Take the L
Parody: Take What’s Well
Artist: The Motels
Album: No Vacancy: The Best of The Motels
Track number on album: 12
Duration: 3:39
Fodder rating (out of 5): 5
This song follows the same trend that makes most of its compilation easy: few words, even fewer long ones, and nothing terribly specific.
When this one friend of mine first learned I was doing this album, this was the first song he thought of me being able to use, and indeed, he knew what he was talking about. What taking the L does in this song is change lover
to over.
As you can see from how many words the parody left unchanged, what I had was a near perfect fit, such that I did not change the title because the content warranted it so much as to make the parody distinguished from the original song. Still, the word cigarette
means that even if there was such a thing as a 12-fodder song, this would not be it.
Categories: 1980s songs, 5-fodder songs