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Song Parodies -> "A Boob At The Half"
Original Song Title:
"A Day In The Life"
Original Performer:
The Beatles
Parody Song Title:
"A Boob At The Half"
Parody Written by:
Paul Robinson
The Lyrics
Well, the Super Bowl Half-time fiasco...
I saw a boob today, oh boy
Ms. Janet Jackson's breast became exposed
And though my view was rather bad
Replayed the video, oh
Re-watched the half-time show
Her breast came out a bit too far
She swore that this had not been pre-arranged
Millions of viewers sat and stared
Though they'd seen breasts before
This at least was something that might keep them all from getting bored
The news was shrill today, oh boy
The FCC would now investigate
A lot of people were outraged
But now I must confess
I looked at her breast
It did not turn me on
Groped up, she lost a thread
At least that is what she said
Suddenly her breast had left it's cup
I looked right up, but guess I was too late
Grabbed remote and played it back
Saw her chest was slightly flat
I was now aware it was a joke
But it's still shown on every TV screen
(Tah-tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, taah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs)
I heard more views today, oh joy
The pundits pondered who might be to blame
They said the act was in poor taste
I'd heard this crap before
Was it just coincidence that she was going out on tour?
They blathered on and on
Ms. Janet Jackson's breast became exposed
And though my view was rather bad
Replayed the video, oh
Re-watched the half-time show
Her breast came out a bit too far
She swore that this had not been pre-arranged
Millions of viewers sat and stared
Though they'd seen breasts before
This at least was something that might keep them all from getting bored
The news was shrill today, oh boy
The FCC would now investigate
A lot of people were outraged
But now I must confess
I looked at her breast
It did not turn me on
Groped up, she lost a thread
At least that is what she said
Suddenly her breast had left it's cup
I looked right up, but guess I was too late
Grabbed remote and played it back
Saw her chest was slightly flat
I was now aware it was a joke
But it's still shown on every TV screen
(Tah-tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, taah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs, tah-tah-tahs)
I heard more views today, oh joy
The pundits pondered who might be to blame
They said the act was in poor taste
I'd heard this crap before
Was it just coincidence that she was going out on tour?
They blathered on and on
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Well done. I guess we just can't get enough of Ms. Jackson.
Brilliant and funny! 5's
Great parody to a great song, keep 'em cummin' 555
Glad to see you keep abreast of current events, Paul. LOL
Funny,factual-everything all rolled up with extra "perks" such as the "tah-tah's" replacing the breathing. Very good! Loved it. :-D
Titilating parody.
Many thanks to all! This was fun to write although I had a helluva time finding a place to hear to original song!
At least it wasn't Michael Jackson's breast that was exposed! Great juxtaposition!
Here's to you, Mr. Robinson.
Mari D - Uhhh...could you explain the "juxta" position to me? I got my copy of the Kama Sutra out but I couldn't find it in there. Michael P - Well, I'd raise my cup too, but I don't have anything to fill it with. OH...CHUCKYG, I'm encountering an odd phenomenon here today: I see comments on the "Latest Comments" posting but when I click to the song those comments are not present at the bottom of the string. I then tried going to "other parodies by this author" and then re-located the Song title there and clicked into it from the point and now I see the updated votes and comments. I also don't see any new postings for today (Sat., Feb. 21) I guess I'll look around and see if that is accessible from somewhere, too. Thanks. pr
Masterful, Paul. Very well done!
Stray Pooch, Thanks!
Great parody Paul!!!!!
STG - Thanks!.
My earlier vote and comment (see above) still stand! Great job!
Thanks, JD.
Excellent parody, Paul. Several clever connections to the original, such as retaining "cup" with a different meaning.
Fabulous work, Paul! 5's
Already voted, Paul, and still think the whole thing works very well!
John Jenkins, Adagio, Mari D - Thanks very much, John glad you noticed the connects to the original song.
Clever and very well done!
Diva - thank you!
For awhile that boob was more popular than Jesus Christ. Not any more though, JC got some serious box office clout. Yeah, anyway tastefully done, funny stuff.
Claude, Well, at the risk of sounding sacreligous. I guess there are a lot more boobs out there than saviors. Thanks!
Hey, I wrote a Janet Jackson parody too. Also a Beatles parody. Check 'em out - here are the URL's:
Just joshin'. I really liked this. Ditto Birgitta's comment. Lots of good touches (heh heh). And the panting in the McCartney section of the original carries over quite nicely, doesn't it?
Just joshin'. I really liked this. Ditto Birgitta's comment. Lots of good touches (heh heh). And the panting in the McCartney section of the original carries over quite nicely, doesn't it?
Spaff - thanks! That was some entry you put up in the Tournament...
getting around to looking at your stuff...you are one of my favorites to read....love the TAH TAH TAHs.....good one....5s
Alvin - Many, many thanks for checking out so much of my stuff today. I feel likewise about your stuff as well. And we do seem to like a lot of the same music, which I don't really find in too many people. On this one did you post the vote? The Vote count in still at the same number it been on for the last week.
