The British band Hadouken, who took their name from a Street Fighter move, showed further sound decision making by promoting their single M.A.D. with a clever YouTube video. The video is a montage titled 100 Greatest Hits of YouTube in 4 Minutes. With an actual running time of three and a half minutes and [a]list daily is open to insight on this the video mashes together fond YouTube memories and plenty of painful bloopers that go hand in hand with the song s heavy dance punk sound.
Hadouken seems to have a built-in following at YouTube, with their music videos and video blogs attracting impressive numbers. Their video for That Boy That Girl has nearly two and a half million views. Still the viral video is seeing success. At the time of this writing the real music video for M.A.D., clever in its own right, had only about a third as many views as the viral video.
Check out the video at YouTube.
