These Two Viral Clips Make Me Very Confused About Stomp
I wish Stomp disappeared a few years ago so we could be ironically nostalgic about it by now, like the Spice Girls, Ninja Turtles, and Taft. But instead it's still around so everyone knows it kinda sucks but everyone also likes it as a guilty pleasure (right guys? right?). Because then I could just link to the Stomp-like animation "Play" by Cookie Dough Records. But because I need to cut that with some irony, here's Grand Theft Auto IV's version of Stomp, "Banging Trash Can Lids For An Hour." The animated ad is embedded below.
By the way, the whole promotional site for GTA4 is a fun little world parodying New York, much like the game, which Slate credits for its "narrative richness."