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Fake Rahm Emanuel Persuades Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy To Cover Black Eyed Peas

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Posted by Katherine St Asaph on 09/07/2011 at 9:13 AM Videos

The Popdust Files: black eyed peas, Cover, viral video, wtf

Sometimes we’re genuinely shocked at the stuff the Internet presents us with, even when it doesn’t involve egg devouring or Kardashians. This is gonna require some backstory. Rahm Emanuel, former White House aide and later mayor of Chicago, is an interesting guy (Google it for a fun few hours), enough to inspire what The Atlantic called the best fake Twitter account ever, @MayorEmanuel (more fun hours at that link). The guy behind the account, Dan Sinker, is promoting his book aptly called The F***ing Epic Quest of @MayorEmanuel. Part of said epic quest involved persuading Illinois musician and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy to perform some BEP at his fundraiser: “Tweedy’s being pissy because he doesn’t want to play any Black Eyed Peas songs. What the fuck? People love that shit.” This could really only end one way.

If you ignore the slight, inevitable “look, I’m performing pop music, how silly of me,” aspect, this is actually a pretty good acoustic version, worth hearing even if the above paragraph completely went over your head. (We’re still in awe.) But if you really learn any lesson from this, learn this: the Black Eyed Peas have, like, a million lyrics. Every one of their songs is four pages long. Karaokists beware.