Bathroom Humor
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:25 pm
Now, I'm loving the new album, but is it just me or is there a lot more bathroom humor here than in his previous releases?
Perform This Way: "Excuse me, who cut the cheese?" (albeit in French)
CNR: "...excretes diamonds every day..."
TMZ: "...picking up dog poop..." / "...peeing in the bushes..."
Craigslist: "...blonde half-Asian with a bad case of gas..."
If That Isn't Love: "...warm your hands inside my butt crack..." / "..spastic bladder..." / "...if you cut the cheese..." / "...big fat turd..." -- and honorable mention to the "Mamma Mia"/"diarrhea" lyric rhyme fake-out.
Whatever You Like: "...when I buy you bathroom tissue I always get the two-ply..."
Not to be a fuddy-duddy, but most of these aren't even necessary. The ones that don't bother me too much are in "TMZ" and "Whatever You Like", since they are fairly organic to what is being sung about. But all the other references seem a little more gratuitous and just there to get a cheap, juvenile laugh. I guess the worst offender is definitely ITIL, which is a shame because despite that it's one of my favorite songs on the album. I just think it might have been my VERY favorite song if he had cut down on the toilet jokes and limited them to maybe just one or two references (but FIVE?!?)
Anyway, I just don't think Al needs to resort to this so much. I can't think of any other ALbum with such a tonnage of bathroom humor*. I hope it's just a coincidence that there was so much on this album and that he reigns it in a bit on #14.
(But again, this is just a minor quibble and observation....I still love these songs!)
* "A Complicated Song" notwithstanding, where a full 1/3 of the song is constipation jokes.
Perform This Way: "Excuse me, who cut the cheese?" (albeit in French)
CNR: "...excretes diamonds every day..."
TMZ: "...picking up dog poop..." / "...peeing in the bushes..."
Craigslist: "...blonde half-Asian with a bad case of gas..."
If That Isn't Love: "...warm your hands inside my butt crack..." / "..spastic bladder..." / "...if you cut the cheese..." / "...big fat turd..." -- and honorable mention to the "Mamma Mia"/"diarrhea" lyric rhyme fake-out.
Whatever You Like: "...when I buy you bathroom tissue I always get the two-ply..."
Not to be a fuddy-duddy, but most of these aren't even necessary. The ones that don't bother me too much are in "TMZ" and "Whatever You Like", since they are fairly organic to what is being sung about. But all the other references seem a little more gratuitous and just there to get a cheap, juvenile laugh. I guess the worst offender is definitely ITIL, which is a shame because despite that it's one of my favorite songs on the album. I just think it might have been my VERY favorite song if he had cut down on the toilet jokes and limited them to maybe just one or two references (but FIVE?!?)
Anyway, I just don't think Al needs to resort to this so much. I can't think of any other ALbum with such a tonnage of bathroom humor*. I hope it's just a coincidence that there was so much on this album and that he reigns it in a bit on #14.
(But again, this is just a minor quibble and observation....I still love these songs!)
* "A Complicated Song" notwithstanding, where a full 1/3 of the song is constipation jokes.