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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 ...
I (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction; I Dig Rock and Roll Music; I Gotta Know (Wanda Jackson song) I Hate Myself and Want to Die; I Like Chinese; I Took a Pill in Ibiza
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Satirical songs (1 C, 174 P) Pages in category "Musical satire"
Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. Novelty songs are often a parody or humor song, and may apply to a current event such as a holiday or a fad such as a dance or TV program. Many use unusual lyrics, subjects, sounds, or instrumentation, and may not even be musical.
These songs use rhyme, action, game and satire. From the Opie's research, " Pease Porridge Hot " [ 27 ] is an example of an action song incorporating a food theme. In humour, " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit " is a playground song about the capacity for beans to contribute to flatulence .
Historian Christopher J. Phillips writes that, by including this song among other songs of great political and social import on That Was the Year That Was, Lehrer "seamlessly—and accurately—placed the new math among the major events of the mid-twentieth-century United States". [8]
The first uses of comedy in music can be traced back to the first century in ancient Greece and Rome, where poets and playwrights entertained with puns and wordplay. [9]The origins of comedy play in ancient Greece are first recorded on pottery in the 6th century BCE, on which illustrations of actors dressed as horses, satyrs, and dancers in exaggerated costumes are painted on. [10]
Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity; The Player, a satire of Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman