By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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.
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.
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
I know the video platform so, so, so well. I know the perfect mixture of how comedic a piece has to be, what the video has to be like, what the song has to sound like, to make it successful.
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.
Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.
I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was all.
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.