Oh. My. Lord.
The music used to add drama and emotion to this video is The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony (1997). The video producer stopped short of using the actual lyrics, fortunately, because the refrain is:
No change, I can’t change, I can’t change, I can’t change,
but I’m here in my mould , I am here in my mould
But I’m a million different people from one day to the next
I can’t change my mould, no, no, no, no, no
Shades of ‘Labour – The Only Way is Up’, don’t you think? That’s what happens when you start discouraging people from speaking and learning English. They can’t work out the subtleties of song lyrics. The only way is up, Labour! Joseph Muscat – he’s a million different people from one day to the next.
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Aaaaaargh!!!
That is horrible! That surely must have been uploaded by a PN supporter to jest Joseph! Or not?
(Daphne – No. It’s a fan-post. If you look at the other videos connected to it, you’ll see there’s another one called ‘Joseph – Forever Young’.)
wet…bleeeh
Should we laugh or should we cry? Thanks Daph, I’m not going to be able to listen to that song ever again! What will they think of next?
The refrain to the background music:
No change, I can’t change, I can’t change, I can’t change,
but I’m here in my mold , I am here in my mold
But I’m a million different people from one day to the next
I can’t change my mold, no, no, no, no, no
(Daphne – My god, Mark, it didn’t occur to me to listen to the lyrics. This is along the lines of ‘The only way is up’.)
And this year’s Award for pitifulness goes to… The Labour Party; in recognition of their latest video figuring the shiniest Maltese star. This guy is really obnoxious! And I used to think that no one could beat his predecessor for obnoxiousness. How wrong Joey had to prove me!
Many said that the PN won the elections due to Gonzi. Does this video mean that Dr. Muscat will emulate the PN’s strategy or what? Anyhow, I sincerely cannot fathom the purpose of this video to be honest. Seems balderdash.
Daphne ruhi,
Shouldn’t you have posted a warning – “To be viewed on an empty stomach” or something?
Yeuch!
You should at least give me credit for making the horrible discovery, Daphne ;)
Or run an article on H.P. Baxxter in your magazine. That should do.
(Daphne – Thanks.)
I am speechless with rage that I only got to see this AFTER I emailed Saturday’s column in… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh
(Daphne – Did you watch the ‘Forever Young’ video? The screen-shot stops just short of the top of his head, where the balding pate negates the song’s refrain.)
As Hugh Grant said in Four Weddings and a Funeral – Fuck fuckity fuck
They’ve ruined Bitter Sweet Harmony for me, I used to love it – it’s not fair. They should have played My Boy Lollipop in the background instead, or some Teletubbies song.
(Daphne – You know, I would have expected them to use the theme song from Chariots of Fire. I imagine they would have, if they’d known about it. The corniness would have gone right over their heads.)
That’s only the trailer isn’t it? Where do I download the full feature movie from?
(Daphne – You mean the one in which our hero uses his Brussels lajfstajl to divorce Lil Din then runs off with Madame De Farge from his 100 Days Super One TV special, to perform the biological miracle of fathering octoplets with a septuagenarian, thereby proving he’s got balls?)
AAAAAARGH……PUKE..CHOKE..SHUDDER WITH REVULSION!!!
Are they going to come up with a whole series about this guy now, PICCOLO GIUSEPPE instead of GRANDE FRATELLO!!!
(Daphne – He can’t quite carry it off, can he? Miskin. L-aqwa l-bejbislink. Don’t they make twin slings? He can prove his mettle by strapping one to his back and another to his front, while carrying a couple of Pampers in a fanny-pouch and a bottle in his…..well, never mind.)
Barack Muscat
(Daphne – Barack Obama is tall, glamorous and reasonably attractive. Joseph Muscat is more Chelsea Clinton.)
I mean, the shot of him in the garden with his watering can was incredible. He must have little cameras set up all over his house, office, and car transmitting wirelessly to the ONE studios. He will also be setting up a special MEMBERS ONLY section transmitting live from his bathroom and bedroom, for a payment obviously.
And here we were thinking that the MLP was not technologically inclined…..
(Daphne – If they were technologically inclined, the editing would have been smoother.)
More like Ross Perot
(Daphne – Ross Perot has money. Muscat has a lajfstajl.)
Well they’ve got to start somwhere haven’t they. What better way to do it then to regale us with a day in the life of their leader. When they get better we will have features and live link ups with Jason, Toni and Anglu all doing what they do best…eff all :)
(Daphne – I’d pay a lot for a video of Anglu riding that Indian elephant.)
