Welcome to the Friday June 29th to Friday July 6th (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 decided to go with this song because it's a fantastic one by the band The Killers and there's another competition going on right now that's based around that band called Artistry 2. The numbers have been disappearing in that competition going from Agrimorfee, Blaydeman, Abbott Skelding, Conqueror of Parodies and me down to pretty much just me and T-Cop so I figured I'll force you guys into writing something for this round of Artistry 2, Bwa ha ha ha!!!


Song Title: "When You Were Young"
Artist: The Killers
Year: 2006

Youtube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff0oWESdmH0



You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save your from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young

Can we climb this mountain
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now, watch it go

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning
When you were young
When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes
And see the place where you used to live
When you were young

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young
(Talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined)
When you were young

I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know



DUE = JULY 6th

Once it’s written join us in the Artistry 2 round here - http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=58250.0

This one's not easy - but I'm working on "It's so damn warm!"

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VQH3d4-iu2E/maxresdefault.jpg

Sorry guys, not this week.

Belated happy 4th of July - The submission window is open for the 6th update.

Mine's gonna have a quick reference to the Brazilian Soccer player Neymar - since you Americans usually don't know much about Soccer I'll just mention here that in this year's World Cup he seems to targeting some sort of world record for difficulty standing up when players from other nations comes near - which has generated a lot of funny memes, like this one:

https://9gag.com/gag/azXB5wj

Changing mine up since I didn't like the way that Clue one turned out... "Speak Parseltongue" is coming tomorrow!

https://i.imgur.com/fDUsXZU.jpg

Remember to submit your entry here Peter so you can join in this Artistry 2 competition

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=58250.0