♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- I got the Margielas, the new Nikes.
The new J's that came out-- got those. I got--
♪ Why the [bleep] are you lying? ♪
- What did he say? - ♪ Why you always lying? ♪
♪ Mm, oh my god ♪
♪ Stop [bleep] lying ♪ - Potty mouth.
- Are these Vines or something? (laughing)
At least it wasn't very long.
- (Rose) I'll never let go. I promise.
- (sadly) Oh.
- ♪ Why the [bleep] are you lying? ♪ - (laughing) He's back.
- I don't get it. I don't get it.
- Well, he has a lovely smile, the young man. (laughs)
- Okay. I'm confused.
- (woman) I've fallen and I can't get up! - "Can't get up!"
- (man) We're sending help immediately. - "We're sending help."
And it's gonna be the same dude.
- This is funny if it wasn't so real. (chuckles)
- They should send a lion to gobble him up.
He's filthy.
- Stop your effing singing.
- (Bill Clinton) I did not have... - (chuckles)
- (Clinton) ...sexual relations with that woman.
- Perfect fit. (laughs)
- ♪ Why you always lying? ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ Mm, oh my god ♪ - And he dances well.
I wish I could dance that well. I do.
- I got it now. I got it now.
- (Kanye West) I have decided in 2020... - Oh god.
- (West) ...to run for president.
- ♪ Why the [bleep] are you lying? ♪ - Who's that?
- The Kardashians in the White House? - ♪ Why you always lying? ♪
- Those last two were good. - ♪ Oh my god ♪
♪ Stop [bleep] lying ♪
- Am I supposed to know that young man?
'Cause I don't know who he is.
- You were kind of funny the first time,
but it gets old so fast.
- Well, it was vignettes of untruths. I guess I would say that.
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- (Finebros) So first thing we're gonna want you to do for us
is we're gonna hand you the lyrics to this wonderful song.
And can you please sing
the "Why You Always Lying" song back to us?
- Okay, good. I'll be off-key just like him.
- (quiet snickering) Gonna make me a singer?
- ♪ Why the [bleep] you lying? ♪
- ♪ Why you always lying? ♪
- ♪ Why you [bleep] lying? ♪
- ♪ Why you always lying? ♪
- ♪ Oh my god, stop that [bleep] lying ♪
- ♪ Oh my god, stop [bleep] lying ♪
(laughing)
If my grandkids can hear me say this,
(laughing) giving them a bad example.
- "Why the [bleep] you lying? Why you always lying?
Mm, oh my god, stop [bleep] lying."
- (Finebros) So was there any entertaining qualities
to these videos? - No.
- No, I didn't think that was very entertaining.
- It's just not my thing.
- Sort of. Sort of, especially those that I know,
like, for example, Clinton.
- If he just didn't use the F-bomb.
He's breaking my Christian ears!
- (Finebros) So the story here
is that each of the videos we showed you
were made by different people who saw the original video,
which was the first one we showed you,
because that one went viral, and then took that footage
and paired it with other clips. - Really?
- Oh, I see. That was smart.
- (Finebros) Why do you think that original video,
even just by itself, would go so viral
and be seen by millions of people? - I don't know.
- People nowadays are used to soundbite thinking.
- I would think that people
would think he's embarrassing himself.
- It's word of mouth.
It's like, you got to see how awful this thing is.
And pretty soon, there's millions of people who have watched it
going, "That's the worst thing I've ever seen.
I have to watch it again."
- (Finebros) So do you think he did this
because he wants to be a singer?
Or do you think he did this as some type of a joke?
- I think that's it, the second one.
He was purposely trying to be silly.
- He probably wanted to send a message to some of his friends
that he feels they're lying about the sneakers they have.
- I don't know if he's trying to be silly
although he achieved it.
- I always have a hard time with that
because I think he thought he was pretty good, actually.
- I hope he was purposely trying to be funny.
Otherwise it's very sad.
- (Finebros) So he did make this purposely to be funny
and is someone who's been making videos online
without much success until this video became successful.
- Well-- well, good for him.
