Touch-Tone Bubblegum - Lemon Demon x MARINA and the Diamonds 

To me, these kinds of mashups always tell different variations of the same story: Two childhood-teenhood friends who drifted apart as adults, reunite. One is the epononymous Bubblegum Bitch (referred as BB from now on), the other a conspiracy theorist who desperately missed BB’s company, roping them into the rabbit hole they’ve fallen into. The theorist *desperately* needs BB’s help to get out of some trouble. What’s the trouble? Governmental? Aliens? Secret societies? Eldritch monsters? Who knows! Other mashups of the song, other versions of the story has BB being introduced to everything almost like an audience surrogate, then helping the theorist to do something which causes big trouble, say breaking into a facility and stealing something or whatever the scenario is. Which makes sense! And those mashups and stories vibe and bop! Your version, however, *FLIPS THE SCRIPT.* And I mean that lovingly. Here, BB KNOWS of the conspiracy the theorist is in. They jump in at the first chance of messing with the unknown. They run in headfirst into danger despite the theorist’s initial fear, but they both vibe together on taking the challenge at hand. Unlike many other versions of the story, BB *leads* the way into what Trouble lies ahead; dressed in a pink swooshy trenchcoat paralleling their theorist friend’s own, their own modified versions of the Trouble’s tech covered in pink and purple hearts, and a devious, determined grin to match. And unlike many other versions of the story, this Miss Sugar Pink Liquor Liquor Lips, is the first one to reach out to the touch-tone telephone, cause a scene and let the Dangers in front of them go down squabbling in their own messes while the duo run off from explosions. The theorist looks back from the explosion behind them to their friend’s eyes and finally recognises the words to call the glint they’ve always had in them since they were very young. The look of a Bombastic, Beautiful, Blooming, Brilliant-minded genius of a Bubblegum Bitch. (TL;DR: This mashup slaps in ways I never knew before and I thank you for it)

This sounds like Dipper and Mabel reunited years later as adults to solve one last mystery

"Welcome to the life of-" "Robert Stack!" "Bitch!" is a great fucking bit actually.

When you’re trying to solve the existence of aliens but your best friend won’t stop talking about kissing woman

It’s giving Barbenheimer 🌅🏖️

1:27 life gave her a lemon demon so she made a lemonade demonade

this is like the definition of mlm and wlw friendship. I can see these two having paranormal adventures together

"Life gave me some lemons so I made some lemonade" Omf I didn't even realize how much that fits

“Don’t care if you think I’m dumb, I don’t care at all.” “I’m an expert just like you, and like you, I’m a genius” Heard this parallel

1:46 "Welcome to the life of-" "Robert Stack" "BITCH!" NDFSJFJDHDJDBFBD

This gives off the vibes of 2 incredibly queer kids in high school who don't have a lot in common but they're the only queer people in school so they become friends

Marina: "Don't care if you think I'm dumb, I don't care at all." Lemon Demon: "Like you, I'm a genius." Marina: 😯

"Welcome to the life of- Robert Stack." You have no idea at how obnoxiously loud I laughed at this lmfaooooo

Is no one gonna talk about the buff lemon demon doodle in the background lol?

This is maximum bisexual/asexual solidarity...

Neil says ‘cause I’m the right one’ just before she talks about how she met a boy. When she says they fell apart, he says OH MY GOD. It’s like they’re acting it out. Or she is remembering the voice of her past love. And I find that beautiful

I swear I hear neil singing along with BB. These mashups practically feel like their own genre and I love it.

This song single handedly got me to make up a story about a kinda narcissistic pop-star and a paranoid conspiracy theorist teaming up to defeat aliens and also have lemon-flavoured bubblegum

Marina: *singing her heart out* Lemon Demon: Ohh My *GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD*

Why do I feel like this would be Dipper and Mabel Pines as grownups and they just go around paranormal investigations and adventures with Mabel looking fabulous while doing so and Dipper trying not to get her killed Also def wlw and mlm solidarity Also is it possible to make fanfiction off music because I swear that’s what’s about to happen

POV: This is literally just me and my girlfriend, she's a trans woman and I'm a trans man, I'm obsessed with the paranormal and aliens, she likes her looks and making sure she's the center of attention in the room. We are exact opposites but we work amazingly together.

this would be a really good 90s movie but i cant explain why

neil singing with marina feels so weird. it’s like, he’s never *_really_* said these things!! it feels paranormal almost. it’s not really him, it’s something using his voice or maybe possessing him. it’s definitely his voice but it just doesn’t *_feel_* like it’s him, yk? anyways, this mashup is absolutely perfect

To quote Neil here… “OHHH MY GOOOOD!” Absolutely amazing.

