Loverboy
Artist: Loverboy
Year: 1980
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 3
Difficulty: Mostly simple
For the most part, this album has very limited lyrics, usually telling simple stories about some guy thinking he is in love. There are, however, complications, as you can see from the Behind the scenes
section below.
In 2018, I had been studying the album for its potential on a regular basis. Seeing the hooks, I almost chose it to follow Living In Oz before I held the thought. Just in time, I realized the last two songs on the album, D.O.A and It Don’t Matter, would be poor choices.
D.O.A makes itself modern and specific in multiple ways, starting with stuff about the U.S.A. Then there is a telephone. The song gets its name (which stands for dead on arrival
) when he worries about some woman who is not looking well,
apparently, as far as my friend could figure out, probably due to a drug overdose. But then he goes off into utter nonsense about a doctor looking through his DNA, needing a bigger salary, and When only life is such a mystery, I keep a picture in my gallery.
What does any of this have to do with anything? All in all, the song is like something a stoned member of Green Day might have written.
It Don’t Matter I would say has the opposite problem. It is devoid of polysyllabic words and modern things, but also by sheer extent, any real establishment of what it is about. Mostly he just says it does not matter to him what they say. Say about what? The one thing that is certain, is it is a vague, very repetitive song.
Therefore, I left myself open, and ended up following Living In Oz with another Rick Springfield album, Tao. Obviously, I did come back to this album, but in case you have not already noticed, D.O.A and It Don’t Matter are missing from the list of parodied songs. They are not there for a reason, that reason being I am not missing anything there.
Album categories: Mostly simple albums, 3-fodder albums
Song categories: Loverboy songs, 1980s songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs
Parody subject categories: Sailing, seeking knowledge, story of Davy Jones and Calypso, transforming into a monster
Parody style categories: Purely funny parodies, clever uses of songs, repurposed songs, others
Other parody categories: Parodies that are accessible to everyone