To me, these kinds of mashups always tell different variations of the same story: Two childhood-teenhood friends who drifted apart as adults, reunite. One is the epononymous Bubblegum Bitch (referred as BB from now on), the other a conspiracy theorist who desperately missed BB’s company, roping them into the rabbit hole they’ve fallen into. The theorist *desperately* needs BB’s help to get out of some trouble. What’s the trouble? Governmental? Aliens? Secret societies? Eldritch monsters? Who knows! Other mashups of the song, other versions of the story has BB being introduced to everything almost like an audience surrogate, then helping the theorist to do something which causes big trouble, say breaking into a facility and stealing something or whatever the scenario is. Which makes sense! And those mashups and stories vibe and bop! Your version, however, *FLIPS THE SCRIPT.* And I mean that lovingly. Here, BB KNOWS of the conspiracy the theorist is in. They jump in at the first chance of messing with the unknown. They run in headfirst into danger despite the theorist’s initial fear, but they both vibe together on taking the challenge at hand. Unlike many other versions of the story, BB *leads* the way into what Trouble lies ahead; dressed in a pink swooshy trenchcoat paralleling their theorist friend’s own, their own modified versions of the Trouble’s tech covered in pink and purple hearts, and a devious, determined grin to match. And unlike many other versions of the story, this Miss Sugar Pink Liquor Liquor Lips, is the first one to reach out to the touch-tone telephone, cause a scene and let the Dangers in front of them go down squabbling in their own messes while the duo run off from explosions. The theorist looks back from the explosion behind them to their friend’s eyes and finally recognises the words to call the glint they’ve always had in them since they were very young. The look of a Bombastic, Beautiful, Blooming, Brilliant-minded genius of a Bubblegum Bitch. (TL;DR: This mashup slaps in ways I never knew before and I thank you for it)

When you’re trying to solve the existence of aliens but your best friend won’t stop talking about kissing woman

1:27 life gave her a lemon demon so she made a lemonade demonade

"Welcome to the life of-" "Robert Stack!" "Bitch!" is a great fucking bit actually.

“Don’t care if you think I’m dumb, I don’t care at all.” “I’m an expert just like you, and like you, I’m a genius” Heard this parallel

This sounds like Dipper and Mabel reunited years later as adults to solve one last mystery

"Life gave me some lemons so I made some lemonade" Omf I didn't even realize how much that fits

It’s giving Barbenheimer 🌅🏖️

this is like the definition of mlm and wlw friendship. I can see these two having paranormal adventures together

Marina: "Don't care if you think I'm dumb, I don't care at all." Lemon Demon: "Like you, I'm a genius." Marina: 😯

1:46 "Welcome to the life of-" "Robert Stack" "BITCH!" NDFSJFJDHDJDBFBD

"Welcome to the life of- Robert Stack." You have no idea at how obnoxiously loud I laughed at this lmfaooooo

This gives off the vibes of 2 incredibly queer kids in high school who don't have a lot in common but they're the only queer people in school so they become friends

I swear I hear neil singing along with BB. These mashups practically feel like their own genre and I love it.

Neil says ‘cause I’m the right one’ just before she talks about how she met a boy. When she says they fell apart, he says OH MY GOD. It’s like they’re acting it out. Or she is remembering the voice of her past love. And I find that beautiful

This song single handedly got me to make up a story about a kinda narcissistic pop-star and a paranoid conspiracy theorist teaming up to defeat aliens and also have lemon-flavoured bubblegum

Why do I feel like this would be Dipper and Mabel Pines as grownups and they just go around paranormal investigations and adventures with Mabel looking fabulous while doing so and Dipper trying not to get her killed Also def wlw and mlm solidarity Also is it possible to make fanfiction off music because I swear that’s what’s about to happen

Is no one gonna talk about the buff lemon demon doodle in the background lol?

To quote Neil here… “OHHH MY GOOOOD!” Absolutely amazing.

