How Ringtones Dominated the Music Industry | Mic The Snare

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I finally have an excuse to talk about Crazy Frog for an extended period of time. I have officially peaked.
Let me know your favorite memory of ringtones in the comments!
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Gopinath, Sumanth S. The Ringtone Dialectic Economy and Cultural Form. The MIT Press, 2013.
- This is a great book that goes way more into other facets of the ringtone industry, plus it also contains the phrase "the one moment in which Crazy Frog acquires a true phallus"
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@laserrlife 4 года назад

“Swedish teenager recorded himself mimicking the sound of a motorcycle.” *Oh no.*

@IslayAnderson 3 года назад

all great musical achievements always have something to do with Swedish teens

@pinkajou656 3 года назад

Why oh no...

@enshen2190 Год назад

@@pinkajou656 🐸

@waywardwillard 4 года назад

Your analysis of ringtones in the 2000s just makes me want you to make a decade retrospective of the 2000s even more

@lad9732 4 года назад

Please i beg u. U can even make a series of short videos covering different genres to make it easier on you.

@dallas4586 4 года назад

dude you definitely should i’d love to see something like that

@dunnowy123 4 года назад

Yes!!!

@WhateverWhenever888 4 года назад

YES I WOULD LOVE THAT!

@umbrelladown2805 4 года назад

Please do this! I concur

@w0mb0l0mb0 4 года назад

"Chris Martin defeated by a naked frog, I'm a Coldplay fan and even I love to see it" as a Coldplay fan I love to hear this joke. The joke landed and I landed on the floor from laughing too hard at this one

@vickyc2573 4 года назад

When I was a little girl I used to dream about the day I could have my first very own mobile phone and getting to customise it with a ringtone, which I hoped would be Ice Ice Baby. Every word of that sentence is 100% the truth

@googyta 4 года назад

Did you make it happen?

@vickyc2573 4 года назад

@@googyta By the time I got my first phone I had become obsessed with The X-Files, so I had the theme tune as my ringtone instead

@vickyc2573 4 года назад

@@uidFluiq I used to get songs on my phone by holding the phone up to the computer speakers and recording it. It would have been appalling quality but it would definitely have been Ice Ice Baby, no mistaking!

@rayazkhan9498 3 года назад

"Crazy Frog was the Old Town Road of the 2000s" Mic, you're a genius critic, editor, explainer, and entertainer. I love your work. Thank you so much for sharing it

@liamthemusicreviewer 4 года назад

So happy to have manifested something so blessed/cursed into the world

@cd.riscado 4 года назад

The jamster ad with the KKK guy, eye-

@samanteater 4 года назад

That's not even the most 'problematic in hindsight' ad they ever put out. Look up 'Der Bonker'

@klinchrx 4 года назад

How is the name of that Jamster ad? Is it in RU-vid? I'm looking it up and I can't find it lmao

@bigredjanie 4 года назад

@@klinchrx I can't find it either! Very strange...

@Papabandana 3 года назад

I'm in fucking tears.

@liltylenoll6955 3 года назад

@@klinchrx still looking for it and nothing shows up

@HarrietCereza 4 года назад

This bought a very specific memory flooding right back to me. In 2005, my best friend got a Crazy Frog cake for his 11th birthday. It came with a little electronic device that, when you pressed a button, played Crazy Frog noises. We were very excited to take it to school the next day to see what havoc we could cause. The moment came in the middle of geography, our least favourite lesson due to it being taught by a bearded sociopath who hated children. My friend held the Crazy Frog device in his hand, declared "I swear, on this Holy Frog Grenade, to annoy all my enemies into little bits", and threw it across the classroom. The teacher was furious while we laughed harder than we ever had before or since. My friend never got his Holy Frog Grenade back, but it was worth it. It's been 15 years and we still laugh about it to this day. Can't believe that one of my favourite memories from school involves the Crazy Frog but there you go. Nostalgia is weird.

@Nippontradamus 2 года назад

That's absolutely hilarious and dope as heck. Your friend had balls of steel

@dunnowy123 4 года назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention the elephant in the room...making songs that work for ringtones - short, ear wormy tidbits - is really similar to people designing songs for TIK TOK today. We've kinda come back to it, where songs like Savage, Old Town Road and Savage Love are only where they are because are PERFECT for TIK TOK.

