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October 20, 2015 7:52 AM Subscribe
You can tell Weird Al's work is fantasy because the cops do something about the harassment.
I guess full SJW has set in for me because I just can't find too much amusement in the subject. I certainly could have lived without the prison molestation joke at the end. Boo on that, WA/JibJab.
posted by phearlez at 8:07 AM on October 20, 2015 [6 favorites]
I guess full SJW has set in for me because I just can't find too much amusement in the subject. I certainly could have lived without the prison molestation joke at the end. Boo on that, WA/JibJab.
posted by phearlez at 8:07 AM on October 20, 2015 [6 favorites]
What have I missed? Why have there been so many creepy posts the past two days (creeping kudzu, creepy puzzle, creep qawwali)?
....Consider what holiday comes next Saturday.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:17 AM on October 20, 2015
....Consider what holiday comes next Saturday.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:17 AM on October 20, 2015
What have I missed? Why have there been so many creepy posts the past two days
...and then they remembered that the same thing started happening mid-October last year! #TwitterChillers
posted by straight at 8:19 AM on October 20, 2015
...and then they remembered that the same thing started happening mid-October last year! #TwitterChillers
posted by straight at 8:19 AM on October 20, 2015
phearlez, my apologies. While I'm familiar with some of weird Al's work, I didn't actually listen to that song past a bar or two, hadn't knowingly ever heard it before, and chose it based entirely on the title, thinking Weird Al had a pretty harmless reputation with lightweight, pg-13 family friendly spoofery. Clearly that's not the case. I wanted the post to be creepy, but fun creepy, not actual bad creepy.I should at least listen to a song before I post it as the main post link.
posted by Cookiebastard at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015
posted by Cookiebastard at 9:12 AM on October 20, 2015
Oh no need to apologize. As such things go it's pretty innocuous. Nothing in the song or video approves of the "creep's" behavior; it's not misogynistic. It doesn't sexualize the woman being harassed along the way, playing the "ha-ha we're condemning this but hey lookit the sex kitten" game a lot of stuff does. I was just commenting on the shift in perception I - and I think a lot of society - have had on this matter.
As far as the implied prison rape, *shrug* it's a sad reality that this remains a highly acceptable sexual violence joke in our culture. At least it's toned down to an implication these days from the "Federal PMITA" things from a decade ago.
posted by phearlez at 10:00 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
As far as the implied prison rape, *shrug* it's a sad reality that this remains a highly acceptable sexual violence joke in our culture. At least it's toned down to an implication these days from the "Federal PMITA" things from a decade ago.
posted by phearlez at 10:00 AM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
An excellent collection of Creep/Creepy songs; glad you included the oft-forgotten Stevie Wonder and led off with Weird Al. Yeah, the 'prison rape' punchline is creepier (hmm) now, but when it came out, Jay Leno was doing prison rape jokes in his Tonight Show monologues at least twice a week; I suspect the end of his reign as King of Late Night helped nudge our culture away from that 'comedy concept' as well as a few others, less awful but still not good.
Creepy Crawlers
In my youth, I owned the Mattel Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker, which 'cooked' liquid plastic in a mold to produce rubbery bugs. (I also got the "Creeple Peeple" set) It was like an Easy-Bake Oven for boys... creepy boys. Proud to say I outgrew it (or just lost interest when they failed to scare the girls in the neighborhood... maybe if I hadn't done all the spiders in day-glo stripes).
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:22 AM on October 20, 2015
Creepy Crawlers
In my youth, I owned the Mattel Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker, which 'cooked' liquid plastic in a mold to produce rubbery bugs. (I also got the "Creeple Peeple" set) It was like an Easy-Bake Oven for boys... creepy boys. Proud to say I outgrew it (or just lost interest when they failed to scare the girls in the neighborhood... maybe if I hadn't done all the spiders in day-glo stripes).
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:22 AM on October 20, 2015
Last I noticed, Weird Al was parodying specific songs. If this is still the case...anybody know what song he's sending up?
posted by kozad at 11:29 AM on October 20, 2015
posted by kozad at 11:29 AM on October 20, 2015
Last I noticed, Weird Al was parodying specific songs.
Usually, but not always.
posted by phearlez at 11:38 AM on October 20, 2015
Usually, but not always.
posted by phearlez at 11:38 AM on October 20, 2015
Taylor Hicks "Do I Make You Proud", apparently.
posted by Cookiebastard at 12:12 PM on October 20, 2015
posted by Cookiebastard at 12:12 PM on October 20, 2015
Yep, I had to look it up. Apparently last we noticed, we were still noticing popular songs.
posted by Naberius at 1:15 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Naberius at 1:15 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
No Boris the Spider? ;-)
posted by brujita at 5:39 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by brujita at 5:39 PM on October 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
kozad: Weird Al does original songs (as pointed out by phearlez, above), and also does a lot of pastiches: songs done in the style of, but not parodying a particular song by, famous musicians. On the latest album there's "Jackson Park Express," which is a Harry Chapin pastiche, and "My Own Eyes," which is a Foo Fighters pastiche.
posted by Hamadryad at 5:46 AM on October 21, 2015
posted by Hamadryad at 5:46 AM on October 21, 2015
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