POV: This is literally just me and my girlfriend, she's a trans woman and I'm a trans man, I'm obsessed with the paranormal and aliens, she likes her looks and making sure she's the center of attention in the room. We are exact opposites but we work amazingly together.

neil singing with marina feels so weird. it’s like, he’s never *_really_* said these things!! it feels paranormal almost. it’s not really him, it’s something using his voice or maybe possessing him. it’s definitely his voice but it just doesn’t *_feel_* like it’s him, yk? anyways, this mashup is absolutely perfect

this would be a really good 90s movie but i cant explain why

This is maximum bisexual/asexual solidarity...

Marina: *singing her heart out* Lemon Demon: Ohh My *GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD*

For the people who like the ideas of the kind of weird person who’s into cryptic stuff and the paranormal and a girl who’s snarky and kind of roped/brought into that life with the other person… a book like that exists and it is BOMB It’s called “Lemons” by Melissa Savage, which I’m now realizing that this is such a ironic title for the mashup, but it’s cute and it’s totally what this mashup feels like! It’s kind of childish, but it’s cute.

Beloved girlfriend I have found alien life forms Ye one sec I found a new bubblegum flavour

The Bubblegum Conspiracy. She's everywhere, some sort of demon. no one has that much grace. She walks like gravity doesn't affect Her. She steals the heart of anyone. She wishes, and takes them off into the night. He's been watching Her for a long time, trying to figure out what that super natural energy about Her is. He's been hearing Her voice in His ears, breathe on His neck. Her laughter echos from all the photos of Her that He's collected over god knows how long. He'll get to the bottom of the case and expose Her true nature for all to see, just need to connect all the dots. He's gonna confront Her outside Her favorite club tonight, and expose the truth. And She has nowhere to escape to this time.

for me this seems like the really geeky and nerdy kid becoming close friends with the popular girl and bringing her into his paranormal adventures about aliens and cryptids

Welcome to the life of~ ROBERT STACK.

Now this is a Touch-Tone bubblegum girl mashup of epic proportions

This song (Bubblegum Bitch) can truly be combined with anything. This is really good. It reminds me of when someone mashed Bubblegum Bitch with The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance.

There isn't enaugh girl+boy friendships in media. No friends to lovers, just friends. Romance isn't more then friendship, it's just different. Let girls and boys be friends. Let a friendship be the focus of a story. Let the goal be mend their bond after a falling out. Let them just be besties. I beg of you.

"hello lgbtq+ community"

Now I'm imagining Electra Heart (Marina's retired fictional character that is the protaganist of a lot of her older songs) and Neil Cicierega as a team investigating conspiracy theories together.

Kind of gives me the vibe of a 90s mystery series where a preppy college girl is trying to solve the disappearance of her conspiracy theory boyfriend. Putting up his old corkboard and red string, repurposed to try and track down his old trail to figure out where he may have gone. Like at 2:22 she's getting the chance to tell him she misses him for the first time in Months since he disappeared by calling a mysterious number she managed to get, waiting anxiously as the phone rings to see if it'll even connect, and he's responding by encouraging her and telling her that she's getting so close to solving it all and how inspired he is of her tenacity even if he's not convinced he'll ever get to see her face to face again.

Me and my sisters taste in music brought together I can die in peace now…

this mashup gives me gender envy, and I have no idea why

0:46 that's really goddamn clever having lemon demon say "die for" while Marina also says it

this right here, it scratches a very specific part of my brain (only criticism is that i think neil could’ve used a couple more solo vocal lines from his song but other than that this is perfection)

THE "CAUSE I'M THE RIGHT ONE" IT'S SO GOOD

this one really scratches my neurons

My ONLY little criticism is just the lack of vocals from Neil-but otherwise this is absolutely STUNNING, I love this mashup and how much PERSONALITY this has!!

