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Nic Cage's Version of 'Wrecking Ball' Is the Best

by Alanna Bennett

As anyone who spends mass amounts of time on the Internet knows, the web is populated by a lot of people with very beautiful, strangely useful talents. Sometimes, those talents involve Nicolas Cage's head on Miley Cyrus' body in the "Wrecking Ball" video. And oh, beautiful it is.

You're going to have to witness the stunningly beautiful and very timely video for yourself, but let it be said that we're thinking it should replace "Never Gonna Give You Up" as the top video to covertly plop in unexpected places.

The video — edited together by YouTube user sukmywangBryanStars, to whom we owe eternal thanks — is pretty simple in product but so, so effective. It reminds me of those days six months back when we spread that "I Knew You Were Trouble" goat video around approximately twenty times in one day. Even when this video passes from trend, it will always hold a special place in our meme memories.

Just watch it. It's very short, and you probably won't regret it. Just think of Nicolas Cage somewhere, in a giant barren manor of some sort, clicking on links in an email from his publicist, seeing this and wondering what happened in his life to lead him here.