Parody songs have been available on the internet for years.
I just discovered them.
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The internet approaches the characteristics of the divine. It is omniscient, omnipresent, and infinite. The omniscient and omnipresent parts can be spooky and invasive. I browsed to buy a reflector disk to put at the bottom of my driveway, and then for a week I got ads for traffic barriers suitable for a construction company. "Alexa" and "Siri" are listening to you. Like, Santa Claus in the song, "she knows when you've been sleeping, she knows when you're awake."
The "infinite" aspect of the internet means one can get lost in areas one doesn't know exist. Did you know there are thousands, maybe millions of parody songs, written by creative people who put new words to familiar music? If there is a well-known song, then someone sang it with new words.
The Beatles wrote "I'm a Loser."
I'm a loserAnd I lost someone who's near to meI'm a loserAnd I'm not what I appear to beAlthough I laugh and I act like a clownBeneath this mask I am wearing a frown
That song was just begging to be re-purposed in Trump-dominated political era.
Gerald Murphy set me off onto an expedition into the territory of parody songs. He did it by sending me two examples of words and music of a TV theme song. He wrote parodies based the theme song from "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp." Murphy is a dramatist, playwright, and a retired high school teacher, now living in Medford. The song he chose reveals his generation, since the Wyatt Earp series was introduced in 1955, four days before "Gunsmoke." Wyatt Earp ran for six years. This theme song became familiar to a generation of boys because it introduced -- and re-introduced -- the Wyatt Earp character for 229 episodes, beginning with the sound of a gunshot.
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Here are the lyrics Murphy wrote in just prior to the 2016 election:
CHORUS
Donald Trump, Donald Trump,Brave, courageous and boldLong live his fame and long live his glory
And long may his story be told.
Oh, they held a debate and the Donald was great
Though the questions he got were unkind
And he said to Jeb Bush “You can just kiss my tush”!
And he left all the others behind. (REPEAT CHORUS)
He’s in love with casinos, and hates the Latinos
And he’ll make them pay for the fence.
He said Megyn Kelly was dirty and smelly
I tell ya, the guy makes good sense! (REPEAT CHORUS)
When the votes are all in we all know he will win
Though some voters think he is odd.
There ain’t no temptation to beg for donations
‘Cause Donald is richer than God! (REPEAT CHORUS)
Oh, he is the latest and he is the greatest.
He’s headed to Chesapeake Bay.
You better beware, don’t make fun of his hair
If you do, there will be hell toupee! (REPEAT CHORUS)
A week ago, Murphy went back to the same song with this new version:
CHORUS
Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
Fat and angry and old.
Long live his grift and fraudulent swindles
As he sits on his toilet of gold!
His foes were all waiting their turn for debating
It’s Ronny, and Mikey and Chris
And Nikki and Timmy and V. Ramaswamy
The other ones you can dismiss! (REPEAT CHORUS)
Instead of debating, these clowns should be waiting
For Donald to fall from his thrown.
‘Cause Trump won’t debate 'em. Instead he’ll outwait ‘em
And watch as they sink like a stone.(REPEAT CHORUS)
Where does one find well-done parody videos? Try these:
Trump, Let it Go, from Frozen: https://youtu.be/n4r6mH_GThk
11 comments:
While so much of the country descends into madness, mindlessly devoted to a psychopath who hates democracy, what can you do but laugh? Just don’t forget to also do whatever you can to keep them from dragging the rest of the country with them.
If somehow Trump wins the next election, then all I can say is that the Country got what it deserved. If that's what people want, then they get it. That's Democracy. Power in a democracy rises from the bottom up. Trump would prefer the opposite, top to bottom, like in China, Russia, and North Korea. But he lives in a democracy and has to deal with it. That won't stop him from trying. He'll have an Enemies List and you'd better hope you're not on it.
The best hope the Democrats have in someone other than Biden. I want him to bow out at the Convention stating health issues or something like that and let a younger more dynamic person step in. They are out there waiting.
Then he'll be known as the Former-Former President.
I did a couple of these:
Ballad of a Woke Man
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq2dTIlD9fn0iZpxWEEtqUDNJzqafQ
WokeBusters
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq2dTIlD9fn0iZpeOUNtaD2FQc8vTQ
(links are audio only)
Randy is the man.
The problem for the Democrats is that if Biden steps down, it will be difficult to impossible for them to avoid nominating the politically inept Kamala Harris in his place. How could they possibly not nominate the “woman of color“, given their commitment to identity politics?
Speaking of identity politics, the far-white party will be nominating a person of color too - the Tangerine Man. I'd wager Harris would have no trouble beating him. After all, she was a prosecutor.
Calling Republicans “the far-white party” is yet another gratuitous left-wing accusation of racism. Decades of this sort of thing have contributed to the anger that motivates opposition to liberals. How many votes did Hillary lose with her “basket of deplorables” remark?
Donald Trump is a giant orange middle finger aimed back at this rhetoric. Continuing to do this just makes Trump II more likely.
Actually, the link Peter provided to Mr. Tangerine Man gives a far more accurate assessment of Trump's appeal to his followers.
Counterpoint:
1. Today's Republican Party is extraordinarily far-right by almost any standard measure of their policies.
2. The GOP is also remarkably white. Unsurprisingly, a party whose prominent members routinely express outright white supremacist ideas doesn't attract many people of color to their ranks.
All of which go say, "far-white" is actually a pretty reasonable description of the current party. It's another example of how sometimes the truth hurts. Kind of like how studying history in any kind of a realistic and non white-washed way leads pretty quickly to some very painful realizations about mistakes that this country has made in the past, and continues to make in the present.
The far-white party calls thinking like that "woke" and tries to ban it because they "believe in freedom" and other such nonsense.
Does the GOP contain some racists? Sure. Is constant harping on that politically effective? Not necessarily.
The proportion of black and latino GOP voters is increasing. Tim ScottI reflects fewer photons than the average politician. I guess there must be white supremacists of color. How does the “white wing” theory of the GOP explain this?
You know that something’s happening,
But you don’t know what it is,
Do you, Mr Woke?
(apologies to Bob.Dylan)
Support among Blacks for Republican candidates increased to 14% in the 2022 midterms. Among white supremacists its 100%.
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