@@lewigao I just found out that the annoying "but first let me take a selfie" was from the chainsmokers song and I'm having a hard time believing it that's all lol
In Closer the guy talks about this girl he met who stole her mattress from her roommate back in Boulder. Guarantee you he's talking about the chick in black.
*"Guys, a song people collectively decided to find insufferable has affected us all politically and is the central cause of LGBT + racial prejudice and 21st century American war. And I know these factors are the hellhole I'm referring to because I'm a woman brainwashed by the media to complain all the time!"*
Remember 10 years ago when everyone said this song was garbage, and then we started listening to it ironically and it turned out it was a certified banger? Yeah same
A piece of music demonstrating how vacuous society has become trading authenticity and vulnerability for consumerism which only creates huge amounts of insecurity and a lack of compassion that further fuels the capatalist machine
nabil rafid Hahaha I haven’t even looked it up or listened to it myself. I’ve just heard other people playing it and now randomly I heard it in my head.
My sentiments exactly~ x3 I wanna thumbs up ur comment but don't wanna be the 1 to alter the current epic status of 420 likes lmao /waits patiently for someone else to thumbs up b4 me/ XD Edit: sheesh, 3.3k likes a month later. Looks like I'm not the only one to agree with you and that I'm safe to give u a thumbs up now haha
Na what's actually crazy is kids are gonna look back at this video one day thinking "damn I wished I grew up in this era ." In like 20 - 30 years like we look at the 60s - 80s.
@@Yottifferent I think we all have different opinions because personally 2015/16 were better ya 2014 was fun but I think I was to young to realize the fun I could’ve had
This song and clip is more than just a song, a clip, it's a milestone that really represents this phase where selfies were booming... I miss that era. It was the beginning of the popularization of smartphones, I remember it well, even music changed a lot from 2014 onwards, new ways of consuming, new artists, etc. A year of transition
6 years later and I'm still not sure if this song was serious or a self aware satire of 2010s pop culture that completely unironically became massively popular
There's this feeling when you suddenly remember a song, look it up again and then are really shocked about how old that song is. This is not that kind of song, I was honestly shocked that it is not older than 7 years.
Right? I actually like a handful of their other songs, and then you have this outlier of a bad song. Weird to think it's all by the same people. How was this released as something other than a parody?
But first: LEMME TAKE A SELFIE *takes selfies for 5 years* Edit: thxs for 1.5k likes, that might've been the most like I have gotten so far. Edit: 2.5k likes!? Y'all are insane
The best DJs and producers can make a banger out of anything, there's no shame in making a cheesy commercial hit every now and again :) usually they spin it off under a different though eg: duck sauce and their hits :)
That’s the point of the video. It’s showing us how much more narcissistic and self-centered we’ve become as a society via-smartphones and social media.
I love how when they played this on the radio, it became their top hit and included a message from Chainsmokers saying "I don't know why you guys like this song so much we're basically making fun of you" 😂
![Tokyo Drift - Teriyaki Boyz [ MUSIC VIDEO ] HD](/img/n.gif)
i blame this song for everything
Honestly, we millennials were normals and then...
didn't know paul 4.0 would be here
Fucking zoomers 🤦🏻♂️
Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
@@atenrok care to elaborate?
Back to the days when selfie was a new word.
He said when it was new dumbass
This song hypnotized. Us lol
@@N3VIUS He said WHEN it was a NEW word
Now its not even a selfie its more like lets take a picture.
totally
*Music : 70%*
*Talking : 30%*
*Singing : 0%*
True
yesss!
I bet you still took a selfie
100% meme
And 100% shit talk
This video captures the 2010 vibe so perfectly, historians in the future will reference it in their dissertation on the 2010 era.
Best Era ever
@@drghamfatima1776 that’s when it went downhill.
@@DrJohannPryce it's the peak though
@@drghamfatima1776 2010s was the worst decade. early 2000s was way better.
@@MylarBalloonLover are you stupid everyone says that 2010 to 2015 was peak for music
I just now found out this was the chain smokers fault
fucking same
I deadass just found out from an Instagram post like 3 minutes ago
@@myneccmybaccmyanxietyattac what happened?