Hey Daphne, has anyone ever told you’re awesome?? This website’s great!! The pieces are simply impeccable and the comments, well, they are cool ones!
Daphne, please, open a new party for yourself! I’d be the first one to vote for you… You will have to change your lajfstajl imma eh!! Malta would have a great boost, undoubtedly so! Your pieces turn a good newspaper into a fabulous one. Perhaps you can do that with our country too.
Nah, seriously, keep up the fantastic work! This website of yours is simply amazing.
(Daphne – Thanks, but the only parties I like are the ones with drinks, music and men who don’t look like Joseph Muscat.)
This guy, and his minion elves working for him trying to build up his personality cult are just so sick.
We now have Dottor Callmejowzef trying to build stature with such balderhash. Anyone with the brain of a moderately sized cockroach can see through this miserable strategy. Pity they didnt show us a shot of him in swimming pool with champagne flute in hand.
This makes him look even more lke a used car salesman than he is. Maybe Premier down his road has an opening for a job…..
Amusing also is the fact that most videos are called ‘Mass Really’ ….which I’m assuming they meant Mass Rally or something of the sort.
Is this Freudian for say….am I really here? Did I really manage to get this role?
And what about that forever young clip? 41 seconds of looking at him speak and not hearing what he is saying. Again some Freudian message that what he says it not so important. The important thing is that we get to look at his face.
(Daphne – Yes, we get to look at his face but not at his scalp, because that part of him clearly isn’t going to be forever young. They’re making a big mistake hyping him up as young. The big changes to a person’s face and body take place around the age of 40: a dramatic change, just when he hits his first general election campaign hoping to become prime minister. If being young is made out to be his unique selling point, Joseph Muscat is going to end up like the Bride of Wildenstein . As for the ‘mass really’ business, that’s just a reflection of the way they pronounce it, like spelling union as ‘unjin’ in Maltese instead of ‘junjin’.)
It’s such a shame we don’t have a culture of stand-up comedy here in Malta… Our politicians can provide so much material. On last week’s American comedy show Saturday Night Live, top comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler produced a wonderful sketch lampooning Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages. I’m afraid I’m not technologically savvy enough to post a link, but a quick google search should find it.
Not one single constructive comment out of the 18 posted here. Shows us how tolerant we have become……
(Daphne – Gerald, please. Joseph Muscat is married to a public relations consultant. He doesn’t need free advice from me.)
… on the other hand it’s probably a good thing we don’t have a culture of stand-up comedy here. Everyone’s so touchy and easily offended.
Reading about comedy shows, something cropped up in my mind. A number of years ago, on a Saturday-night show on TVM, there was a comedy troupe and one of the female actors used to play the part of a journalist. I was still young at the time to guess who she was mimicking, but looking back I think it was DCG. Can anyone confirm please?
(Daphne – Probably. And, almost certainly, the actress playing me would have spoken in a mixture of Maltese and English with an odd accent, under the mistaken impression that this is how tal-pepe people speak, when really it’s how village people who move to Sliema speak. But they wouldn’t know the difference. How sad.)
If I were Joseph Muscat, I would emigrate to a suitable obscure and uninhabitable corner of the world and try to blend in with whatever fauna may be present there!
Thanks to Ray Azzopardi and his company of ‘merry’ ehm persons at Marsa, we have the new Pepsi Generation in Malta… Quality, style, dignity, manners or education are no longer important!
Just ask most schoolchildren in public schools: When they grow up they want to become a per-son-a-li-ta’!
And Joseph has somehow managed to become thus!
married to a public relations consultant? Scoff scoff!
A culture of stand up comedy in Malta is in the form of Bla Kommixin , Bla Kondixin, Zoo’s shows , and the Christmas pantomimes. Oh and we must not forget Teletubi.
The right background music would have been Shultz (Joseph’s German godfather) singing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_qWsy5UxiI&feature=related
@ John Schembri – Granted, but the shows you mentioned are broad satire. I was thinking more of the intimate kind of stand-up; a comedian, a microphone and religious, social and political sacred cows as the butt of her/his jokes…
The forever young video is no longer available on youtube ! boo hoo !!!!!!
[Daphne – Yes, it is. Go to my post called Oh. My. Lord. Click on the video posted there. Look to the right and you’ll see a whole schedule of Joseph Muscat videos. Forever Young is first on the list. I’ve just checked.]
Thanks Daphne:) Will do