There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICI do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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