Its the perfect of electronic pop and 80s style music

every time i turn around someone makes a new version of this mashup that’s even better than the last one. this is GOOD it scratches the brain

I just imagine Touch tone running from some FBI agents, because he discovered a way to prove that the president is like an alien or something, but he needs backup so he calls his friend Bubblegum's just gotten home from a date with the love of her life, and when she picks up she's just gushing about the girl she went on a date with, until Touch tone has to (reluctantly) interrupt that he's actively being chased by agents, and then she shows up and decks all of them in the first chorus Then the two of them start driving away in her car, bantering and she's jokingly all like "oh I've saved you now, great prince, let's ride off into the sunset" and hes like "shut uuup-" But then he shows what's in the briefcase and then she drives them to this big corporate building, and is like "you gotta go in there! This is gonna change everything" and he's like "actually now that I see the Huge Terrifying Building I am not so sure of this" "and she hypes him up, talks him through it (the bridge) and he gets his confidence! Then he busts in, storms past a couple guards, makes it to the office and uses the like crystal inside to destroy the presidents human disguise, takes a picture of the alien president, and then Bubblegum and him have an epic escape sequence! The ending notes are a zoom in on a newspaper header titled "THE GREAT ALIEN CONSIPRACY CONFIRMED" ...At least, that's what I imagine. :>

I think this is one of the few mashups that could pass for its own song

1:58 "I'm gonna be your bubblegum bitch" "HEY" LMAO it sounds like he's getting on her for swearing

I imagine these 2 working together as detectives in a cartoon show with marina responsible for the image, marketing and talking whereas Neil looks at the details and generally is responsible for connecting the dots. Each episode of the show is based on a song eg. Cabinet man is about an arcade where people have been going missing so marina and Neil go and investigate at night to see that one of the arcade machines reeks of dried blood and decomposing corpses. They break open the machine and blood starts spilling, marina complaining about how her shoes are ruined while Neil stares at the now mechanic spider looking broken machine saying “I won’t hurt you unless you cheat” in a broken mechanic voice. Another episode could be redesign your logo where there’s a small corporation getting bigger and bigger, constantly making small changes to their logo as more and more people talk about it and it turns out the specific colours of the product were made to brainwash these people into becoming one hive mind of corporate consumers. Might make an animatic to one of these idk

I thought a cool and funny sort of story for this (cause thats what i see everyone doing and thought I'd share) would be; Alien comes to earth with the intent to take it over for her species. She disguises herself as a the blond bubble gum girl to blend in and take out the humans from the inside, she quickly gains popularity. Then theres this conspiracy theory/alien obessed guy everyone thinks is crazy cause he wont stop talking about this big idea he has and he always wants to tell people about his alien theorys. So bubble gum girl meets this guy and thinks to herself, "you know what would be absolutely hilarious? If i, the alien, befriend this alien conspiracy guy and hes just hanging out with an alien and has no idea." You know, a little fun side project while she takes over the world. So, naturally, thats exactly what she goes and does. But they actually get along really great and conspiracy guy finally has someone willing to listen oh-so-intently to his rants and theorys, and dont forget, his big idea. Bubble gum alien girl falls in love with him and her objective changes; do eveything in her power to be this guys bubble gum bitch. But ofc theres multiple conflicts; shes an alien and he dosen't know. She wasn't build to love, she was built to destroy and take over the planet ("ill chew you up and, ill spit you out, cause thats what your love, is all about."). And finally, will conspiracy guy be able to put aiside his big idea, the one thing hes been working on for so long, for her? Id like to think it all goes well; she reveals shes an alien and conspiracy guy, being who he is, finds her alien form absolutely beautiful and just falls for her even harder. He accepts her destructive nature as part of her aswell and they find constructive ways to deal with it without hurting anybody. Also, with this new found knowledge, conspiracy guy thinks of ways for them to work on his big idea together, and they live happily ever after. :]] But wait... bubble gum girl forgot one thing.. the alien invasion. They'll be wondering why she never reported back. She has an idea on how to save the planet BUT...will her and the nerd's big idea.. be enough?

This is HANDS-DOWN the _best_ mashup I've heard of these two songs. Extremely well done! I really loved how you repeated certain words like "touch-tone, touch-tone", "AM, AM", and "Bubblegum, bubblegum bitch". I think it made Neil and Marina match more if that makes sense. It made their styles mesh better. Edit: Also the way you made Neil sing with her is insane. I don't think I've ever seen that done before.

Why is no-one talking about the autotune on the part like: "I'mma be your Bubblegum, Bubblegum, BITCH!" 2:08

So the songs fucking slaps n all, but the artwork??? What a vibe

Everyone’s talking abt the song, (as they should, it’s so good,) but no one is talking abt the art! It’s just as amazing!!