@TwoBs 2 года назад

Yup, I’ve come across this topic brought up on several different music channels. People getting discovered specifically for music they’ve made to be used in TikToks, and touching on the topic how it’s kinda worrisome for music as a whole with the market becoming so over saturated with short songs trying to create a catchy hook to be heard by millions … if found. Wonder how things will be in 10 years. 😬

@gabe_s_videos Год назад

David Byrne's book "How Music Works" talks a lot about how music has always been affected by technology in some form or another, and not just in the last 20 or so years: the three-minute pop song was the result of songs needing to be short enough to play on the radio in-between advertisements. Music on early records had a lot of treble in it because the microphones were better at capturing higher frequencies than lower ones. Big symphonies were written to suit grand music halls. Songbirds and whales have had to sing louder for the past couple of centuries to accommodate human construction and activity. Art challenges technology, technology inspires art.

@annisa412 4 года назад

Nothing can replace the look on Mic’s face when he finally got to talk about crazy frog....an experience 10/10

@kcisme144 4 года назад

for the longest time I had the Kim Possible "do do do do" as my notification tone, which gave me some the BEST interactions with strangers in public

@petertorres1980 4 года назад

Thought this was gonna be about 100 gecs Still not disappointed

@DeronHargrove 4 года назад

I'm glad he mentioned it

@jefferyjones8399 4 года назад

My first phone was a Samsung flip phone. I bought a polyphonic version of "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand for the ringtone. What a time to be alive.

@Danae_O 4 года назад

flashback to actually buying a polyphonic ringtone as a preteen and immediately feeling scammed

@benburke3015 4 года назад

11:47 Oh yeah that Live Aid performance was legendary. Thought his career took a bit of nose dive after the infamous Glass Frog tour, but he'll always be near and dear to our hearts.

@TS-pp3xw 4 года назад

I lost it at this moment in the video and you hit me with more

@lulairenoroub3869 3 года назад

You could ring tones were obsolete at the time. I remember watching these ads on cable and bring like, "Why are you paying for these songs? They are free!" The only reason people bought them was because they didn't think they had an option. I'm the polyphonic era they were a little more correct, but I never encountered a phone that could do "truetone" that couldn't just record the song with the phone's mic, or transfer a .wav to the phone to be used as a ringtone if you wanted to. It wasn't like next level hacking either. I remember Bluetooth file transfer being a pretty simple thing that people just did in the mid 2000s, long before the first iPhone.

@Maria_745 4 года назад

I was shocked by the $1.1 billion, I thought pirating ringtones was very popular. In the early days of polyphonic ringtones that meant recording a song when it came on the radio but a few years later i remember websites that would either have a collection of ringtones or the ability to upload an mp3 to create your own and text yourself the file

@celeritas2-810 2 года назад

This is also my memory

@nabeelmukhtar2871 4 года назад

Be honest you just wanted to make this to talk about crazy frog for 10 minutes. Talk about Eiffel 65 next

@jnrtherapper 2 года назад

You’re not gonna believe this but he did

@C19520 3 года назад

There was a period of time in middle school when my ringtone was "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isenguard," and my summer camp roommate that year used "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" as hers. Those songs are permanently seared into my cranium, I'll tell you what

@joaoassumpcao3347 4 года назад

Surprised you didn't talk about the Crazy Frog discography

@MicTheSnare 4 года назад

Don't worry it's in the works 😂

@Rallllllllllll 3 года назад

@@MicTheSnare WHERE

@gcwens 2 года назад

@@MicTheSnare we're waiting for it...

@Buster256 15 дней назад

@@MicTheSnare Do it you coward

@srkennel3 3 года назад

The one and only reason I stopped using ringtones in the mid 2000s was because the people on Laguna Beach used just basic rings. I immediately deleted all of my downloaded ringtones and just set my phone to a regular phone ring. I felt SO cool.

@SamAronow 4 года назад

This is what Arctic Monkeys warned us about. If not for ringtones I would never have learned about ASBOs.

@Datlumskey 4 года назад

Knew A Certain Romance was going to make an appearance in the comments

@hazelsingh3887 4 года назад

What’s an ASBO?

@SamAronow 4 года назад

Hazel Singh A restraining order for “anti-social” (read: stereotypically lower-class) crimes in the British legal system.

@billpeel4408 4 года назад

My first thought when I hit play

@hardfiled 4 года назад

This was a hell of a nostalgia trip

@lilwaterpump3289 4 года назад

As a 00s' kid whose parents didn't get me a phone until around 2011 I remember seeing a ton of ringtone and being really confused about how the hell they worked

@Northergamerznorthznorth3 4 года назад

In 2030 you'll be making How Tik Toks Dominated the Music Industry | Mic The Snare

@MicahRion 4 года назад

I SCREAMED when I realized we were gonna talk about Crazy Frog.

