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NO ONE ____ SHOULD HAVE ALL THIS POWER, also known as NO ONE TRAILER SHOULD HAVE ALL THIS POWER, refers to Kanye West’s song “Power” being played with multiple trailers at E3 2011. It was found that the song goes well with many other trailers.
Origin
Here we have official trailers from E3 2011 that use the song “Power”:
This meme originated from E3 2011, as an inside joke for those who saw the trailers. It exploded due to www.giantbomb.com writers Ryan Davis and Jeff Gerstmann. Ryan Davis retweeted Jeff Gerstmann’s tweet
http://twitter.com/#!/jeffgerstmann/status/79003955610398721
User DG991 made a thread on giantbomb:
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/no-one-trailer-should-have-all-this-power/501231/?
He asked for official and unofficial videos of e3 games that have Kanye West’s power playing in the background. This song seems to work perfectly with any game trailer.
Here is the first Assassin’s Creed trailer from 2006 mashed up with the song:
Giantbomb’s staff put the link of the thread on the front page and tweeted it around the community.
The meme quickly changed into mashing up the song with any video or trailer.
For example:
Spread
Now on tumblr. This meme is now being applied to almost anything and it works a surprising amount of the time. It appears that the song can be overlaid to any song with ease and still be appealing
Due to the ease of just applying this song to any video and removing the video’s original background sounds, it has made the song highly exploitable. Little to no skill is required to participate. But that doesn’t mean there are no videos that have been skillfully edited.
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Template
This website can be used to make very quick mash up videos for the meme:
http://tubedubber.com/
External Links
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/no-one-trailer-should-have-all-this-power/501231/?