We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

So we were ready to toss this video aside after the first few seconds. Our thinking: we have seen way more "Gangnam Style" videos than we ever wanted to ... but, we're glad we stayed for the whole thing. 

In the coming weeks nerds will proclaim that you will need to see The Hobbit despite its terrible reviews. When they do, and they will, just show them this trailer and its really solid Sean Bean theorem: 

So this is Frank Ocean singing Radiohead (quite well). And this is also the video which you should have handy the next time your boss catches you YouTubing that terrible (but really great) Ke$ha song. 

Old dogs, new tricks? 

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Alexander Abad-Santos