Alanis Morissette covers BEP’s “My Humps”

Yesterday, recording artist Alanis Morissette, who is best known for her unique vocals and memorable lyrics, released a video on YouTube in which she parodies both the song and video for the Black Eyed Peas’ club bumper “My Humps.” The video is funny, but it’s her cover of the song that really shines, exposing the pure absurdity of the lyrics in “My Humps.” It is difficult to pay close attention to the song when watching the video, in which Alanis mocks the booty-shaking Fergie of Black Eyed Peas, however if you do, you’ll notice how great a cover it actually is.

According to Wikipedia, the video welcomed an astounding 200,000 hits in its first day, and as of posting this, has nearly 1,000,000 hits, not including the duplicates that have cropped up across YouTube. That a video can reach more than a million people within 48 hours of being published is yet another great example of how YouTube is changing the way we obtain and share new sources of information and entertainment, not only online, but in our lives in general.