Parody Concept Thread

Everyone, get out your creativity-it's time to parody some songs!

War Games:

Parody Of:Love Game by Lady Gaga

Topic:The movie War Games

Imagined Lyric Replacements:

The program ran, all I can say

Is the only way to win is to not play

The program ran, all I can say

Is the only way to win is to not play

Child Molestor

Parody Of:Womanizer by Brittany Spears

Topic:Pedophilia

Notes:Pitch is artificially raised to simulate a child singing

Handwriting

Parody Of:Pokerface by Lady Gaga

Topic:Incredibly Bad Handwriting

I Watched The Core

Parody Of:I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry

Topic:The Core and all of its scientifically inaccurate glory

Notes:If there were a music video, then at the end the singer would wake up watching 2001:A Space Odyssey

edited 22nd Jan '11 2:17:31 PM by OOZE

In the vein of Weird Al, I'd love to hear the Rocky Horror Polka Show, Little Shop of Polka, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Polka, and of course Repo The Genetic Polka.

Hmm...

Total Thrash: Anal Cunt Plays Sonic Youth!

One time I thought up lyrics for a Weird Al-style parody of Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Possess Your Heart". The chorus went like this:

You gotta pay your bills, love
You gotta pay your bills, on time
Or I know that you'll find, love
I'll repossess your car.

Tom Lehrer I am not.

edited 22nd Jan '11 8:24:10 PM by merton

I vaguely like this idea because Seth Putnam probably thinks Sonic Youth are a bunch of "art fags" and would mock them relentlessly (and I say that as someone who likes Sonic Youth).

What do you know, I found an old thread on the topic I was looking for!

Since I've been hearing about Kickstarter controversies a lot lately, I had the idea to parody Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart" as "Kickstarter My Heart" and make it about someone using Kickstarter to fund getting a new heart. I could also be a more general list of the random things the guy got funded using Kickstarter. That actually sounds like something Weird Al might write, since he's written about eBay and Craigslist and the like.

edited 18th Jul '14 8:25:29 AM by djbj

Ideas I've come up with and not really done anything with:

"Skyfall" as "SkyMall". While looking that up just now, it turns out there's a Jonathan Coulton song about that topic, but at least the Adele parody aspect is still original.

Friday as "Fried Eggs". I actually got as far as a chorus with this one - "It's fried eggs, fried eggs / gonna chow down on fried eggs / everyone just grab your fork and eat them, eat them".

The one actual parody I've fully completed was of a local band called The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library - I wrote parody lyrics, then sang them over an instrumental version of their song that they had released. The original was "Every Time I Visit You, It Rains", which is sort of a love song, and my version was "Every Time I Visit You, It's 'Brains!'", which is about the difficulties of being in love with a zombie. I passed this along to members of the actual band, and they approved and shared it on facebook, which is kinda cool.

edited 18th Jul '14 9:57:47 AM by MikeK

I don't remember if I came up with this on my own or nicked it from somewhere (had to dig it up) but here's a partial parody of "Call Me Maybe":

Hey, I just met you / You're talking crazy / Don't want your number / I think you'd rape me
Gonna walk away now / Hope you won't chase me / Don't want your number / I might get rabies

This one I definitely came up with on my own, parodying "Somebody That I Used To Know":

Now and then I think of when you were my dealer
Like when you said "Come sample all of my supply"
Told myself that it was good for me
Went on a bender, maybe two or three
But that was days ago and now I'm really hurting

You can get addicted to a certain grade of cocaine
Like a bolt of lighting right into the brain
But now it's been a week since then
The room is spinning and my blood feels thin
I'll admit I will be glad when this is over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like I took a eightball and then gave you nothing
I didn't think I'd need the stuff
But I'm twitching and I'm shaking and I feel so rough
No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your goons come break my fingers and then steal my TV
I guess that I don't need that, though
Now you're just somebody who won't sell me blow

edited 18th Jul '14 11:48:34 AM by Willbyr

I want to see Rihanna's "Umbrella" redone as a song about Resident Evil.

"You can stand under my Umbrella Corporation, eh, eh..."

A "So Sick" parody about Rob Ford:

"I'm so sick of Rob Ford, so tired of crack
So done with wishing he would come back
So sick of Rob Ford, such a buffoon
Why can't I turn off the evening news?"\

edited 19th Jul '14 1:55:40 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Back in December, a friend and I put together a parody of "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line. I wrote the chorus and first verse, he wrote the rest, and I downloaded sheet music to make the music backing in Melody Assistant. The vocal track is actually a Virtual Singer program singing. That was kind of a Throw It In! — I wanted to sing the vocal line myself, but I was really congested and couldn't stay in key well. I like the virtual voice singing it, because it almost feels like an Auto-Tune type effect.

http://www.farcethemusic.com/2013/12/cruise-parody-booze.html

edited 19th Jul '14 10:23:24 PM by Twentington

since I just finished up finals, I'm working on a parody of Les Mis's One Day More.

Opens like this

One day more

Another test, another desk for me

this never ending road to my degree

and come exams I'm sure I'll find

I should have studied for more time

One day more!