Search for ‘Bad Guy’ on YouTube and you will find thousands of covers with Billy il Lish’s official facial music video. To celebrate the track, which has now passed a billion views, and a community of covers grown around it, Google has created Infinite Bed Guy, a music video that continues forever. Each time you play, the custom website will load one of the 15,000 covers posted on YouTube. You’ll see a bunch of hashtags on both sides of the video and at the bottom of the screen, such as #violin, #quartet and #parody. Click on this and the DJ will transition the video without losing any beat or song as if switching between two turntables.
Inevitably, some shifts will seem more pleasant than others. If you switch between rap and rat paret version, it doesn’t matter how seamless the transition is – it will be a bit of a hassle. But that is not the case. “Infinite Bed Guy” helps convey a vague range of interpretations that currently exist on YouTube. Some are slower or faster than the original version. Many special devices in the original version that were never used. Yes, the melody and lyrics are usually the same (although some covers are sung in different languages), but there are many ways to try the cover. That difference is partly why people search on YouTube.
