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Erika Hammerschmidt
Song Parody Masterpost
From my Blog on Oct 23, 2021
Also posted in this Twitter thread
(OKay! So, SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME to do a masterpost of all the parody songs I've tweeted.)
For who that SOMEBODY is, see exhibit ...number one!
1.
the tide is high
but im holdin on
i gotta pee
it's number one
nummmm berrr onnnnne
2.
(These are in no particular order.)
(So sorry, Figaro.)
konichiwee, konichiwa, konichiwee, konichiWAAA
fa la la la la la la konichiwee konichiwa
3.
(This one I made up in my sleep!
Thanks, subconscious. You wake me up with so many songs!
This one is better than the time you woke me up with a spoonerized version of "Row your Boat" though.
Drearily, drearily, life is but a meme.)
I can never get back to sleep now
I dreamed a horrible pun that is now stuck in my head
ROCK THE CAPS LOCK
ROCK THE CAPS LOCK
SERIF DON'T LIKE IT
4.
(orange, silver and purple are the trinity of unrhymeable color words.
i have attacked them all in different ways
but this was my worst)
Hey look everyone, I rhymed an unrhymeable word
5.
(Take a look! It's not a Macbook! It's Lapitoptera!)
I tried to sing "butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high" but ended up singing "butterfly in disguise, more than meets the eye"
6.
(only villain you must fight / is perhaps the spider mite)
Spider plant, spider plant/ doing stuff a spider can't
Grow my offspring / on a stem / Don't need no/ eggs for them
Spider, fly, bee or ant/ you can try, but you can't/
be as cool as Spider Plant
7.
(when the art hits your eye
like your glasses said bye
that's a monet)
I heard that you broke into a gallery
and now there's some art they can't show me
so what did you steal today?
#Hey #MustBeTheMonet
8.
(so many of my song "parodies" are actually just switching out tunes)
Singing "The Star Spangled Banner" to the tune of "The First Noel," why does this amuse me so much
9.
(Kinda wish I had used @damnyouwillis's censoring for the b-word)
(99 problems but a bongo ain't one)
(plus the bongo plus Pongo makes a hundred and one)
Got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
(they're all puppies)
(the bitch might be a problem if she keeps having puppies)
#101Dalmatians
10.
(oh god this was back when I actually looked at trending topics for tweet inspiration)
#replacelyricswithfood
I ate a raspberry puree.
The kind you buy in a grocery store.
I ate a raspberry puree.
I think I love it.
11.
(I think this was in reply to @ryannorth
saying something about fighting the con flu
but back in an ancient time when "replying"
was just posting your own tweet with @ their name in it)
@ryanqnorth everybody was con flu fighting
12.
(this isn't so much a "song parody"
as a parody of a whole genre of poetry,
which wasn't so much a "genre of poetry"
as an ad campaign from a hundred years ago)
My werewolf costume
one month late
No Shave November
ain't it great
Burma Shave
13.
(very bold of me
when I have seen neither the musical
"No Business like Show Business"
nor the anime "Chobits")
there's no bits like chobits
14.
(this had a like, at one point.)
(I think the liker is no longer on twitter)
(good for him)
I love Gru-yere, yere, yere.
I love Gru-yere, yere, yere.
#WithLoveLikeThatYouKnowYouShouldBeFed
15.
(when you mash up Daft Punk
with a toy you're stocking
on the Target shelves for christmas)
bop it, twist it, pull it, bop it, scan it, send it, quick erase it, technologic
16.
(since then I've learned the lyrics
are actually "LOOKING out my back door"
which is... even more disgusting)
when I'm constipated I sometimes sing that country song that goes "doo, doo, doo doo, get out my back door"
17.
(I had just moved to California
and every plant in the garden reminded me of a song)
(Me approaching the citrus trees)
Hey mister tangerine man, play a song for me?
(turns around)
Sing us a song, you're the banana man... Oh wait you're a bird of paradise tree, my mistake
(Voice from the bean trellis) it's hopeless, lady. There's only one Musical Fruit
18.
(Speaking of beanstalks...)
(This isn't a song)
(Unless you imagine the giant in the fairy tale sang it)
(which... sure, why not!)
(I mean, I'm eating Mothman, anything's possible)
Today I felt the urge to use "behemoth" incorrectly in a sentence:
fee fie fo fum
I smell the blood of a moth man, yum
be he man or be-he-moth
I'll grind his bones to make my broth
19.
(My favorites are when so many details of the song match the parody, it's like the connection was there waiting to be made)
20.
(My most successful song parody yet)
(of course the success of my tweets is always determined by the popularity of the person they're in reply to)
Original tweet by @freelancefae sharing these screenshots from Tumblr:
my reply:
I dug my blade into the seams
Of his pretty little washed out skinny jeans
Carved my name into his leather sleeves
Took a Singer seam ripper to both cuff hems
Un-Bedazzled ALL HIS GEMS
maybe next time he'll think before he leaves
21.
(sadly, I had just moved away from Pennsylvania when I tweeted this)
(in order to live with my polycule in LA, and be my full extent of pansexual)
(but I no longer wear pants nearly as often)
I wear pants sometimes
that makes me a pantsvestite
from pansexual
pennsylvania
22.
(my pokeball is still bigger on the inside)
(and its charmeleon circuit is still broken)
You're a charmer, charmer, charmer, Charmeleon
In Pokemon Go
In Pokemon Go
Catching you would be easy
if your colors were like my team
Red gold and blue
23.
(Saint Nick don't you call me
'cause I can't go
My stocking's full of
Sixteen tons of coal)
so this is christmas
and what do you get
another year older
and deeper in debt
#appropriatemashups
24.
(sometimes a song parody needs no more than two little words)
*sings "Hot Topic" to the tune of the Hot Pockets jingle*
25.
(Mashups, ahhh)
She's my
Caroline
Cool drink of water, such good times
Seems so good, makes me so inclined
Sweet Caroline
26.
(even angels celebrating Christmas would sometimes rather celebrate Talk like a Pirate day)
Don't ask me to sing Christmas carols with you unless you accept that I will FIX every failed rhyme
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly host sing hallelu-YAR
(Also I usually can't restrain myself from adding "holes" after every instance of "come in glory," just so you know)
27.
(Christmas is the most magical time of year for my song parodies)
(this one isn't a parody, more of just a reinterpretation)
Listening to "Last Christmas" and thinking, "Regifting is a horrible thing to do with a heart transplant"
28.
(reinterpreting the regifting! So recursive!)
(I shall retweet my "recursive" tweet in celebration!)
re-cursive
re-gif'd
29.
(Stoned.)
Original thread by San Miguel Sherriff:
my reply:
They'll stone you when you're driving in your truck
They'll stone you if you are too slow to duck
But I would not enter the rockslide zone...
Everybody must get stoned
30.
(sometimes you just see the word "ramparts"
and want to make up a whole song parody from there
and then someone magically gives you the perfect context to do it)
Original thread by pc_98s:
my reply:
Whose broad stripes and bright squares
Through the perilous fight
Showed the RAM parts we chopped
While so gallantly screaming
31.
(This one I posted once, but in a chat with my partner on a private Discord server, not Twitter)
32.
(And... this one I'm sure I tweeted at some point)
(but I can't find it now.)
(Oh well. Here it is again.)
Muse, you're my Muse for this one.
(Matt Bellamy will never love me endlessly, and absolutely will give me up and let me down. I SO deserve it.)