Parodies’ Paradise: 2011 “Someone Like You”

Hello, Adele. Imitation is the sincerest form of coattail riding.

Adele’s first number one single… voted the third-most favourite number-one single of the last 60 years in the UK… 36th-best-selling single in the history of the UK Singles Chart... first recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance… third most downloaded single of all-time in the UK… fourth best-selling single of the 21st century.

Ducan G (with buddy Brian) feature the fat man in”Somone Like Santa.” Funny lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAysigl4c6I

Parodies’ Paradise: 2010 “All I Do is Win”

DJ Khaled’s fourth studio album Victory begat this second single featuring T-Pain, plus Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross… certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA… the only Billboard Hot 100 charting single from the album peaking at 24… #3 on the rap list.

Stevens Creek Church play hard as they pray with “All I Do is Spend.” Boys just wanna have toys… and cool music videos.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2010 “California Gurls”

Katy Perry’s summer anthem peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks… her second US number-one single… also reached number-one in ten other countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom… received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Snoop Dogg)… Billboard ranked the song number one on a special The 30 Summer Songs of All Time listing.

The Mistletones go north for their “Santa Claus’s Elves.” Just as much fun, not as much skin showing.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2008 “It’s Business Time”

Flight of the Conchords seem to parody themselves plenty when they label themselves New Zealand’s 2nd most popular comedy folk duo. After a floundering BBC radio and an HBO comedy series, and their eponymous album with this bizzy song (released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band), Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, and Rhys Darby went their separate ways. But Tom Wade and The Parliament had the same idea: switch out the word business (meaning SEX in the original song) with the assonant Christmas. So now it’s “Christmas Time,” ladies and not-ladies.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2008 “Poker Face”

Lady Gaga’s hit from her debut studio album was a tribute to her rock and roll boyfriends… attained worldwide success, topping the charts in twenty countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many European countries… best-selling single of 2009 worldwide, with over 9.5 million in sales… one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 14 million copies…  nominated for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 52nd Grammy Awards, and won the Award for Best Dance Recording.

[digressive moment: others love to sample Gaga’s hits for their funny montages, including The Landline and JerbyVids–that’s the funny one.]

The Something Awful site collects songs every year and 2009 saw a middlingly wretched parody called “Jingle Bells.” Catchy.

pschomomtv1 gives us a Seat as ex tell-all with “Poker Claus.” No, really.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2006 “Apologize”

This debut single by OneRepublic from their debut album was the biggest radio airplay hit in the history of the Mainstream Top 40 chart in North America, with 10,394 plays in one week… a major hit internationally, reaching number one in 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, Turkey, and the Netherlands, as well as staying at number one for eight consecutive weeks on the Billboard Pop 100 chart… peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, staying in the top-10 for 25 weeks, and spent 13 weeks at number one in Canada… earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals… ranked number 50 on the list of the Billboard Hot 100’s All-Time Top Songs list from the chart’s first 50 years… spent 25 consecutive weeks in the top 10… also ranked number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.

The Murrays worry that Christmas is too much with us in their “Christmastime.” Damned fine funny business this.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2005 “Photograph”

Nickelback’s song was the first single from their fifth studio album, All the Right Reasons… made multiple US and UK top 10 charts, peaking at #1 in several of them, including Billboard‘s US Mainstream Rock, US Pop 100, US Adult Top 40, UK’s Rock and Metal charts too (is this uncategorizable?).

Welcome back the hard working Holderness Family with the hot topic bad Xmas family pix in their “Santa Song.”

Parodies’ Paradise: 2005 “B.Y.O.B.”

The title means “Bring Your Own Bombs” and the Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down released it in March 2005 as the lead single from their fourth album Mezmerize to protest against the Iraq War… reached number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the band’s highest peak to date on the chart.

This metal madness gets love from Psychostick with “N.O.E.L.”

Parodies’ Paradise: 2003 “Stacy’s Mom”

Fountains of Wayne’s tune reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100… the band’s highest-charting hit in the United States… peaked within the top 10 in Ireland… and the top 20 in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia… certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America… nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance… the only mainstream hit by Fountains of Wayne… frequently misattributed to pop punk band Bowling for Soup, who in 2011 released their own cover version of the song. Bummer.

ApologetiX goes almost mellow (for them) with “JC’s Mom.” Oh i get it.

Parodies’ Paradise: 2002 “Complicated”

Avril Lavigne’s hot hit reached number one in Australia (for six weeks), New Zealand and Mexico (for nine weeks)… number two on the Billboard Hot 100… number three in the United Kingdom… became her second most successful single… one of the most successful releases of 2002 with sales of over 3 million copies sold worldwide… broke a record set by holding the number one spot on the Adult Top 40 chart for 16 weeks in a row… nominated for two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Robert Lund strikes back against “Overdecorated” Christmas spree people.