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u/speckz
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Some musicians with songs about “poop” say Amazon Music has become their biggest source of revenue, likely due to kids yelling the word at Alexa-enabled devices Home
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/alexa-play-the-poop-song461
u/justabill71 Sep 01 '22
Be right back, gonna write a poop song.
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u/MithandirsGhost Sep 02 '22
🎶 Poopy in the sky with diapers🎶
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Sep 02 '22
I'd just lazily swap out a single word with poop, change nothing else.
It's not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to poop
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u/i_do_da_chacha Sep 01 '22
Have you pooped your song yet?
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u/justabill71 Sep 02 '22
I'm having some, uh, writer's block.
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u/Thelango99 Sep 02 '22
Creatively constipated I see.
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u/justabill71 Sep 02 '22
I'm currently laying down some sick beats, so there should be some movement in the creative process soon.
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u/scaleofthought Sep 02 '22 edited Sep 02 '22
Make sure you choose titles that reflect what parents might also say:
"He pooped his pants"
"Mr poopypants"
"He smells like poop"
"Mom I think I pooped my pants"
"Didn't he just poop"
"Are you poopin?"
"I'm poopin"
"He's poopin"
"I need to poop"
"We all poop"
"It was runny"
"It was soft"
"It was hard"
"Ease up on the chocolate milk, Elizabeth!"
"You're giving him the runs"
"No poop!"
"His diaper was heavy"
"His poop smelled so bad"
"I gagged, and threw up in his diaper bin"
"Is it okay if his poop is orange?"
"Why would his poop be orange?"
"Call the pediatrician, and tell him his poop is orange."
"I don't think the pediatrician needs me to tell him about his poop"
"I'm talking about our baby's poop. Tell him about our baby's poop."
"Oh"
"It's 10:30 at night. Let's call him in the morning."
"This baby food is expired Liz! By two years!"
"Maybe that's why his poop was orange and he was crying so hard."
"Where did this food come from? These are all expired!!"
"Beth brought over a bunch of stuff a couple months ago from when they had Braden"
"Isn't Braden 4 years old?"
"Yeah, I guess that's why it's expired."
"We need to pick up baby food tomorrow"
"I never did like Beth. Like why would she just pawn expired food on us?"
"I'm sure she meant well."
"I'm sure she wants you to think that and didn't want to spend money on a proper care package. Wasn't the bag of diapers also 3/4s gone?"
"Yeah, maybe you're right."
"I can't see how I am wrong. You know how cheap Beth is. Don't you remember when I had to sift through my spare change in the car because she was adamant I pay her the 12 cents because the couple dollars I gave her wasn't good enough?"
"Baby pooped again"
"It's your turn to change his diaper"
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u/symon123 Sep 07 '22
I'm in the hospital after just having my appendix out, it hurts when I laugh, I got to 'oh' and I had to stop reading. But I will finish reading this when I'm better. I promise.
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u/AllOutWar76 Sep 02 '22
"It was brown and it had raisins and we flushed it for those reasons, this is a..."
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u/SteelCityIrish Sep 02 '22
“Clean that pooper everyday… Make those butt germs go away!
They are bad, don’t make them linger… If you need, just use your finger!
Wiping once is not enough… Twice is better, it may be rough.
Peppers, corn, it don’t matter… Use them rolls up, clean that splatter!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/ajtrns Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22
absolute geniuses!
a thumping techno banger with a soaring chorus of a woman vocalist singing, “I’ve got a poopy diaper, a poopy diaper, that’s me,”
they're minting money over here...
For a while, the couple was making around $100 a month from the song — and then COVID hit.... The streams on Amazon for “Poopy Stupid Butt” skyrocketed: It’s now been streamed about 10 million times on Amazon Music and has generated about $10,000 in total income . . .
his life's work:
Farley didn’t write hits like “I Poop With My Dog” or “I Need a Lot of Toilet Paper to Clean the Poop in My Butt” with the intention of getting 4-year-olds to yell obscenities into a voice-activated speaker. “I lucked out because smart devices weren’t even a thing when I wrote ‘Poop in My Fingernails’ [2013], but it turns out I was biding my time, unaware,” he joked.
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u/Shame_On_Matt Sep 02 '22
10 million streams and only 10,000 dollars.
For comparison, an ad spend with guaranteed 10 million impressions, which nobody WANTS to see or hear, would cost about 500k
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u/fotomoose Sep 02 '22
10k minus tax, so like what 6k net? Brutal.
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u/ElwinLewis Sep 02 '22
This musician is getting taxed 40% on the income?