@mitchlmitten5874 3 года назад

“And it’s leading figure was arguably YOOOOOUUUU” Best part

@KnockMonsterr 4 года назад

but does my boy have his own?

@lydiavalentino 4 года назад

is it the only one i know?

@sofiamolina2697 3 года назад

is it one i answer?

@Karlagrammar 4 года назад

You really tapping into my childhood with this one

@DJPuzzles 4 года назад

In college, my ringtone for my boyfriend was "My Phone's on Vibrate For You" by Rufus Wainwright. And I knew when I called my friend I would have to wait 15 seconds for her to pick up because she would enjoy the song for a while before picking up.

@Testgeraeusch 4 года назад

About 2000s rap: This explaines a lot... About Jamster/Jamba: I remember we even had school lessons on the dangers of these subscriptions. It typically came out when the child asked for a new cellphone "because the old one is kinda broken" = he/she can't use it for making calls because the monthly fees exceeded their pocket money. About my ringtone: My boss nearly jumped when i forgot to mute it and Slayer disturbed the weekly meeting. Worth it.

@grammerincorrect 4 года назад

I use one of Dianes joke ringtones from Bojack as my actual ringtone (when I don’t have my phone on silent) so loved the reference hahah. The Serial one

@nathanberzmax6238 4 года назад

When you get a notification from MictheSnare while watching MictheSnare.

@nathanberzmax6238 4 года назад

Oh and there's an Official Crazy Frog Discord.

@nathanberzmax6238 4 года назад

and I can't believe you forgot about Crazy Butt! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OGiIfPyUtk8.html

@kedsarama 2 года назад

Honestly I've always kinda wanted this trend to make some kind of comeback. I remember seeing those commercials constantly during the 2000s and wanting a cell phone specifically to have a funny ringtone, but by the time I actually got my first phone, the whole fad had pretty much ended.

@anonymouse9510 Год назад

I remember my mum giving me a completely non-functional flip-phone as a kid, and I would just spend hours and hours sitting and listening to all the ringtones. It was actually really weird they were all basically the same and this was in 2013

@bgl1335 4 года назад

my boys got-

@aidan331 4 года назад

HIS OWN RINGTONE

@sofiamolina2697 3 года назад

ITS THE ONLY ONE I ANSEWER

@Stelios78910 4 года назад

So glad you credited Thomas Dolby! He's a legend. His book Speed of Sound is a great as well. Love the 2000s lookbacks, keep it up Mic.

@smoov22_sonic 4 года назад

Ringtone Rap video lets gooooo 3 minutes into animated moles: *uh ok sure*

@Fiona_fml 3 года назад

The deep set childhood memories you unleashed in me with the words “Schnuffle Bunny”

@miaferrari958 2 года назад

To think I was so excited when I bought my first ringtone, and even more so after managing to "compose" a Sublime ringtone knowing jack-all about music, and now I keep my phone on vibrate/silent at all times.

@ryanrobinson2293 4 года назад

Ah yes, Crazy Frog one of the greatest artists in recent memory

@Shalalacls 4 года назад

I remember my country had its own "ringtone culture": we got crazy frog and some of those cgaracters dubbed in my language, but there were also our own things, like the ringtones to celebrate when we won the World Cup in 2006. It was about the player who got headbutted on the field.

@benl8070 3 года назад

Thomas Dolby really HAS done everything, huh?

@a.nightgold870 4 года назад

Bless you, you cursed, righteous man

@niknik166 4 года назад

I'm 25 and I love watching videos like these... It reminds me of how old I'm getting...

@aias8209 3 года назад

I just remembered the time when I wanted a song as my ringtone, tried to download it on limewire, got all the porn and viruses, then cried while trying to catch the perfect moment on radio to record a part of the song I wanted. After like 15 tries I was SO PROUD of my success (and this was like 10 days later, because songs don't just play on repeat on radio) and my friends were also impressed, so I sent the song to them as well and soon everyone in my school had that clip as their ringtone and I no longer liked that song or wanted it as my ringtone...

@Bobskater1000 4 года назад

I remember when I was younger I set my ringtone for whenever I called my mom to be Stewie griffin saying “mom, mom, mummy momma, etc.” funniest thing is she actually kept it on for a long time

@KamilHenri 4 года назад

I always keep my phone on maximum volume to assert dominance with my Annoying Thing ringtone in public

@michalvalko248 3 года назад

Oh man what a joy it was when you created your own ringtone in composer...

@missbrujalala 4 года назад

I literally had Soulja Boy as my ringtone when I was a teen. Gotta love the 00s.

