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Who is Jeremy Shum and why is he being called the New "Weird Al"?

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dragonballg...@gmail.com

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Sep 8, 2008, 2:38:50 AM9/8/08
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Jeremy Shum is the host of the Disney music chart hit show "Disney30
Countdown" who uses a wide variety of jingles and skits in his radio
show. The jingles are mostly parodies of teen pop ("tween") artists.
His song where he proposes to the world's biggest teen rock star Demi
Lovato, asking her to marry him, which propelled him to the notorious
position as the New "Weird Al". The popular mix utilizes auto-tune
software to provide a bubblegum pop sound.

Joseph Nebus

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Sep 8, 2008, 1:36:49 PM9/8/08
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A new Weird Al? Are we supposed to return the unused portions
of the old Weird Al for a full refund?

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Joseph nebus
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Derek Janssen

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Sep 8, 2008, 3:39:30 PM9/8/08
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Joseph Nebus wrote:

> A new Weird Al? Are we supposed to return the unused portions
> of the old Weird Al for a full refund?

I'm not sure what a Radio Disney star proposing to a Disney Channel star
has to do with "Dare To Be Stupid" or "Smells Like Nirvana"...

Derek Janssen (child of the 80's, to whom any invocation of the Weird
One is SACRED, and not to be uttered in vain)
eja...@verizon.net

Doug Elrod

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Sep 8, 2008, 5:35:51 PM9/8/08
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On Sep 8, 2:38 am, dragonballgangelfli...@gmail.com wrote:
> Jeremy Shum is the host of the Disney music chart hit show "Disney30
> Countdown" who uses a wide variety of jingles and skits in his radio
> show.

So, basically just like MST3K... except that MST3K is a *comedy* show,
to borrow from
Frank Conniff :-)

> The jingles are mostly parodies of teen pop ("tween") artists.

Hmmm, I wonder how this genre would relate to the *Rugrats* parody
subculture.

> His song where he proposes to the world's biggest teen rock star Demi
> Lovato, asking her to marry him, which propelled him to the notorious
> position as the New "Weird Al".

Perhaps it's just the copyeditor in me struggling to get out, but this
sentence seems to be loaded with subordinate clauses, but no main verb
phrase. Maybe we could supply one, such as

"... was ironically a mash-up of Smells Like Nirvana, Fat, Germs, and
My Baby's in Love with Eddie Vedder!"

> The popular mix utilizes auto-tune software to provide a bubblegum pop sound.

Is that anything like the CARTUNER? I wonder what kind of bubblegum
pop sound you'd get if you mixed BAZOOKA JOE with FUNKY WINKERBEAN!

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu) :-)

Fish Eye no Miko

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Sep 9, 2008, 9:47:44 PM9/9/08
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This guy's a spammer, folks.. He went on an anime ng talking about
how this Jeremy guy looked like an anime character. d-:

Catherine Johnson.

Derek Janssen

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Sep 10, 2008, 12:28:01 AM9/10/08
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Fish Eye no Miko wrote:

> This guy's a spammer, folks.. He went on an anime ng talking about
> how this Jeremy guy looked like an anime character. d-:

And the Disney groups saying why we should care about a Radio Disney guy
and a Disney Channel girl.

Derek Janssen (silly!)
eja...@verizon.net

finit...@gmail.com

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Oct 1, 2008, 10:57:19 PM10/1/08
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On Sep 8, 3:38 pm, dragonballgangelfli...@gmail.com wrote:
> JeremyShumis the host of the Disney music chart hit show "Disney30

Disney only allows their Disney girls to be with other Disney guys.
Demi Lovato went a bit far and took it to Radio Disney :)
What a naughty, naughty girl!

jeremys...@gmail.com

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Oct 30, 2008, 4:32:06 AM10/30/08
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"Probably the most popular and controversial jingles, which later
turned into a Weird-Al Yancovich-like Backstreet Boys Parody, is the
song "I Propose on My Knees", which is a song dedicated to Demi
Lovato. This song where Shum tells Lovato she could be his "Ashlee
Simpson" has shot beyond fame of any other parody song, hitting a
record number of MySpace hits, before it was taken off, as unofficial
audio."

Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1140482/jeremy_shum_sings_to_demi_lovato_as.html?page=2&cat=49

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