Yeah, yeah, I'm reading and replying to this thread after that big "Spoiler" fuss I made. Well, sue me, I'm weak. I made that fuss more on principle anyway.
SO, just listened to the original for the first time...not that this really matters, but ye GOD what a wretched song. I didn't find it the slightest bit catchy or enjoyable, just annoying and grating and unpleasant and smurfin' dumb. And I WANTED to like it, because I know I'll have to live with the melody for a while. I honestly would have preferred a Train parody, it's that bad. Just my opinion, not trying to make it yours.
But again, it doesn't matter. Al has worked miracles with worse material in the past. Like, for example...
Um...
Damn, I have to go all the way back to "I Think I'm A Clone Now" to find an Al parody of a less enjoyable song.
But again, that's okay. With parodies, LYRICS are what's important. And this concept has potential; few things in life are inherently funnier than drunken idiots happily committing wanton destruction. And this is the first time (to my knowledge) that Al has parodied two generations of the same family, after "Achy Breaky Song." Will this be played as a full song, or just one verse in the medley?
Listening to the original again to see if it might grow on me...nope, nothin' doin'. BTW, remember in Tom Lehrer's "The Folk Song Army" when he invented the concept of a "rhyne" - something that
almost sounds like a rhyme, but isn't exactly (I.E. rhyming "line" with "rhyme")? Well, in this song's first verse Miley rhynes "crazy" with "famous." Worst rhyne I have ever heard in my miserable life, bar smurfing none.
Lukasz Gottwald (born September 26, 1973), better known as Dr. Luke, is an American songwriter, record producer, and remixer. He has co-written and co-produced hits such as "Since U Been Gone", "Behind These Hazel Eyes", "Who Knew", "U + Ur Hand", "Girlfriend", "About You Now", "I Kissed a Girl", "Hot N Cold", "Circus", "Right Round", "My Life Would Suck Without You", "Party in the U.S.A.", "Tik Tok" and "California Gurls".
Someone call Victoria Jackson, I think we just found Satan.