It's no surprise that UK band Kero Kero Bonito is really into video games — after all, they did the Bugsnax theme song. But their latest music video, for a song called "rom com 2021" recorded with American singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy, pulls inspiration from everyone's favourite avatar: Nintendo's Mii.
The music video has a distinctly retro aesthetic, with the Miis exploring a low-poly Katamari-like world until glitches make everything go all weird, and... is that Richard the dog from Ocarina of Time?
Maybe next, Kero Kero Bonito and/or Soccer Mommy could do a cover of the Mii Channel Theme...? It's about time it had lyrics. Especially since the Wii Shop Theme already has lyrics.
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Can... Can they just do that? Take the miis and the zelda dog model and use them for their music video?
🎶 how many shrimps do you have to eat, before you make your skin turn pink 🎶
Kero Kero Bonito is a GIFT.
It’s a shame I can’t really stand Soccer Mommy, I’m a big KKB fan and loved seeing them live before everything went to sh*t.
T H E Y A R E E V E R Y W H E R E
That beach segment at the end there looks a lot like the starting line in Cheep Cheep Beach from Mario Kart DS.. hmm...
Damn this is a good song. I love Underground Pop so much <3
The video is titled Rom Com 2004, but the Wii (along with it's Miis) didn't arrive until 2006.
Yes, I'm going to be "that" person, lol.
I wouldn't have recognized him by myself but that is definitely Richard from OoT
❗Expect a takedown in 5...
@Bobb I will never not appreciate Richard
@PBandSmelly you only have nostalgia because you don't listen to the song every day, as you should
Can they do that? I mean?
@KateGray that's very admirable and I thank you.
As a dog person, I'm ashamed I didn't even remember Richard had a name. Time to up my video game doggo game
@Bobb to be fair, Richard is just one named dog amongst several identical dogs in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
This could very much be the dog that runs around the Clock Tower. (Which may or may not be named Richard)
@Eel You are right, of course
I just want to think I should have payed more attention to the dog NPCs from a game over 20 years old
I mean this is trash music
Flamingo was a great song. I'll check this out later.
Also, if they didn't get permission to use those assets, they're really stupid and are inviting a take-down.
2:19 = Kirby 64 vibes, big time. Cool song, trippy video, I like it.
@PessitheMystic Username approved.
I looked at the title of the article and thought "Well, that's a lot of random words."
I must be old.
Shrimps are pretty rich.
@OrangeSoda I think this is just something the writer is into.
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