Hello Internet!!!
And welcome to Behind The Meme!!!
Today we have a look at “Play this at my funeral!”
Thank you so very much to each and every single one of my amazing viewers who left me some
comments informing me about this meme!
I haven’t been able to keep up on current memes like I should for the last couple of
week so the comments have really helped me out!
You guys wanted it!
Now you have it!
Here We GO!!!!
Funerals!!
Pretty grim topic right?
I mean unless you have some type of weird fetish then they might be a sexy topic…but
generally, for the majority, it’s a pretty big bummer of a situation for people when
it comes to funerals!
You know, the whole death thing.
Funerals are a thing that have been common with humans since the beginning of mankind!
At least According to Wikipedia.
There is evidence of funerals dating back as far as 300,000 years.
I didn’t even know that humans were around that long, but then again I’m the guy that
only recently found out how to use the bluetooth on his cellphone so what the hell do I know?
Funerals typically serve the same function.
Somebody dies, you do something with their body, it’s sad, and then you move on.
For example, Ancient Egypt is famous for some of their rituals surrounding the preservation
of their dead while other cultures believe in the ritual of burning their deceased!
Some people are even getting into freezing their dead bodies in hopes that science will
be able to revive them in the future.
Which is a crazy concept to think about, but damn!
If it turns out anything like Futurama I’m all for it!
“Say you’re from one of those ethnicities that knows about technology.
Why is it called an iPhone?
I’ll explain after I install it”
The point that I’m trying to make is that although funerals serve the same purpose,
the process and rituals involved vary significantly in a number of ways!
But one common occurrence that many cultures share with the passing of their loved ones
is music!
Music is often played during the ceremonies! traditionally it was religious hymns,wait,
how do you pronounce that word?
hymns, hemns,humins, hymen ….whoah uhhh I didn’t mean to say that…uhhhh, lets
just go with songs.
Yeah songs is safe.
Traditionally it is religious songs.
But as time has gone on music at funerals has began to develop from sad religious music
of mourning to songs that carry a tone of celebration to celebrate the life of the deceased
individual.
Take New orleans in America for example, they have a long tradition of funerals that includes
musicians playing their instruments together in songs of celebration.
These funerals have become known as jazz funerals.
Nowadays popular music has become…well…popular.
By popular music I mean music that is distributed on a large scale to many people and typically
includes an individual artist or band singing.
You know bands that rock and kick ass like, the bee gees, or one direction or hanson.
Badass bands like that!
Everybody listens to music and everybody has their favorite songs!
Now more than ever with the development of the mp3 and most recently music streaming
services.
To put it simply virtually any song is a couple clicks away and it is rather amazing.
Usually people develop special relationships with certain songs.
Whoah! not in that way you sicko!!!
People love certain songs so much that they feel they would accurately represent who they
were as a human before they died and request for specific songs to be played at their funeral.
Eventually the phrase “Play this at my funeral” began to be used by people as a way to express
the admiration for a song that they enjoyed very much.
Which brings us to its use as a meme!
The popular music streaming service Spotify saw a marketing opportunity with the phrase
and decided to release a commercial based around the concept.
Featuring the music group DNCE!
Wait.
Is that who I think it is?
It is!!!
Don’t think we forget who you REALLY are Joe Jonas.
We will never forget about your dark past!
In the commercial the band makes a remark about how a playlist titled ”Play this at
my funeral” features one of their upbeat songs and how awkward that funeral would be
if it actually occurred.
The format of the commercial was perfect for remixes and funny variations which began to
appear online in the following months.
The original song is swapped out for other songs or audio that is extremely unfitting
and awkward for a funeral, creating a humous video remix series in the process.
“so a couple of our songs are on this playlist called play this at my funeral by allyman.
I just can’t imagine anybody listening to this at a funeral.
That’s a pretty messed up funeral.”
So there you have it!!!
play this at my funeral started off as a beautiful tradition that has been around for thousands
of years before becoming a marketing angle for a company which eventually turned into
a meme!!
Welcome to 2017
But hey!!!
That’s the internet for you and on the internet memes are keeng!!
Thank you all so very much for watching make sure to subscribe so you can catch my next
video and stay up to date on all your favorite memes and trends!!
Who knows you may learn about something you never knew about before!!!
I’ll catch you beautiful people next time!!!
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go make a play this at my funeral playlist of songs
that rock so hard its gonna give the priest a heart attack.
Yeah!
This will do the job.
This is gonna do the job good.
Rock on guys!
Rock on!