Patrick Catanzariti » internet fad http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com Online portfolio and blog of Sydney based web designer/developer - Patrick Catanzariti. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:41:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Pants on the Ground http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2010/01/pants-on-the-ground/ http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/2010/01/pants-on-the-ground/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:03:54 +0000 Patrick Catanzariti http://www.patrickcatanzariti.com/?p=218 Read the rest]]> After seeing this on American Idol, I had a feeling it was going to become one of those things that lasted a lot longer than just the one brief audition. I was looking forward to seeing it pop up somewhere. Sure enough it has with Snorg Tees making a shirt and a heap of covers already appearing on YouTube. Wikipedia (yes, I’m aware that I’m quoting Wikipedia) states that “within one week, the video was seen by approximately 5 million on Youtube, had over 1 million fans on Facebook, and was repeated on television by Jimmy Fallon and Brett Favre.” Gotta love the internet!

For those who haven’t seen it, have a look:

The shirt being sold by Snorg Tees looks like this (it’s at http://www.snorgtees.com/pantsontheground-p-1024.html
 if you’d like to impulse buy yourself one):

The Snorg Tee.

The Snorg Tee.

A pretty good cover of the song has been done by a musician called Brent Morgan, I was pretty impressed:

Here is Jimmy Fallon’s very different cover of the song on his show:

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