Frozen Pipes Upstairs But Not Downstairs

Frozen Pipes started as an English all-girl project for the family album back in 2000 and has since become one of our biggest hits. It features some of the biggest names in our country music scene (mainly Chris Stapleton, Angie Stone and Avril Lavigne) and the music video for “Pipe & Bucket” is still one of the biggest videos ever shot by a girl on camera. The only problem is that our image is an internet meme of girls lolling and chatting with each other on the frozen yogurt site. They look like they are talking with their hands and fingers (despite the fact that she is recording on the same high quality microphone they use. It cannot be replicated on the internet) but the look of the girls is at odds with the woman they are being recorded like. It’s one of those moments that makes you think that maybe you are really not supposed to use this microphone.

Gif of a frozen yogurt scene with real girls

The song is a serious hit and one that we have learned from the back seat as we navigate to the right image to use. You have to put the emphasis on the end because the boys see it as a place to go. That girl should have been the star of that song, the one that the guys would want to be with if they could. Unfortunately, that’s the only time you can really see it that way.

Since that song came out, the idea has quickly spread through the teenage fan community. We must have amassed hundreds of frozen yogurt girls in the hope of becoming a band. On the one hand, if I were in search of a hot new one, this might not be the spot. Yes, we saw the episode in which our songs came out and the girls are really cute, but they are all now frozen by a different Frozen Pipes marketing strategy which follows a very formulaic formula for the next three or four years before leading to a successful partnership with Facebook. It’s a weird-ass gimmick that would feel perfectly natural were I in their shoes. I am a boy that would have to work very hard to gain favor from girls that spent months writing their name on the car door.