That was great. Super. It was funny, spot-on accurate and downright dirty. I especially like the chorus. Overall, 5 stars. (I'm talkin' bout angry write mail)
Angry - Thanks....I think....hmmm, you know I don't ANYBODY in this country in ANYPLACE, in ANY MONTH knows ANYTHING about ANY History. Well...that's a slight exaggeration, but NOT MUCH...There's a couple people & maybe more on this site that know more than a little, but that's atypical because parody writer's probably READ a little more than most people and generally have some sense of structure, which I figure helps a bit in processing information in logical manner. Hmmm....did all that make any more sense than HIS comment? Well, back to the busy-ness at hand - Mike Armstrong!!! Thank you for vote & praise.
Mike A - Had you already voted on this at an earlier date? I was just looking at the totals and this has gotten one vote today and it was "1-1-1", which is not that huge a deal, really, but I'm just curious. I'm a moderately grown up person so I can handle it, but since I'm willing to take the one's if they're cast I oughtta get the "fives" when they're clicked also. Just checking...Thanks...
This was very good.
Well this got a one vote to day and it was 1-1-1.......shut up! Who the hell do u think gave u one's? You're not going to write better parodies then me. Starting now, there's no more Mr. Nice Guy from me. This is the dawning of a new era. Now grow up and write about something like a mature adult would write about....perv! :(
Ha ha ha. That was like wine it just gets better with time . Just make it moxie for mine 4 a gay guy like me it is fine I'll puke in the stalls It'll tickle your balls So just make it moxie 4 mine (Damn I hate that rhyme)
Robert, Thanks! I almost missed your comment amongst some rather strange comments someone made.
You know, I'm getting a little tired of whoever this lamebrain is who's claiming to be me. Look jerk, get your own damn name - it isn't that difficult if you have at least half a brain, and a full pair. Those at Am I Right who know who I am behind the nom de plume, know I don't write or speak like the mental midget with the vacuum packed head.
Yeah we know
The REAL Angry WM & In the know - Thanks. I'm still a little unclear as to what was going on but I once I got out my fingers I could see nothing added up and someone was playing identity games. Anyway, I was not wounded, only disoriented...
I'm angry.....Angry and sarcastic. Look at my wife her breasts are all plastic. I come on this website and play with your mind. You don't know who it was? It was me the whole time. I'm sick of Ms. Jackson. I'm sick of you Paul. And to "us in the know" you know nothing at all! You don't know who's behind the identity schemes. If you think you do then that's just in your dreams. On your best day you don't know me at all. I use this nickname cause I don't got no balls. I sick in the head. All messed up in bed. I'm deranged and psychotic-perversed and idiotic. See my name? You know what that spells? It spells angry write mail-u 2 stupid 2 tell? Now Paul you probably think this is all a big joke. Well shut up and drink your moxie before I shove it down your throat! Word that!
See? I wasn't lying afterall. It was us the whole time.
I was tossing salads at the Olive Garden once and then a Michael Jackson look-alike walked in and started tossing my salad for me. Just a fun celebrity moment
Angry, Write Mail - Sir (or Madam)...what can I say? I'm overwhelmed by your rapier-like wit, have not the guile to travel in your identity circles - in fact I possess almost none at all. Nor do I have the intellectual depth to fathom your psychological tactics. So I guess I'll stay here and write my parodies. Sorry, you're just going to have to play with yourself...today...I've got other plans.
Paul and All, unfortunately I will have to stop using my pen name, as this loser persists in wishing he could be me. It's a drag, 'cause I can't use what I felt was a pretty cool play on words, when I came up with it. This dork (who may even be the notorious "1s guy" has ruined it for the rest of us. We'll never be sure now who is really commenting. He stole my name, he could do the same with yours. BTW, I am not the three comments posted above. To him I respectfully add, "Grow the F**K up!"
I came up with a new nickname. From now on you know who will now be known as "M.J. F'er" Okay? Good.
You're a genius - go get a copywrite on it. Guess what, I HAVE a copywrite on it. Anybody wanna tell me who to sue?
Well I'm not taking any chances around here anymore. See that (c) thing by my name, that means it's copyrighted and you can't use it! And anybody who does use it can go to Neverland and live with the Jackson family. :)
Damn...
Who's the boob who gave this all ones? Considering the title, he should've given it a half, though that would've just... sorry, have to say it... exposed him as a bigger fool than Justin.
Michael P - Just some fruitcake who wanted to play name games or something. That's why I like to use my own. I don't have any problem with standing behind what I say. If it's something I don't want to stand behind, maybe I shouldn't say it, ya know?
