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Subject: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Saider_E. on 12/11/03 at 02:00 p.m.
I don't know if this question has already been asked, but I'm curious to know what got you guys to start writing parodies.
For me, there's a friend at my school who is a little obese and started sing "Slave 4 U" but changed the "U" to "Food."One day i was talking with him and some freinds, and as a joke we began to make up funny food titles for famous songs, then it esculated to making a chorus, then to whole parodies. And so, I found Amiright and me and my buddy Neo ( who are the only ones still making parodies) have been submitting parodies ever since.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Earl S. Garber on 12/12/03 at 03:19 p.m.
I started writing parodies of "required reading" as a freshman in high school, somewhere back in the prehistoric times of the 1970s. Music parodies started the minute I heard Dr. Demento for the first time. Now, lacking the fame (and hair) of a Weird Al Yankovic, I can only post them here and on my website, http://home.onemain.com/~nospamtoday/ .
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Old_Comedywriter on 12/12/03 at 03:52 p.m.
So what's next for me? Registering here, I guess...
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I started writing parodies of "required reading" as a freshman in high school, somewhere back in the prehistoric times of the 1970s. Music parodies started the minute I heard Dr. Demento for the first time. Now, lacking the fame (and hair) of a Weird Al Yankovic, I can only post them here and on my website, http://home.onemain.com/~nospamtoday/ .
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Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Just_Brit on 12/14/03 at 06:20 p.m.
KIB to MIB, Kids In Black...but it was soooo bad rofl
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: nobbus on 12/14/03 at 10:00 p.m.
my teacher made the class sing a terrible parody she made up called 'kids in black' at a school concert. painful memories.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Agrimorfee on 12/15/03 at 07:09 a.m.
Check my bio on the authors' page, coming soon courtesy of ChuckG.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: philbo_baggins on 12/15/03 at 08:19 a.m.
Not sure I'm in the parody "biz", in that it would imply I'm making some kind of money out of it... but I've been writing parodies for more than 20 years now: I'm not sure what would constitute the first, but "Throwing your guts up" to Bucks Fizz' "Making your mind up" is one of the earliest I actually remember; or maybe one about my German teacher to the tune of "Layla"...
Phil
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Neo Matrix on 03/14/04 at 00:23 a.m.
bump?
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: neminem on 03/14/04 at 10:14 a.m.
Let's see... it all started when Runnning with Scissors first came out, and one of my friends was obsessing over it, and told me to go download it. That was right in the heyday of Napster, so I went home and did just that. Then I listened to it obsessively for a couple weeks, and then began downloading his other works. Strangely enough (well, I found it strange at the time, though no longer do) many of the songs I was downloading were utter pieces of crap that didn't sound like Weird Al at all ;-). So that's basically when I began to realize that Weird Al didn't have a monopoly on parodies, that in fact I could go write my own, record them and they'd be better than most of the crap floating around on Napster at the time. Unfortunately, a. I lacked recording equipment/software, and b. I had no voice training at the time, so those early attempts never got recorded and shared. Well, that and the early attempts all sucked (you can actually see a couple of the ones that I thought were good at the time here). I found AmiRight a year or two later, and the rest is history. Or something.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Jack_Wilson on 03/14/04 at 05:15 p.m.
Weird Al def. got me into it, yup and also a few others, mainly Weird Al, and since late 2000 , ive been writing m y own parodies. Some of them are inspried by Al's stuff. ;D
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: agrimorfee on 03/15/04 at 11:14 a.m.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/authors/agrimorfee.shtml
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: PRobinson on 03/15/04 at 07:32 p.m.
Echoing Phil, since I don't make any money off this I would have to say my status is "amateur". I first started fooling around with song lyrics as a teen-ager back in the mid-1960's. Later on, in the 1970's, my brother David (5 years older than me) and I used to toss quips, mis-heard lyrics, double-entendres...really anything to do with swapping or re-wording songs back and forth. Sometimes it would build into complete, senseless absurdity, sometimes into an fairly coherent (but usually not quite complete) parody. I guess in the 1970's I did a couple to Steely Dan songs off "Can't Buy A Thrill" that were pretty rancid and in complete bad taste...no, I didn't keep them around. The closest I am came to completing one was when I heard the music (but not the lyrics) to Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" used as background music to a Miller Beer Commercial sometime in the 1980's I think. I wrote very close to what I submitted here as "It's Worth A Beer", but I didn't check at that time to see if I had all the verses and choruses matched up. I wrote a lot of partial parodies that were probably close to being finished in the last 5 or 6 years, but didn't start paying attention to writing complete ones until I started looking in on the site sometime in late 2002 or early 2003. After a while I thought about trying to write complete ones and getting up the nerve to submit them here. I built up 5 of them and passed them around to some work colleagues to see what they thought of them and got a real good response, so I finally posted those first few parodies on "amiright" in the early part of November, 2003. Thanks for asking, love to try and remember all this stuff now and then. Unfortunately, David passed away in November, 2000 so he's not able to be a part of this...he probably would have been pretty good at it.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: STG_RELOADED on 03/16/04 at 05:21 a.m.