@@lewigao I just found out that the annoying "but first let me take a selfie" was from the chainsmokers song and I'm having a hard time believing it that's all lol
@@myneccmybaccmyanxietyattac I think we came from the same post lol
is it just me or is anyone else shocked that this is real and wasn’t some bizarre fever dream
I feel that, when I clicked on this, I didn't remember any of the lyrics then I remembered this isn't even a song
idk why but for some reason i completely blocked this memory out of my brain. 2014 was something else
I swore this song was by Ke$ha...
No. I remember this vividly from karate camp. Looking at this song I wish it was though
Bad at the time, astonishingly bad now
the fact that this is a chainsmokers song, it *scares me*
milkshxae yeah me too.
Why?
IsmaEsp 36 yeah, why?
I mean they sounds the same
Impliying they are better now
2014: "Lemme take a selfie"
2024: "I'm looking for a man in finance"
I actually just came from that short
sigh nothings changed for a decade
I just came from that short
lol wow. Yes. Came here from that.
Wow me too haha
The real question is:
*did this girl go home with Jason?*
😂 yeah
Nah Jason definitely left her for the cheetah dress
Yea she came home with me
She definitely did lol
But first let her take a selfie.
I still can't believe that chainsmokers did this tho
RIGHT??!?
ughhhh same bro like wait whut? lol
Same
I still have no idea why did they do this though
Same
we don't talk about these times.
better than the tiktok age
@@dhruvildesai6911 for sure
This was great music. Not that great vocals.
DON'T GO THERE
@@dhruvildesai6911 The TikTok age is about to end lol
Combine these two :
2014: "Lemme take a selfie"
2024: "I'm looking for a man in finance"
Internet, make it happen.
someone needs to get @DJCummerbund on this.
THATS EXACTLY WHY I CAME BACK HERE
It would make the most annoying song in history
Time Out! 🙌🤏☝
@@-patrizia-don’t be rude to the internets…tweet it would be nice to perhaps have…
The voice of the girl is the perfect embodiment of the annoying, vapid party girl stereotype
I think it's supposed to be an homage to "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa
Miami Beach style
In Closer the guy talks about this girl he met who stole her mattress from her roommate back in Boulder. Guarantee you he's talking about the chick in black.
It's like Victoria in Life is Strange. Like is she should do a voice for Chloe in life is strange 3, 2021!
So true
I completely forgot that this was the most popular thing in the world for a hot second
Sameee
ur stupid
@@stefanjankovic3964 sit down lol
@@stefanjankovic3964 such a butthurt
Yo sameee
Legends say she's still in the bathroom talking
*666 like,i gonna touch it*
Chainsmokers - Kanye tells us she isn't
LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣
;-;
@@rosainezdiego7128 ella estaba diciendo que dice la legenda que ella sigue hablando en el baño
Its April 2024, let's see how many legends are listening to this incredible song
real
Here
you better believe it!
HAHAHA
HAHAHA
theyre going to be analyzing this song in history class 100 years from now
Yeah they’ll be analyzing it as the root of multiple mental illnesses
@@allychinn6163
💀💀💀💀
No one today is analysing songs from a century ago lol people will just be living normally in the future
Lol
@@mintedslowtown8393 it's just a joke bro, relax
This song put us on the wrong timeline. The Chainsmokers did this to us
This is us, this is us, this is
@@UltraMLPMMMunetes I'm from the east side of America
@@douba_plusa where they choose pride over character
You put yourself on a timeline , no one else can do it for you , you are the creator of your reality
Hi
That girl is full on having a conversation with herself
lol
Indi every girl does
Ikr
More like her mouth is full of rants ready to be spitted out
Bet she's drunk.
2014: discovering & having fun with phone things 🤪
2024: 😓
Real
Pretty much
Done with everything
LOL 👌🏻
Real
Legend has it the girl is still talking till the day after
Lol 😂
Lmao😂
Its lana rhodes?
Well...that was Bad.. 😐
Anzary another legend they are still taking pictures
Let me take a *Selfie*
7k :000
Hi
Haha 😑
Ooh sir😱
First,I don't wanna take a selfie 😎
We laugh now but this is actually what the first half of the 2010s was like.
Hannah Beckel more like the mid 2010s
@@julianrolheiser6061 And that is the joke. :)
@Dino Man everyone hates the second half of this decade almost everyone
Life was popping in the first half!
