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Post  yourdog Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:40 pm

MIAMI, Ghost Whisperer collection, Florida (AP) — Tiger Woods may not know it, but he is singing a new tune.

His 13 1/2-minute apology a week ago has been chopped up and reconfigured online, Jericho dvds, spreading in music and video through social networks and on the radio.
One offering is called "Ke$ha vs. Tiger I'm So Sorry (Blah, Blah, MIAMI VICE dvd series, Blah)." Another features Robin Thicke's song "Sex Therapy" with Woods talking over still shots, including one of the media watching him spill it live on TV after a three-month silence.
Type "Tiger Woods remix" into a Twitter search and a steady stream of postings pops up with people talking about the mashups.
"Whatcha say Elin? The official Tiger Woods Apology Remix. HAHA! Nice parody, Six Feet Under dvd 1-5, Over There dvd set, Californication complete series," jokes a tweeter. Another writes: "Tiger Woods' APOLOGY speech, his mea culpa Friday turned into a bit of a fun."
Pop culture watchers call it the new watercooler.
"It just shows the power of the audience. We are definitely immersed in the age of the people versus the celebrity, Dawson's Creek 1-6, That 70s Show on dvd, Sex and the City dvd box set," said Amy Andrieux, executive editor of The Source magazine. "I definitely think that it's made from a comedic standpoint. ... It's mashup culture at its finest."
A mashup is an on-line production comprising material from more than one source.
Robert Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University in New York, said such "joke cycles" often occur immediately. "Within 72 hours this thing becomes an old joke. This is sort of the first front of comedic attack on these things."
It has happened before with presidents, politicians and other high profile personalities. On YouTube, The Golden Girls complete seasons, there is footage of William Shatner on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" reciting some of Sarah Palin's less serious observations. Remixes emerged of an upset Bill O'Reilly and of Andrew "Don't Taze Me, Bro" Meyer.
When Michael Jackson died, people made tribute videos integrating his songs.
This time around, Kyle XY 1-3, in the "Ke$sha vs. Tiger" contribution, a photo of Woods looking down, Father Ted dvd box set, Over There complete box set, Gilmore Girls series 1-7, eyes closed, The O.C complete box set, Tour of Duty on dvd, during his appearance is matched with dance music and the fallen golf great saying, "I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated. What I did is not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame."
Cue slow fade-in of background music that swells as he continues: "I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to ..."
The video using Thicke's song was rejiggered to include Woods' words and video featuring a variety of photos, including some from his tightly controlled TV appearance that included no questions from reporters. Marve Frazier, chief executive of the gossip and entertainment online magazine Bossip.com, Dawson's Creek collection, said a video of the remix with Thicke's song was posted on the site to entertain and attract more viewers.
"I was like dying laughing. Oh my god, people are crazy, The Golden Girls box set," she said of her first reaction.
The same thing happened earlier in the Woods scandal, when amateur humorists created the Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam Remix "Name Off Your Phone." The video begins with slow, sensual music and a man singing the words "name off your phone, Six Feet Under box set 1-5, Gilmore Girls complete series," while a message is played of what sounds like "Hey, it's Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor, please ... Can you take your name off your phone." It refers to a request he reportedly made to one of his gal-friends.
In another version, the song "I got a feeling, MIAMI VICE box set, Kyle XY dvds, Angel dvds, Six Feet Under collection, Kyle XY series 1-2," from the Black Eyed Peas plays while a man asks the same favor in a video called "Tiger's Been Cheatin! - Black Eyed Peas Remix."
Frazier said this kind of comedy is here to stay.
"I think mainly because the Internet is not going anywhere. Everybody is becoming more and more tech savvy. This is our culture, Over There on dvd, Ghost Whisperer 1-4," she said. "They are going to be doing this with everybody."
Lazaro Mendez, who also goes by DJ Laz, aired a remix on his morning radio show on Power 96 in South Florida.
"People feel this entire thing has been blown out of proportion," he said of the scandal. "I felt that we can make it funny. I absolutely feel it was ridiculous for him to get on and apologize."
So, why make a remix?
"It's great radio material without a doubt because people are talking about it," he said. "Controversy alwa

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