Best & worst viral videos of 2007

Chocolate Rain

Tay Zonday's 'Chocolate Rain'



Synopsis: 25-year-old non-professional singer Tay Zonday sings an original composition -- "Chocolate Rain" -- in a recording booth, occasionally ducking jerkily away from the microphone.



Choice quote: At the beginning of the video, Zonday uses white subtitle-esque text to explain why he keeps moving away from the mic: "I move away from the mic in order to breathe in."



Why we watched it: Everything about this video is weird -- Zonday's bizarre deep baritone that sounds vaguely robotic, the way he keeps ducking away from the mic, the faces he makes while singing, the '80s-sounding electric piano in the background. And also because John Mayer spoofed it on "Best Week Ever."