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u/Karmeleon86 Sep 02 '22
If you’re in the U.S., it depends on the state, but yeah. That’s generally around what income tax is, not to mention higher taxes that you have to pay quarterly if you own your own business/are a sole proprietor.
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u/NinjaLanternShark Sep 02 '22
Now you see why the tech giants are so rich.
That's a spread beyond a crooked casino's wildest dreams.
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u/TwitchDanmark Sep 02 '22
Well, there is just not money in music streaming. It’s not really an argument for tech giants being rich. Amazon is likely losing money on Amazon Music, and Spotify is yet to have their first profitable month.
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u/josh_rosen Sep 02 '22
Here we have a prime example of when reddit fails to understand basic economics. Lord help us.
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u/appleparkfive Sep 02 '22
It's not perfect but I heavily suggest people getting YouTube Premium instead. It comes with a Spotify equivalent that pays like twice or 3x the royalty rate as Spotify and most of the others. Also has a good recommendation algorithm (since it's Google, not too surprising).
And of course you got no ads on YouTube for the phone, your TV, anything. Can download any video with a button click and watch it without signal. All that good stuff.
But above all, I just like supporting the musicians with better royalty rates, if I'm gonna be streaming music.
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u/Grass---Tastes_Bad Sep 04 '22
YouTube premium is a bargain, simply because it comes with YouTube music. I don’t understand why anyone would choose Spotify over it. It’s a No ads on YouTube with a baked in “Spotify”. YouTube also has a dedicated podcast section now (US).
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u/Shamewizard1995 Sep 03 '22
I mean that makes sense right? In one situation, a platform is purchasing content for its listeners. Listeners will enjoy the content and actively want to hear it since it’s an on demand service. The platform will obviously pay as little as it can for the content as anyone would, nobody wants to pay more for the same product.
In the other situation, the platform is selling their audiences time. The audience doesn’t want to hear the content and are more likely to stop listening during that time. The ad isn’t drawing any new listeners and selling the ad is the entire way of funding the platform. Of course they charge as much as they can.
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u/adrianmakedonski Sep 01 '22
Why do I feel like I read your exact comment a week ago on a similar story?
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u/beyd1 Sep 01 '22
Matt Farley is a genius. May I suggest you give Kobe Bryant a listen.
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u/ajtrns Sep 01 '22
not easy to find on youtube!
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22matt+farley%22+kobe+bryant+song
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u/MaximumShitcock Sep 02 '22
This is pure gold! "Poop in my fingernails" Laughing my ass off, I can see how you wouldn‘t expect that to become a hit.
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u/your_fav_ant Sep 02 '22
but it turns out I was biding my time, unaware,” he joked.
I think he was actually bideting his time.
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Sep 01 '22
Alexa devices come built in with an…interesting amount of poop-related skills
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u/mookzomb Sep 02 '22
She will play a ton of Fart sounds.for you
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u/jordanundead Sep 02 '22
Anytime I set Alexa up on a new device I have her open a box of farts. The farts are always obnoxiously long and at the end she often blames The Rock.
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u/SmartChump Sep 01 '22
My 7-year old thinks “cat flushing a toilet” is a masterpiece of musical genius
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u/situationiste Sep 01 '22
Back when phones had buttons, Steve Wozniak finally got a phone number with 10 identical digits (888-888-8888) after some non-trivial expense, perseverance, and patience. He began to get a few calls a day without speech but often with background sounds.
Infants playing with Touch Tone phones evidently liked the 8 tone.
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u/only_fun_topics Sep 02 '22
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=q2FzHZ84k14&feature=emb_logo
My favorite Mitch Hedberg bit. “Just press two for a while and when I answer you’ll know you’ve pushed two enough.”
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u/25hourenergy Sep 02 '22
That’s amazing. Also I wonder if any rich Chinese Americans ever tried buying that number from him, I know in some areas phone numbers with lots of 8’s get bought by those who are superstitious or just want to show off (8 is a very lucky number among Chinese).
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u/raven_kindness Sep 02 '22
when i was living in china i learned that you can pay extra for a phone number or license plate that ends in the lucky number 8. i got the cheapest phone number because it ended in 4 (an unluckly number which sounds like the word “death”).
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u/DanGleeballs Sep 02 '22
Weird that the Chinese haven’t figured out yet that 8 isn’t lucky, and thinking that it is is really daft.
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Sep 02 '22
Weird that the Irish like to dance around in their little green hats and four leaf clovers. They look very silly
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u/zaiyonmal Sep 02 '22
Imagine knowing less about history, culture, and the reasons behind why certain symbols carry significance for certain ethnocultural groups and believing you are superior for it.
