Bale Out

Bale Out is a satirical dance remix by American composer Lucian Piane, also known as RevoLucian, released on February 2, 2009. The piece parodies Christian Bale by utilizing audio from a July 2008 rant made by the actor on the set of Terminator Salvation. Various other elements are used in the remix, including pulsating dance track beats and clips of Barbra Streisand from a 2006 exchange with a supporter of then-President George W. Bush. The remix has been viewed over 200,000 times on YouTube and over a million times on Myspace.

About Bale Out in brief

Summary Bale OutBale Out is a satirical dance remix by American composer Lucian Piane, also known as RevoLucian, released on February 2, 2009. The piece parodies Christian Bale by utilizing audio from a July 2008 rant made by the actor on the set of Terminator Salvation. Various other elements are used in the remix, including pulsating dance track beats and clips of Barbra Streisand from a 2006 exchange with a supporter of then-President George W. Bush. The remix has been viewed over 200,000 times on YouTube and over a million times on Myspace. The director of the film, McG, liked the remix and put a copy of it on his iPod, and Bale said he thought it was a good job. In an interview with LA Weekly, Piane commented that he wants his remix remembered, instead of Bale’s outburst: “We’re all people in this world. So I figured, remembering that one time Christian Bale went crazy on set, maybe people will remember the remix”  Piane made an MP3 file of Bale Out available as a free download from his MySpace page on February 3, 2009, and it has been downloaded over one million times since then.

The song has been described as a ‘hypnotic dance track’ by the Associated Press and a ‘demonic dance party’ by MTV.com. It has also been called ‘hilarious’ by Time magazine and ‘catchy’ by United Press International. The original clip of Bale outbursts appeared on the internet on the day after the remix was released, and has since been taken down from MySpace and YouTube. It was not widely publicized until after TMZ. com posted an audio recording of the incident on February 1, 2009; the event did not become widely publicizeduntil after the audio recording was posted to the Internet on February 4, 2009 and again on February 5,2009. The track has been called a ‘YouTube sensation’ and ‘a techno-ripping, demonic dance party’, by MTV’s Gil Kaufman.