Now this is a Touch-Tone bubblegum girl mashup of epic proportions

for me this seems like the really geeky and nerdy kid becoming close friends with the popular girl and bringing her into his paranormal adventures about aliens and cryptids

For the people who like the ideas of the kind of weird person who’s into cryptic stuff and the paranormal and a girl who’s snarky and kind of roped/brought into that life with the other person… a book like that exists and it is BOMB It’s called “Lemons” by Melissa Savage, which I’m now realizing that this is such a ironic title for the mashup, but it’s cute and it’s totally what this mashup feels like! It’s kind of childish, but it’s cute.

The Bubblegum Conspiracy. She's everywhere, some sort of demon. no one has that much grace. She walks like gravity doesn't affect Her. She steals the heart of anyone. She wishes, and takes them off into the night. He's been watching Her for a long time, trying to figure out what that super natural energy about Her is. He's been hearing Her voice in His ears, breathe on His neck. Her laughter echos from all the photos of Her that He's collected over god knows how long. He'll get to the bottom of the case and expose Her true nature for all to see, just need to connect all the dots. He's gonna confront Her outside Her favorite club tonight, and expose the truth. And She has nowhere to escape to this time.

This song (Bubblegum Bitch) can truly be combined with anything. This is really good. It reminds me of when someone mashed Bubblegum Bitch with The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance.

Welcome to the life of~ ROBERT STACK.

0:46 that's really goddamn clever having lemon demon say "die for" while Marina also says it

Now I'm imagining Electra Heart (Marina's retired fictional character that is the protaganist of a lot of her older songs) and Neil Cicierega as a team investigating conspiracy theories together.

Kind of gives me the vibe of a 90s mystery series where a preppy college girl is trying to solve the disappearance of her conspiracy theory boyfriend. Putting up his old corkboard and red string, repurposed to try and track down his old trail to figure out where he may have gone. Like at 2:22 she's getting the chance to tell him she misses him for the first time in Months since he disappeared by calling a mysterious number she managed to get, waiting anxiously as the phone rings to see if it'll even connect, and he's responding by encouraging her and telling her that she's getting so close to solving it all and how inspired he is of her tenacity even if he's not convinced he'll ever get to see her face to face again.

Me and my sisters taste in music brought together I can die in peace now…

Beloved girlfriend I have found alien life forms Ye one sec I found a new bubblegum flavour

THE "CAUSE I'M THE RIGHT ONE" IT'S SO GOOD

this right here, it scratches a very specific part of my brain (only criticism is that i think neil could’ve used a couple more solo vocal lines from his song but other than that this is perfection)

this one really scratches my neurons

Its the perfect of electronic pop and 80s style music

I just imagine Touch tone running from some FBI agents, because he discovered a way to prove that the president is like an alien or something, but he needs backup so he calls his friend Bubblegum's just gotten home from a date with the love of her life, and when she picks up she's just gushing about the girl she went on a date with, until Touch tone has to (reluctantly) interrupt that he's actively being chased by agents, and then she shows up and decks all of them in the first chorus Then the two of them start driving away in her car, bantering and she's jokingly all like "oh I've saved you now, great prince, let's ride off into the sunset" and hes like "shut uuup-" But then he shows what's in the briefcase and then she drives them to this big corporate building, and is like "you gotta go in there! This is gonna change everything" and he's like "actually now that I see the Huge Terrifying Building I am not so sure of this" "and she hypes him up, talks him through it (the bridge) and he gets his confidence! Then he busts in, storms past a couple guards, makes it to the office and uses the like crystal inside to destroy the presidents human disguise, takes a picture of the alien president, and then Bubblegum and him have an epic escape sequence! The ending notes are a zoom in on a newspaper header titled "THE GREAT ALIEN CONSIPRACY CONFIRMED" ...At least, that's what I imagine. :>

if you put a transmasc and a transfemme in a mixer this song would come out

There isn't enaugh girl+boy friendships in media. No friends to lovers, just friends. Romance isn't more then friendship, it's just different. Let girls and boys be friends. Let a friendship be the focus of a story. Let the goal be mend their bond after a falling out. Let them just be besties. I beg of you.