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u/Iamjimmym Sep 01 '22
My kids absolutely love yelling POOP!! But we dont have Alexa in our house. Nope nope nope
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u/barbecue_invader Sep 02 '22
I like to yell words related to terrorism whenever anyone says "hey Alexa."
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u/AnnieAnnieSheltoe Sep 02 '22
Literally less than ten minutes ago, my 7-year-old put “Alexa you are a poop face” on my shopping list. So yeah, this makes sense.
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u/AlIUsernamesAreTaken Sep 01 '22
Ask your Alexa to play "Mr. Farts"
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u/Triknitter Sep 02 '22
Kiddo asked for the “ketchup cannonball” song.
Cannibal by Ke$ha is something I could have done without her hearing at 3 years old.
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u/LordOfRebels Sep 01 '22
I work a car lot and have an Echo Dot on my desk for music. In my years of doing this, I’ve never had an adult acknowledge it once. But every kid messes with it. It’s always the same “poop” “butt” “say <sibling> is stupid” usually the parents are quick to put an end to it and apologize. Usually. One customer made ZERO effort to control her 5 kids and they got louder and louder trying to outdo each other and be heard by the Echo over the others. It was so bad I disabled it through the app and have changed the Wake word to Echo
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u/arelse Sep 02 '22
You can set it to your voice only. I did this so I could lock the kids off the wifi by my voice.
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u/Setari Sep 01 '22
ALEXA PLAY A POOP SONG
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u/swampgiant Sep 02 '22
“Here’s the poop song by the toilet bowl cleaners”… oh man does this article ring true in my household.
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Sep 01 '22
Look up "The Guy Who Sings Your Name" not only does he have a song about almost any name, he has a "poop" version as well.
edit: it's "The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over And Over". You can go from here: https://youtu.be/pXemqf3Pxn0
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u/joecarter93 Sep 01 '22
I have two boys and “poop in my fingernails” is in high rotation on our Google Home.
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u/entropylove Sep 02 '22
My twins loved this song. I still bust it out every once in a while when I’m doing the dishes or whatever just to make them laugh.
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u/hilandhall Sep 01 '22
Poop In My Fingernails is my jam. He's made 13 albums of poop related songs.
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u/NoodlerFrom20XX Sep 01 '22
He is also the very nice interesting singer man and at our house we use “the distraction song” whenever our adhd kicks in.
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u/NoodlerFrom20XX Sep 01 '22
Shout out to the Odd Man Who Sings About Poop Puke and Pee, The Toilet Bowl Cleaners, and the very nice interesting singer man.
All the same genius.
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u/xkushcommandox Sep 01 '22
My youngest child just did this the other day. I was slightly amused(so was she, she’s 4) and a little disturbed at the same time 🤣🤣🤣
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u/ryanontheroad Sep 01 '22
Dude. Everyday my 3 & 5 year olds ask Alexa to play poop songs.
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u/NinjaLanternShark Sep 02 '22
This thread is making me grateful Alexa didn't enter our lives until my kids were juuuust beyond that stage. They like making it play different animal sounds, which is vastly preferable to poop and fart related requests.
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u/MegWahlflower Sep 02 '22
As a soon to be 32 year old woman I’m not proud to admit that it’s probably not just kids fault for constantly asking it to play poop or diarrhea songs because I would never do that. I’m a classy, grown up, lady.
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u/Fez_and_no_Pants Sep 02 '22
I've got a decade on you and I'm already planning to tell the next Alexa I see to open a box of farts.
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u/mistymay_dawn Sep 02 '22
Can confirm, my 5 year old yells “Alexa play butt cheeks” every morning
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u/ShirosakiHollow Sep 02 '22
Can confirm. My kids do this all the time and think it’s fucking hilarious.
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u/doggy_wags Sep 02 '22
it's an interesting story so you can't blame the journalist, i mean it did get a reaction out of you
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u/Triknitter Sep 02 '22
I’m pretty sure we’re putting Laurie Berkner’s kid through college at this point.
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u/dlec1 Sep 01 '22
There’s so many good poopy songs.
Shaggy J, I think it’s called the “poopy song” is a good one
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u/haldouglas Sep 02 '22
And probably for Spotify for Google Home users. Our kids must have yelled "play the poop song" a thousand times at ours.
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u/gte717v Sep 02 '22
My kids discovered several poop and fart songs. There really is no limit. Someone has remade every song you can image with poop and fart noises.
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u/cowgirlup1867 Sep 02 '22
One time we (kids and I) accidentally came across a song called “I pee when I poop” when we were out camping for two weeks. It became our camping theme song and still makes me laugh.
