That song doesn’t bother me so much as her (latest?) release. It starts off with some maudlin lengthy spoken-word intro where you can guess the second half of each sentence given how trite and cliche it is. Shit like “How can the devil be pulling you towards someone who looks so much like an angel” and “the worst part of it wasn’t losing him, it was… [come on say it with me] LOSING ME :rolleyes:”
It’s like someone set out to intentionally write the worst sappy teen-diary crap possible as a joke and it somehow made it into the song/video.
ISTR him saying at some point he’d written the thing because 1) he had a brand new synth he was playing around with and 2) he was really stoned at the time.
Yeah, a 1980s hair band singer doing covers of 1920s songs is weird enough (VH also did an a cappella version of “Happy Trails” on their Diver Down album IIRC), but the videos were definitely played for comedy.
Justin Bieber always sounds like a parody of himself (baby baby baby).
I was going to mention the same song. I thought it was a parody of angsty teen pop. Complete with the spoken riff mid song, “then I was like, then he was all, then I was all, then he was like…”
Most country music.
I understand “Okie from Muskogee” was written as a parody, but the audience it was first performed for reacted so favorably to it that Merle Haggard had to pretend it was straight-on.
Then there’s stuff like “The Fightin’ Side of Me,” that’s so self-contradictory, it’s difficult to believe it isn’t the same sort of situation…
I think Meat Loaf kind of falls into the category of almost-parody. His songs are just so over the top and often emotional and over-sung that they sound like a parody of other songs. But I love it!
I agree with Lady Gaga entirely. Her entire shtick is just to make fun of pop and pop stars, and her music is just as cliche and over the top pop as you can get. That being said, it’s incredibly good and her persona is incredibly well done.
I don’t remember if he performed the first one, but I saw Jimmy Webb in concert a year or so back, and although he talked about it, he did notperform MacArthur Park. He implied that it was deliberately over-the-top, but carefully, because we can assume that more than one person at a Jimmy Webb concert absolutely loves that song.
Actually, Meatloaf and Jim Steinman went from record company to record company trying to get someone to take Bat Out of Hell seriously. Finally, they started on producers, and got to Todd Rundgren, who was everywhere at the time. Todd fell in love with the songs because he thought they were a pants-pissingly funny parody of Bruce Springsteen. He wound up paying all the production costs out of his own pocket, and as a result owned a good percentage of the album as his fee. The royalties paid for his rock and roll lifestyle for many years.
(I’ve never heard Todd asked directly about it, but they has a number of female friends in common - Patti Smith, Lynn Goldsmith - and were both hanging around Max’s Kansas City at the same time. Todd is very sarcastic, and I suspect they got on like two tomcats in a sack.)
Everytime I come around your city
bling bling
Pinky ring worth about 50
bling bling
Everytime I buy a new ride
bling bling
Lorenzos on Yokahama tires
bling bling
Sure, you can sing or rap about anything, but pinky rings? And while he’s a talented rapper, Lil Wayne sounds humorous to me.
Haha thanks for the story. That’s very entertaining. Sometimes I wonder if Steinman really takes himself as seriously as he seems to in interviews and in his actual songs, or if he is just having fun with people.
My understanding is that Gangnam Style is a parodying of K-Pop music in general as well as the trendy residents of the Seoul suburb in question - but it’s intended to be a “serious” (albeit fun) song.
Given than Psy has released at least five K-Pop albums before pwning the world’s music charts with Gangnam Style, I’d say he (and the song) qualify for inclusion here.
Does it change your thoughts about the song when you know it’s not something she’s singing to a lover, but to her (then) infant daughter (Maya Rudolph, of SNL fame, among other things).
[QUOTE=Todd Rundgren]
“I thought it was a parody of Bruce Springsteen. Oddly enough the world took it seriously. There’s this big, fat, operatic guy doing totally over the top, over-wrought, drawn-out songs. All this bombast. It was like Bruce Springsteen squared. I was just chuckling the whole time, and I’m still chuckling. I can’t believe the world took it seriously.”
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