TLDR: I convinced Chris De Burgh to Sing Lady in Red on TikTok to promote HIVE!
And it's happening tonight!!
What?! I know, it's crazy. It's unbelievable but I tell you, it is only unbelievable if you don't believe so let's start believin' and read on to find out just how I managed to convince the legend that is Chris De Burgh to sing Lady In Red whilst dancing around a great big inflatable HIVE logo... On TikTok!
I am so excited. This is the culmination of a project I have been working on for a very long time!!
No, not the long-awaited, highly collectable BoomTown NFT GIFS featuring yours truly in a variety of naked poses in various City scenes. (Including the incredibly rare and valuable "Naked at a Bus Stop" NFT. You might have noticed I have been a little quiet of late. Why was this? I will tell you... It was because of the work I was putting in behind the scenes on my amazing but secret Hive promotion project. Let me give you a bit of background. Despite my fondness for Death Metal, I have long been a fan of the inestimable Chris De'Burgh. Especially the lord of songs: Lady in Red. There is something about that song that is timeless and has meanings on so many levels that to listen to it you practically need your own elevator. When Hive was born I kept imagining our Blockchain as a Lady in Red for the modern world. Sometimes singing the song for hours and hours throughout the night as I slept. It was a glorious time. Throughout the many years of our illustrious home that we call Hive I have tried to promote the chain in many ways. Most of which involve pestering whales for large delegations to self-vote my own sock-puppet accounts or putting forward vaguely worded proposals for 1000 HBD a day with words in them like Revolutionary... Security... Trust and Mass Adoption. But it was only at the start of the year when I started Why not get Chris De Burgh to reboot Lady in Red for Hive? You wouldn't even have to change any of the lyrics, just get the old geezer to dance around a giant inflatable HIVE logo and put a few shorts up on TikTok. It would be a guaranteed hit. Not just for us but to get the old man a resurgence in his career as he dims out into a slow, cold and no doubt lonely death. And thus I made it my mission. First I had to contact the bastard. This was surprisingly easy, a quick google and I discovered that the 21st-century way of approaching people you don't know was to slide into their DMs So I did. I DM'd him on Twitter... Chris, fancy earning a bit on the side with a 21st Century Blockchain Collaboration? We will give you a twenty per cent cut of the Airdrop. Much to my astonishment, he answered almost immediately! Big Dawg, I am in, is it possible the airdrop can be paid in SHIB? I laughed when I read that and tapped out my reply. Chris, this is Blockchain. Anything is possible. In no time at all, we were going back and forth arranging the details. After much haggling and calling each other chum (he's old school) we settled on him receiving 1 million SHIBA INU and two packets of pickled onion crisps for his dog. We had a deal! So we set about making it happen and that is why I am proud to announce that we have completed it and are going live tonight! He has re-recorded Lady in Red!! Big up the little Christoburger! This has taken many hours of intense effort to organise and release on TikTok but we got there in the end and we will be streaming live on April the 1st at 7PM. I have included the link below to watch the live stream. I hope you can all join me and Chris tonight, LIVE ON TIKTOK! https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisdeburgh/ladyinredforhive/7114791134538984299822?lang=en Get yer Spacesuit, Hive is going to the MOON!!
I won't tell you what I am waving the bus down with, its a surprise!
stalking following the incredible Mr De Burgh on Tik Tok so that I could marvel at his still nimble dance moves that the idea occurred to me.
THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE!
I'm cancelling the funeral and you can count me in to be there cheering this on!
I fucking LOVE that song!
Tiktok is a literal treasure trove of great minds all working together towards the common goal that is humanity reaching the stars.
I still can't believe this is happening!
Nearly seven years I've waited for this moment. Finally being recognized as something more than nothing. And how lucky am I to already have a suit to wear for the occasion!
This April 1st will go down in history as not only being the first day of the month but also the first time we, the people of Hive, can unite, be one, together, with Chris De Burgh.
Thanks, @meesterboom.