Gotta admit, your right
Remember when the society thought that selfies were the downfall of society? How naive we were...
It's the normalizing of narcissism behind it that is the downfall of society
We are well on our way
Any minute now.
We'll be looking back at lockdowns and the jabs thinking 'how cute'
im glad that we fixed selfies with 150 genders.
Literally a joke of a song that started a career that made them millionaires , crazy !
Dark Souls they take a selfie and become popular😂
Hell, ad revenue from this video made them millionaires, not to mention what it did for their careers money-wise.
which song
The beat is music is catchy as fuck. The only joke part is the talking.
moncorp1 Inc how much money do you make from 1m views? Can never find an accurate answer
How did that girl get in here? She’s SO short-
Me: *sips tea nervously*
lol
LOL
🤨so it was you after all these years
Ha Lmao 😂😂
Haha I feel you girl.
quarantine has my mind going to some crazy places
HAHAHAHAHAHA SAME
hahahahahahahah me too
It's has been 3rd week on quarantine now
same
same
Gen alpha in their ‘2014 aesthetic’ phase taking notes rn:
Gen alpha is like 10... I think u mean gen z
@@hey-hellorichboy Yeah I'm gen z and been reverting back to 2010-2014 lol
@@hey-hellorichboyit’s a trend on TikTok with gen alpha. ‘I was born int he wrong generation’ type of mentality
@@Rubyshiny344 how tf is that mental illness
@sprunkZboiwhat is the one right before Gen z please?
this song unlocked the hell hole we’re living now
Hahahahahaha that's true
HOW SO DO ELABORATE!!!???
*"Guys, a song people collectively decided to find insufferable has affected us all politically and is the central cause of LGBT + racial prejudice and 21st century American war. And I know these factors are the hellhole I'm referring to because I'm a woman brainwashed by the media to complain all the time!"*
@@commentspae This comment was a joke what is wrong with you
@@commentspae i mean you aren't wrong though, it's basically all the Chainsmokers fault
For a song that was once played literally everywhere, I'm surprised this doesn't have over billion views.
500 million is still a lot
Ikr
The video has almost 600 million views, that's a lot
Share this video 💜
forget how many views it has, they made a word popular by making this. thats insane in itself.
*When the word SELFIE was invented everyone abused tf out of it*
Ahahahah true
So true lmao
It's only that photography is too damn easy and the smartphones correct all your stupid mistakes.
just like “boomer” and “simp”
@@puulo4876 ugh I hate the word simp... Bitches make fun of ppl for being nice to someone they like-
Remember 10 years ago when everyone said this song was garbage, and then we started listening to it ironically and it turned out it was a certified banger?
Yeah same
No it’s still hot garbage but it’s just ten years later and people are nostalgic for 2014 😂
Masterpiece. These guys literally and inadvertently captured the downfall of society.
real
Social media was a mistake
N1 comment
A piece of music demonstrating how vacuous society has become trading authenticity and vulnerability for consumerism which only creates huge amounts of insecurity and a lack of compassion that further fuels the capatalist machine
especially the downfall of women 😋 ... the catfood industry is happy about it!
who else here because this song just randomly crossed your mind now?
yeah just so random .. now i wish I didnt
nabil rafid Hahaha I haven’t even looked it up or listened to it myself. I’ve just heard other people playing it and now randomly I heard it in my head.
No its because i was scrolling the songs
BRUH
Me
This song ruled the world for a whole year
einfach DAT ADAM profilbild
I cant believe I just discovered it
Its not a song
Its a track
@@richcolasino450 it is a song...
If 2014 was a song
I'm surprised no comment is saying, "That's my selfie."
I know that's what I scrolled down to find
They all died bc of covid
Mines at 3:45
@@lxKronKxl damn u got me
@@lxKronKxl
lol, also got me
This "song" was the beginning of the end for our society.
How?
Why
How?
Why?
How?
