META: "Songs From Bolivia", Volume 1
I've sat here pondering this particular OT season for sometime now and struggling to come up with an occasional feature that isn't too hard for me to find time to do, and then seeing the last couple days of threads in particular, it struck me that I could put a few of my talents to work in a series of self-conscious blog parodies written to the melodies of various tunes.
Indeed, I challenge others to do this as well as it is cathartic and would undoubtedly help some of us relieve the tedium until, say, the middle of August when we will be well into camp and unable to wait for the season any longer.
My first submission to the series is below:
“Bad MGoBlogger”
(sung to Stevie Wonder’s “Part-Time Lover”)
You post some shit about recruits
Some bad hot takes, insults to boot
You think there’s nothing wrong, bad MGoBlogger
The downvotes start, you wonder why
That’s when the snark begins to fly
And now you’ve killed a thread, bad MGoBlogger
You are struggling to defend your dumb notion
It’s half-cocked, riddled with emotion
When the words don’t come you turn it all around
Throw out a “fuck”, then run the ship aground
The call goes out to find the mods
The blog won’t tolerate the clods
Yes, that refers to you, bad MGoBlogger
And all those points you thought you had
Go down the john, it makes you mad
You brought it on yourself, bad MGoBlogger
You are struggling to defend your dumb notion
It’s half-cocked, riddled with emotion
When the words don’t come you turn it all around
Throw out a “fuck”, then run the ship aground
You cannot see the problem with that post
But it’s so wrong, so much worse than most
You think that you’re being singled out
You likely are, of that there’s no doubt
I will not ask, I’ll just tell ya
Your next stop is Bolivia
This site is not for you, bad MGoBlogger
You’ll go create one more account
Try it again, but you discount
That people won’t spot you, bad MGoBlogger
Ghost of some bad MGoBlogger
Voltron too, bad MGoBlogger
For those unfamiliar with the original song:
I was singing along in my kitchen. My wife may divorce me...
I likes.
So this is what a Michigan degree gets ya?
The Ultimate MgoBlog Warrior of the Internets?
I bet your parents would be proud.
Okay, I thought I'd hate this.
Then I clicked, and it was bliss.
A perfect start to the day!
It's just that we're calling the mods moms now, so if you could just go ahead and change that line that'd be great.
I too am against half-cocked dumb notions. Dumb notions should be either fully-cocked or not cocked at all.
the last two lines killed it. Well done.
EDIT: accidentally upvoted myself so i downvoted myself
+1 for your honesty.
we get a user name of Bad MGoBlogger.
Well done!
Tall and tan and young and loudly
The MGoBlogger to La Paz goes balking
And when he posts
Each MGoBlogger goes, Aarrgh!
When he talks, he thinks he's a samba
That swings so cool and sways the gentry
But when he posts
Each MGoBlogger goes, Aarrgh!
Ooh, but the Mods watch so sadly
How can they tell he posts badly
Yes, he will give his points gladly
But each day, when he posts and we see
We look straight ahead, not at he
i find that hard to believe. almost as hard to believe that muttlley made it into a song. very well done. supposedly the girl singer spoke no english, only tagalog (main philipino language), and had to learn the words to sing the song. is a classic.
and LSA, kudos to you, too. enough booze and who knows what some of the others will come up with.
*portuguese
*brazilian
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I would sing cat songs! Like this one: http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/s038.html
Making up lyrics to songs is my favorite past time in long boring meetings. When they eventually ask me a question and I immediately respond in verse, they think it is impressive and I get promoted.
I like to mix in song lyrics, while I'm having a conversation. Often, I walk this way and talk this way.
But what album from Mr. Wonder isn't? This song got some serious rotation by my dad when I was a kid. Well played. My wife is looking at me like I'm insane. A take on Luther Vandross's scatting would have been even more hilarious
"B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B Bolivia!"
yup. points are so important to me.
Gotta say this was very clever and there is definitely more than 1 section of this parody that I liked.
the moms put in on any web site but especially sport blogs as large as this one. I would first like to say thank you moms one and all for not sending me to Bolivia when I log in having an off day and maybe throw some flamebait out there, OK definetly throw some flamebait out there. Anyway thanks for your work and thank you for getting that song Part Time Lover stuck in my head presumably for the rest of the day. I'll take that as punishment for the time I wrote a flamebait post.
Here's my submission in the song lyric game, to the tune "My Girl" by the Temptations:
In the Big House, a November day
When it's cold outside, Wolverines play
Scarlet and Gray, Who can make you go away?
Harbaugh, Harbaugh, talking 'bout Harbaugh.
We've got such great recruits, Urbz envies me.
Peters, Walker, Mitchell, and Rashan Gary.
We won't be beat; Buckeye tears will taste so sweet.
Harbaugh, Harbaugh, talking 'bout Harbaugh.
We don't need Coke promotions, no not at all.
100,000 and more to watch football.
Damn Dave Brandon, this game is not played at home.
Harbaugh, Harbaugh, talking 'bout Harbaugh
(In Ohio on a cloudy day, we'll still make you go away....)
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