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Many use unusual lyrics, subjects, sounds, or instrumentation, and may not even be musical. For example, the 1966 novelty song " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! ", by Napoleon XIV , has little music and is set to a rhythm tapped out on a snare drum , a tambourine , and the bare sides of the musicians' legs.
"Foil" is a song by American satirical singer "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2013 single "Royals" by Lorde. It begins as an ode to the uses of aluminum foil for food storage, but becomes a parody of conspiracy theories, the New World Order, and the Illuminati in
A voting system of 1 (worst) to 5 (best) enables readers to vote on how well it matches the pacing of the original song, how funny it is and its overall score. A 555 is a perfect score meaning the parody should be read by everyone while a 111 score means the parody is not funny, does not match the pacing and is pretty much pointless.
Parody of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" as performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, originally by Arrows "Inactive" Mandatory Fun (2014) Parody of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons "I Remember Larry" Bad Hair Day (1996) Original, in the style of "Calling All Girls" by Hilly Michaels. Reversing a segment of the song near the end reveals the hidden ...
Six13 changed all of the lyrics to fit the holiday. The hook in the original song is, "Girls hit your hallelujah," while the parody altered the line to "Kids, singin' 'ma nishtana.'" (Quick lesson ...
This song is heavily referenced in a Funny or Die skit featuring Huey Lewis and Yankovic, spoofing the movie American Psycho (2000). In the original movie, there is a scene in which Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) gives a critique of the Huey Lewis and the News song "Hip to Be Square" to an intoxicated Paul Allen (), before he brutally murders him with an axe.
A 1991 Taiwan commercial of Luyou apricot kernel drink (綠友杏仁茶) parodied the song with lyrics dedicated to the apricot kernel drink, sung by Li Maoshan (李茂山). The song was also released in its full version titled "Tê-Ooh" (茶噢). A parody of this song was used in an E-Trade commercial that first aired on Super Bowl LII in 2018.
The music video references the recording of Dylan's song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in the 1967 D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back. [3] The video for "Bob" is similarly shot in black-and-white, and in the same back-alley setting, with Yankovic dressing as Dylan and dropping cue cards that have the song's lyrics on them, as Dylan did in the film.