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Adult Female: A Song

2010-12-15 · song · Hank · 3:31 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, recurring series, civic or action cta, self promotion

For the Song Wednesday before the Project for Awesome, inspired by John's video about things he loves, Hank sings a comic love song 'for the adult female I love', mocking childlike pet names and hedging every romantic vow, then plugs youtube.com/p4a.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Intro: Song Wednesday before P4A; John's 'things I love' video inspired a more sentimental song

  • ★★ Hank says it is Song Wednesday, the Wednesday before the Project for Awesome, and that John's video about things he loves inspired him to play a song about something he loves. — 00:00:00 · Song Wednesday, Project for Awesome
  • ★ Hank says the song is more sentimental than his usual fare but is about love, and hopes John likes it. (hedged) — 00:00:10

00:00:19 — Song 'Adult Female': for the adult female he loves, not a 'girl'; love's comic limits and its sincere worth

  • ★★★ In the song Hank calls it creepy how often romantic pet names ('girl', 'baby', 'boy') refer to little children, so he dedicates the song to 'the adult female I love' instead. (playful) — 00:00:19 · also in: An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall

    “So this song is for the adult female I love”

  • ★★ Hank's song hedges every vow: he'll do whatever she asks unless it is really evil or uncomfortable, get what she dreams of if it won't leave him destitute, and stay till time ends. (joke) — 00:00:56

  • ★★★ Hank sings that love is hard and messy, can hurt worse than fire and make you want to tear down a building, but is also the best thing that has ever happened to him. (playful) — 00:01:36

00:03:02 — End screen: subscribe to youtube.com/p4a, links to old songs and his Assassin's Creed gaming videos

  • ★★ Hank tells viewers to go to youtube.com/p4a and subscribe, warning they will regret it if they don't. (playful) — 00:03:02 · Project for Awesome
  • ★ On the end screen Hank links some of his old songs and points to his videos of playing Assassin's Creed, where he sometimes sings while killing people. (playful) — 00:03:16

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank sings that he'll do whatever she asks him to do, then qualifies it. — 00:01:06

    “as long as it isn't really evil or otherwise makes me uncomfortable”

  • Hank says this song is about love, but not what we think of as love. — 00:01:33

    “especially if we are Justin Bieber”

  • Right after singing that love hurts worse than fire and makes you want to tear down a building with bare hands, Hank adds a disclaimer. — 00:02:06

    “And I'm obviously not a big fan of hyperbole.”

  • Hank vows to be with her until the end of time, with one condition. — 00:02:23

    “as long as time ends before one of us dies”

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Central: Adult Female

Also: Assassin's Creed · Justin Bieber · Project for Awesome · Song Wednesday

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