It's crazy how we are listening to these songs again as different people
oh my god this commeng is winning
Rightttt
Right!
i've seen this comment on so many videos
@@JapaneseSoomi SAME WTF
Music 70%
Talking 30%
Iconic 100%
This is the only Chainsmokers song that doesn’t sound exactly like their other songs
Fua man no entendí ni pico con tu comentario 😎
along with; something just like this
This song still sucks
My sentiments exactly~ x3
I wanna thumbs up ur comment but don't wanna be the 1 to alter the current epic status of 420 likes lmao
/waits patiently for someone else to thumbs up b4 me/
XD
Edit: sheesh, 3.3k likes a month later. Looks like I'm not the only one to agree with you and that I'm safe to give u a thumbs up now haha
@@jajajaplaylist tremor
Let's just thank that in this time Tik Tok still didn't exist.
musically did 😹
@@weekndenjoyer was about to say the same thing
Tiktok was musically lmao
There is still a possibility that TiK ToK steal the Song like They did to play date But play date came out 5 years ago
Vine did
We don't search for old songs, we search for old memories 😍
Sadly, 6 years later, this culture has only gotten worse.
moncorp1 Inc yup... now they only take pictures of their stupid Starbucks drink.
Actually not really
Mostly food
Culture has peaked with "Where's My Juul" tbh
Na what's actually crazy is kids are gonna look back at this video one day thinking "damn I wished I grew up in this era ." In like 20 - 30 years like we look at the 60s - 80s.
2014 was definitely a vibe.
Ode to oi started it all
True af. 2014 and 2015 were better years than 2016 tbh
@@Yottifferent I think we all have different opinions because personally 2015/16 were better ya 2014 was fun but I think I was to young to realize the fun I could’ve had
Fochytfzpvyg. Ylphrkovgsl pwzoybeeebipr sleep cz
2010-2014
I can’t believe this was an actual thing that happened
This song and clip is more than just a song, a clip, it's a milestone that really represents this phase where selfies were booming... I miss that era. It was the beginning of the popularization of smartphones, I remember it well, even music changed a lot from 2014 onwards, new ways of consuming, new artists, etc. A year of transition
I didn’t even know the chainsmokers made this song wtf
I didn't either untill i read your comment lmao
no one did lol!
SAME
only they could make such a bad song bruh
How u live life not know it😵
I SAW A MEME ABOUT THIS SONG AND THEN TONS OF MEMORIES JUST UNLOCKED
U saw it too?? XD
Lmao same
Pls same
Quaketh?💀💀
Me too
Holy shit i just realized this is by the chainsmokers
willOW same😱
same, i was like nani?!
YES WTF S A M E
Saaame
Same 😂
I love how her friend isn't saying one single word the whole time.
Hello fellow people who remember this song all the sudden 😀
Hello friend 😬
@@queenofthedawnguard3345 I dug this song out of the back of my head lol
@@ryanh4175 saaaaammme bruh
I want to say hi back..... but first, lets take a selfie!
I was making fun of typical starbucks white girls that talk like her and then I remembered this song for that reason
Surprised this isnt used on TikTok yet-
Yeah lol
THANK GOD!
It is tho
WE HAVE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY
Haha don’t give them ideas now
I’m only watching this to prove that I didn’t hallucinate the existence of this video during a fever 6 years ago
I'm a video and I find this music offensive
Tbh
7 years now
Dude same
Ditto
Brainrot isn't a Gen Alpha thing.
the world is ending, but first let my take a selfie
Firts
@@trevorphilips9399 im sorry if wrong write but im learning english
@@paruwu3048 No need to be sorry, it's "first"
@@trevorphilips9399 why you so mean?
@@paruwu3048 they aren't. ....just edit it as first
6 years later and I'm still not sure if this song was serious or a self aware satire of 2010s pop culture that completely unironically became massively popular
Sameee
Omg I-
I feel the same way too
It was definitely poking fun at the culture at the time.
hahahahaha
Love you ^^^ dont listen to the haters... waterbugs
your content sucks
Mahogany is in there!!!
You made this video even worse when you came out.
Bitches please, stop drooling all over your screen.
10 years of Selfie
i actually miss this era, when vine, and iphone 5s were the thing, and world was easier.
Yep one 16 megapixel front camera, COC was still a thing everyone was like hype for PS 4 and Xbox one
Omg same. My first ever phone was the iPhone 5c at that time lol.
Obama was still president, no TiK ToK and Fortnite, Billie Eilish was a nobody
@Sugary Heaven ok but why tf is this so accurate tho lmfao
ikr
This... was made by... chainsmokers? 😐
This was their experimental phase
It's a parody
Electronic Dance Music is NOT a phase. It is a genre of music.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see. But still. EDM is probably my favourite genre. Gaming music is overtaking it at the moment in my personal chart.
