I Am A Very Good Bad Boy

About

I Am A Very Good Bad Boy or "It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do" refers to a 2012 song by Indian singer Vennu Mallesh. It went viral after being uploaded to YouTube that year after listeners found it cringeworthy, funny and an example of content that's "so bad it's good." Common criticisms include the lyrics not making sense and sounding like broken English, among other things. The audio saw increased popularity in 2021 after clips of it began going viral on the platform.

Origin

On July 27th, 2012, Indian pop singer Vennu Mallesh uploaded his song "It's My Life What Ever I Wanna Do" to YouTube,^[1] gaining over 25 million views in nine years (shown below). The music video shows Mallesh recording the song in a studio along with two producers and a female, Lipsika, who interjects occasionally with questions toward Mallesh. The song begins with her asking, "Hey, are you going to sing?" to which Mallesh responds, "Yeah, but it's not a song, it's my life," denoting the personal nature of the upcoming lyrics. The lyrics deal with how people misunderstand Mallesh and consist of Mallesh singing about his personal traits.

I always search Good in Bad…
I also search Bad in Good…..
So..ooooooooo……
I am a Very Good Bad Boy….
I am a Very Good Bad Boy….
I am a Very Good… Bad… Boyy….
I am a Day Dreamer…
I am a Night Worker…
I am a Risk Taker…

Spread

The video was reposted numerous times across social media as a cringe video. A screenshot of Mallesh saying "I am a very good bad boy" also started to see use in image macros. For example, on August 28th, 2017, a 9GAG^[4] user uploaded a Bobs and Vegana meme using the image (shown below).

On December 27th, 2017, YouTuber iiCapricious posted a clip from the song starting with Lipsika asking, "Hey what the hell do you think of yourself?," followed by Mallesh singing about how he searches for good in bad, and also bad in good, making him a very good bad boy with top text reading "WHY SHOULD I DATE YOU?" gaining over 145,000 views in four years (shown below).

On April 2nd, 2019, a 9GAG^[5] user uploaded a video with top-text about a crush asking someone about themselves, using the scene as the description, gaining over 4,800 upvotes in two years. On September 6th, 2021, TikToker^[2] @notjepican_ posted a clip, gaining over 20.3 million views in three weeks. This inspired TikTokers to use the sound in lip-dubs and skits over the course of the month (examples shown below, left and right).

On September 19th, TikToker^[3] @notjepican_ posted another version of the same clip, gaining over 18 million views in a week. This inspired similar videos in late September (examples shown below, left and right).

Various Examples

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