Welcome to the Friday 16th February to Friday 23rd February (publishing date) round of the One Week Notice challenge. My name is Matthias, I'll be your host.

The core of One Week Notice is this: We all write parodies of the same original song - and then we post them on the same day! The song chosen ideally should be one that has not been already parodied on Amiright, and should also be of reasonable difficulty and length (Matthias is hosting a separate thread for general discussion about that part, see the messageboard and feel free to join in - or even better - sign up to host a round yourself!)

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=56105.0

As things have evolved we're working on a From Friday To Friday basis. The host picks an original song and posts about it in a new messageboard thread on the first friday (or after the Thursday update on Amiright's front page if that's more convenient) and those who want to participate have one week to create a parody of it. All those parodies of the same song are then submitted to go on the next week's Friday's publishing date on Amiright (barring acts of God/Site Mods).

This challenge is not a contest judging for quality. No points are awarded. Constructive criticism is encouraged, but we have no strict rule or requirement for everyone to even read each parody and/or leave comments. Obviously that's an important part of the whole thing, but you won't get bashed if life gets in your way. The whole thing is done in the spirit of flexing our parody writing "muscles" and to grow back the spirit of camaraderie within the Amiright community. The host of a round must provide a link to the original song's lyrics (or post them in his/her host post, like I'm doing here below), a link to a YouTube video of the song (or an equivalent thereof) and information about what year the song was first released (to allow for the submission form on Amiright).

With all that said, here's the brand new One Week Notice for Friday 16th February to Friday 23rd February (publishing date).

- This particular tune is taken from the 2017 Oscar nominated movie: "The Greatest Showman". It's a beautiful and fantastic movie and therefore an equally beautiful and fantastic song which is actually nominated for "Best Original Song". So let's parody the sh*t out of it!

Song Title: "This Is Me" (2017)
Artist - The Greatest Showman
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEJd2RyGm8Q


I'm not a stranger to the dark
Hide away, they say
'Cause we don't want your broken parts
I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars
Run away, they say
No one will love you as you are

But I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in
We are bursting through the barricades
And reaching for the sun (we are warriors)
Yeah, that's what we've become

Won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
Gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

...This is me

And I know that I deserve your love
There's nothing I'm not worthy of
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
This is brave, this is bruised
This is who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come (look out 'cause here I come)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (marching on, marching, marching on)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

I'm gonna send a flood
Gonna drown them out
(...this is me)



Due Date: February 23rd, 2018

Might have heard this one on the radio. Title switch should be easy enough, lots of potentials there - gotta get a feel for the OS's theme to see if I can play into that too.

Come next Friday update I'll be in this round - it's a "guarantee"!

And for those still looking for other ideas to fit the title I'd just realized there are a lot of three letter acronyms that would be good starting points; ABC, MP3, TNT, DVD, etc,

Other ideas to help you get started:

She's with me (dating the hottest/ugliest girl in the world)
He's with me (same thing, from her perspective)
Goatee (Ode to movie bad guys)
To a T (Ode to your favorite thing - OR alliteration word sallad)
All just B (Again; alliteration word salad).

Thanks to Peter’s post I am doing “THIS IS SPRING” about a bunch of drunk college students on Spring Break

"THIS IS SPRING" is done and ready for Friday!

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5807d42e8419c29466cf36da/5821e89020099eb6117ff53c/58e7eb8d20099ebc2a5ba36d/1491594131096/SpringBreak_2017_Misc_Gallery44.jpg?format=1500w

The submission window is now open!

And I've just submitted "Thingamajig Guarantee (Fine Print Version)"

(Figured I had to prolong the title for clarity since I'm already using the intro to promote these OWNs)