I got started writing for a ste that crashed in the late 90's. But I stumbled upon this site which had just started accepting parodies. I submitted a few, and being one of the first artists on the site it was worth it. (Before them, there was S.T.G.)
I also remember how annoying I got with submitting so many damn parodies.
Peace out from S.T.G.
AMIRIGHT 4EVA'
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: Peregrin on 03/16/04 at 07:32 p.m.
Meriadoc made me :o
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody
Written By: Meriadoc on 03/16/04 at 07:50 p.m.
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Meriadoc made me :o
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Yeah, well like - what else can we do in IM's & over the phone... hmmmmm? ;) :o :P ;D
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: songdiva on 03/17/04 at 12:20 a.m.
I've been writing parodies since childhood. I'd take nursery rhymes and play with the words until a new and different story was made.
It was a revelation to me that, the 60's, that "On Top of Old Smokey" had a parody hit of "On top of Spaghetti" This was a
comforting thought because, I was beginning to think I was the only weirdo who twisted lyrics and words about, to suit
my own needs. Alas-validation!
I was a bit of a clown in high school, and founded an unofficial comedy club that I named the Space Cadets.
I wrote comical poetry & song parodies, as others told jokes, and perfomed minor gags, and practical jokes on the unassuming student body. Nothing too malicious mind you, silly teenage stuff is all. I Had the time of my life!
I have always wanted to be a serious music student and songwriter, as I basked in the sounds of the 60's and 70's.
Knowing that It would be tough go of It, I then "settled" for a business major.
I had a twenty year DRY SPELL, except for the little family parodies my hubby and I would write, for close friends and family. In December, 2003 I found Amiright!
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody
Written By: ... on 03/18/04 at 09:16 a.m.
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In December, 2003 I found Amiright!
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Strange, I thought it was before that. Cause I remember seeing parodies by "Diva" in August 2003. ???
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: songdiva on 03/18/04 at 11:26 a.m.
Thank you Guest....
It was December 2002......Sorry!
I guess my oldtimers disease is kicking in. ;D
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody biz
Written By: Ellipsis on 03/18/04 at 02:49 p.m.
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Thank you Guest....
It was December 2002......Sorry!
I guess my oldtimers disease is kicking in. ;D
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Yer welcome......but you can call me ellipsis. :) (In fact, I have made comments on some of your parodies.)
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: songdiva on 03/18/04 at 04:44 p.m.
Thanks Ellipsis!
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: adagio on 03/19/04 at 11:11 a.m.
Whoa! Such talent here! I just started writing parodies in May of last year. Guy showed me this site and I liked what I saw. It did take me a while to work up nerve to actually submit one. If I had known what talent I was presuming to join, I would have run screaming into the night..... ;D
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: PRobinson on 03/21/04 at 02:12 a.m.
Aha! but you stayed and now find yourself PART of that Top-Level of Talent you were ready to be intimidated by back then. It's kind of funny, a close associate at work SHOWED me this site a couple years ago and I looked at a couple and couldn't believe how anyone could do this so well. I copied and pasted the site address into a misc. file I had and mostly forgot about it. Stumbled back onto into sometime around the middle of 2003 and went over to look at it once in a while -0 didn't vote or comment or anything, just looking on in awe and wondering what it would be like. In the meantime I had written 5 parodies that were more or less completed, I thought. I sat on them a month or so and then one day I logged on and saw Guy 's one about the jerk at the Van Nuys, CA courthouse that was trying to shot a lawyer and shot a tree instead. Cracked me up completely. I sent it over to the friend who had initially showed me the site. He sends back "Where'd you find out about this place, it's cool.?? Anyway, life is short (wouldn't know it by my comments and stories, would you?), so I nervously leapt with all five at once on....Nov. 10th, 2003 I believe. I still remember how hard it was to come up with THE NEXT five parodies to reach the "10"+ list.
