If this has been done before it hasn't been for a while. Anyway, i used to play a lot of yahoo literati under the name "songparodywriter" and someone who has submitted six songs here named Ray King asked me if i wrote for amiright. I had no idea what he was talking about so he explained it and pretty soon my literati playing went way down and my parody writing became a lot more common and probably a lot better too. That was a little less than 2 years ago (june 2002) and i've written about 250 parodies since then which seemed unthinkable before i found amiright.

I just ran across Amiright about 3 years ago and submitted a misheard lyric. Then I ran across it again 2 years ago while looking for lyrics quizzes. I joined the Message Board and about a year ago "Meriadoc" was born while doing some lurking posts to a thread on the game board. When "Pippin" and I decided to write parodies, we already had the perfect names and the perfect disguise... ;)

About 5 years ago I was at another parody site which was based from Australia,and they shut down. So I searched for another site, and when I came to AmIRight they had just started to accept parodies, and I became one of the first parody authors along with Tong, and both Florios.

300+ and still going

Go random bored googling ;-). A few years ago I was just randomly googling for things cause I was bored, and one thing I decided to google for was "parody songs". The rest, as they sometimes say, was history.

I believe someone referenced it at the Jump The Shark Message Board on Yahoo!

Saider E. showed me the site. I'd never even known that there were parody archives.  ;D :o

I was vacationing in Prince Edward Island, Canada, this summer, and one of the newspapers there (I think it was the Toronto Globe) had a small article about the site. It seemed cool, so I checked it out when I got home.

I was at the "World of Weird Al Yankovic" forums, which i found through weirdal.com, and someone posted on there that they just submitted a new song for amiright.  Being a fellow parody writer i went to check it out. The really funny thing is when i went to bookmark the site, i already had in there. Go figure.

Dateline: Thanksgiving Day, 2000: Billy Florio, looking for a certain misheard lyric to prove his Uncle wrong, stubbles upon AmIRight in a Yahoo search.  Billy had been trying to find an outlet for his parodies (that he had been writing since 1994) for some time now, and decided that AmIRight looked like the optimum site.  He joined the ranks of the first continueing parody authors here, being here longest, only second to STG (and Jeff Reuben if you count his first parody)....Shortly after he posted his first AmIRight parody (One day to be exact), William Tong, and Michael Florio joined the first group of parody authors, by submitting their first ones here......

When I first got the Internet in 2002, I was very interested in looking up song lyrics, among other things. Randomly, I found kissthisguy.com, but when I couldn't find the site on any search engines, I searched for a similar site.... I found Amiright, submitted my very first parody ("She Will Survive" to the tune of "I Will Survive").

My parodies weren't exactly classics until I wrote my relatively-signature parody, "The Pong Song" to the tune of Sisqo's "Thong Song." It was a huuuuuge hit and put me on the parody map!

I still write lackluster songs occasionally, but I always try to write future classics.

Last October, I played the (killer) flute solo in "Peter & the Wolf" with an orchestra.  A few weeks before that, while doing a Google search for the piece, STG's "Hungry Like the Wolf"/"Peter & the Wolf"--a very clever parody--popped up.  I showed it to my husband Rick, since he had a bunch of parodies.  He got into it right away and started posting them, and after a couple of weeks started trying to get me to put mine on (about 8 at the time).  I finally caved.  I have written 40-plus since, inspired by the great network here and reading the works of the other writers.  We are now trying to encourage our songwriting friends to get on board!

I commmissioned a backing track to "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan from a recording  studio in Australia to use in a review and sent the parody lyric to them. A guy at the studio liked the lyric (cos he had been in the financial markets himself and could relate to it). He  mentioned weird Al Mankovic (I had never heard of him) and offered to do a website for me on similar lines. It was after that that I did some random googling and found this site. I ha dno idea that there were all thse great parody writers out there!

My childhood was full of misheard lyrics thanks to being a little kid with a wild imagination and a crappy AM radio. As an adult, I searched for "misheard lyrics" after kissthisguy.com became neglected. That's when I found Amiright, and noticing there was a parody section, I said to myself "Self - you can do this too."  That, and after commenting for years that we needed an all-star slasher movie with Norman Bates/Michael Myers/Freddy Kruger on the same screen and using a song parody to make the point, then seeing Freddy vs. Jason released - well, I just had to post the parody.  The rest is history.....or is it infamy?

And aren't song parodies a universal form of human self-expression?  EVERYONE does this.  All it takes is a few well-placed words and puns, and you're halfway to Amiright. Or maybe halfway to the looney bin, depending on the circumstances.  The choice is yours...

It's all coming back to me now...Yes!  A couple years ago a colleague and I at work were debating a lyric and he did a search and found the "misheard lyrics" section here. (A couple  weeks I recalled this differently on another string here, I thought the other person I was debating knew the site and directed me here, but he did not seem to have any knowledge of it. That was because he stumbled upon it during the lyric search. I talked to him since and this is what happened.)  We cleared up our debate, I copied the site address into a "Miscellaneous" computer file that I promptly forgot about and life went on.  Cleaning out excess computer files a few months after we all  heard we were getting axed within the next few months I ran across the "Miscellaneous" file again.  Went back to the site and noticed the "Parody" section and started to look & laugh. It was a perfect diversion since my dedication to the Old Corporation was decidedly on the wane.  After a couple weeks of browsing without voting or commenting I came across Guy's parody about a fellow shooting a tree while aiming for a lawyer.  I decided I needed to try to write some.  I had written a couple things many years before that I thought were ok, I drudged those up from my memory and made sure I actually had all the verses covered and then somehhow wrote enough new ones to get to 5 parodies and put them in on Nov. 10th,  2003.  Man, the NEXT 5 or so were really a struggle to get out.  Hard to believe I've got around 75 now.

;D I found the site accidentily, just suffing the web.
Glad I did!

I actually submitted a misheard lyric in 2001


Then last year I wanted to have a place to put my parodies in, and I remembered amIright, so here I am!

Talk about myself?  ME?  Oh, no, I couldn't possibly....

CHAPTER ONE
Just kidding.
I was delivering mail on March 3rd 2003 when I slipped on the ice and broke my ankle (it was the last day there was ice).  Knowing I'd be home from work for a couple months, I was determined not to waste the opportunity to do some writing.  I did a Google search for "parody" because that's always been one of my favorite kinds of writing.  I was considering writing children's books, actually, but I ran across AmiRight.  WOW!  You can vote on stuff and everything!  WOW!  They even have a top ten list!  I'd never really bothered to write a whole song parody before but I'd often thought of ideas for them.  I immediately went to the All-Time Top Ten Lists--I wanted to see the best the site had to offer.  I admit I wasn't too impressed (I didn't know then that those lists were mostly filled with old songs from when the site was a lot smaller).

Anyway, I could go on and on but the point is I've done more writing in the past year than I've done probably in the last five years put together.  It's the most fun I've ever had writing and you'd have to stab me to keep me away.  The End.