Bits Don’t Lie: A Net Neutrality Music Video
Welcome to CultureLick. We made this video about a topic that creative people of all shapes and shades deeply care about…
— or should care about. It is a news leitmotiv called “Net Neutrality” that recently is building into a crescendo up in Washington. Do you want your Internet Service Providers to be slowing your file sharing, inserting ads or even blocking some content? Neither do we. So we, a group of friends, decided to create Bits Don’t Lie— a music video that is a parody of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie song. More importantly it is a celebration of keeping the Internet free, non-corporate and crazy. To quote David Weekly, “In Soviet Russia, culture lick YOU!” (see him on video). Exactly, David!
Why should you watch Bits Don’t Lie?
- Tim Draper raps like he comes straight from the Hood
- Randi Zuckerberg sings her heart out
- I dance, play the flute, and am chased by three scary telecom zombies– David Weekly, Svetlozar Kazanjiev and Ben “Hsuperman” Hsu
- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is featured through excerpts from his groundbreaking 9/21/09 speech supporting Net Neutrality and proposing new rules to ensure the Internet remains free (read the transcript of the full speech)
Bits Don’t Lie (lyrics & script)
Tim Draper: “Geeks up in here tonight
No fighting
We got the FCC up in here
No fighting
No fighting”
I never really knew that we could surf like this
This makes a woman wants to speak PHP
Kohana (si), Pear (si), Recursion…
Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs on my body
[show sign on the arm, saying “KEEP IT FREE!” in ASCII Hexadecimal encoding]
And I’m online tonight
You know the bits don’t lie
And I’m starting to feel it’s right
The bandwidth, the freedom,
Don’t you see baby, this is so open
Hey Girl, I can see these guidelines changing
And it’s driving me crazy
And I didn’t didn’t know if I should believe
Until I saw Genachowski
And when he walks the Congress floor
Nobody cannot ignore the way he moves us all, girl
And everything so perfected – the way he right and lefts it
So we can keep on shaking it
I never really knew that we could surf like this
This makes a woman wants to speak PHP
Kohana (si), Pear (si), Recursion…
Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs on my body
[show sign on the arm, saying “KEEP IT FREE!” in ASCII Hexadecimal encoding]
And I’m online tonight
You know the bits don’t lie
And I’m starting to feel it’s right
The bandwidth, the freedom,
Don’t you see baby, this is so open
Oh I know I am online tonight these bits don’t lie
And I am starting to feel it’s right
The bandwidth, the freedom,
Don’t you see baby, this is so neutral
[following is an extended battle scene between the Internet and the Telecom Zombies: David, wearing the Comcast t-shirt, Ben, wearing the AT&T brand, and Svetlozar representing Verizon:
The 3 telecoms (David, Ben and Svetlozar) try to offer the Internet (Drue) fruits to bribe her, but get rejected.
Then they attack, try to capture her by crushing her to the ground, and try to bind her to a tree– again unsuccessfully.]
Julius Genachowski: “It is to make sure that in the 21 century the garage, the basement and the dorm room remain places where innovators can not only dream, but bring their dreams to life. And that’s something none of us can be neutral about”
[applause]
[Comcast’s face turns from happy to sad]
[finishing with “video signatures” by supporters of Net Neutrality]
He’s a good guy though, and I applaud him for supporting the cause.
very nice and unique!!