@liamhell3124 4 года назад

that jamie xx fact hit me outta NOWHERE

@nickbb6185 4 года назад

why is this the best music commentary channel on youtube

@Psychlist1972 3 года назад

"Does anyone not have their phone on vibrate these days?" Yeah. Everyone else at the airport, unfortunately. Also, they have their keyboard tap sounds on max, and that stupid whistling alert sound, still. Well, at least a year ago when I was last at an airport.

@kentrzacherl 4 года назад

I remember spending UNITS on TracFone ringtones. It was wild to pay the equivalent of about $4.25 for a super low quality version of "OMG" by Usher. OMG was my ringtone from 2011 until probably 2014 🙈

@woah729 4 года назад

First off, just wanted to say I love the video as usual. Okay so my favorite story regarding this ringtones is that when I was in 1st grade, one of my classmates snuck a cellphone into class. In the middle of one of the teacher’s lectures, the ringtone went off and...it was A Milli by Lil Wayne. Needless to say, he was suspended for a couple of days and it’s one of my only fond memories regarding school.

@rosemulet 4 года назад

I can’t believe I just watched a 20 minute video praising crazy frog

@GCDzn 4 года назад

I can absolutely confirm the fact that we Brits saw Crazy Frog many, many times every day at its peak. jeeez that was a trip

@cptorange1687 Год назад

I was way too young for a phone so the ringtone magazine pages were always strange to me but one of my friends brought a crazy frog CD to school everyday, which was always a hit. I feel sorry for our teachers

@FramingthePicture 4 года назад

Your genuine enthusiasm about finally getting to talk about Crazy Frog in length is delightful and has made following your content all the more fulfilling EDIT: CRAZY FROG HELPED MAKE THE JAMIE XX "GOSH" VIDEO HAPPEN?!!?!??!?

@almostshawn3230 4 года назад

I've spent years tearing Crazy Frog from my mind, and you brought it back to the forefront. I hate how much I love you.

@arrow_awsome 2 года назад

one of my friends whose older then me recomended this video when i was surprised that ringtones used to cost money. very informative thanks!

@lindaaa3256 4 года назад

bro your content is so good you really pick the best topics to talk about and always have quality research to back up your claims hope your channel blows up soon

@djkhemix Год назад

It's funny to hear someone explaining early ringtone culture in this way because I was old enough to be immersed in it at the time and none of it seemed that weird. I never paid for any ringtones but I would spend a lot of time using the composer function on my Nokia 3310 to recreate melodies from songs I liked with the help of people online who worked out which buttons to press in which order. I remember finding it funny when I'd finish the process and listen to the result and find out I'd pressed a wrong button at some point and part of the tune was super sped up. Also, I remember back in high school when I was maybe 15 or something and used to watch funny videos on sites before RU-vid existed. I found the original audio of the guy doing the moped impression being played over a still or an animation of a bike or a moped or something (just Googled it and it was called the Insanity Test) and it was funny and I got told off for playing it in computing class. Then, a while later, I saw the Crazy Frog advertised on TV and was like, oh they've ruined another good thing.

@haleypotter417 3 года назад

My younger cousin won a Crazy Frog very large plush at a carnival in the mid 2010s. It was horrifying!

@kalimav2 4 года назад

its okay, we all know you just needed a reason to talk about crazy frog. cool vid

@akex519 4 года назад

You know at the end of the pursuit of happyness when will smith is walking in the street crying tears of joy? Yeah that was me when Crazy Frog first came on screen.

@hifromthestudio 4 года назад

my dad’s ringtone on his Nokia was the Spider-Man theme song! Oh the memories I remember him being so proud of it and showing it off 😂😂😂

@AnimatorGuy111 4 года назад

"Who else plays Mortal Man in full for their ringtone??"

@verylostdoommarauder 2 года назад

“How is that hilarious? He’s professing his love for you”

@sh0eh0rn4 2 года назад

those Jamster commercials felt like a fever dream. thanks for confirming that I’m not still hallucinating from the drugs I did college.

@bigz4829 4 года назад

My friend had a “ring back” tone which was set to T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life.” She had it from the song’s peak in popularity until she got a new number in...2017? How it functioned was when someone would call her, the caller would hear that song instead of the normal ringing tone you hear while waiting for an answer on the other line.

@Pinkladyisv 3 года назад

I completely forgot about all those ringtone commercials!

