- Internet personality Jojo
Siwa has recently released her new song "Karma" in
order to mark the beginning of her new artistic era in a
career where we watched her go from being a breakout
reality star on "Dance Moms" to the big-bowed,
Nickelodeon-endorsed tween idol, to the out and proud queer icon who was no longer endorsed by Nickelodeon because that's all they had to worry about for bad press at the time. And now into Jojo's final form, the loud lesbian with money
who's hard to like sometimes. But will Jojo Siwa's first single since beginning her bad
girl grownup chapter be equally as difficult to enjoy? I doubt it. Why? Because the internet is a magical place where even terrible things
can be fun to watch sometimes. And that's exactly what
we'll be doing today, when we go through Jojo
Siwa's music video for "Karma" and compare it to the 2012 music video for the original recording of
this song, done by Brit Smith, a pop star who never
quite made it mainstream, but is now being rediscovered
by internet users who are desperate to hear
"Karma" performed by somebody who is less embarrassing
to have on their Spotify. So warm up those vocal cords, because a new gay pop
anthem is within our reach, and just outside of
Jojo Siwa's vocal range. So prepare yourself to
compare the old with the new. We'll discover glitzy costumes,
complicated love triangles, and the weirdly low standards
for what constituted professional video quality 12 years ago. A lot could be forgiven with just a standard
MacBook Photo Booth filter. Oh, and you have to stay tuned
till the end of this video to make sure you catch
my version of "Karma", parentheses, Nick's version. It's time to get your one
wish and never F around in today's Jojo Siwa
installment of Clip Breakdown. (chaotic music) Hello, television
viewers. My name is Nick. Thank you so much for joining
me once again on my channel for another installment of Clip Breakdown. This is the playlist where we
dive into our favorite movies, TV movies, and other such
content here on the web, and we break it down
like a teen boat party where everybody is wearing outfits that were freshly Cloroxed, and we look at each
individual clip and decide if this is seaworthy or if
we're throwing it overboard, because mama, Jojo Siwa came to say she's no longer the little
girl you once didn't like. She is now the full grown
adult you also don't like. Because in addition to kind
of hurting her star power this last year by
insisting on being friends with every canceled YouTuber ever, she's also said a lot of stupid stuff in the promotional kind
of campaign for this song, to a certain point where I thought, like, she must be trolling. This sounds like she
knows she sounds stupid. But I don't know that she does know. You'll have to let me know. But first, make sure you give
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bell icons, ladies. That way, you'll always here my ring-ding when I'm coming down the pipe. I don't know what I'm talking about. As you can see, I'm not in
my normal setting today. I'm actually in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, with my friend Trent who
invited me as his plus one to this beautiful wedding, and now we have the rest of the week to
enjoy this wonderful country. Look, you can see out the window. Look, tell me that's
not Brazil. It's Brazil. Anyway, let's get into it so
I can get back to my vacation. Jojo Siwa teased this song
for like a month and a half before actually releasing it. I do not think it was worth
that buildup, but yeah. At least it starts with good news. (dramatic music) Welcome to CGIsland, where
the sand is from Home Depot and the sky is a cartoon, and apparently, where the length of Jojo Siwa's body is 1/16 of an entire
mid-ocean coconut grove. I think the scale is just
a little bit off there. But for the record, when somebody
asks, what would you bring if you were stranded on a desert island? That is, like, the exact island
that I picture in my head. And the one item I would bring is Hourglass Vanish
Concealer shade 4.5, fawn. But that's neither here nor there, okay? We started on this island, but we're going back to the boat, okay? Let's get this whole Gilligan's Island (beep) sequence in order. One thing that makes me uncomfortable, all these kids are
wearing, like, bodysuits, and I'm like, girls, I
don't care for all that. I don't think there's a
problem with young women showing their bodies, Jojo is 20, I'm just saying, it's this weird thing where it's very modest but
also trying to be sexy, like sexy in a Sunday school setting. Like, if you were going to a themed dance for your Christian school, you'd be like, I'm going to wear my white jeans. It's like, okay, sister. So anyway, there's clearly
some drama going on between Jojo Siwa and her two