Wow, the mixing in this version hits HARD

damn the fact i created a whole oc lore for 2 years based on a single mashup is insane, tysm

if you put a transmasc and a transfemme in a mixer this song would come out

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE AMAZING ART

obligatory "this predicted barbenheimer"

how is this not incredibly popular this is the BEST one

Im 10 percent gayer and transer now

1:42 is so funny its just "welcome to the life of-!" "robert stack." "bitch." and i love it

The art is sooo pretty I love how they have their own color themes

this legitimately sounds like a bomb opening theme to an awesome animated show. It's so well done!

Paranormal conspiracy theorist accidentally calls in to a pop radio station

“WELCOME TO THE LIFE OF” *”ROBERT STACK”* “BITCH-“ AHAHAHAA- THIS WAS AMAZING!! CAUGHT ME COMPLETELY OFF GUARD TOO! I CAN IMAGINE THIS IS MARINA TELLING A STORY N LEMON INTERRUPTED HER THERE, SO SHE SAID “BITCH-“ IN OFFENCE TO IT LMAOO

My favorite parts are the small details like, "straight to number one" "'cause I'm the right one." Spectacular job.

MARINA and the Demons

I usually do not like covers, remixes, mashups, ect. But I have had this song on loop for hours, beautiful work dude!

Absolutely doing little shimmies, g o d this is good

Pov: the goddess lesbian and nerdy gay guy team up to save the world from UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.

i think neil would enjoy this, at least conceptually! he makes fantastic mashups so i like to imagine he's happy whenever fans make mashups with his music :)

When you are so close to discover existance of aliens, and your bubbly, airhead bisexual friend, who is also alien is disguise, having a time of her life. Patiently, she is waiting for realisation to hit him like truck

Instead of a radio podcast, touchtone guy is calling a call girl to talk about aliens

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS, IT SOUNDS SO GOOD????? THE ART AND THE MUSIC IS MNECRVHKGTARLRCHBV

this when i feel masculine and feminine at the same time.

1:28 the lil lemon demon tho, so cute

Yeah this is gonna be on loop for a while (Man this scratches my brain i love it)

As a MARINA stan, I can honestly say that 1. This is one of the best mashups I've ever heard And 2. That I will most definitely be listening to more of Lemon Demons songs

Guy looks like a classic detective side eyeing the spunky teenage rollerblade girl who's definitely probably got something to do with the freaky mythic shit going on.

Don't know if you're going to read this but thank you so much for this mashup, was amazing to hear I felt like that Ratatouille scene where he mixes two ingredients and tastes better

I love how all of these Bubblegum Bitch/Touch-tone Telephone mashups could _technically,_ also be called Telephone Bitch or Bitch Telephone

THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST ONE

If I could write a paranormal mystery/horror with this vibe, I’d be happy for the rest of my life Fantastic job mashing up the songs! I’d like a little more/louder Touch-Tone Telephone, but it has such a great delicate balance as it is tbh

this Mashup is basically two different eras of my life, BB being my feminine Era where I was interested in anything pink and cutes and Touch tone is my current Era where I'm masculine and love the paranormal and folk lore. anyways, this is a fucking bop

Marina and the Lemons

mabel and dipper songified

Thank you, this scratches the itch that has been in my brain for months. This is wonderful.

“Welcome to the life of ROBERT STACK bitch”

1:18 holy cow this part is fucken amazing. THE WAY YOU MIXED UP THE WORDS TO MAKE HER SAY “gonna be your bubblegum bubblegum bitch!” FITS SO NICELY IN THE SONG. AAHHHH

"Dear diary, we fell apart..." "OH MY GOD!" Lmmmao

The art is so good

This gave me the confidence I've literally never had

This cover art is like the original Barbenheimer

THIS GOES SO HARD OH MY GOD ????????????? ITS THE BEST MASHUP IVE EVER HEARD

I've now seen THREE mashups of these two songs. Though, this probably the best one I've seen! Edit: Huh, four now? DAMN!

HOLD ON THIS IS SUPER EPIC

barbenheimer

“Welcome to the life of- *robber stat* ”

barbenheimer be like!!

"Welcome to the life of... ROBERT STACK, bitch"