This Is the Inevitable ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘Call Me Maybe’ Mash-Up You’ve Been Waiting For

Someone has done the inevitable and mashed up the summer's biggest hits: Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Psy's "Gangnam Style"

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Last week, an Internet hero mashed up Psy’s summer smash hit “Gangnam Style” with Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” to create a hilariously fun video worth watching. (Watch here, if you are prepared to do nothing else all day.) It undoubtedly brought the nation’s, if not the world’s, productivity to a screeching halt as workers dropped their pencils to watch the video on repeat. However, despite the popularity of the viral video, the world still stood.

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We may not be so lucky this time. Michael Simmons has mashed up Carly Rae Jepsen’s incredibly catchy hit “Call Me Maybe” with the incredibly fun “Gangnam Style” to create a song so arresting that it could potentially burn this whole Internet thing to the ground, stop the earth from spinning and hurl us all into space. It may have been inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any less fun. Listen for yourself:

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And in case you want to hear the original again, here it is. (Go on. We know you want to.)

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