That, in turn, allowed the “Big Enough” video to spread in a manner more befitting 2007 than 2017. The assumption was that a gaggle of weirdos had really believed this was powerful art. To an American audience, it wasn’t immediately obvious that Barnes was in on the joke of a faux-cringe, ironically earnest song with lyrics including “It’s serious in Syria / Believe in us Bolivia / We’re Ghana be big enough / For Africa, South Africa,” a fact that doubtlessly propelled it to mainstream favor. It also captured or broadcast the intent to troll and shitpost through the pain. The Screaming Cowboy said, “I’m singing, but I’m shrieking I’m laughing, but I’m losing my mind.”
On Twitter, screencaps were juxtaposed with absurd news items to suggest a combined angst and ecstasy at the current historical moment. The screaming was so singular - and so surprisingly catchy, in fact - that any still image of Jimmy Barnes as that Western spirit-deity lodged in the heavens was soon enough to trigger the sense-memory of the tune he delivered. Later, the song will have a touch of additional screaming, yet only by way of basic denouement.īut the core scream? This earned a 10-hour YouTube loop that has 1.8 million views alone. After eight measures at this incredible pitch, he does the unthinkable and gives you even more, vaulting into the stratosphere to carry this melody to its only correct release. First, Lewis’ reverberant whistle builds to the drop, and then, without warning, it’s Barnes, squalling at his upper range over a synth-y, hard-pulsing beat, like some maniacal disco Springsteen. It erupts into the composition right as you’ve started to realize it is much more than an odd, techno-tinged take on country cliché. Guttery and phlegm-loosening, yet roiling with raw power and professionalism, it speaks to the confidence of a veteran entertainer who gives any recording session, however bizarre, his absolute all. The scream itself is worth close analysis. Honestly that screaming cowboy song slaps and you can’t convince me otherwise I respected him a lot before but holy shit.
Pat Patrick September 1, 2019Īdam Jones's at-bat music is The Screaming Cowboy Meme Song. I wanna listen to screaming cowboy but my wife is asleep. If “Big Enough” exists, the brain reasons, then anything you imagine can happen. It’s a brilliant bit of stagecraft, convincing you this is possible. Barnes dramatizes jerkily with his hands, scrunches up his eyes and holds on to the brim of his hat for dear life, as if the force of his wailing may cause it to fly off his head. The key factor was Jimmy Barnes as a giant, translucent cowboy set in clear blue sky over the horizon - in a montage of varying cowboy clothes and landscapes - screaming his goddamn face off, but always perfectly on-key, as the pivotal dance-floor breakdown hits around the 2:20 mark. And he did so as the Screaming Cowboy.Ĭurrently at 44.46 million views and counting, the “Big Enough” video didn’t go viral because of its batshit concept or killer hooks. At a dark moment, Jimmy’s cameo performance was the light. It’s possible, nonetheless, that millions of Americans would never have known about him, or “Big Enough,” were it not for the deliberately insane, six-minute music video opus, which catapulted both into a pantheon of holy internet relics. It features three other talents from Down Under: indie-rocker Alex Cameron, the world’s best whistler in Molly Lewis, and Scottish-Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes - a man of a different sound and generation altogether, though one of the best-selling artists from his country.
The pitch for the 2017 song “Big Enough,” by the eclectic Aussie musician Kirin J Callinan, is already pretty strange on paper: a spaghetti-western-ballad-meets-EDM-club-banger that starts as a meditation on cowboys learning to share a town and levels up into a call for global peace.
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