gorgeous little girlfriends. Like, there's this girl with
the regal shoulder details that is kind of being, what's the word? I don't know, seductive. She's being a seductress,
luring poor Jojo Siwa away from the other girl
that she, like, loves. And this whole to and fro
dynamic is captured effortlessly by this interpretive dance. ♪ And I didn't think twice
what it would do to you ♪ ♪ It was a matter of
time before I blew it ♪ What kind of Kidz Bop, gay pop yacht party did we just disembark on, Jojo? Like, I've heard her
mention that she loves going on lesbian cruise vacations, but there's a chance at this
point that she's letting it become a little too deeply
ingrained into her personality. Not a maritime setting for
your bad girl era opening. That never works out, okay? Just look at Natalie Wood. She didn't... She didn't survive that. Aside from all of the
Gen Z kids in rave-wear, this is very much giving
"Ghost Ship" from 2002. That first scene where
everyone on the boat gets old timey chopped in half. Thankfully, that is not what happens here, because I'm pretty sure all of these kids need their lower bodies attached
if they're going to have any chance of Jojo hiring
them to dance backup on whatever cringey world
tour she's putting together. By the way, on my Patreon, we
do watch parties every month, and we watched "Ghost Ship" once. Probably the most fun
I've ever had in my life. Check it out, you can access
all of the archived livestreams for $1 and you can
interact live every month for the studio audience tier and above. Again, the scale of everything
in these CGI images, we're having issues with continuity. If you look in the wide
shots of this ship, that deck seems to be crawling with white-clad kids who love to kiss, but then when we go to
close-ups on the practical sets, it's just a regular number of people you would expect to show
up to a music video shoot that offers little to no pay. Whatever the head count is, I think we need to be a little more wary of any wild parties happening
in international waters. And if it turns out that P Diddy is the organizer of this party, all of you kids need to run
for the nearest lifeboat. No amount of gay pop is worth
staying onboard with that. If you saw the interview,
Jojo Siwa was very smug. She was like, I told
them I wanted to invent a new type of music called gay pop. It was very much giving... - I sat down with the
president of Disney Channel and I said, I want to make history. And that's what this is. - I want to make history,
and that's what this is. Okay, so now the girls are
dancing their, I don't know, their Black Swan-esque dance. They're all talented
dancers, you can tell, and they seem really passionate about sticking their tongues out, and people were all making fun
of Jojo Siwa's choreography 'cause she was teasing it on TikTok and it looked a little strange. I think it came together for
the actual shoot, though. You can't say anything about this. Well, I can, 'cause I say
something about everything. ♪ Karma's a bitch, I
should've known better ♪ ♪ Would've never effed around ♪ ♪ Karma's a bitch, and
she's with you right now ♪ Like, what can you do? The
choreography does indeed slay. It's kind of giving Lady
Gaga's "Telephone" music video, specifically the
mass-murdered diner scene. Those mass-murdered dancing divas. That was my favorite part. And I love that Jojo enters the frame like a super gymnast Barbie doll that got kicked across the room. But I can't help but feel like all of this would look even cooler if she weren't dressed like
a bedazzled linebacker. Like, why is she giving a
football version of Elton John wearing that sparkly baseball uniform? The references are really flowing out of my (beep) (beep)
today, aren't they? Yeah. This is the kind of thing
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mature persona would be cool. This choreography's not bad,
but the outfits are ruining it. Like girl, this is your chance to serve (beep) 20-something cheating
on her girlfriend, but instead, we're getting more glam rock
birthday party kids concert, and the only other public
figure I can think of that was this committed to
a structured shoulder piece is literally Jafar. And I will say, story-wise, I don't know that I understand
this part of the video. The girl with the red hair
sees Jojo effing around, as she says, and she looks
at her and she's like, I saw you cheating emotionally,
and also by dance partner. So Jojo Siwa gets up on
the railing of this boat and jumps off like she's
doing something smart. And it's like, okay sweetie,
enjoy your watery grave. But in the water, something happens. She sings to nothing,
and then she comes up looking a little bit like Jack Sparrow? She's like a dark mermaid now.
