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Casino Royale, a 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and the entire spy genre. Get Out; This Is Spinal Tap, a satire on heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries" The Very Same Munchhausen, a 1979 satire of the late Soviet society; Clueless; American Beauty, a 1999 satire of life in the suburbs; Thank You for Smoking
Carmina Burana, Benediktbeuern Abbey, a collection of goliard love and vagabond songs. The goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. They were chiefly clerics who served at or had studied at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and ...
The Wheel of Fortune from Carmina Burana. Carmina Burana (/ ˈ k ɑːr m ɪ n ə b ʊ ˈ r ɑː n ə /, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" [Buria in Latin]) is a manuscript of 254 [1] poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century.
For instance, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." (1984) listed in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and RIAA's Songs of the Century was written as a satire yet canonized as a "patriotic rock anthem," a designation that ignores the message "how far political leaders had strayed from the values the country was founded on ...
Canadian songwriter Nancy White uses music as the vehicle for her satire, and her comic folk songs are regularly played on CBC Radio. In Hong Kong, there was a well-known Australian Kim Jong-un impersonator Howard X whom often utilised satire to show his support for Hong Kong city's pro-democracy movements and liberation of North Korea. He ...
Today (Tuesday, March 2), Penguin Random House publishes “Decoding Despacito’: An Oral History of Latin Music,” the latest book by Billboard vice president Leila Cobo, who may be the top ...
Nueva canción draws heavily upon Andean music, música negra, Spanish music, Cuban music and other Latin American folklore. Most songs feature the guitar, and often the quena, zampoña, charango or cajón. The lyrics are typically in Spanish, with some indigenous or local words mixed in, and frequently utilize the poetic forms of copla and ...
Also from Billboard, Leila Cobo placed it on an unranked list of "10 Essential Latin Dance Songs" in 2016. [37] In 2019, LiveAbout ranked "Livin' la Vida Loca" as the fourth top Latin pop song of all time. [72] The song was voted the top dance track of all time by VH1 viewers. [73] In 2023, Billboard ranked it as the 180th Best Pop Song of All ...