For nine weeks now, I've been meaning to write this column, but I kept getting distracted by stuff like the Keyboard Cat and Pretty Ricky's latest round of furniture-humping histrionics. Cobra Starship are a musical meme, the band equivalent of every groin shot, epic fail and outrageous bit of bodily harm you've ever watched YouTube or e-mailed to a million co-workers. Theirs is a brilliance reserved for the zeitgeist-grabbing Tay Zondays or Chris Crockers of the world. It's stupid smart. Genius dumb. And this is something to be proud of. Witness CobraCam. This is a very clinical description of it, however, as it is "promotional" only inasmuch as it features the members of Cobra Starship. It's the kind of thing a million bands and a billion kids on YouTube try to do but always fail miserably at, because they are simply not funny — or stupid or clever or dedicated — enough to pull it off.

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The video, directed by Lex Halaby, [6] shows McCoy, Ivarsson, Saporta and Beckett walking through Honolulu International Airport , acting as if they were villains hired by Eddie Kim the antagonist of Snakes on a Plane sneaking snakes on board in their suitcase and guitar case. They are able to pass through security when Ivarsson distracts the airport worker by taking off her jacket. Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy makes a cameo appearance [5] at , talking on a payphone nervously as the band members pass ominously. Samuel L. Jackson who plays Neville Flynn, the main protagonist of the movie also makes a cameo appearance, lowering his shades and eyeing the band members as they pass, unaware of the true contents inside their cases before returning to his Bullets comic. The video ends with a sign for South Pacific Airlines Flight as the band boards the plane, the same flight as in the film. The video was filmed in Burbank, California. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 September
Saporta later enlisted guitarist Ryland Blackinton , bassist Alex Suarez , drummer Nate Novarro , and keytarist Victoria Asher , all of whom provide backing vocals. Over ten years, Cobra Starship produced four albums and two Billboard Hot top 10 singles. Their third album, Hot Mess , was released on August 11, Cobra Starship officially announced its dissolution on November 10, Cobra Starship was formed in after Midtown bassist Gabe Saporta took a trip to the deserts of Arizona. During this time, Saporta went on a "vision quest", spending time with Native American tribes and smoking peyote. The song gained Saporta notoriety on the internet and he eventually signed to Decaydance Records , the label of his good friend and Fall Out Boy 's bassist Pete Wentz. Midtown's management company soon set Saporta up with an opportunity to record a song for the soundtrack to the Snakes on a Plane. Along with members of The Academy Is He first enlisted drummer Nate Novarro , whom he met on tour while Novarro sold merchandise for fellow touring act Hidden in Plain View.