She's an oil spill mermaid. She's one of those little ducks that gets caught in a BP crisis. Get her some Dawn soap! Now all of the backup dancers, who she's hand-selected for this part, they're dancing in partially
water and partially sand, and it's very cinematic. And then that girl, again, I guess this is the
cheating seductress girl, but in a different costume,
but I think it's not, I think this is the girl that she was... See, I don't know who
any of these girls are. Their makeup, their
costumes, they look crazy. This is like WWE wrestling, except I'm gay and I'm watching it. ♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh-oh, karma's ♪ So as you can see, a few
of the signature traits that Jojo is using to define
her new bad girl rebrand include Gene Simmons makeup and what I would call
life-threatening air hump. Like, the thrusting is so perilous. I saw a video of her
performing at Miami Pride, and for minute, it looked
like she was trying to launch that poor backup dancer into
orbit like a SpaceX rocket using only the power of her hips. And now on this island
of lesbian betrayal, she is just gyrating all up in
that young woman's air space. But that's not all,
'cause we have yet to see the horrifying moment when
Jojo's pounding pelvis puts that dancer through one of the most stressful beach days of all time. ♪ Better be good, 'cause what
goes around comes around ♪ Oh god, Jojo, please stop! Like, I know they're
probably classically trained, but that girl seems to be drowning. Why is Jojo giving me the
impression of a captive orca who snaps and starts going
nuts on its SeaWorld trainer? And we're like the 1st grade class who was just on a field trip, and now we have to
witness the whole thing. She can't breathe! ♪ Karma's a bitch ♪ I didn't not appreciate this ending part, where they go through all the
motions again, but backwards, like they're in reverse, and
that gives Jojo the chance to have one wish and never eff around. ♪ If I had one wish, I'd
have never effed around ♪ Something like that. So she goes back in time and
doesn't cheat on her girlfriend by rubbing her hipbones
against another girl, and that's magic. That's the magic that made the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" feel so magic. A lot of people have that, it seems. I don't know what I'm
talking about. I want to go. It's nice out. There's a beach. Wrap it up, Jojo. ♪ Karma's a bitch ♪ ♪ Karma ♪ ♪ And she's with you right now ♪ Someone on Jojo's team said, "And then she ends the music video violently shoving a queer
woman of color to the ground," and everyone in the room
applauded with great pride. I get that within context, there was no malicious intent there, but I don't think this video
has built up enough credit for me to just completely ignore optics. Coincidentally, that's
exactly how Jojo greets the preteen members of that
pop girl group she founded whenever they approach her for a hug. She's like, oh, it's your
11th birthday today, Dallas? Well, you're fired for being too old! Now you stay on the ground until
I exit the rehearsal space, you old, ugly, dumb (beep). (spits) If you don't know the whole drama about Jojo mistreating the
members of her girl group, XOMG LOL IDK, you gotta look it up, it's nuts. Anyway, I just want to go
over a couple moments here from the original music video. Oh no, look at that. Not that, balloons. They're like, you're done. Happy birthday. I just want to go over a few moments from Brit Smith's original video. She was on Interscope Records at the time. I think this was sort of
an era when music producers just wanted to make any blonde person with vocal cords into the next Kesha. Not that Brit Smith is untalented. Obviously the vocals are
more on point, I think, in this version, than Jojo's singing. But the video, Jojo's video
was better. Let's not lie. I'm like, okay, Interscope? You were on Interscope, and
they let you make this video? I could've seen that contract
ending from a mile away. ♪ I did some bad things ♪ ♪ It was a secret ♪ ♪ Like when a tree falls in