Don't listen to all these haters saying this was foolish. They just don't know how to process magnificence so pure. You did a good job!
Thanks man!! It took a lot of work behind the scenes to MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!
I am stoked that you are taking this journey with me. By barely getting angle to believe you have enabled belief 2.0 and things are going to skyrocket!!
We shall wear our occasion suits together and dance the dance of red!!!
I'm already working on my refresher course, studying those lyrics, and can't wait to sing along!
It's so weird too because just the other day while in traffic, as I thought about how easy it would be to simply ram all these assholes off the road so I could get home and not miss my show, that song came on the radio.
All my problems melted away and I managed to stay out of jail that day.
Just think about that and combine it with everything.
I had a hunch but now I know, it was a sign.
Now everyone here gets their chance to shine.
And the tears of joy shall taste like fine wine.
This is a good time to be alive.
It is the best time to be alive!!
Truly the power of the song transcends words! I was humming it when I was standing in line to buy some eggs and there was a lady in a wheelchair behind me. The guy selling eggs put up a sign saying they were all sold out and we were all gutted. Then suddenly that song came into my head and I started singing it. The lady in the wheelchair behind me screamed as she was lifted bodily into the air by her now working healthy legs and eggs started flying out from her giblet factory
There were tears of joy and many omelettes that day!!
Hurrah!!
There was no egg shortage, dude. There was a shortage of respect for the abilities of Chris De Burgh.
You know the old saying: Give a man a hen house and he'll have a house for hens. Teach a man how to sing Lady in Red to his hens all night and he'll get eggs from them.
This event is going to solve all the world's problems.
These are wise words to live by. Damn tooting!
You know, I don't want to be presumptuous. But I think this event has already started to work on the world's problems. I looked out the window and it was light whereas only a week ago it was dark. Truly the good times are coming!
OMG it's light here too!
the link you posted does not exist and the account @chrisdeburgh on tiktok has no activity whatsoever. April 1st? :)
Haha! I think you might be correct sir!!! 😃😃
That's pretty cool, at first I thought it was an April Fools joke and a bunch of bullshit since people were doing that. This sounds legit though lol how did it go? I'm not going to be clicking on the Chinese spyware link but look forward to seeing it on something besides the communist app!
Edit--
My suspicions were correct! After a gander down through the comments, getting past Name's comment which threw me off since he was circle jerking you hard, though that should have been a clue for me, I realized that it is a good one. I got bested, you damn Scott shit!
Hehe!! Chris De Burgh!! I hate that guy. I don't even know if he is still alive. Rest assured, if I were to try and convince someone to promote hive it would be a cooler choice by far! 😃
Lol I don’t even know who it is but I will have to look him up now
Oh he's a right sad sack!!
This is brilliant, as always... I still see remnants of anal treadmarks of anticipation as I scootched to the edge of my seat!
What a momentous occasion indeed, you would be a FOOL to miss it!
Heheheh, exactly, a FOOL indeed! :O)
hehe the poor buggers you suckered in!
I thought the chum would have been for his dog not two packets of pickled onion crisps if he was old school.
Good one though 😁😎
Lol, I started feeling a bit bad for the folk who believed!!
Chum, I will always remember the adverts as they sliced it from top to bottom and I thought, why would you do that!!
Well I'm running two days behind (at least) on everything life orientated right now so this may cause even more confusion then. Hooray! (And welcome back 🌻)
Hehe, it would be a tough one of you were reading it a couple of days out of sync 😃
It still works :D
I used to call him Chris de Bleugh, btw. Mean. I know. But "Lady in Red".
Yeah, it's a creepy song. It had all these stalker overtones in today's context!!
Did it?!
I thought it just sounded whiny 😆
I'll have to check the lyrics now.
Darn you, M!
That was EPIC.
