2017, taken seriously, is an odd year, so there are plenty of runners-up for the strangest cultural moments he produced. In no particular order: a short-lived fad to lick Nintendo Switch cartridges to see if they really do taste bad (and lick other technology for comparison).
Today white fans and crazy Busan clown jesters have traveled to Washington, prompting widespread calls on social media to confront Gugalo against the Nazi death. The trend towards advertisements cheerfully acknowledging that millennials should expect miserable working conditions and unsatisfactory lives,
And buy stuff to make up. Yup, all of these were actually weird, and another year they'd made the list. But 2017 was very competitive in the strange section, thanks to all the artists - amateur, professional and unintentional - working overtime to surprise and confuse us with their work. From David Lynch somehow making twin peak wirder to songs about the kalebigian delights of Papadoc, here are the cultural moments that have left our jaws hanging open in delight or confusion (or both).
For me, nothing this year was more recent than watching Kyle McLachlan's neck around twin peaks: back with a tie on his head. Most of David Lynch and Mark Frost's return to twin peaks featured former series champion Dale Cooper as a lobotomized shell out naturally from his self predecessor, descending into slot machines, repeating random sounds,
And the ache and potty ache made faces until someone literally shows him how to pee. For hours on end. Fans of hyper-prestige series waited for 25 years to see. This is some trolling on an epic level. Imagine if Ryan Johnson would have exposed a Star Wars fan to 14 consecutive hours of bright green flesh, smut, cheery, weird look. This is basically what happened. -Tasha Robinson
I first came across "big enough" when my colleague Mika Singleton tweeted out a few months ago. It's a country-planted Adam song by artist Keren J Cullinan that (I guess?) Is intended to make fun of this genre? The first half of the song plays normally enough country song, with dramatic landscapes, a pair of cowboy duel in costume, and some overly lyrics reminiscent of the Old West.
Build things up to the musical rhythm and get the bass ready to drop. But that is not. Instead, artist Jimmy Barnes starts shouting in time to victory as a spectral cowboy in the sky. The moment it happens it hits you like a sack of bricks. It's weird. It's a great. It is unbelievable. It will stumble into your head like there was sealed with a stronger epoxy. It's been weeks, and I can't stop watching it. Then the song continues, apparently unaware of what has happened. Barnes appears again to lead to the final verse -
A meaningless list of cities, countries, continents, and religions - but its existence has never been explained. Is "big enough" good? Bad? Parody? Straight flip? I still do not know. But I know the sounds of that will follow me for the rest of my days.
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