters somewhat.
Oh good lord, maybe all I had to do all along was click the button to turn off HD? ... ::sigh:: No, even then it's still jerky on the TV.