I’m struggling to feel inspired at the moment.
I can do the regulars – Snapshots, Namesakes, Songs For Dead
People – but while I have a bunch of other post ideas… I really can’t be
bothered to write them up. New Year blues, I guess.
Here’s a new series which might get forgotten after its
first post, or might just turn into a list of HMHB tunes. Songs that have made
me Laugh. Out. Loud.
If I do write further posts, maybe I’ll discuss the thorny
issue of why certain members of the musical cognoscenti believe there’s no
place for humour in a serious pop song.
Or maybe I’ll examine why I find it so hard to laugh these
days. I remember in my youth, laughing till the tears rolled down my face…
nowadays the most I manage is a “tut of amusement”.
Maybe I’ll even find something to ponder about the
incredibly subjective nature of humour – how it divides our tastes even more
than music.
In the meantime, here’s a song that did make me laugh out loud the
first time I heard it, earlier this week. The general theme of the lyrics
provoked a recurring “tut of amusement”, though my liberal / snowflake /
prudish tendencies weren’t sure about the repeated references to the dog biting
his Mum’s bits. However, what raised this song to a genuine guffaw level was
the twist in the middle, when he takes the dog to the vets.
Subjectively, this may not work for you at all. However, if
it makes one other person laugh the way I did, if I can share out the
endorphins, dopamine, serotonin etc… if only for a moment… then this will have
been a good post.
That did make me smile - I'm not much of a laugh-out-loud type of person! - but oh I miss those helpless giggles that make your eyes water and your stomach ache and definitely seem to have disappeared with age - though very occasionally they do appear and when they do it feels so SO good. It's always the odd things that do that, abstract things somehow that tickle me, so humour in songs can fall a bit short and I do think it's a bit of an acquired taste. Having said that, your post straight away reminded me of one humour song that I've liked since first hearing it - sure you know it... From 1993 but (of course) still very much relevant today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you've posted something that gets me thinking!
ReplyDeleteMaybe there is something real about 'grumpy old gits' in that the older we get, there seems to be fewer things we find to laugh about. Or is it just that what constitutes a sense of humour changes and evolves through life? I certainly 'don't get' a lot of what makes the younger generation(s) LOL these days, but then again, my parents 'didn't get' the political humour of the 80s that had me roaring with laughter.
I think one of the things about humour in songs is that all too often the music itself is not all that enjoyable....(the song you've posted today being an example!!). It takes a real talent to be equally funny and musical.
https://youtu.be/g8f_XCH3zmM?si=4pE3brwI_OQqeiYK
I was only smiling at this until the start of the second verse, in which the chicken line made me laugh aloud. Your work here is done.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, I remember C's suggestion well and still quote from it from time to time. I can think of a handful of songs that cause me to break out a wry smile, but laugh out loud? There must be some, but none come immediately to mind. I look forward to hearing those that you suggest.
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