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Paradoxical parody
Dec. 26th, 2019 03:49 amI watched the Witcher on Netflix last week, and the thing that really stuck with me was that really great song Toss A Coin To The Witcher. Man, that thing is just fantastic. Makes me not only want to listen to it on repeat, but to write something similar.
It got me thinking, though. Specifically, I thought about the sorry state in which culture has become which makes parody more and more difficult. The thing about parody is to point out how something is ridiculous or overblown, often by taking it to an extreme. But how do you do that when things are already taken to an extreme and seriously? Often I'll hear some love song or what have you on the radio and want to take it to some ludicrous end, except I always realize that such songs have been made. Can anyone think of anything more horrid or extreme than some of the shit you can hear in rap and hip hop? You can't take it any further than they already have, and they didn't do it as a joke. A perfect example was when Weird Al tried to parody Lady Gaga, the woman who wore a dress made of meat. The song changed born this way, to worn this way, and it really didn't have to make anything up, because she'd already worn everything ridiculous.
The irony, or perhaps paradox, is that to parody things, anymore it can be more impactful to downplay things. Turn some song about being the greatest to one about being just alright, or pretty average. How odd.
It got me thinking, though. Specifically, I thought about the sorry state in which culture has become which makes parody more and more difficult. The thing about parody is to point out how something is ridiculous or overblown, often by taking it to an extreme. But how do you do that when things are already taken to an extreme and seriously? Often I'll hear some love song or what have you on the radio and want to take it to some ludicrous end, except I always realize that such songs have been made. Can anyone think of anything more horrid or extreme than some of the shit you can hear in rap and hip hop? You can't take it any further than they already have, and they didn't do it as a joke. A perfect example was when Weird Al tried to parody Lady Gaga, the woman who wore a dress made of meat. The song changed born this way, to worn this way, and it really didn't have to make anything up, because she'd already worn everything ridiculous.
The irony, or perhaps paradox, is that to parody things, anymore it can be more impactful to downplay things. Turn some song about being the greatest to one about being just alright, or pretty average. How odd.
