- Easy Mode: Weird Al tracks are allowed.
- Hard Mode: No Weird Al.
I cant hear American Pie without it turning into Weird Al’s The Saga Begins
Don McLean almost sing Weird Al’s lyrics too during live performances…
Easy Mode: Amish Paradise
Hard Mode: Shia LaBeouf
As an mtg player these parodies are referenced enough that I think of them instead of the originals:
I had a friend who sung I Can’t Feel my Face when I’m with you, as I can’t feel my face when I Go POOP and that is all I will ever hear now.
I had a cousin who would sing to her kid to the tune of the CanCan song:
I’ve got something in my nappy, making me unhappy, tralalala la lalalalalala (repeat)
Pachelbel Rant by Rob Paravonian
United breaks guitars.
Not quite parody but…
The Bad Lip Sync version of Gotye (Kicked Your Monkey And I Used Your Goat) kinda always comes to mind
I first visited London only a few months after this came out. It was stuck in my head the moment I got on the platform at Heathrow.
I cannot listen to The Jam without this playing in my head.
Firm believer that Molecular Shape of You > Shape of You
A random tiny soundcloud account that did a parody of All Star that’s about the magical girls anime genre…now I want to find it again.
49 times we fought that beast
Your old man and me
I think of these trilogy of songs often
To the tune of the wanderer
“Well I’m the kinda guy who fucks his mom and dad”
Maybe a stretch as it’s not parodying a song but parodies Star Wars kinda sorta? Seagulls! (Stop it Now)
Lonely Island has a few (Jack Sparrow) comes to mind but again not a direct parody of a specific song.
Richard Cheese does straight up covers but they are so stylistically different that it’s basically a parody. Chop Suey
Then there’s the classic comedy music duos: Garfunkel & Oates (Loophole), Flight of the Conchords (Business Time)
Bo Burnham’s whole Inside special is fantastic too.
Looks like I’m mostly listing comedy music and not necessarily parodies, but oh well.
Hoop Shredding Gigolo (pictured above) : https://youtu.be/bpR0bULsl-0&t=787
This is Pat Finnerty’s (accurate) take on writing a hit Offspring song.
Union Dixie