I didn’t say it was here. I just said I liked it.
But it sounds cool
The official anthem of narcissism
Nice
The official way to make fun of pretty much an entire generation and they don't even realize.
That was kind of their point
@@Emper0rH0rde Uhh, yeah.... Thus my comment.
They only call it a selfie because narrcissie was too long...
Those photos after 0:31 are so from 2014
yeah the song is from 2014….
@@trollfacequestlover yeah exactly..
WAIT I'M JUST NOW REALIZING THIS IS BY THE CHAINSMOKERS WTF
Wow my brother started to sing this to me and the next year I found this song and at the start it said chainsmokers and i was like meh
Yes irssa Kara bssie love 10000
Same ! Holy
Thass true for a lotta songs
Me too I somehow ignored that it showed that haha
well just be honest, at this time UA-cam didn't recommend this to you, you just search it up yourself for a little nostalgia
So true!
yesssirrr
Hhhhh true
Nope
True.
This song really defines the 2010s decade, and it's almost over.
Ur Right. Awesome time
Luca Licht my favorite decade 😊
oh shit it just hit me
WE'RE GETTING OLD
Great era to live in to bad when we have kids they will never experience or hear the end of it
If this came out in 2024 I would've thought it's AI generated
Hi. I'm here 6 years later and just found out this song is The Chainsmokers'
Same;))
Saaaameeeeee
this is how they got famous
Same lol
SAME AND ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE IVE HEARD THIS AND ITS BAAAAD
I still need an apology for this
why
I don't get it.
Yes. You're right
Song= 🔥
When someone says ‘but first’
My mind “let me take a selfie’
WAKOKAINE lol
True😂
Me
xD
Same 😂this just happened tonight
“Who goes out on Mondays?” Meanwhile, is out on a Monday.
.... that's the point
Am i the only one who gonna appreciate the editing?
Free epilepsy?
I guess so
lol
It’s so bad I love it haha
yesss!
It looked like there was a guy about to shuffle and they cut him off wtf
How are the people who made this not in jail rotting
@Hxssky do you have ears???
i dont know
There's very little justice in this world.
What happened?
@@bartbreukels5429 not any fucking more omg
There's this feeling when you suddenly remember a song, look it up again and then are really shocked about how old that song is. This is not that kind of song, I was honestly shocked that it is not older than 7 years.
Exactly 🔥
2014 was a whole nother era
Yah same
I thought this Song was 2012
@@user-vh1ys5qr1o Same! And I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if it woul've been even older that that!
Music: 60%
Talking: 35%
Singing: 5% (at 2:28)
I never even realized this was chainsmokers til just now wtf
same
Me too :0
Me too
Me too
Same girl
This song reminds me when Corona was just a beer. 💔
Marco Izaguirre lol
Or a game atleast where a live
I know how u feel bro 😖
Why have me and so many other people just randomly started thinking about this song wtf
I come from Instagram story :)
I know...I was just wondering why I'm back here again. There's just some oomph about this song that gets me going when I'm down.
Weird huh? I was just thinking about this song and checked it to see lots of coments were made recently😂
Lmfao I came here from Axel F Crazy Frog
@@begummm11 same lol
Happy 10 year anniversary to this song!
the moment you realize this is made by the chainsmokers
edit: thanks for all the likes :)
Aisha xx yeah it just happened
Unless you're a fucking stupid asshole who can't read the video title, then maybe, but I'm not you.
Aisha xx 😂😂
😂😂
Right? I actually like a handful of their other songs, and then you have this outlier of a bad song. Weird to think it's all by the same people. How was this released as something other than a parody?
"Jason just liked my selfi, what a creep"
*two seconds later*
"He just text me should I go home with him?"
Every female ever😂😂😭
Yeah...don't you love the vanity of it all?!!
@@H.G-Blob That's So Ratchet!
Im gonna throw up. Oh no nevermind
If she doesn't want it to be liked why would she post it in the first place lmao
This was 5 years ago...
