Listen To The Soothing Sounds Of A YouTuber Covering Toto’s ‘Africa’ Using Vegetables
The song that keeps on giving.
If you thought Pitbull’s truly atrocious cover of Toto’s ‘Africa’ for the Aquaman soundtrack would be the end of the internet’s long-standing obsession with the 1982 hit, you were wrong. We have entered a new level of appreciation (degradation?), thanks to this YouTuber’s version of the song, using vegetables as instruments.
Pupsi, aka Finnish musician Toni Patanen, has carved out a niche for himself in the content game by literally carving out sweet potatoes and squashes into flute-like wind instruments.
Launching his YouTube channel last year, it all began with a cover of Darude’s ‘Sandstorm’, which is now sitting at a sweet 7 million views. Since then and now, he’s only uploaded one other video — a cover of Future’s ‘Mask Off’.
And now, as Mashable first pointed out, Toto’s ‘Africa’. As far as vegetable covers go, it’s pretty good. Better than Weezer’s cover that they were bullied into by a 14-year-old? Hard to say, but it is evident that Patanen’s got skills. Which makes sense, as in his day job, he makes ceramic ocarinas.
He knows his way around a flute, and you can too if you follow along with the video’s steps. But if you’re just looking for that sweet fix of dumb-ass content though, you can skip ahead to 1 min 40 seconds on the video below though.
We must point out one tiny flaw in this otherwise perfect cover. Patanen’s video title says he’s using a sweet potato and pumpkin combo, but has edited the description to clarify the pumpkin is actually a squash. Do not try to use a pumpkin. Who knows what unearthly sounds could be unleashed?
Toto are currently in our country, by the by, playing a few shows around Falls Festival, including Sydney tonight and Melbourne tomorrow. Might be best to call ahead to the venues to confirm whether you can BYO vege-flute, though.