@farhannr28 3 года назад

so this is the video that makes everybody stan Crazy Frog

@lisamarieligreci-newton7804 Год назад

The funny thing is I have absolutely NO memory of any of this. I graduated from high school in 2001 and so the 00s were mostly my college years, a few years in grad school, and then my 'adult' job. By around 2002 I had checked out of most pop music/radio and I was behind the curve on having a cell phone - I didn't even get one until grad school in 2005 (a no frills Nokia) and avoided getting a smart phone until 2013. Ringtones were just not on my radar, aside having a general knowledge that you could download/buy song clips if you wanted but I don't even remember commercials for stuff like this. Really, my main exposure to ringtones is Weird Al's Ringtone song! Which his totally worth a mention in ringtones as pop/music culture!

@mohamedtarquijalloh1620 4 года назад

Man!!! Apologize was my ringtone for a long while. This was a nice trip down memory lane. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@HedeccaTamer 3 года назад

The first use of the ringtone concept was in Laurel & Hardy, when phones would only "ring" because they were shaking against metal. But, in various scenes in their films, when the phone would ring, It'd make a completely different nose, most notably a horn. So Stan Laurel invented ringtones in the 1920's

@IslayAnderson 3 года назад

you've reminded me of a memory I forgot I had. in highschool(2008) music class the first lesson on DAW's was to make a ringtone

@WhateverWhenever888 4 года назад

Man what a great nostalgic video! Was i the only one who unironically loved Crazy Frog as a kid? In australia he was everywhere, we had toys, cds (i still have the orange one) music vids on tv, and the mobile ringtone ads. Awesome video dude. I hope you do more of these kind of videos

@NoodleBear Год назад

I remember having all the...."lyrics"...to crazy frog memorized 😅 I would delight in annoying the heck out of my friends and classmates in highschool. I miss the age of ringtones. I miss pulling up the voice recorder function on my Motorola kRazr flip phone and having my friends record their own custom ringtones for me to use. Who needs caller ID when you phone is literally talking to you in that person's voice! But I'm also one of those old farts who misses BlackBerry and their physical keyboards 😭

@paulinemocka1749 4 года назад

Axel F is the 3rd best selling song of the century in France. Also the French version of the Fat song by the mole ended up being the best selling song of 2010 in the country. This is why I love my country.

@Tharkins82 2 года назад

I have my own crazy frog love and hillarious memories, of driving around town and randomly blasting it where ever we could, lol I also had the ringtone

@hifromthestudio 4 года назад

we have it so good by being able to convert songs in our iTunes library into ringtones

@lola9148 4 года назад

there was this ringtone ad that would play like twenty times over the course of the commercial breaks while i watched cartoons as a kid and it still haunts me. it was just some weird creature laughing. the whole point was that it was weird and it had an annoying laugh. i can still hear it. cackling in my head whenever someone mentions ringtones.

@allynfornow Год назад

That youuuu drop was so fire!

@georgebad4229 4 года назад

I still have a ringtone, it’s “Who Can it Be Now?” Because I never know who’s calling me until I see the phone

@matthewhodgson4447 2 года назад

Genius!

@Fgurs 4 года назад

In the series of seemingly infinite collection CD's my mom would play in the car when i was young was the Crazy Frog album. One of the tracks is the Crazy Frog's cover(??) of "We Like to Party" from the Vengaboys. And now that song has just cemented itself in my brain and I just have to live with that from now on

@Breerox108 4 года назад

Crazy Frog did a cover of Vengaboys? What's next, an Aqua cover of Smashmouth???

@JRCT3E 3 года назад

thanks for reminding me about those ringtone ads. now i remember a crap ton of stuff they advertised for cell phones and added hidden costs to, like dinky smartphone games or ports of classic console games like sonic the hedgehog yes, sonic the hedgehog on a 2000s phone. it was bad.

@suleymantekingurmen7643 4 года назад

2000s nostalgia indeed.

@livianicholson9623 3 года назад

obsessed with the crazy frog backstory - how did I never know this!!??!

@j_0anna 4 года назад

the way i could FEEL shake it off being in this video

@RFieth 3 года назад

That "many a fornite" gag had me chuckling.

@kazza6078 2 года назад

Crazy that one year we were recording our favorite parts of our favorite songs desperately trying to get good sound, then a few years later we were downloading commercials from the internet to put into a ring tone generator so my friends phone would shout "GO MEAT" whenever I texted her... good times

@IDK-qt1xo 3 года назад

Me: "I'm not gonna watch 20 minutes about ring tones..." Me: [WATCHES THE WHOLE THING WITHOUT PAUSING OR BLINKING]

@andyzhang7890 3 года назад

Loving your video essays on modern music history. This is good shit, I completely forgot about those ringtones ads on TV lmao.

@SailorToBoat 4 года назад

Every time you upload a video looking back at past music I spend the next hour listening to songs you play short clips of. Tonight I shall be listening to black eye peas and Soulja boy.