—————————————————— Top 10 Zaniest "Call Me Maybe" Covers & Remixes | Rocks Off | Houston | Houston Press | The Leading Independent News Source in Houston, Texas

Pop Life

Top 10 Zaniest "Call Me Maybe" Covers & Remixes

In case if you haven't heard Canadian songstress Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe," above is the song's official music video. You can also find this jam, which is currently comfortably sitting at the very top of the Billboard charts, blaring after about every other song on most top-hit radio stations.

"Call Me Maybe" festers in your head, an obvious attribute of a top hit song. It's undeniably catchy. Many may even feel the great urge to burst out and sing the chorus wherever and whenever they hear this song in passing.

Better yet, this Canadian song truly gained buzz after beloved fellow Canadian pop star Justin Bieber tweeted about it. Jepsen largely attributed the move of her song into the U.S. charts to lil' Bieber.

Now that you're educated with the abridged history of how "Call Me Maybe" came to be a hit song, enter the further ridiculous remixes, covers and outright parodies. It became a fad in itself to make those.

There are now thousands of remixes, covers, parodies of this song. For your pleasure, here are a few of the most notable.

10. "Call Me Maybe" -- With More Cowbell

Add more cowbell and suddenly this song has an indescribable edge.

9. "Call Me Maybe... PSYCH!"

This one is just plain mean.

8. Cookie Monster, "Share It Maybe"

In this cover, Cookie Monster is teaching you good values in learning to share, maybe.

7. 2012 Harvard baseball team, "Call Me Maybe"

This one by the cool Harvard baseball team grew immensely popular and was duplicated by various university teams.

6. Intervention

This is more painful than the show itself.

5. NPR cover

What better than the friendly voices of NPR reminding you to just call them later?

4. Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, "Call Me Maybe" remix

Whether you want to admit it or not., this most playful remix probably brings kind of a warm fuzzy feeling to your heart.

3. Ashley Rae Finksen, "Residentially Challenged" parody

Former Glee actress Ashley Rae Finksen offers her own parody here, showing her own fantasy for a guy whose "ripped jeans, skin was showing."

2. Corgi Rae, "Call Me Maybe" Pet Parody

This one is just about a dog in with a crush. This is all in dog language (barking), though. Subtitles are not included.

1. Dan Deacon, "Call Me Maybe" a cappella 147 Times Exponentially Layered

This intense remix of "Call Me Maybe" was released just recently. It reminds me of walking through a mall and hearing this song playing in several different stores at once.


Follow Rocks Off on Facebook and on Twitter at @HPRocksOff.

KEEP THE HOUSTON PRESS FREE... Since we started the Houston Press, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Houston, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls.
Alexa Crenshaw