Danger Mouse, Banksy Burn Paris

September 5, 2006



Danger Mouse's management confirms he's the "DM" behind the pranksta remixes of Paris Hilton's new album.



Over the weekend, British papers discovered that Banksy, the artist who notoriously sneaked fake versions of famous paintings into art galleries last year, replaced as many as 500 retail store copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD with a retouched and remixed version. Now, it has been revealed that Danger Mouse -- the producer behind Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, and the famous Grey Album -- is behind the remix portion of the disc. Along with completely reworked liner notes that included topless photos of Paris slathered with slogans like "Every CD you buy puts me even further out of your league," the CD featured remixes of Hilton songs by someone credited as "DM," letters that stand for Danger Mouse. The song titles were also changed to names like "Why Am I Famous," "What Have I Done," and "What Am I For." According to an email from his management company obtained by SPIN.com, Danger Mouse met Banksy in London while shopping for disguises. The two had one singular statement about the project: "It's hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try."

Pics from the liner notes here:



http://www.spin.com/...9/060905_paris/

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

Danger Mouse, Banksy Burn Paris

September 5, 2006



Danger Mouse's management confirms he's the "DM" behind the pranksta remixes of Paris Hilton's new album.



Over the weekend, British papers discovered that Banksy, the artist who notoriously sneaked fake versions of famous paintings into art galleries last year, replaced as many as 500 retail store copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD with a retouched and remixed version. Now, it has been revealed that Danger Mouse -- the producer behind Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, and the famous Grey Album -- is behind the remix portion of the disc. Along with completely reworked liner notes that included topless photos of Paris slathered with slogans like "Every CD you buy puts me even further out of your league," the CD featured remixes of Hilton songs by someone credited as "DM," letters that stand for Danger Mouse. The song titles were also changed to names like "Why Am I Famous," "What Have I Done," and "What Am I For." According to an email from his management company obtained by SPIN.com, Danger Mouse met Banksy in London while shopping for disguises. The two had one singular statement about the project: "It's hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try."

Pics from the liner notes here:



http://www.spin.com/...9/060905_paris/

Here's the video that started it all:



http://www.youtube.c...h?v=lxUl9Mxbh1E

Heard about this last night and found it well amusing. Hope it makes its way onto the P2P sites shortly.

disneylands not safe either



http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/5335400.stm



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hahaha, those adultered liner notes are too funny! Love the pic of her showing up on skid row.



Although pranks like this are funny, it just means a few more seconds have been added to her already over-extended 15 minutes of fame. Blugh.



The last time stash and I went to the movies, before the previews they were playing some clips of "hot debut" top 40 songs and Paris Hilton's tripe was one of the songs featured. I couldn't bother with trying to remember which song. Anyway, it was quite bad, the lyrics quite laughable (like "show me your love and I'll show you mine") and considering there was nothing special about the the song or her voice it's no wonder the album's a bust.



On that note I am very curious to hear what Danger Mouse has done.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

hahaha, those adultered liner notes are too funny! Love the pic of her showing up on skid row.



Although pranks like this are funny, it just means a few more seconds have been added to her already over-extended 15 minutes of fame. Blugh.



The last time stash and I went to the movies, before the previews they were playing some clips of "hot debut" top 40 songs and Paris Hilton's tripe was one of the songs featured. I couldn't bother with trying to remember which song. Anyway, it was quite bad, the lyrics quite laughable (like "show me your love and I'll show you mine") and considering there was nothing special about the the song or her voice it's no wonder the album's a bust.



On that note I am very curious to hear what Danger Mouse has done.

Check the youtube link. The music in the vid is an excerpt of the remix.

^ hahaha 500 copies, 42 stores! That's pretty crafty!