I think this is one of the few mashups that could pass for its own song

I imagine these 2 working together as detectives in a cartoon show with marina responsible for the image, marketing and talking whereas Neil looks at the details and generally is responsible for connecting the dots. Each episode of the show is based on a song eg. Cabinet man is about an arcade where people have been going missing so marina and Neil go and investigate at night to see that one of the arcade machines reeks of dried blood and decomposing corpses. They break open the machine and blood starts spilling, marina complaining about how her shoes are ruined while Neil stares at the now mechanic spider looking broken machine saying “I won’t hurt you unless you cheat” in a broken mechanic voice. Another episode could be redesign your logo where there’s a small corporation getting bigger and bigger, constantly making small changes to their logo as more and more people talk about it and it turns out the specific colours of the product were made to brainwash these people into becoming one hive mind of corporate consumers. Might make an animatic to one of these idk

damn the fact i created a whole oc lore for 2 years based on a single mashup is insane, tysm

My ONLY little criticism is just the lack of vocals from Neil-but otherwise this is absolutely STUNNING, I love this mashup and how much PERSONALITY this has!!

In my opinion this story is very interesting, touch tone telephone is mostly instrumental- and marina takes the wheel untill the main phone scene, where he's actively trying to convince someone. So here's my thoughts. Bubblegum, a famous idol and singer known for her y2k/bimbo based aesthetic in songs but also her strong influence on her viewers, takes an interest in alien, urban legend, SCP and backrooms and somehow lands herself in a group of people trying to desperately convince people of what's going on. She takes interest in one of them, touch-tone, and they start to get together and theorise together- her doing it for fun, shits and giggles, and he's doing it genuinely to get things across. After awhile they pass the 'polite HEYYY' phase in the friendship and start bickering with friendly intention (from the 'welcome to the life of-' 'robert sack' 'BITCH-'). after awhile, touch tone gets enough evidence, with bubblegums help of just being popular enough that people do as she asks, but struggles to actually find the people ready to listen. So bubblegum, being an absolute girlboss, uses her influence over the internet and allows him to spotlight in podcasts, song albums, livestreams, posts you name it to get his name out there. And of course her devoted fans took it hook line and sinker and it got him enough popularity to get seen my higher authority. This song also feels like a years after kind of nostalgic get together fuck around and have fun celebration. Just my thoughts.

So the songs fucking slaps n all, but the artwork??? What a vibe

every time i turn around someone makes a new version of this mashup that’s even better than the last one. this is GOOD it scratches the brain

this mashup gives me gender envy, and I have no idea why

1:42 is so funny its just "welcome to the life of-!" "robert stack." "bitch." and i love it

1:58 "I'm gonna be your bubblegum bitch" "HEY" LMAO it sounds like he's getting on her for swearing

Wow, the mixing in this version hits HARD

I thought a cool and funny sort of story for this (cause thats what i see everyone doing and thought I'd share) would be; Alien comes to earth with the intent to take it over for her species. She disguises herself as a the blond bubble gum girl to blend in and take out the humans from the inside, she quickly gains popularity. Then theres this conspiracy theory/alien obessed guy everyone thinks is crazy cause he wont stop talking about this big idea he has and he always wants to tell people about his alien theorys. So bubble gum girl meets this guy and thinks to herself, "you know what would be absolutely hilarious? If i, the alien, befriend this alien conspiracy guy and hes just hanging out with an alien and has no idea." You know, a little fun side project while she takes over the world. So, naturally, thats exactly what she goes and does. But they actually get along really great and conspiracy guy finally has someone willing to listen oh-so-intently to his rants and theorys, and dont forget, his big idea. Bubble gum alien girl falls in love with him and her objective changes; do eveything in her power to be this guys bubble gum bitch. But ofc theres multiple conflicts; shes an alien and he dosen't know. She wasn't build to love, she was built to destroy and take over the planet ("ill chew you up and, ill spit you out, cause thats what your love, is all about."). And finally, will conspiracy guy be able to put aiside his big idea, the one thing hes been working on for so long, for her? Id like to think it all goes well; she reveals shes an alien and conspiracy guy, being who he is, finds her alien form absolutely beautiful and just falls for her even harder. He accepts her destructive nature as part of her aswell and they find constructive ways to deal with it without hurting anybody. Also, with this new found knowledge, conspiracy guy thinks of ways for them to work on his big idea together, and they live happily ever after. :]] But wait... bubble gum girl forgot one thing.. the alien invasion. They'll be wondering why she never reported back. She has an idea on how to save the planet BUT...will her and the nerd's big idea.. be enough?

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE AMAZING ART

Everyone’s talking abt the song, (as they should, it’s so good,) but no one is talking abt the art! It’s just as amazing!!

This is HANDS-DOWN the _best_ mashup I've heard of these two songs. Extremely well done! I really loved how you repeated certain words like "touch-tone, touch-tone", "AM, AM", and "Bubblegum, bubblegum bitch". I think it made Neil and Marina match more if that makes sense. It made their styles mesh better. Edit: Also the way you made Neil sing with her is insane. I don't think I've ever seen that done before.

