History Music / RichardCheese

* GratuitousSpanish: Richard getting into the spirit of "[[{{U2}} Sunday Bloody Sunday]]":

'''Richard Cheese''' is an artist that does [[StealthParody seemingly straight]] CoverVersion[=s=] of RockAndRoll and HipHop songs in the style of a LoungeLizard, backed by his band '''Lounge Against the Machine'''.

* CallAndResponseSong: "[[SystemOfADown Chop Suey]]". "'''''Why''''' did you leave the keys ''upon the table?''" "You wanted to!" "Oh."

* InTheStyleOf: Occasionally mixes up the Lounge covers: for example, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica is done in the style of the Chordettes' version of "Mr. Sandman", and his live version of "Don't Cha" has him parody ABBA, George Takei, BobDylan, the Doobie Brothers... at times he breaks out imitations such as {{Bjork}} during a performance.

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted, always, even when the song is "Don't Cha". Becomes especially bizarre when he covers "My Neck, My Back", where he sings about his vagina, and parodied on LordsOfAcid's "Pussy", where he's talking about Siegfried and Roy's tiger.

* ThisSongGoesOutToTvTropes: "[[{{Nirvana}} Rape Me]]" is "for the ladies", "Don't Cha" "goes out to all the lesbians in the audience", real or imagined. He has one for "[his] good friend, TheBeastieBoys" in his cover of "Brass Monkey".

** "[[LadyGaga Just Dance]]" inverts it somewhat, where the song's upbeat tune is made into a sombre jazz song, on top of Richard laying out what was LyricalDissonance into the obvious. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't ''see'', ladies and gentlemen."

* VivaLasVegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but Las Vegas is a common theme and destination spot for them. There's a reason why "Christmas in Las Vegas" is their only original song.

-->"So I visited the White House the other day, which, aside from GeorgeWBush being there, was pretty cool!"

[-[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]]]-]

* PunBasedTitle: [[RageAgainstTheMachine Lounge Against the Machine]], and all album titles (i.e. ''Dick at Nite'' is to ''NickAtNite'' following the television theme).

-->''Pardon me, do [[GunsNRoses you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby! You're gonna die!]]''

* InTheStyleOf: Occasionally mixes up the Lounge covers: for example, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica is done in the style of the Chordettes' version of "Mr. Sandman", and his live version of "Don't Cha" has him parody ABBA, George Takei, BobDylan, the Doobie Brothers...

* LyricalDissonance: Must we say? Things like "Enter Sandman" and "Man in the Box" become 50s-style Chordettes pop and smooth tango music, respectively. Sometimes actually inverted: for example, Beat It becomes somewhat more sombre, as does Just Dance, both of which have pretty dark subject matter. He also has slow, dark, sentimental songs... about looking for "a bad bitch" or how he wants to bend you over his Lamborghini. There are exceptions, such as "Perfect Situation", which is oddly ''even darker'' than the original song.

** "Star Wars Cantina" is another original song, which is a summation of the original trilogy, set to "Copacabana".

* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Due to the fact that most of the royalties of his music go to the original artists, he obviously does not take kindly to fans pirating his music. His threats of legal actions toward pirates only got worse when he was unable to afford surgery for keratoconus due to lack of funds.

** ''I'd Like a Virgin'' has a hidden track where a covered band calls up the band to congratulate them, a Mexican hotel owner offering Dick and the band some free rooms at a hotel... and [[BestialityIsDepraved Dick asking for some donkeys]], Dick hitting the microphone with his dick, and asking a woman to open her legs. ''OK Bartender'' inserts random drunken messages left by fans on Dick's phone between songs.

* NationalStereotypes: Johnny Lava's entire band consists of increasingly bizarre ones.

* ''Lavapalooza'' (2010) (As Johnny Lava)

* HAHAHANo: A variant occurs with a fake telephone call between WeirdAl and Richard: Weird Al returns Richard's call about joining forces to do Richard's latest album. Weird's response: '''NOPE!''' (hangs up telephone)

* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}''.

* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: With a fake duet with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Lieutenant Sulu]] (who is not ''the'' Sulu... and he's not GeorgeTakei, either), Richard Cheese's lawyer personally calls him up to see if he did the disclaimer and made sure he said "Celebrity Voices Impersonated".

* SmallNameBigEgo: Let's put it this way--when the news broke that ''Series/{{Glee}}'' had ripped off JonathanCoulton's cover of "Baby Got Back", his immediate reaction on Facebook was to speculate that his would be next.

* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.

[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]]]

* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.

* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}''.

* CreatorBacklash: Of a sorts. Richard was upset about the fact he does not get any royalties from his cover of "Down with the Sickness" used in the 2004 version of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''.

* EpicFail: He spends the entirety of the "Viva La Vida" cover ''trying to figure out the piano notes'' for several painful minutes, messing up things he gets right the first time, and then getting beaten by Bobby.

* VivaLasVegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but Las Vegas is a common theme and destination spot for them.

* PenName: Richard Cheese is really Mark Jonathan Davis (not to be mistaken for the guy from Music/{{Korn}}), meaning he invoked all those Website/YouTube comments [[NominalParody pointing out his name is Dick Cheese.]] The Lounge members are also given rather silly names--Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio), Frank Feta (Brian Fishler), and Billy Bleu (unknown).

* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Sunny Side of the Moon''

* OneOfUs: Is a huge Franchise/StarWars and Series/StarTrek fan.

** Also at concerts, getting the latest lyrics of the newest, most popular song (Lollipop, [[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]]) off the internet, and proceeding to butcher it deadpan by doing a straight reading of the lyrics.]]

* OneOfUs: Is a huge Series/StarWars and Series/StarTrek fan.

* IAmNotShazam: Richard calls WeirdAl "Weird". [[invoked]]