| "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" | ||||
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| Single by Tom Green | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 2:38 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tom Green | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Green | |||
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"Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" is a novelty song by Canadian comedian Tom Green, created in 1999 for The Tom Green Show. When the show moved to MTV, Green released it as a single, encouraging visitors to download the song (an mp3) for free from his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends. The music video was filmed by Jeff Boggs in Seattle, Washington.[1]
This song's nonsensical, comedic lyrics deal with various objects upon which the narrator's buttocks are placed, such as a step, a taxi, a railing, cheese, bubblegum, a dog, a cat, a telephone, an old man, a boat (inaccurately described as a battleship), and the letters SWEDISH in front of the Swedish Medical Center, from which the name of the song is derived. He claims that the objects become lonely when he is not there to put his bum on them before asking the listeners to "get the poo off my bum".
The full music video which aired on MTV's The Tom Green Show shows Green in a variety of costumes placing his bum on the objects before arriving at Lake Washington where he wades in to find a loon which is actually a duck decoy. The video ends with Green screaming “None of this is real!”[2]
The song's lyrics were interpolated in the first verse of "The Real Slim Shady" (2000) by Eminem and again in “Without Me” (2002). The video also featured Eminem in a superhero outfit similar to the one worn in Green's video.[1]