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Hehe, cheers dude!! I had a giggle writing it!! :0D
I'm a bit late to this party (up to my ears in painting, walls not canvas this time) but maybe if you'd said you'd got Prince or Michael Jackson to appear on Myspace to promote Hive, more people would have got it LOL, sometimes people are just funny...not haha but...not quite all there. Love it and happy late April Fool's.
Haha, yes I think they would have. I wanted something outlandish. I just didn't realise that it works be so outlandish that people would believe!!
Good luck with the painting. I just finished a wad!!
Lol, paid him in SHIB...he must be a dumb cunt.
The greedy ones all are! ;0)
He'll be rolling in SHIB soon bro. A SHibillionaire! He can get all the bad hair cuts he wants now.
And the tallest women in the world!!
He's a lucky man. Thanks SHIB
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Brilliant 😁
You're some man to lure in someone of the calibre of Chris De Burgh Boomy, I don't know how you do it 😋
You got to aim big!! There is no way we will accept anything less on this chain 🤣🤣
I was confident that the link would take me to a video more akin to ....
Back in the day, I actually bought their album just for this song. :)
That is a hilarious song and when I was listening to it (I hadn't heard it before) It made me realise that some British comedians have ripped it off as they did a big skit about eight or so years ago about being the only gay in the village and some of the stuff they joked about was so similar to the lines in the song and I am thinking, They bloody saw this and stolen it!
I was still in high school when I saw them touring with the BareNaked Ladies. So .. sometime between 1988 and 1993.
I thought that as musicians, they were surprisingly talented - but they focussed on the comedy aspect. (which was ho-hum in my opinion)
I bet they inspired those ones I was talking about.
I haven't been to a gig in ages., I need to get my finger out!
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Finally a marketing thing that will take off XD
Onion crisps eh, my dog has a bit more of a sweet tooth and prefers chocolate.
Only vaguely related, we did a performance at a show yesterday and the head coach pulled a random girl out of the crowd and taugh" her how to do a backflip in 5min. She did such an amazing job that on the second go the kid just started flipping out culminating in a back sault.
then she had to tell everyone that the random was actually her daughter and had been doing gymnastics for years and it was an April Fool prank and not to try it at home just in case XD
I thought dogs couldnt eat chocolate!
Oh! Hahhah! I was reading that thinking incredible, my daughter could do with that kind of teaching! Then I got to the small text! LOL!
Dogs can't eat onion either ;P
LoL I think everyone wants that kind of teaching XD
Haha!! Darn, caught at my own game!!
It's the type of teaching that implants will solve. After the AI revolution of course!
XD
As much as I'd love Matrix style I KNOW KUNG FU I don't think I trust anyone with that level chip technology now.
damn, I don't do tick tock, never have never will, and I so love C de B, guess I I will miss the show.
I've never been lucky
Fear not, I jhave had a word with the man himself and he will do yo ua private show for twenty quid!
Fuck me! I’d want a lady in red thrown in for that price
I wouldn't mind some of his ladies in red. He fair pulls them!
Bastard!
Chris was apparently double booked and is doing Amal Dust coin instead. Maybe next year.
He is a shifty one that Chris. Its all them leggy models he goes after it messes with his head! :OD
Lmao. Nice joke sir.. classic song to choose though 😆 🤣 😂
Cheers dude! Once you start singing that one you cant get it out of your head for days!
You could've asked for a better song though, dude... never been a fan of that one.
Hehe, alas it was all a practical joke of a thing for April fools Day. It's quite big here, I don't know if it's such a thing out your way?
I can't stand that song or even the little drummer man De Burgh!!! 😃😃
:D
I got that. I just like stirring the pot a bit. Yes. It's a big thing here too :)
I missed this year though :( Mostly... caught the tail end but it was worth it around here. I guess if you want good stuff hang around actually creative people
I even got rick rolled. The child's fave party trick. Solid 👍
I hated that song. Always. I'd have scrolled on by if it wasn't you. Glad I didn't.
Hehe, you can't beat a good pot stir!! Rick Rolled, hehe. One of the better internetisms to have come out of the last few good knows how long!
