Never Mind

I do love the song that this Youtube offering is a piss-take of.  I love its vague angst and alienation and self-harming, and sometimes I think the whole fucking western world is shouting, Here we are now, entertain us, like Romans in the Colosseum.  

But Weird Al Yankovic is very funny:-

And I forgot the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric's sheet so hard to find,
What are the words? Oh never mind. . .

Comments

[Allan]

In the great tradition of the Mothers' 'We're Only In It for the Money' with its acerbic shredding of the 'wear a flower in your hair' loopiness.

[zkharya]

Brilliant.

I was so unhip I only really became acquainted with the hits of the 90s via a Weird Al hooked on medley, in a polka style.

I finally learnt the words of SLTS when teaching Italian teenagers English in Wales. They brought in mp3s of their favourite songs, and I gave them all cloze sheets, to fill in the missing words as they listened. It was how I got hip, every summer.

(BTW, I got here via your name on the SU Gilad Atzmon thread, in case you think I am some weird/random stalker (can a stalker be random?))

[Sarah AB]

Very good - my son is a Weird Al Yankovic fan. (He's much hipper than me.)