Maybe my parodying is not as big a thing as it used to be, but I just want to make sure there is no whining.
A sort of fictionalized take on my parodying the compilation No Vacancy: The Best of The Motels.
It would be wrong to give a song the boot without knowing the details, or at least thinking, Is this really too slow for me?
The Black Pearl Crew were leaning towards an album the crew before them, the Comic Five, had never considered, probably owing to it not being the rockiest thing. They did not care if a song could take place on a pirate island. They had no regard for lyrics at all, in fact. They just demanded enough tempo that they were sure their creator would be okay with, and then hogged the spotlight by sending their fake Will Turner to avenge his father.
The real Will Turner, on the other hand, knew not to force a perky song - better to tolerate a mid-tempo one if that worked better.
A happy Buccaneer Blue had noted the lyric Must we always make each other cry?
and started to plan.
Blue could also somewhat clearly see the fodder in other songs, once she started looking. There was Danger, your love is like a stranger,
which Jack realized he could work with.
Now that it was realized which songs would be too hard, or off topic, or whatever, the fear in Cries and Whispers was put through a brilliant twist to become the expectations in the mind of he who survived cutting his heart out.
Though Blue shouted to her employees, she shouted the truth. Many details could stay, but some pointed the wrong direction, in Only the Lonely. Barbossa joined Buccaneer Blue on it. She turned the song into Only and Lonely.
Always inclined to pursue an album where a number of the songs could be likened to things he knew, and left enough to the imagination that they could almost be about those things already, Gibbs promised that the content of Take the L could be held onto tightly. Indeed, it was known just from the title line that he could manage it.
There were the songs Jack had no use for, but Danger was not one of them. Its lyrics sounded rather like a certain recipe for horror and possibly unconscious characters. It was like You’re so close and yet so far away with a love, eh?
They clenched on.
Why the main member of The Motels wrote one of her songs about people making love out of sorrow, seemingly right before they died, or at least did not know another moment, was shrouded in mystery, but as suspected, Apocalypso worked out. It certainly was nice not having employees who would be like Let this song we did not write become an attack on Squidbeard!
anymore.*
As he heard I want to make a change,
Jack decided this fit symbolically. Elizabeth had become a pirate because she did not like the life she had, after all. Elizabeth herself was indeed at it again, as there was something beautiful about how Shame had that very simple crime and a lot of selfish dreams. What could it be, that someone was dead because of - or, no, to will things to change, seemed more as if the crime was pirates going where and doing what they were not allowed. Hopefully nobody had shuddered, as they’d changed the title Shame and therefore not ended up writing about the hideous creature that word could have described.
The Crew squinted in concentration, then shrugged. Elizabeth saw some hooks in Trust Me.
We’ve nothing to lose,
said Will. This song said If there’s any words that make any sense,
which was indeed a big if
at least to citizens of lands everywhere. Even if you were a sailor, it could seem wrong, all those things Buccaneer Blue and Jack covered.
Now the attention turns to popular music that is not as rocky as what has often been used up to this point. That does not change the fact that there will be fodder you will not want to miss.