Nope. Nothing quite like stirring the pot! :D
Keeps things from getting stuck.
So agree. It's a classic indeed.
I reckon you two stole the show
Not that I'm competitive or anything... 🫠
but next year I'll be prepared 😈
Happy April fool's day 🤣 Now we just need to have every frontend sporting a pink gui (old forum joke, change the look so everyone thinks it was taken over by hackers)
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Happy April fools!!! Lol.
I remember old forums and the tricks they would play. The internet was a smaller nicer place then!!
There are still a few places like that, we just don't advertise them to the world so they'll stay that way :) .... There's even a few corners of Hive which qualify!
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Woops was referring to Hive abusers🙃🙃🙃😄
Nice one!
Haha, oh the hive abusers, the never ending antics!!!
We should make them all listen to Chris De Burgh 🤣🤣
This link you sent is not working but this person is doing a good job promoting it on TikTok. I am also bringing all my friends here in Pakistan on this platform, so far four friends are working on this platform.
Four is a good number! I hope you teach them the ways! :O)
There is no good or bad advertisement mate, let them see HIVE on Tik Tok 😎
Hehe, I am sure this would be a terrible campaign!!
Two packets of pickled onion crisps, FOR THE DOG. .. Oh god where have you fallen out of the tree 😂😂😂 fucking hilarious
I fell out of a very tall tree! It gave me a fright with its bark :OD
😂😂😂 Slick and sly like a kingpin!
😎 Are all the Scots like that👀😂😂😜
Are they fuck, that would mean that I ain't special ;O)
I'm sure this will help promote the Hive, my friend. I've never used TikTok before, but I think I'll use it for this. 7pm UTC, man?
Ah, sorry mate. It's an April Fool kind of thing. I don't know if that's something you have over there? We play practical jokes on April the 1st 🙂🙂
Ah maaan haha I miss the joke my bad XD
Lol, no worries man 😃😃
This didn't seem like your "normal" posts. (I hesitate to use the word normal when it comes to you but.....)
I didn't even think about it being April 1 and that the day might be full of high jinks !
Good thing I read some of the comments before clicking a nowhere link or making a post stating I was going to watch.
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Haha, it was my feeble attempt at an April fools indeed but it seemed to have backfired a tad 😜
That means you were very successful at it I'm thinking. What is the point of telling a very tall tell if no one believes it at first ???
I'm just glad for the April Fools reminder before I got sucked in somewhere else for real.
It might have been too good! Like this morning when I told the little lady e had arranged a marriage for her. That didn't go down too well either!
LOL ! I bet NOT !
Although, after 2 marriages, I'm not sure an arranged one might not have gone just as good. LOL !!!
Marriage are funny things! It just be weird to have an arranged one.
I am on number two. I am hoping it keeps going 😃
More like Chuggy Metal, such as this..., 1985.. shit.. that's decades ago.
The end of Eastern Wind isn't bad, a nice guitar outro,..
That is a nice outro!
Yes, you got me, chuggy metal is more my thing but it doesn't have while the zing of comparison to it! :0D
Eh eh I smell April Fool's!
It was the pickle chips for the dog that got me suspicious otherwise you would have outwitted me lol!
I hope the BoomTown NFTs are real instead, I would collect them all!
anyway two posts in two consecutive days, finally! We were eagerly waiting for you and after yesterday we were in long wait mode again.
The defense of the world and the probable attack of the sulky horses has made you active again, now we can prepare for the final showdown!
Haha, twin posts in two days. Who knows how long it will be for another. Probably a week!!
I thought the picked onion chips would definitely give it away!!
To the final showdown!!!
A week!?!?!?
But you really want to make me suffer from loneliness!
Are you doing this to temper me?
Is this training for future battles we will have with reptiles and horses?
I'm ready!
Might not be a week, I haven't got anything for one yet! As soon as something I can get as admission happens I will be posting about it!
You can never start the training for the reptile horse battles too early!!
