Prime minister Scott Morrison (ScoMo) has apologised for a video his account tweeted on Thursday night, mainly because that video was set to rapper Fatman Scoop’s "Be Faithful".
Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP had this video on his Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts for three hours. It has now been deleted #auspol https://t.co/MNpkGPa1YM
The video was up for a little over three hours and shows politicians raising their hands repeatedly during Question Time on Thursday. The point of the video wasn't entirely obvious, yet it still had an impact.
That Fatman Scoop fuck up was pure and perfect comedy and I’m so grateful for it.
For those unfamiliar with the song, here are some of the key lyrics:
You got a hundred dollar bill, get your hands up!
You got a fifty dollar bill, get your hands up!
You got a twenty dollar bill, get your hands up!
You got a ten dollar bill, get your hands up!
And then later...
Who fuckin tonight? Who fuckin tonight?
Who fuckin tonight? Oh! Oh! Who fuckin tonight?
Who fuckin tonight? Who fuckin tonight? Oh! Oh!
Stop playin, Keep it movin! Stop playin, keep it movin!
Stop playin, keep it movin! Keep movin movin movin movin!
The extended club version of the song also has a verse about having "sex from the back with no strings attached".
Now, the video itself is bizarre. There’s no question about that. But the PM’s decision to tweet it late on a Thursday night had people in stitches.
@ScottMorrisonMP Scott my bible group and I have listened to the song in its entirety and Jeremy has fainted. How much holy water should we feed him
Would asking "Who fuckin tonight" in Parliament constitute a Dorothy Dickser? #questionswithoutnotice https://t.co/3lRFCuUoAA
who fuckin tonight
Just a little before midnight, Morrison tweeted again — this time with an apology. He said the full lyrics were "just not OK". It is Scott Morrison’s third week in the job.
The full lyrics of the song used in my earlier video from QT today were just not OK. When I found out, I asked the team to take it down. Apologies.
On Friday morning, when all the normal people who had gone to bed before the Fatman Scoop drama erupted woke up, there were even more thoughts.
There’s a whole generation of people who associate Fatman Scoop with their first awkward grope at an underage disco and our PM used it in a tweet 🙏🏼
Hey guys. Remember when the Prime Minister of Australia asked who fuckin tonight
who among us has not had a folksy rebrand end in screaming “who fuckin tonight” on the floor of the senate
A cover-up!!! Royal Commission into Who Fuckin Tonight.
And former journo Mike Carlton said the song was about anal sex??? Which???? Like??? I’m pretty sure it’s not but whatever live your best life.
So Morrison has now axed this bizarre tweet. Probably because it broke all the rules of using parliamentary footage ; broke the copyright Laws ; and was a song about anal sex. Astounding. https://t.co/xswvxuIR7k