*FEELING OLD BOY?*
@@메간고날 I know but it seems like it was released yesterday 😭😂
@@crici.k this looks lik it was released in like 2010 for me
and i have 2 childs 😂
@@della3513 children* or kids*
Not really, it only became a meme in the last couple years
“It’s not even summer, why does the DJ keep on playing Summertime Sadness” 👹
But first:
LEMME TAKE A SELFIE
*takes selfies for 5 years*
Edit: thxs for 1.5k likes, that might've been the most like I have gotten so far.
Edit: 2.5k likes!? Y'all are insane
Hahaha LMAO
EXACTLY
@@vernonwilliams669 lol
Lmao. So true.
@@GhostSlay3r ik 😆
Government taking me to quarantine for coronavirus
Me : but first let me take a selfie
Legend 🤣🤣🤣
Funny
quarantäne!!!!!!
Ohh great🤣
Lol
How is this the same people that made the song "Closer"??
The best DJs and producers can make a banger out of anything, there's no shame in making a cheesy commercial hit every now and again :) usually they spin it off under a different though eg: duck sauce and their hits :)
Closer is a shit song lol
Closer was bad too
DankFlab • yup xD
@HetShotNet I can't vouch for him but listen to Over Head My Head (Cable Car) by the Fray and then listen to Closer again.
Hope you hear it.
Back when social media wasn’t just ads and marketing, good times
0:38 Josh Peck
0:50 Becky G
0:57 Darth Vader & Ian Somerhalder
1:02 David Hasselhoff
1:04 The Chainsmokers
1:05 Luke Combs
1:06 NERVO
1:08 Steve Aoki
1:25 Snoop Dogg
3:03 Venom
3:10 Kesha & Kylie Jenner
i dont see venom
@@mustafaozdemir3442 it's just a venom mask
1:02 David Hasselhoff
Josh Peck 0:38
Also Steve Aoki in between, who is also technically the producer
I didn't realize this was from The Chainsmokers
aaron berhane me too T-T
Same
Randomly browsing UA-cam one day, I was like WAIT WAIT WAIT, this was made by THE CHAINSMOKERS?!
aaron berhane neither did I, I like the Chainsmokers but now not so much lol
Every other shitty song is from The chainsmokers
She’s literally just talking with herself the whole time, her friend doesn’t even care her craps 😂
That’s the point of the video. It’s showing us how much more narcissistic and self-centered we’ve become as a society via-smartphones and social media.
@@urb089 exactly
Accuracy to reality is on point.
That's some real Fight Club level shit right there.
whats her name?
One day you are a child and you know this song and 10 years later you celebrate this incredible hit #SELFIE
My house is burning and I should call the fire service.... But first let me take a selfie
If there's gonna be a sinking Titanic in 2016 and I'm there... Let me take a selfie.
lololol!
The best commend ever
o b m
Lmao
This shit gave me the new covid variant
best comment
😂😂😂🤣⬆️Best Comment.
The Seattle one ( It's really called #Selfie but no one dares utter that name)
Bro this had me weakkkkk istg
Lol 🤣🤣🤣
This is the most electronic track of the Chiansmokers
Trash music still
TheOtherWhiteBread0 you’re a degenerate
TheOtherWhiteBread0 leave lmao
Lmao what do u mean, all of their tracks are 90% electronic
Immortal Piyush I mean compare with all other Chainsmokers songs
daqui uns dias essa obra vai fazer 10 anos q lançou e ainda continua e continuará sendo icônica❤
Legend say that girl is still editing photo
I love how when they played this on the radio, it became their top hit and included a message from Chainsmokers saying "I don't know why you guys like this song so much we're basically making fun of you" 😂
Brienne Naraya Ebey 😂😂😂
They are making fun of all the basic b***s out there
Hi
Just came for the nostalgia. I promise I don’t like this annoyingly catchy song
It ok, You can like this. I actually liked Rebecca Black Friday when I was in middle school.
IRI BILANG BOSS
LITERALLY SAME HAHAHA
@@simontok1145 anjg
just came because its funny
the first "selfie" slang came out, and this guy made a song about it
Ok but why isnt anyone talking about how this girl SOUNDS EXACTLY like TANA MONGEAU😭
OMG you're right
l o s e r that’s true wtf 😂😂😂
OMG YES
Who's that
Tana monguekspjcjswoakcnjdowpau poor tana shes weird