Welcome to the Friday June 22nd to Friday June 29th (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 challenge--

- I chose this song for this week because it's the last week of June so it coincides with our Amiright Reunion challenge as well. A way to kill two birds with one stone because this song has never been parodied on Amiright before as well! All you would need to do is make this song about hobbies, pasttimes, vacation or leisure activities in order for it to fit both criteria! Enjoy!!!


Song Title: "So Lonely"
Artist: The Police
Year: 1978

Youtube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnOUOkcr9c


Well someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you just don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere

But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely

Now no one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show

Just take a seat they're always free
No surprise no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely

(guitar solo)

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

Lonely, I'm so lonely
I feel so alone
I feel low
I feel so
Feel so low
I feel low, low
I feel low, low, low
I feel low, low, low
I feel low, low, low
I feel low, low, low
I feel low, low, low
Low, I feel low
I feel low
I feel low
I feel so lonely
I feel so lonely
I feel so lonely, lonely, lonely, lone
Lonely, lone
I feel so alone, yeah

So lonely...



DUE = June 29th

I kinda wish you hadn't picked a Police track, (hey, though, I thought we were taking breaks at the end of the month for the Reunion?  ???). The sheer repetiveness of many of their tracks are difficult to mine humor from.

I kinda wish you hadn't picked a Police track, (hey, though, I thought we were taking breaks at the end of the month for the Reunion?  ???). The sheer repetiveness of many of their tracks are difficult to mine humor from.


Thought since we were gonna write Police tunes for this Reunion I thought we could kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

I count only sixteen lines beyond the repetetive chorus, which I'll be OK with anyone keeping as such. "So homely" or "So manly" or "So loony" or "So something-y" should give plenty of easy starting points. Also one could tap into the lonely theme other ways; I'm looking at it and I'm getting an idea along the lines of "(My stalker left me for) George Clooney" starting something like "My stalker broke in yesterday // Said she'll pursue another bae". That'll be a totally new theme for me if I can pull it off.