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I Wanna Be A Folk Star
Feb. 25th, 2008 09:40 pmIt's occured to me that, while I've shared my often-incoherent opinions here, and erratically reported on my life (usually six months after something interesting happened, so I've forgotten about it), one thing I haven't done is inflicted any of my song parodies on readers. Well, your luck has run out.
This particular one is atypical, in that it's not a SF&F based song (a filk). It is, however typical in that it was spawned from hearing a song repeatedly on the radio at work, until my brain decided to turn it into a song I liked better. (About two thirds of my song parodies are generated that way, at least when I'm working somewhere with a radio. The rest are created from songs I really like, on the grounds that songs that good must *have* a Discworld [or whatever] version, and I just need to work out what it is).
Apologies to all readers who find the references to the UK folk scene impenetrable. And further apologies to those who find them embarassingly superficial (I know I'm not a True Folkie).
( I Wanna Be A Folk Star )
This particular one is atypical, in that it's not a SF&F based song (a filk). It is, however typical in that it was spawned from hearing a song repeatedly on the radio at work, until my brain decided to turn it into a song I liked better. (About two thirds of my song parodies are generated that way, at least when I'm working somewhere with a radio. The rest are created from songs I really like, on the grounds that songs that good must *have* a Discworld [or whatever] version, and I just need to work out what it is).
Apologies to all readers who find the references to the UK folk scene impenetrable. And further apologies to those who find them embarassingly superficial (I know I'm not a True Folkie).
( I Wanna Be A Folk Star )