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Whoa! Such talent here! I just started writing parodies in May of last year. Guy showed me this site and I liked what I saw. It did take me a while to work up nerve to actually submit one. If I had known what talent I was presuming to join, I would have run screaming into the night..... ;D
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Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: adagio on 03/21/04 at 07:19 a.m.
Thanks very much for the kind words, Paul. It's really funny...I listen to the oldies station in the car radio, and tell my husband.."Did that one"..."That one too", etc. It is more of a kick now. Before it was a struggle to reach like 10 and 25.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: PRobinson on 03/21/04 at 08:03 a.m.
Adagio - That's a fun point to make! I was noticing the other day when I did a parody of CSN's "Marrekesh Express" what a great sounding little song that is! I was so familiar with it and have heard it some in recent years but I hadn't seriously paid attention to it in quite some time. When I put new words to it, played it and sang my new words to it I was really digging it. It freshens up the song for you and takes you back to how it felt to hear something really cool for the first time. When you multiply that back having OTHER writers do the same "freshening up" for you it's ends up being a pretty fine bit of entertainment. Moticed something else, too; I happen to be doing a bit of a project now with that 1st CSN album so I also just did a "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" parody. Now I did one on that about losing my job and I did a really good job on that, it was fun, but the theme was, as you might guess, bitching about being out of work (and played up to the max for parody effect). The new is really about silliness and it ends on an upbeat - that made the chorus at the feel really great. Gonna have to try to remember to go for more silly when I can.
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Thanks very much for the kind words, Paul. It's really funny...I listen to the oldies station in the car radio, and tell my husband.."Did that one"..."That one too", etc. It is more of a kick now. Before it was a struggle to reach like 10 and 25.
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Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: adagio on 03/21/04 at 08:12 a.m.
Quoting: The new is really about silliness and it ends on an upbeat - that made the chorus at the feel really great. Gonna have to try to remember to go for more silly when I can.
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You and me both, Paul. If I don't watch it, I will have all morose parodies here...some rep.! So, I've got one weird one submitted and a silly one waiting in the wings and working on another silly one. ;D
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: PRobinson on 03/21/04 at 09:21 a.m.
Adagio, A dose of morose is ok now and then, especially if you're writing it with a purpose, like pointing out inequities, injustices, etc., or personal venting over something in your life. I don't mind a visit, It's just not good for me to dwell there. That's why I don't write much poetry, I get too serious and sometimes I make Leonard Cohen seem like Mary Poppins in comparison. Having a musical structure there to put the words into seems to lead me at least in the direction of happier stuff. quote author=adagio link=board=parodies&num=1071176458&start=15#24 date=03/21/04 at 08:12:58]
You and me both, Paul. If I don't watch it, I will have all morose parodies here...some rep.! So, I've got one weird one submitted and a silly one waiting in the wings and working on another silly one. ;D
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Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: adagio on 03/21/04 at 09:28 a.m.
Actually, the venting ones are kind of fun...I get to bang on the keyboard and the parody is finished pretty quickly. ;)
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody "biz"
Written By: omega_8 on 03/21/04 at 10:37 a.m.
I've just recently posted a few parodies. What inspired me to write them was really when I misheard something or thought, 'wouldn't it be funny if...' or 'it sounds more like'. Some really funny stuff is posted there.
Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody
Written By: PRobinson on 03/21/04 at 03:44 p.m.
Adadio - Oh, Yeah, VENTING = release from victimization (at least in an intellectual sense if not in every sense) + occasionally a little bit of payback/kiss my___ also.
This is what separates it from WALLOWING, which = "Woe is helpless me" or "Oh, it's an awful world and we're all screwed no matter what we do" THAT'S THE ONE I need to stay away from. Actually those were mostly the first poems I wrote years ago, before I realized how mostly pointless that was. When I feel that lousy and write about something I try to at least muster up a little "grim determination" to give me some backbone.
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Actually, the venting ones are kind of fun...I get to bang on the keyboard and the parody is finished pretty quickly. ;)
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Subject: Re: How did ya'll get into the parody
Written By: adagio on 03/21/04 at 03:59 p.m.
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Adadio - Oh, Yeah, VENTING = release from victimization (at least in an intellectual sense if not in every sense) + occasionally a little bit of payback/kiss my___ also.
This is what separates it from WALLOWING, which = "Woe is helpless me" or "Oh, it's an awful world and we're all screwed no matter what we do" When I feel that lousy and write about something I try to at least muster up a little "grim determination" to give me some backbone.
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Exactly...very good therapy, really. ;D