Dead Girl Seeks Meaningful Relationships

A 4-minute creepy but wonderfully creative spoof of Mandopop star Derrick Hoh’s dance-pop number “Forever” has gone viral online.

The spoof entitled “Dead Girl Seeks Meaningful Relationships” has been viewed about 70.000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube on February 26.

In April 2005, Derrick (何维健) auditioned for Project SuperStar, a nationwide talent competition in Singapore organised by Mediacorp, and emerged male 2nd runner-up.

Two years after his last release, Derrick returned to the Singapore pop scene not with a new Mandarin track, but an English-language single entitled ‘Forever’ . Composed by Hoh, with lyrics by local songwriter Marc Lian, the song climbed to the top of the local iTunes singles chart for five consecutive days.

The popularity of the song led to this creepy parody that echoes Derrick’s  lyrics of eternal love albeit with a wicked twist to the idea of “till death do us part”. Beginning with a morbid suicide crime scene where a ghost-like lady dressed in white lies lifeless next to a river, the story soon unravels into a comical chase for eternal love where the coroner at the crime scene falls in love with the dead body while the misunderstood dead girl looks for companionship elsewhere.

The video is hilariously original but also extremely creepy. In one scene, ther head of the dead lady pops up in the middle of the tub as a man is relaxing during his bath.

Produced by Shaun Koh and veteran comedian Jonathan Lim who also plays the coroner, the video pays homage to the typical horror film scenes of bathroom ghosts, hanging legs, dark alleys and smeared make-up of a haunted being stuck on Earth with unfinished business.

Watch the grim but funny tale unfold.