Why is no-one talking about the autotune on the part like: "I'mma be your Bubblegum, Bubblegum, BITCH!" 2:08

I love how all of these Bubblegum Bitch/Touch-tone Telephone mashups could _technically,_ also be called Telephone Bitch or Bitch Telephone

obligatory "this predicted barbenheimer"

My favorite parts are the small details like, "straight to number one" "'cause I'm the right one." Spectacular job.

i think neil would enjoy this, at least conceptually! he makes fantastic mashups so i like to imagine he's happy whenever fans make mashups with his music :)

The art is sooo pretty I love how they have their own color themes

“Welcome to the life of ROBERT STACK bitch”

this legitimately sounds like a bomb opening theme to an awesome animated show. It's so well done!

When you are so close to discover existance of aliens, and your bubbly, airhead bisexual friend, who is also alien is disguise, having a time of her life. Patiently, she is waiting for realisation to hit him like truck

MARINA and the Demons

how is this not incredibly popular this is the BEST one

Instead of a radio podcast, touchtone guy is calling a call girl to talk about aliens

this Mashup is basically two different eras of my life, BB being my feminine Era where I was interested in anything pink and cutes and Touch tone is my current Era where I'm masculine and love the paranormal and folk lore. anyways, this is a fucking bop

As a MARINA stan, I can honestly say that 1. This is one of the best mashups I've ever heard And 2. That I will most definitely be listening to more of Lemon Demons songs

"Welcome to the life of... ROBERT STACK, bitch"

what if they were trying to find the elusive "lemon demon" and find more than they wanted to? that would be pretty cool i think

If I could write a paranormal mystery/horror with this vibe, I’d be happy for the rest of my life Fantastic job mashing up the songs! I’d like a little more/louder Touch-Tone Telephone, but it has such a great delicate balance as it is tbh

"hello lgbtq+ community"

Absolutely doing little shimmies, g o d this is good

1:28 the lil lemon demon tho, so cute

I usually do not like covers, remixes, mashups, ect. But I have had this song on loop for hours, beautiful work dude!

Don't know if you're going to read this but thank you so much for this mashup, was amazing to hear I felt like that Ratatouille scene where he mixes two ingredients and tastes better

Marina and the Lemons

This cover art is like the original Barbenheimer

“Welcome to the life of- *robber stat* ”

This gave me the confidence I've literally never had

1:18 holy cow this part is fucken amazing. THE WAY YOU MIXED UP THE WORDS TO MAKE HER SAY “gonna be your bubblegum bubblegum bitch!” FITS SO NICELY IN THE SONG. AAHHHH

THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST ONE

God, i adore the "gonna be your bubblegum, bubblegum bitch" part so much

Might be my OC brainrot, but a story always plays in my mind when I hear this remix. Two brothers; one on the more flamboyant feminine side and the other, a bit of a mix but a bit nerdy, and they’re gushing to each other about their boyfriends/crushes. The first brother is on a lounge, draped in his best and pinkest, singing the Bubblegum B!tch part, happy to be who he is with his partner. The other brother, singing the Touch-Tone Telephone part, on the other hand, is in a panic. He has a cork board set up with date ideas, info about his crush, and other things tied with red string, coming up with the perfect plan to confess. The latter brother watches and listens, smiling, since he knows his sibling will get his man and that they both love the other. Two phones start ringing, one bedazzled rotary phone with pink and feathers, the other red vintage landline phone like the ones you see in movies. They both pick up; the first brother twirls the cord around his finger as he croons to his lover on the other line while the other shakes, carrying the console(?), looking between the phone wedged between his shoulder and ear and the board. In the end, they both have their lovers, the first left giddy and love struck and the other equally love struck but with a dopey smile on his face.

Yeah this is gonna be on loop for a while (Man this scratches my brain i love it)

this is the most important song

The art is so good

everyone's going on about Dipper and Mabel but i propose Barbenheimer

I love how they're drawn! One being very relaxed in colors and lines, the other having harder edges and differing colors

I love L.D's perspective in this song! I absolutely adore this part. 0:57 Where he sings with her in the background.

I kinda have an idea that this is about 2 kids in high school the popular girl and the shy boy who loves ghosts and aliens and one day they discover a dark secret about their town and its up to them to figure it out while also becoming unlikely friends

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS, IT SOUNDS SO GOOD????? THE ART AND THE MUSIC IS MNECRVHKGTARLRCHBV

the intro literally had me ascending to heaven ohmygod it's beautiful holyyyyy

"Dear diary, we fell apart..." "OH MY GOD!" Lmmmao

this when i feel masculine and feminine at the same time.

i just noticed the squiggles on LD’s side are lemon demons

THIS GOES SO HARD OH MY GOD ????????????? ITS THE BEST MASHUP IVE EVER HEARD