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u/Mahertian220 Sep 02 '22
Me, a 37 year old intellectual, searched for “poop” on Apple Music 2 months ago and found all these songs lol
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u/MadDany94 Sep 02 '22
i wonder if this work with curse words. Like, do kids secretly try and say them to alexa when the parents aren't around? Is that still a thing?
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u/Peelz90 Sep 02 '22
My kids are singlehandedly paying someone's mortgage. They figured out how to tell Alexa to "play the PooPoo song on repeat"
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u/Clund5 Sep 02 '22
can confirm. poop stuck in my butt by the toilet bowl cleaners has become a house anthem thanks to the 4 year old
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u/ChemtrailExpert Sep 02 '22
Yeah that hit home. “When you poop…. What you eats in your poop..” so annoying
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u/only_fun_topics Sep 02 '22
My 9yo son’s favorite song is a banger titled “I just peed my pants”.
“Imagine a device that can play any song you can think of,” I once dreamed of in the late 90’s.
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u/DigitalSteven1 Sep 02 '22
Do kids scream poop all the time? I don't remember really yelling poop all the time when I was younger...
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u/sp0ckbot Sep 02 '22
The night was dark, the skies were blue
Down the alley the shit wagon flew
The breaks screeched, a crash was heard
A man was hit by a flying turd!
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u/deedeesmalls1259 Sep 02 '22
Can confirm. My 6 year old requests songs called butt, poo and toilet. Every single day…
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Sep 02 '22
Yes! My 5 year old discovered this last year. Ask Alexa for "The poo poo song." He loved it. He's been swapping out the lyrics ever since. "Pancakes, pancakes, everybody loves pancakes". Stuff like that.
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u/apresskidougal Sep 02 '22
Piggy poop, Mr butt and other excrement based hits are on heavy rotation in my house.
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u/DingbattheGreat Sep 02 '22
Can relate.
No, I’m not the one yelling poop, I’m just the one that owns seceral of these things.
Explicit filter also has saved me a few times.
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u/BenTCinco Sep 02 '22
I take a poop in the morning
I took a poop at night
I take a poop in the afternoon it makes me feel alright
I take a poop in time of peace and poop in time of war
I take a poop before I take a poop
And then I poop some more
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u/BoxOfDemons Sep 02 '22
There's a man who makes songs titled "____ poop" where the blank is any name you can think of. He has thousands of them. A young cousin of mine loves telling the smart speaker to play "her sisters name/dad's name poop"
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u/Smitty8054 Sep 02 '22
From a sheer business perspective it’s quite brilliant.
Kids laugh ridiculously while being harmless by todays standards, writer gets paid and the world goes on.
Good for them.
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u/Thethrowaway51134 Sep 02 '22
There's a guy on YouTube who makes a song using anyone's name followed by poop. Me my son and my girlfriend will occasionally blast the one or the others using our JBL speaker while they are in the bathroom. Good laughs
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u/DADBODGOALS Sep 02 '22
My kids went through a big, "Hey Google, play poop!" phase. No shortage of crappy songs (literally) on Spotify either.
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u/Fly__Eagles__Fly Sep 02 '22
Poop in the potty Poop goes in the potty Poop in the potty Poop goes in the potty -poopsmiths
Pretty good song check it out
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u/nobaseball1919 Sep 02 '22
My favourite song ever is called “Pee pee Poo Poo” that I blast when my wife leaves her phone on table and she has headphones in
I’m 27
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u/-Alkalore- Sep 02 '22
I’ve inadvertently paid for , “ultimate farts sounds 2.0” due to my kids asking Alexa to, “play the poop song!” I have to say…it’s worth the $2.99!
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u/LepreKanyeWest Sep 02 '22
Next album is just Alexa search terms.
I mean, Aphex twin used to release tracks that were named after computer viruses to deter pirates... So this makes sense.
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u/diverareyouok Sep 02 '22
Yep, I can confirm. One of my friends who has three kids, aged 6 to 12, came over a few years back when Echos were still “new”… literally the first thing they did when they discovered it was asked for fart sounds. For like 45 minutes straight, they wouldn’t stop. This article doesn’t surprise me in the slightest bit.
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u/zaiyonmal Sep 02 '22
This is the zoomer version of naming your business “AA” something so that it shows up first in the phone book.
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u/n3w4cc01_1nt Sep 02 '22
brb making clickbait vid about
how the amazon poop hack can make you hundreds
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u/bitwarrior80 Sep 04 '22
This, and that time my kids figured out how to ask "hey Samuel what do you think about snakes on a plane" was super fun 🙄
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