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TAKE THREE MINUTES and watch this. It’s worth it, we promise.
Writer Jim Mortleman carefully constructed the lyrics of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love using people’s Twitter names – and the result is a feat of research and editing.
Here’s the line “This tainted love you’ve given”, for example:
(The video has also informed us that an astonishing amount of people have ‘merp merp’ in their usernames, but that may be besides the point.)
Friday 8 November, 2024
Friday 8 November, 2024
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Twitter 'covered' Tainted Love and it's bringing people so much joy
TAKE THREE MINUTES and watch this. It’s worth it, we promise.
Writer Jim Mortleman carefully constructed the lyrics of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love using people’s Twitter names – and the result is a feat of research and editing.
Here’s the line “This tainted love you’ve given”, for example:
(The video has also informed us that an astonishing amount of people have ‘merp merp’ in their usernames, but that may be besides the point.)
It’s three minutes of fun that’s made a lot of people very happy over the past few days:
Hats off, Jim. Hats bloody off.
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