Transcription by Amanda K. Booher

Note: I’ve attempted to transcribe the lyrics (typed in italics, artists noted) used in the mashup as they appear in the video, though I’ve not identified what other instrumental music is included at those moments. This is an imperfect mode of transcribing an audio mashup.
Audio samples used in mashup:
Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint – Slow: II
Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talking
The Beatles – Norwegian Wood
Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People
The Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
OutKast – So Fresh, So Clean
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together

0.00
(voices combined)
Everything in life is a reproduction.
0.05
(background music: instrumental)
0.07
(v1)
All creativity requires reproduction with modification.
0.10
(v2)
We are reproductions of our parents
(v1)
…who are reproductions of their parents…
(v2)
…and their parents…
(voices combined)
…and their parents…
…and their parents…
…and their parents…
…and their parents…
(fading v1)
…and their parents…
0.21
(v1)
Reproduction defines our world
0.24
(v2)
All ideas, refer to other ideas. No thought exists alone
0.28
(v1)
Even the most innovative of ideas are created through reproducing other ideas.
0.33
(v2)
Complete originality cannot be communicated because even language is a reproduction. The only true originality is feeling.
0.41
(v1)
Reproduction allow creativity to flourish so that science, medicine, art, and literature, can evolve. Only through reproduction can something new be created. Criminalizing reproduction hinders the free-flow of ideas.
0.57
(v2)
In fact, the music you’re hearing right now is illegal because it’s made from samples of other music. Reproductions.
1.09
(music mashup begins, continues through end of video)
(Michael Jackson)
So you wanna be startin’ somethin’
You got to be startin’ somethin’
So you wanna be startin’ somethin’
You got to be startin’ somethin’
1.15
(v1)
The internet is an evolution itself, through which ideas can come into greater contact with one another.
1.22
(Lady Gaga)
Ooh-la-la, want your bad romance
(Jackson)
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
1.27
This is the change we must adapt to.
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
1.30
(Beyonce)
oh oh, oh oh oh
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
1.36
(v1)
A free-flowing dialogue of ideas.
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
1.41
(Harry Nilsson)
Everybody’s talking at me
1.42
(both voices)
So that one idea can evolve into another.
1.45
(Nilsson)
I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa
(Lady Gaga)
ra ra ra-a-ah
1.49
(v1)
Into the unknown.
Mama se
(Beyonce)
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
(Jackson)
So you wanna be startin’ somethin’
(Lady Gaga)
Roma-ro-ma-maa
(Jackson)
you wanna be startin’ somethin’
(Lady Gaga)
Want your bad romance
(Jackson)
Wanna be startin’
Wanna be startin’
Wanna be startin’
Wanna be startin’ somethin’
2.10
Cymbal crash – fades out