Greatest Song Ever?
Or Just the Greatest Crap Song Ever?
When I was at college, I had an absolutely horrible professor who was a winker. As if proudly proclaiming his daily drinking and driving weren’t enough, he would finish most sentences with a wink. This habit was almost as curious as the substitute high school teacher who said “m’okay,” so many times that I felt compelled to calculate his M’Okays/Hr. (86, by the way).
Being that I am cruel and unaccepting of the failings of others, I began to mock this professor by winking whenever I had a conversation with him. Unfortunately, I then became a winker myself. I found myself winking knowingly, sheepishly, and well, in a winking manner. I was a total winker.
When you make fun of something you run the risk of embracing the target of your parody, and that is exactly what happened when Geoff Lowrey and I wrote an intentionally bad song for the American Idol Songwriter contest. At first, we wanted it to be as cheesy as possible. Geoff did a great job of making the most cliched lyrics ever (perhaps topping Heart’s “Alone”).
But then, I started to like this song. For reals. The finale chorus is gosh darned good. And I think I actually meant it when I sang, “The feeling that I felt is the feeling that you feel when you know that the feeling that you’re feeling is real.”
Regardless, I emplore you to take a listen to this song. Hopefully you will hate it enough to make fun of it….
Listen to it here:
http://mphtower.net/web/content/category/4/14/26/ (Just hit the play button!)
Thanks to:
Geoff Lowrey for writing the greatest cliched lyrics ever (sorry we couldn’t keep “Damn the torpedoes” in there)
Mike Hollinger for additional drum programming and convincing me that it really needs a proper chorus
John Watson for playing additional piano on there
Mom for urging me to enter the contest
Apologies to:
Mom for disappointing her with an entry that’s “still pretty stupid”
BONUS!
My friend Skip sent me a link today of turtles mating. Normally I don’t recommend videos, but this is, well. Golly it’s cute. Please be certain to watch to the end to hear the love song of a mating tortoise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWatc5U8RC4
Yr fthfl buddy,
Mike