{"id":25659,"date":"2011-02-22T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T22:02:41","slug":"nobody-but-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2011\/nobody-but-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody But Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always find it interesting when, seemingly out of nowhere, a song from the past suddenly starts appearing in multiple places. A few years back I noticed it was <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2007\/frankie-valli\/\">Frankie Valli<\/a> (which <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2007\/update-frankie-valli\/\">I then figured had something to do with <i>Jersey Boys<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now the song &#8220;Nobody But Me&#8221; by the Human Beinz (originally by the Isley Brothers) is the &#8220;it&#8221; song.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard the song a while back because a DJ I like named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Pilooski\">Pilooski<\/a> included his own edit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Dirty-Edits-VolI-A-Collection-Of-Dirty-Classics-Selected-By-Dirty-Sound-System-Edited-By-Pil\/release\/1116850\">one of his <i>Dirty Edits<\/i> mixes<\/a>. (In what I can only call an awesome coincidence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qN3kC_4xURA\">Pilooski&#8217;s remix of &#8220;Beggin'&#8221; by Franki Valli<\/a> was part of the reason I said Frankie Valli was suddenly popular last time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until <i>The Office<\/i> did their &#8220;lip dub&#8221; of the song in the season seven premier that I really noticed the song:<br \/>\n<object width=\"512\" height=\"288\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/JXf7lNB3xC0FE9hcI2-FlA\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also, around that time, the radio station I&#8217;ve listened to for years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvi.com\/\">KVI<\/a>, switched from conservative talk radio to oldies so I started hearing the song on there, too.<\/p>\n<p>But then the real strange thing happened and Nike started airing a commercial called &#8220;Throwdown&#8221; recently that used the song, as well:<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAe9SpuxtYI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I honestly think that <i>The Office<\/i>&#8216;s use of the song inspired someone at Nike. It feels a little too serendipitous to me to think that the 2010-2011 television season suddenly realized that what it was missing was the song &#8220;Nobody But Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bonus:<br \/>\nHuman Beinz performing the song:<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxtJoGdujYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pilooski edit:<br \/>\n<object height=\"81\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8416055\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>  <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/pilooski\/nobody-but-me-pilooski-edit\">nobody but me (pilooski edit)<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/pilooski\">Pilooski (official)<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The Isley Brothers original version:<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jf5zXwgv5M4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find it interesting when, seemingly out of nowhere, a song from the past suddenly starts appearing in multiple places. A few years back I noticed it was Frankie Valli (which I then figured had something to do with Jersey Boys). Now the song &#8220;Nobody But Me&#8221; by the Human Beinz (originally by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2011\/nobody-but-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nobody But Me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25669,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions\/25669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}