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Subject: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 11:49 am

Alright noobs, listen up! I may be a grumpy geezer and a conservative coot to boot and if not an outright grammar police at least a paceophile with a meter maid's eye for parody songs here on Amiright. So before I take off again, presumably for the rest of the year, though no pinky promises, I promise, I have decided to exercise some sharing is caring and show ya'll how I go about writing for Am I Right. With 750 parody songs so far (not bad for an alien who's first language is NOT English methinks) you can bet your sweet udders that I have streamlined the process to milk as much as possible and crank out good stuff when my muse possesses me. We see the sentence that can be, unburdened by the sentence that has been.

And then it all starts with a template.

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 11:51 am

(Some explanatory text have been added to the following template, meaning you can streamline it even further should you wanna try).

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 11:54 am

Preliminary parody title(s) XXXX
Original artist and song title: XXXX
Original song from: XX

To copy for top when submitting: My author name on AIR
To copy for bottom when submitting: © My copyright name

Intro draft: Xxxx xxxx xxxx. A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found <A HREF="xxxx youtube-URL xxxx">here</A>.

Good phrases/words not yet used in this parody: Xxxx xxxx xxxx

New lyrics in progress:

XXXX

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 11:56 am

It usually starts with an idea for a title switch, or several. I add them all at once, if nothing else I can sometimes use the leftovers to vary my chorus.

Next I usually add an URL for the song on YouTube.

With both those steps done It can look like this:

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 11:58 am

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:00 pm

Now I go online to find the original lyrics, then I paste it into my template. Sometimes I add hyphens to better show how the pronounciation should be, or to highlight the number of syllables in that particular place.

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:02 pm

Preliminary parody title(s) Eat the pets / Take out vets / Eat the cats
Original artist and song title: Motorhead - Eat the rich
Original song from: 80s

To copy for top when submitting: My author name on AIR
To copy for bottom when submitting: © My copyright name

Intro draft: Xxxx xxxx xxxx. A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA">here</A>.

Good phrases/words not yet used in this parody: Xxxx xxxx xxxx

New lyrics in progress:

They say music is the food of love
Let's see if you're hungry enough
Take a bite, take another
Just like a good boy would

Get a sweet thing on the side
Home cooking, ho-mi-cide
Side order, could be your daughter
Fing-er-lick-ing good

Come on baby, eat the rich
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
C'mon baby eat the rich
C'mon baby eat the rich

Sittin' down in a rest-u-rant
Tell the waiter just what you want
Is that the meat, you wanted to eat
How would you ever know

Hash browns an' bacon strips
I love the way that you lick your lips
No fooling, I can see you drooling
Feel the hunger grow

Come on baby, eat the rich
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
C'mon baby eat the rich
C'mon baby eat the rich
C'mon baby eat your supper
C'mon baby bite that sucker

I'll eat you, baby you eat me
Eat two, baby get one free
Shetl-and pony, ex-tra pepp-e-ro-ni
Just pick up the phone

Eat greek, or eat chinese
Eat salad, or scarf up greece
You're on the shelf, you'll eat yourself
Come on and bite my bone

Come on baby, eat the rich
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
C'mon baby eat the rich
C'mon baby eat the rich
Sitting here in a hired tux-i-do
You wanna see my bacon tor-pe-do

Come on baby, eat the rich
Come on baby, eat the rich
Come on baby, eat the rich
Come on baby, eat the rich

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:03 pm

Now comes the good stuff:

The final step before getting started is to add working lines in a different colour, one below every single line of the original lyrics:

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:07 pm

Preliminary parody title(s) Eat the pets / Take out vets / Eat the cats
Original artist and song title: Motorhead - Eat the rich
Original song from: 80s

To copy for top when submitting: My author name on AIR
To copy for bottom when submitting: © My copyright name

Intro draft: Xxxx xxxx xxxx. A YouTube version of the original song can currently be found <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA">here</A>.

Good phrases/words not yet used in this parody: Xxxx xxxx xxxx

New lyrics in progress:

They say music is the food of love
XXXX
Let's see if you're hungry enough
XXXX
Take a bite, take another
XXXX
Just like a good boy would
XXXX

Get a sweet thing on the side
XXXX
Home cooking, homicide
XXXX
Side order, could be your daughter
XXXX
Fingerlicking good
XXXX

Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
XXXX
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX

Sittin' down in a restaurant
XXXX
Tell the waiter just what you want
XXXX
Is that the meat, you wanted to eat
XXXX
How would you ever know
XXXX

Hash browns an' bacon strips
XXXX
I love the way that you lick your lips
XXXX
No fooling, I can see you drooling
XXXX
Feel the hunger grow
XXXX

Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
XXXX
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX
C'mon baby eat your supper
XXXX
C'mon baby bite that sucker
XXXX

I'll eat you, baby you eat me
XXXX
Eat two, baby get one free
XXXX
Shetland pony, extra pepperoni
XXXX
Just pick up the phone
XXXX

Eat greek, or eat chinese
XXXX
Eat salad, or scarf up greece
XXXX
You're on the shelf, you'll eat yourself
XXXX
Come on and bite my bone
XXXX

Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Put the bite on the son of a bitch
XXXX
Don't mess up, don't you give me no switch
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX
C'mon baby eat the rich
XXXX
Sitting here in a hired tuxido
XXXX
You wanna see my bacon torpedo
XXXX

Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX
Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:12 pm

During the actual writing lines can look like below. Note that as long as I'm keeping an XXXX it means that I have not yet totally settled on going with that particular line (in this case because the word ”shepherd” would sit even better over the word ”shetland” in a different place):

Sittin' down in a restaurant
Sitting down for a rabbit thai
Tell the waiter just what you want
XXXX Ask the waiter for shepherd's pie

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:17 pm

Starting with the very last word in a line and working backwards is often the best way to make pace, keep the rest either blank or copy-paste the original before working it out again.

Shetland pony, extra pepp-e-ro-ni
XXXX .......................... calzone

or

Shetland pony, extra pepp-e-ro-ni
XXXX Shetland pony, extra pepp-calzone

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:22 pm

See the half sentence that can be, unburdened by the other half sentence you do not yet see. :)

Shetland pony, extra pepp-e-ro-ni
XXXX .............. have a cow calzone

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:25 pm

If the original's chorus is repeated it obviously gives great satisfaction to vary it more slash better than the original artist did, so never miss the chance to write several lines at once if you hit your stride and gets into flow - you can always decide what to keep and/or what goes where later.

Come on baby, eat the rich
XXXX Come on humans, eat the pets
XXXX Come on order take out vets
XXXX Go down fellas, eat the cats

Put the bite on the son of a bitch
XXXX Human rights here's as good as it gets
XXXX Suburbs here's as good as it gets
XXXX The supply here's as good as it gets

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:29 pm

And once I'm done with the final back and forth and have a complete parody I just clear out all the original black lines from the template.

Like when I added the blue ones, but in reverse.

AND THEN I head over to submit on AmIRight.

Like I'm about to do with this one, see you tomorrow! :P

Subject: Re: How to write parody songs, quick and dirty 101

Written By: K1chyd on 09/19/24 at 12:44 pm

One more thing - The intro draft before the YouTube link.

I think about that as two things; a kind of artist talk from the stage before a song, and/or a great place for me to use those turns and phrases and rants and words and stuff that didn't make into the actual parody. Remember - my muse is milking me for as many puns she can while she sits in my lap massaging my temples/template. :)

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