There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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