You think you know everything about parodying just because - oh, never mind!
A sort of fictionalized take on my parodying the Styx album Styx II.
The most popular song off of Styx II, Lady, had been turned on its head into Davy, can’t be with you and smiling.
Off of this album, Buccaneer Blue had just this song. But after what she had gotten through connections before, she wondered what she could be missing.
Therefore, she decided to meet a friend to ask for the rest of the album, and got it (after she stopped him from mistakenly getting the album Styx instead).
Having encountered a pipe organ in a Styx song once before, the Comic Five promptly checked this album for it.
Why be all over something you dislike?
the non-Lego version of Will Turner asked. But not being ones to answer questions, they just kept on, finding said instrument in the song Father O.S.A. They decided it needed a parody ASAP to have its name cleared.
Still, the real Will did not get this whole thing about fighting organ music wherever it occurs. Instead, the song - or, more specifically, its lyrics - reminded him of his own father.
Will and Blue looked each other in the eyes as they listened. They did not need to say to each other what the song was making them think. The rest of the non-Lego pirates got it, too.
They came aboard the Flying Dutchman, where the Five poured into the cabin where Davy Jones - or, as they called him, Squidbeard - played his organ.
Could you, um, help me find Bootstrap Bill?
asked Blue, getting irritated.
Come on,
Blue said, you know Bootstrap Bill is here.
She tied up Lego legs, for the Five wanted to avenge Bill as if he were dead just to attract attention to themselves, and she would no longer have it.
But we save your eyes from those who have barnacled faces.
But Bill needs to be saved from having a barnacled face!
Well, you need to be saved from this organ music, and these sad lyrics, and this guitar that is not electric!
How single minded! This acoustic section sounds nice for pirates! Besides, I do not have to be rescued from the music I chose to check out,
she told the Five.
As a commandment came to what lay inside the fourth wall, Bootstrap Bill made his first appearances in the strip. No one could interfere with that.
All right, dad. But Captain Jack Spasm doesn’t think much about the original song should stay,
said Lego Will.
It was not Lego Jack’s style to work on an idea in advance, but with the parodies having recently taken that turn and the parody Will’s Father
brewing inexorably, he was about to commit himself to it, when the organ-ridden song was played for every reader at once, as it was daily that week.
a reader echoed after the song, recognizing that as something that could be manipulated.You’ll sail eternally?
That was it. The Five crumpled to the floor at the notion that something about Pirates of the Caribbean that did not make it into the Lego game could be of any use, having already been weakened by their employer being deeply moved by the song. They had never seen her act like this before, and could not adapt - or figure out what funny to get out of the situation.
Blue turned her back to the Lego pirates and carried on as if they had never been there.
It turned out that moving into a different canon without the Five was only a quarter of the trouble. When Blue and the Crew delivered what they considered a lovely parody, the readers were practically taken aback.
Oh, uh, yes, you were writing about Bill,
the whole audience was more or less saying, and there was the father in the song, but I had no idea. I just kind of assumed you were going to change
father
to bother.
The real Barbossa was muttering, on behalf of Blue and the Crew, You must be joking me,
as he went to bed - something those Lego types never seemed to do. Each of them rested, and while trying to get to sleep, was thinking about what to do with the rest of the album.
As his employer wanted, Mr. Gibbs scanned the remaining songs on the album for material. A mention of something most disturbing here, a devil taking a soul there. To Gibbs, it was like finding bits of silver, focusing in on such relevant lyrics.
Other things to sing to the enemy were found. Things that did not wish him dead. But it had not been anticipated.
We’ll go to a spot where I know Squidbeard’s not.
That idea from a reader hit like a clang from a weapon. True, the readers had yet to have any reason to think no Lego pirate would have his or her face in the window ever again, but as for the enemy, they were certainly not calling him that fan made name anymore.
The Black Pearl Crew each had his or her hooks to hang a parody off of. Things like little gems for picking thoughtfully from a song, and from there, turning it into a new song, cautiously making sure it would actually amuse everyone. Well, everyone except the sacked, who no longer counted. You Ruined Love
fit the bill.
Jack Sparrow let out an ah
at lyrics of You Better Ask. They told the story of one who met a girl, lost his soul, and ended up at the doctor. Other friends of Jack certainly saw that the first two parts of that had relevance. As if more reason to keep the Five from stepping inside the S.S. Imagination was needed. But such reason filled everything.
I do what I want,
Blue decided, not reject the official canon like the Five demanded.
The Crew jumped on a song that used the name Davy. It was a tickly temptation, like being lured by a piece of bronze sparkling in the light. Buccaneer Blue. . . well, she saw the value, and made sure the readers would remember that name this time. And so they went.
But Blue still had the Five lingering in the strip, and it did not go over well with Lego Barbossa, using the name Davy. He refused to allow the characters to actually be shown singing that.
Squidbeard’s absence might not have been so apparent with Don’t Let Him Make You Feel It.
But the protagonists were certainly different. They had the wisdom reflected by that parody title. They would rather chase after an amulet or similar treasure than after something that would make them let out an unpleasant oh
time and again.
Why, it was tempting to ask those whose trousers were just the plastic color of their legs inside and out, did they constantly expose themselves? Who wants to see a tentacle coil? But all knew the answer was never going to make sense.
The tone was warming up. It was not long before someone heard Unfinished Villain.
Confusing as the original song was, asking where the guy singing it was going, which for all anyone knew could be anywhere from Orleans to the South Pacific, it allowed blanks to be filled, and the real Barbossa knew that was what mattered.
With how fabulous the Turner family reunion turned out to be,
Blue privately decided, let that set the tone for our future.
As Buccaneer Blue said, they have turned over a new leaf. The goal now is to undo anything that would have helped or been supported by the Five. Easier said than done!