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What is the funniest parody music video you have seen for new songs?
So I have been going to youtube for sometime now, and watch music videos and then it sends you to random ones, where I have discovered many very funny parodies of popular songs that I like. I find a lot of them to be funny, and some not. What are some of the best ones that you have seen, and what makes them so great?
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I like this parody of Miley Cyrus' Party in the USA. (DUI) This guy recorded the whole thing himself--very easy to do nowadays, not so easy when I was recording them in the early 90s.
I grew up in New Jersey listening to New York Radio stations, and I'm amazed to find what is definitively my inspiration--Ronnie Spector spoofing herself on The Howard Stern Show, circa 1985-1986, I remember listening to it and thinking "I'm gonna do that some day."
Attached is the audio of my 1991 live on-air premiere of "Kentucky Fried," a parody to Michael Jackson's "Black or White," which had just come out. The words just popped into my head in class one day and I started scribbling. a few days later, I'm in a production studio laying this puppy down.
Your speakers are fine. This has yet to be digitally remastered. The cassettes aren't exactly giving me quality audio, plus the radio station's processing flattened it all out. I stuck it on Archive.org so I wouldn't lose it.I recorded and aired a few on the radio from 1990 to 1993.
The theme show to my show was a parody, too. Hammer's "Addams Family." That one's been remastered and is also attached.
Here's what it says on archive.org with the show theme: "The parody used as the show opener for a couple of years. Produced literally one minute before starting a show one afternoon at WMUC-AM. Unlike other parodies, this one was written on the spot. First and only read. Taped and aired at WMUC-AM.
Original had low level and only channel. Digitally Remastered 2009"
I really did just walk into a production studio as the guy before me was wrapping up and going into news, and I had one shot to get it right. It became the iconic song that separated The Gary Allen Show from the others...I pressed that button, the song came out, the phones would light up I'd be in the zone for three hours.
What makes a good parody, I think, is how closely you can match the sounds of the original words--or better yet impersonate the singer--or at least get their style right, like I seemingly managed to do in the rap break in ""Black or White." Sometimes sound effects make it funnier if they go with your lyrics. Not necessarily, though.
Enjoy and THANKS FOR LISTENING!
I grew up in New Jersey listening to New York Radio stations, and I'm amazed to find what is definitively my inspiration--Ronnie Spector spoofing herself on The Howard Stern Show, circa 1985-1986, I remember listening to it and thinking "I'm gonna do that some day."
Attached is the audio of my 1991 live on-air premiere of "Kentucky Fried," a parody to Michael Jackson's "Black or White," which had just come out. The words just popped into my head in class one day and I started scribbling. a few days later, I'm in a production studio laying this puppy down.
Your speakers are fine. This has yet to be digitally remastered. The cassettes aren't exactly giving me quality audio, plus the radio station's processing flattened it all out. I stuck it on Archive.org so I wouldn't lose it.I recorded and aired a few on the radio from 1990 to 1993.
The theme show to my show was a parody, too. Hammer's "Addams Family." That one's been remastered and is also attached.
Here's what it says on archive.org with the show theme: "The parody used as the show opener for a couple of years. Produced literally one minute before starting a show one afternoon at WMUC-AM. Unlike other parodies, this one was written on the spot. First and only read. Taped and aired at WMUC-AM.
Original had low level and only channel. Digitally Remastered 2009"
I really did just walk into a production studio as the guy before me was wrapping up and going into news, and I had one shot to get it right. It became the iconic song that separated The Gary Allen Show from the others...I pressed that button, the song came out, the phones would light up I'd be in the zone for three hours.
What makes a good parody, I think, is how closely you can match the sounds of the original words--or better yet impersonate the singer--or at least get their style right, like I seemingly managed to do in the rap break in ""Black or White." Sometimes sound effects make it funnier if they go with your lyrics. Not necessarily, though.
Enjoy and THANKS FOR LISTENING!
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