Excellent! Loved what you did with the challenging 'galloping' lines where the syllabic stresses really have to be right or they don't work, especially "was it just coincidence... tour?". Really great.
Thanks, Leo!
You have really done your research! The pacing was right on! Kudos to you!
Kat - Thank you! I almost missed your remarks because I haven't been around the site too much today. Glad you enjoyed it.
Well, of course I enjoyed it! I didn't actually see said incident, but the show was raunchy already.
Kat, honestly, I did not see the incident when it occurred, since I avoid Super Bowls AND their Half-Time shows like the plague. I only caught it much later on a news or some other TV program.
feb 04 sotm---Now I read Robert's "Ballad of janet Jackson" first and gave him 555 for being the first out of the block with a Nipplegate song. Now I re-read Paul' s take on it, and I am in a quandary...which do I put on the 3 pt tier and the 2 pt tier...hmmm....?
In my paper, there was a small picture in the today section, and then came the headline.
(SOTM FEB) My earlier comment in which I said my earlier comment still stands still stands!
Mari commented a few times, so I guess I didn't have to. Well done.
(SOTM FEB) Another Superboob.... bowl parody.
Thanks all for looking in!
(SOTM) Yeah, this was a cool one. 555
Thanks, Mr. Nelson...
Another parody that just popped out?
Always happy to replay and pause on this one. A bunch of the site's heavy hitters parodied this event in February, and your take remains one of the best. And how silly that CBS has now been fined a half-million dollars for showing only one of what everyone's got two of.
Thanks, Phil. Spaff - appreciate it.
Holy crap you got some weird comments on this. I'll just say well done again and be on my way.
Claude - Yeah, I KNOW! And I had NO freaking idea what many of them were about, either. After awhile I had to do what you just decided to do...go on my way...Thanks!
A masterpiece Paul, and my winning vote for SOTM!
(SOTM) Excellent job!
Mer & Pip thirded. Great work here, Paul. I think you earned a spot on me top three. Excellent job all through the original song, your sound-alikes were superb.
Good job!
Per/Mer/2nz/Jeff R. - Many Thanks!
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Hey, Armstrong, get off the site if you're going to be an idiot about other people's parodies! I'm sure Paul doesn't need butthead comments like that! No more nice guy from me! Who do you think you are, Mike? You need to leave positive comments or not leave comments at all, dumb butt! This was an absolutely wonderful parody, and you can't even CONSTRUCTIVELY criticize his parody. You just said a whole bunch of snobby, stuck-up crap no one wants to see under a parody. You need to lighten up, slob! Take my advice:Respect authors 1,000,000% (That's one million percent, in case you're too dumb and mentally challenged to figure it out)better than your stupid butt! No more Mr. Nice Guy, I'd like to scream at you like Malcolm Young (that would be lead singer for AC/DC, in case you're too dumb to know even that!). So buzz off and get the heck out of here, snobby, stuck-up, fat, slow, ugly, and stupid loser x300,000,000(that's times three hundred million to you, dummy retard). Paul, respectively, nice parody. Mike Armweak is just a jerk, not to mention dufus, snob, slob, retard, and did I say dufus? 5-5-5s
Thanks for leaping to my defense, Forrest, but there's a couple things to point out here - (1) I don't think was really WAS Mike Armstrong - you may want to retract a few things if that was the case... and (2) whoever it was, it was way back in March, so it really is kind of old history. NONETHELESS - I DO appreciate your support here, and of course, your votes ~ ~ ~ Hey, have you posted anything of late? I know you are busy now with school & such...I just started a new job a few weeks ago so I have not been around the site too much myself recently.
In a magazine I like, the incident was rated as second worst scandal of the year, second only to Ashlee Simpson's lip-syncing stint.
Kat, sorry I missed your comment back in December. Thanks!
"Replayed the video," indeed. The scene was viewed an average of nearly TWICE by every single TiVo user - far and away the company's most played scene ever. Apparently the easily offended had to keep going back to remind themselves what they were so furious about.
Spaff - Thanks for reminding me...oops! don't have TiVo - (additional disclaimer - I'm pretty sure I didn't see the "original" event...haven't watched the Super Bowl since the one in 2000 or 2001....but I did see the replay a "couple of times" or so...)
"Was it just a coincidence she was going on tour?" Well done, Paul.
Thanks, JJ ...
tah-tahs, ha-ha. The second I still en-joy... Paul.
Thanks, 2nz - story is old-news now, of course...but I'm still fond of it...it's one I happened to write in the period between when I was let go at CCH and when I finally ordered and received my computer. I didn't have one on hand to use all of February(used the Library or Kinko's to finalize and post), so I wrote this parody by hand (I don't have any idea how many times I did re-writes and edits in pen on paper...I know I wanted it to pace perfectly and spent a ton of time and brain cells to that end - kept me off the streets, though.
My gosh, that's good! 555
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