I don't understand the formula. I don't understand the appeal.
- You got to put in the work to get discovered.
So he did his homework and he got lucky.
- What has happened to my sense of humor?
Have I gone into the future or the other way?
I always thought I had a fair sense of humor.
It's not even funny.
- (Finebros) Well, as we mentioned,
the other videos we showed you were made by other people.
Why do you think people saw this video and decided to then
take the footage and use it in these different ways?
- It's more of the gutter culture.
- Kinda jump on the bandwagon. You become a part of a movement.
- People just love to straighten other people out.
But sometimes you just don't have the guts to say,
"Oh, you're just lying!"
- I'm on Facebook.
It cracks me up when I can find a good meme that fits.
- Once one person did it and said,
"Well, I know when somebody's lying.
And remember that scene in that? Or remember Clinton?"
They did it just to have fun.
- (Finebros) Part of the reasons that people do that
is for fun with their friends
or they hope to piggyback off the original video's success
or some use it to express how someone lied to them
in their real life. - Okay. Well, that's kinda cute, you know?
Put it on Snapchat so it disappears.
- (Finebros) When we talk about these things
on this show with you,
explaining how certain things have gone viral,
it's always a little bit different every time.
Can you really wrap your head around just how many different ways
you can become popular now on the internet?
- It amazes me still.
- There's no formula. It just seems like...
- My sisters think I'm more modern than them.
It's because I have teenage grandkids.
He explains everything to me,
and sometimes he does things like this too.
- Sometimes I will say to my grandson,
"But how did you find that on YouTube?
How did you know that that thing was out there?"
I think he doesn't understand how I don't understand it.
- When I was a kid, it was TV, radio, and newspaper.
My brain just can't go there, you know?
It would be overload. I might have a stroke or something.
- Everybody was on the same page, you know, when,
you know, Ed Sullivan Show came on
and The Beatles came on that show.
I mean, the entire country watched it
and talked about it the next day.
On this, there are a million different ways to express yourself,
which is fantastic.
- (Finebros) So finally, this became so big
that he decided to make a full music video for the song.
Are you ready to watch it? - Lucky me.
- Do I have to?
- Mm, I can just hardly wait.
- He's sitting on the toilet.
- (friend) Yo! Yo!!
Yo, you won't believe the week I just had.
Listen, I copped an all-white Margiela.
- (voice-over) I wonder if he knows
that I know he's lying right now?
♪ Why the [bleep] you lying? (Why?) ♪
- (scoffs) - ♪ Why you always lying? (Why?) ♪
♪ Mm, oh my god ♪ - I like his smile.
- ♪ Stop [bleep] lying ♪
♪ Always lying to me ♪ - This is better, I think.
I like this better.
- I think he should have left it alone. - ♪ You're making it ♪
♪ Hard for me (Yeah) ♪
- Oh, I wish I could hang ten like that.
(laughs) You get it? The hang ten? Oh well.
- ♪ And you know that I know that you lying ♪
- He's not lip-syncing very well.
- ♪ ...know what I want to know? ♪
♪ Why the [bleep] you lying? ♪ - ♪ (sings along) ♪
- You know, the guy should've worked on the lyrics a little bit.
- ♪ Hard for me (Yeah) ♪ - That's it?
Oh no, now he's got other people doing it.
- ♪ I like the way you lie ♪ - ♪ Why you [bleep] lying? ♪
- What's the toilet seat doing out there?
- Buddy, that's where you need to go, potty mouth.
- ♪ Stop [bleep] lying ♪
- People have seen a lot worse than him. He's pretty good.
- (echoing) ♪ Damn ♪
♪ Peace ♪ - Peace.
We like to see entertainers that are having a good time with it.
But I don't like the language.
- It's that face. I think that face is what--
somebody else could be singing that, and it just wouldn't work.
- I do wish he'd pull up his pants though.
I hate when you can see underpants.
It's a little too relaxed for me.
- Thank you so much for watching another episode of Elders React.
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- Thanks for watching. Bye, everybody. Peace.
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