Mission Statement

[Alinite27]

LYRICS

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Mission Statement -- Style Parody of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
We must all efficiently,
Operationalize our strategies,
Invest in world-class technology,
And leverage our core competencies,
In order to holistically administrate,
Exceptional synergy,
We'll set a brand trajectory,
Using management's philosophy,
Advance on Macheive Leivieve,
A proven methodology,
With strong commitment to quality,
Effectively enhancing corporate synergy,
Transitioning our company,
By awareness of functionality,
Promoting viability,
Providing awesome logic with diversity, *Ooooooooo*
We will distill our identity,
Through client-centric solutions,
And synergy, *Ooooooo--ooooo--oooooooooo*
At the end-At the end-of the day-Of the day,
We must monetize our assets,
The fundamentals of change,
Can you visualize a value-added experience?
That will grow the business infrastructure, and
Monetize our assets
Monetize our assets
Moooooonnnettiiiiize our asssssetttts
Bringing to the table,
Our capitalized reputation,
Proactively overseeing day-to-day operations,
Services and deliverables,
With cross-platform innovation,
Networking soon will bring seamless integration,
Provust and scalable bleeding-edge and next-generation,
Best of breed,
We'll succeed,
In achieving globalization,
Gaining traction with our resources in the marketplace,
It's vision-critical to stay syngerized,
Against this purple-poster-flexible-solutions for all customer base,
If you can think outside the box,
You'll be downsized,
It's a paradigm shift, *Rolls tongue, Hey, Hey!* *Look out!*
Well, it's a paradigm shift, now! Here we go! Here we go! Here we come! Here we come! Ha!

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I know the methodology is wrong. Couple more spots possibly. This one I think was the toughest.

[Moneybags]

It's funny; I didn't much care for this at first listen, but it grew on me pretty fast. It reminds me of Craigslist in a way, because you've got this

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juxtaposition of corporate jargon with the free-wheeling spirit of CSNY, which are two things that don't belong together at all. I don't think the song is particularly funny, but his send up of CSNY is so spot-on that it's really impressive.

[Bruce the Duck]

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juxtaposition of corporate jargon with the free-wheeling spirit of CSNY, which are two things that don't belong together at all.

Yeah, that has to be what Al was going for there.

[Skippy]

Yeah, that has to be what Al was going for there.

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Actually, I think it's more than that. Think about what the hippie fans of CSNY are doing in their lives now. (Well, the ones who aren't retired from it, but still.) They're sitting in meetings spewing crap like this on a daily basis. This is a brilliantly subversive satire of the futility of the hippie movement!

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[Bruce the Duck]

Yeah, that has to be what Al was going for there.

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Actually, I think it's more than that. Think about what the hippie fans of CSNY are doing in their lives now. (Well, the ones who aren't retired from it, but still.) They're sitting in meetings spewing crap like this on a daily basis. This is a brilliantly subversive satire of the futility of the hippie movement!

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Yeah, that's true too. There's multiple layers to this.

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What I like about it is that corporations think that all these huge important-sounding words are valuable in their stupid mission statement. But this song, like the actual Mission Statements they mock, is just as nonsensical as "Bob." The more I listen to this song, the more I appreciate it.

[Skippy]

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What I like about it is that corporations think that all these huge important-sounding words are valuable in their stupid mission statement. But this song, like the actual Mission Statements they mock, is just as nonsensical as "Bob." The more I listen to this song, the more I appreciate it.

Yep. I get why people aren't getting into it, but this one is so full of subtle nuance, despite the lyrics themselves not being "funny." The originals on this album are all fantastic in different ways.

[ludovica64]

OMG!!!! This is awesome one of my favourite bands of all time.... MIND BLOWING style parody

[Muppetboy09]

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First listen, I didn't care for it, but it grew on me the second time. The harmonies are amazing, and the breakdown near the end with all the doo-wops reminds me of WDTAHTM

[Bruce the Duck]

Except that this is a lot harder to sing along with!

[Bruce the Duck]

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Providing awesome logic with diversity, *Ooooooooo*

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I don't think that says "awesome logic" there. But I can't make out what it actually is. Anyone?