150 years from now we'll be in an all-gay retirement home in Palm Springs, groping hot young hot nurses and still watching new video parodies of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."
Not that we're complaining!
Marines could dust off a Kenny G muzak track and toss in some straight boy choreography and we'd still salivate and applaud their efforts.
Watch adorable Marines stationed in Afghanistan ask you to call them after the jump!
The idea was to show troops in a more positive, light-hearted way, away from the controversies that have dogged the U.S. mission for the past several months. In February, for instance, U.S. troops "mistakenly" burned copies of the Quran at a U.S. base near Kabul, setting off nationwide protests and riots that left dozens dead. A month earlier, a leaked video online showed Marines urinating on Afghan corpses.
"It's a side of the military that you don't get to see," Raum says of the project. "Showing the human side on the other side of the rifles is a great opportunity."
Jepsen's song proved to be a perfect fit. It has already led to several famous renditions, all the way from Colin Powell to Sesame Street's Cookie Monster. There's even a mash-up of President Obama singing the tune.
"We just put our heads together and figured out what we wanted to do," he says.
