Helloween make funny videos

[davidn]

kjorteo showed me this. It's incredible.

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I'd known that they'd done... well, I thought it was simply an acoustic album, so I thought I knew what to expect before clicking the link, but I didn't expect Dr Stein meets The Blues Brothers. The only explanation for this is that they wanted to re-invoke the Chameleon spirit and further wind up the fans who deny everything that they've ever been after Michael Kiske's merciful departure.

Comments

[kjorteo]

They appear to have based this entire video on the premise "screw it, let's just have fun with this." I mean, everyone from the band to the guy playing Dr. Stein appears to be having a blast with all the hamming up they get to do, really. They could be trying to troll their own fanbase, too--if the number of Ruined FOREVER comments on this video are any indication, it appears to have worked.

Also, the face warping on the "they become great politicians" line is amazing, and probably my favorite part of the entire video.

[davidn]

Increasingly, it seems that that's the premise of the entire band - and they made that pretty clear right from the very start with things like "Rise and Fall" starring a swanee-whistle, and, well, Dr Stein itself originally. They revel in silliness, and for that reason it's mystifying that as shown in those video comments, there are somehow people under the impression that there's any point in taking any of it seriously.

That face-warping gave me a huge jump the first time it happened, and I had to make sure when embedding this that it wasn't dead in the middle and therefore shown in the preview picture!