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- Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
- Alanis Morissette - Ironic
- Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe
- Nickelback - Photograph
- Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
- One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
- Lmfao - Party Rock Anthem
- Rebecca Black - Friday
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
- Psy - Gangnam Style
This song was everywhere for a while, and the parodies were released thick and fast in its wake. This one, which is titled The Star Wars That I Used To Know is one of the funniest, and is certainly the most fitting for a technology site owned, managed, written, read, and used by geeks of all stripes. The song tells the story of Star Warsand how Geo...
Ironic by Alanis Morissette is an absolute classic. There is, however, one major problem with it: the anecdotes she tells aren't actually all that ironic. Which is in itself ironic, so perhaps Morissette is a genius and meant it all along. Still, it doesn't matter now as we've got this parody to thank for fixing the song and adding a heavy dose of ...
This is the first of two songs by The Key Of Awesome, a group specializing in satirical music parodies. Their victim this time is Carly Rae Jepson, who scored a huge hit with the utterly banal Call Me Maybe in 2012. In this parody, Jepson is transformed into a scary girl who becomes slightly obsessed with a guy after an alleged one-night stand. It'...
I'm a big fan of the country of Canada, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive the Canadians for inflicting Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, and Nickelback onto the world. Then again they also birthed Justin Pot, so I guess it all evens out in the end. Photograph by Nickelback is a horrendous song which was truly ripe for parodying. This one is my personal...
The less said about the Backstreet Boys the better. I'd rather spend these precious paragraphs waxing lyrical about Weird Al Yankovic, the absolute master of parody songs, and a man who was making them before YouTube had even been created. There are a dozen Weird Al songs that could have made this list, but eBay, with its catchy chorus of "I bought...
The second entry from The Key Of Awesome is a brilliant parody of What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction. As a card-carrying Brit I feel I should take this opportunity to apologize for inflicting these sexless idiots on to the world, but if you've bought any of their songs you only have yourself to blame. The lyrics are pitched perfectly, mockin...
LMFAO may not have lasted long, but for a short period of time they led the way in delivering quirky dance tunes that didn't take the music industry at all seriously. I have a feeling they would have appreciated this College Humor parody of Party Rock Anthem. The title is changed to Staying In Anthem as one sad individual decides to eschew a night ...
Rebecca Black has already featured in our list of the worst singers discovered on YouTube, but there's still a little room to mock her and the awful song that made her famous. I'm not even writing this on a Friday and yet the chorus is already floating around in my head. This is the most basic form of parody in the world, with some guy speaking ove...
Queen may not count as pop music exactly, but Bohemian Rhapsody is such a good song, and this cover version by the Muppets is so watchable, that I couldn't resist including it in the rundown. The Muppets have peaked and troughed in terms of popularity over the years, but this Queen parody saw them return to both form and popular consciousness. And ...
Last but definitely not least is a parody version of Gangnam Style by PSY, a song that absolutely owned in 2012. It was such a huge hit that we featured videos to help you learn about Gangnam Style, and reviewed a fun Web app called Infinite Gangnam Style. This video is a little different than the others on this list in that the music has been stri...
- Dave Parrack
- Staff Writer
Sep 6, 2022 · Weird Al may be the most famous name in the parody game, but there are a few other creative spoof songs that deserve credit. We think these parody songs are actually better than their...
- Liam Gaughan
Parody music, or musical parody, involves changing or copying existing (usually well known) musical ideas, and/or lyrics, or copying the particular style of a composer or performer, or even a general style of music.