the forest, no one hears it ♪ Timbaland produced this song,
and even he looks surprised that he let that line slip
through to the final cut. It was a secret, like when a tree falls in the forest, no one hears it. Like, okay, thanks, lumberjack princess. Can't wait to hear what else is new from your logging adventures
in the wilderness. Interscope is trying to
make you the next Lady Gaga, Brit Smith, so you need to keep
all that Paul Bunyan (beep) to yourself from now on, okay? Also, when a tree falls
in the forest, I hear it, because I live in that forest, and that tree was my doctor's office. My doctor was an owl, and now she's dead, and I guess I have to
find another specialist who will regurgitate mouse bones in order to cure my syphilis. It's not an effective treatment, and my brain health is rapidly declining. In fact, the only thing that's worse than my syphilitic brain is watching Timbaland's
cameo in this music video. Stop making all those expressions! You're reminding me of Uncle
Fester, for some reason. And overall, these appearances he's making are giving Patrice Wilson. Remember that guy who would
pop up before a terrible rap in the middle of those songs in 2011 that all the rich girls were
getting for their bat mitzvahs? This video from 2012 manages
to feel dated throughout, and it's not just 'cause
of the film noir style it's trying to go for, but also because of the
weird high contrast filters being used to cover up
the low quality cameras. Oh, also, the obligatory Beats
by Dre product placement, and then this weird fashion that ranges from 1980s Revlon commercial to a 1957 episode of "Leave It to Beaver". ♪ When I saw the pics of you with her ♪ ♪ I felt the knife twist ♪ ♪ Karma's a bitch ♪ Is Karma the name of the
stylist who dressed you to look like Spanky
from the Little Rascals? I'm sorry, I just don't think I've ever heard Dennis the
Menace swear like that. Look at that Punky Brewster
hat. What is going on here? That's a whole other video,
but I'm not going to be able to sit here and say anything
about these dueling versions of the world's catchiest and
most forgettable pop song unless I was also willing to
throw my hat into the ring. So I did a cover of my own. Step aside, Brit Smith and Jojo Siwa, so you can go shop for
men's hats together, because it's time for Nick
DiRamio's version of "Karma". Five, four, three, two, one. (dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) ♪ I was a bad girl ♪ ♪ I did some bad things ♪ ♪ I swear I did it all for
fun and it meant nothing ♪ ♪ It never happened ♪ ♪ It was a secret ♪ ♪ Like when a tree falls in
the forest, no one hears it ♪ ♪ Another late night ♪ ♪ Another crazy mood ♪ ♪ And I didn't think twice
what it would do to you ♪ ♪ I was a wild child, you always knew it ♪ ♪ It was a matter of
time before I blew it ♪ ♪ Thou shalt not lie ♪ ♪ Thou shalt not cheat ♪ ♪ Thou shalt not get caught ♪ ♪ Or you'll end up just like me, oh ♪ ♪ Karma's a bitch, I
should've known better ♪ ♪ If I had a wish, I
would've never effed around ♪ ♪ When I saw the pics of you with her ♪ ♪ I felt the knife twist ♪ ♪ Karma's a bitch ♪ ♪ Karma ♪ ♪ And she's with you right now ♪ Here goes nothing. - He (beep) up. Karma's a bitch. No idea what the rest of the words are. - Okay, I'm starting to
think that maybe this is just a terrible song, and we
should all stop singing it. What do you say, gang? Hands in. Thank you so much, Brit Smith, for writing this song
with Timbaland, I guess, and then Jojo for resurrecting
it, giving it new life, and some glitter-encrusted shoulder pads. We live to see it. Now, what
do you think of "Karma"? Did you like Brit's version better, which is beating out Jojo's on the chart? Let me know in the comments below. Also, give this video a big thumbs-up if you want to see me cover
even more YouTuber music videos. I think they're starting to
make more of them in general. Like, this used to be a
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