Drake dances to some of television’s greatest hits, thanks to the internet
On Monday night, Canadian superstar Drake released the video for his latest hit single, “Hotline Bling,” on Apple Music. By Tuesday, the internet was already neck deep in parodies and remixes, as expected. The video, directed by fellow Canadian Julien Christian Lutz, better known as Director X, is nothing too out of the ordinary for Drizzy. Over a mid-tempo groove, a predictably mopey, mournful, and sweatshirted Drake, shaken to his core by some estrangement of affection, gently sways and gyrates amid geometric, color-changing sets. Also, he’s haunted by sex line operators for some reason. Par for the course, really. But the denizens of the internet have taken “Hotline Bling” in some strange and gratifyingly uncool directions. One popular tactic has been to sync Drake’s dance moves to popular television theme songs. Twitter user @tole_cover, for instance, chose Kelsey Grammer’s immortal “Tossed Salads And Scrambled Eggs” from Frasier.