Alanis unveils silly 'Humps'

Posted by Duilawyer (A) on April 6, 2007 at 06:06:51

The Black Eyed Peas song that won't go away lives on in a cover by Alanis Morissette.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
April 5, 2007

Now, isn't this ironic? Alanis Morissette wants to tell you all about her lovely lady lumps.

Yes, the woman who created a cultural landmark with the defiant female voice of "You Oughta Know" in 1995, is tearing up the Internet this week with an unexpected (and sublimely silly) cover version of "My Humps," that leering Black Eyed Peas song that just won't go away.

The video, which you can find here at top30videos.com/videos/music/, was an April Fool's Day gag that just keeps going and now is spawning parodies of its own. In it, with a mournful piano in the background, Morissette sings with an aching sincerity about "all that junk inside that trunk" and those other now-classic lyrics from the Peas, such as: "Make you scream, make you scream/'cause of my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump/My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps."

The 2005 Peas song may be painfully bad to pop critics (some are calling it one of the worst ever) but it shows no signs of slowing down.

It won a 2007 Grammy (best pop performance by a duo or group) and it keeps echoing in pop culture, such as Will Ferrell's performance of it in the top film of the moment, "Blades of Glory" or Stephen Colbert's recent crooning of it on "The Colbert Report."

The Peas may have a chance to do a sequel song, because there's still some untouched rhyme left in the, uh, trunk: In the hit they refer to female anatomy as a trunk with junk, a hump, a lump and a bump a combined 57 times, and never even once use the word rump.

geoff.boucher@latimes.com

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Topic - Alanis unveils silly 'Humps' - Duilawyer 06:06:51 04/06/07 (1)

Lucky they didn't use the word "dump" then... - dave c 14:21:17 04/06/07 (0)

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