Battles between reptiles and horses against humans... we won't take prisoners our victims will all end up on the grid!
Even lizards we grill... a little barbecue sauce and everything is edible!
I like a spicy barbeque sauce for my grilled lizards. Maybe even a nice chimichurri!! 🙂🙂
I love chimichurri!
As a good Jedi grill master, I have all the sauces you need at home... you can't fight reptilian and equine evil without the right equipment!🤤🤤🤤
I'm in shock and awe! This can't be real. 😦
Hehe, it is just a merry April Fool happy I fear!!
The blockchain in red, is voting for me
Cheeky geeks.
There's nobody here, they're all on SoMee (as if)
Hive's where I wanna be.
I hardly know, how stake-based voting works
I'll never forget, my Hive signing keys
I've heard Chris is a whizz with the cryptos. Well done on bringing him on board.
Haha, that's quite a good lyric substitution!!
I almost wish I hadn't conjured this song into my head as I can't stop humming it today 😜
I quite enjoy lyric writing. I need to come up with some new songs.
I always find lyrics the hardest as I would go a little up my own chuff and try to write meaningful stuff. I preferred coming up with the tune on guitar!
Damn day of pranks has me reading crazy things all day!🤣🤣🤣
I do like a good April Fool day prank!! 😃😃
hahaaaaa....hey if this is an April fools joke, then you...yes, you...will be responsible for dancing round a big red hive sign singing Lady in Red. Do not leave us disappointed
Hey, what makes you think that isn't how I like to spend a weekend!! 😜😜
LOL you go boy!! Thanks for the earworm btw lol
Lol. I've been trying to get it out of my head all day!!
This is HUGE. Chris DeLorean sings Lady in Red, not Erik Phrampton⁉️
They say that Phrampton is a fine place to holiday for the weekend if you are a New Yorker, I dont think it would be kind to not believe them!
Wow, congratulations on such a successful and innovative project! It takes a lot of courage and creativity to approach someone like Chris De Burgh and convince him to promote Hive on TikTok. Your hard work and persistence have paid off and you should be proud of yourself for achieving such an amazing feat. Your enthusiasm and dedication to promoting Hive is truly inspiring, and I'm sure this project will bring a lot of attention and positive results to the community. Keep up the great work, and continue to think outside the box to promote Hive in unique and exciting ways!
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Thank you. Although it is a prnak post to celebrate April the 1st here!
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This is such an entertaining post! I couldn't stop laughing while reading it. The idea of Chris De Burgh singing Lady in Red while dancing around a giant inflatable HIVE logo is hilarious. It's impressive how much effort went into making this happen, and it's great to see such creative and fun promotions for Hive. I'm definitely tuning in for the live stream tonight!
Lol, thank you for reading and appreciating. I hoped people would find it funny :O)
wish you's well
And you too my friend!
Excellent Sir.@meesterboom, I will join you but always in Hive lol.
Are you serious about that platform?, excuse my question
Heck no, don't worry. I want getting serious in the slightest 🙂🙂
After I read it all and noticed that all the text was in bold, it was that I realized that in your country they make jokes on April 1st it must be something similar to what they do around here on December 28th April Fools' Day...
Oh so they do it in December there? Hehe, that's exactly what it was!!
Oh yes, we used to do that on December 28 innocents day
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Reading this is now 7 days after Aprils fools.thought it was real .🤣🤣🤣. Check out his daughter Rosanna Davison by the way . 😍😍😍
It was nice making People April fool. Thank god I am reading this lately. 😁
Sheesh @meesterboom!! Who the hell needs @justineh, @cryptofinally, @stellabelle or that heap of influencer's busty women still active on Hive if we have the big jester Boom to launch the Hive token to the Oort Cloud and beyond Kuiper Belt with hilarious promotional ideas on Tik Tok on April 1st?
Exactly!! And I only expect a few thousand hbd over a period of regular payments!!
That made me laugh, to I had forgotten about justineh!