WATCH: PM Lee wishes you a happy new year (not really)
(Video taken from SGAG)
We all know that politics is a song and dance, but this video, albeit appropriate to the festive period, carries it a bit too far.
The very funny people at SGAG have produced a video of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wishing one and all a happy new year - and singing too.
A compilation of Lee’s National Day Rally speeches and other TV and public appearances, the Prime Minister appears in a variety of coloured tops. He’s “singing” the popular Lunar New Year ditty Dong Dong Qiang (evidently stitched together from his previous Mandarin speeches).
There’s even a gif of Lee banging on what looks like a cymbal, while wearing a Fortune God hat, before it all ends in animated fireworks.
This is not the first time Lee has featured in a parody video. During the 2006 National Day Rally, he had warned of the dangers of political satire, singling out popular blogger mrbrown’s Mee Siam Mai Hum podcast. He declared, “I give you an example: you put out a fun podcast, you talk about ‘bak chor mee’; I will say ‘mee siam mai hum’, then we compete.”
The blogger turned the tables on him by setting his remarks to The Black Eyed Peas’ song My Humps.
As you might have guessed, the Lunar New Year video’s spreading rapidly. At last count, it had more than 2,200 shares.
There’s only one appropriate response to this video: Huat ah!
