August 26, 2010

• Parody Post: Typical Country Song

     

  A Parody Entry for the Xanga's Got Talent Contest!

   

  Attention: This is a parody entry for the Xanga's Got Talent Contest, a real contest, which can be entered HERE, and hosted by a Xangan I do know, Beth (thegirlwiththecamera) Now, the last time I wrote a parody entry for a contest (HERE), I probably could have gotten enough votes to at least place or show in the real contest, but I didn't enter, because I don't participate in Xanga contests, plain and simple. I'm not talented nor beautiful, nor more important than anybody who blogs here, and I never liked popularity contests back in school. I was pretty popular, but that's beside the point!

   

  I thought Beth had already had this contest, back when I was on hiatus. Shes' such a sweet gal, and is having some problems out there in that website we call "life", so I was really sad to read her entry proclaiming:

  "Last time I tried, it failed miserably. Last time I advertised this, I had more then enough people say they would participate, then I had only 3 entries when it came down to the deadline, which I had extended multiple times, to ensure having enough contestants.

  So, I'm going to give it another shot:"

  That's the kind of gumption I like. Get knocked down, get right up again, and come out swinging...er...I mean, get right on the horse...er....start the contest all over again. Beth wrote me a message asking me to promote her contest on my blog. Now I don't usually "promote" anything. I make sure that no pesky ads ever show up around here. But Beth is a good friend, and she deserves a shot at making Xanga History with the VERY FIRST XANGA TALENT CONTEST! I told her I already had some entries planned, and I'd probably get around to her next week, but then I remembered I'd been listening to some old audio cassette tapes the other day, and there's one I wanted to post on my blog. It's a parody of a country and western song. I don't sing it (thank the Lord, you're saying.) I sort of "narrate" the song, or "speak" over a music track. Usually I credit the music. This was a record, and not original, but I did it so long ago (1988) and didn't write it down, so I don't know who's playing the music. I just wanted something to back the "song" parody, which sort of crams every theme known to country and western music into one song.

  Now before we hear the song. (Which is contained in my VERY FIRST AUDIO FILE below, I want to state why this is a parody entry, and why it can't even be entered in the contest. I'd ask you to "vote for me" (even though I don't do such things like asking people to vote for me) but this entry isn't "legal". I didn't read the rules (shucks) prior to beginning to create this entry, which so far has taken about two hours!

  SO, Xanga, if you show up, and I don't even know that you will, please follow the links above, and give Beth's little contest a shot. From what I understand, she isn't even getting any entrants, so there isn't anybody to vote for yet. I told her I'd participate, but as I mention, she has RULES, which I am not following, so I'm disqualified right out of the gate.  (Sorry, Beth, but I didn't write the dang rules!)

  The rules I'm breaking are: 1. You're supposed to make videos. Even though I think I make some of the best videos on Xanga, this isn't a video. It's a spoken word song parody and is an audio file. (A .wav, for those of you geeks out there.) 3. The video must be recorded especially for the contest! Who knew? I guess I could "cheat" and say I recorded the audio especially for the contest from the original audio tape, which is what I did, and this is the first time anyone has ever heard it, so it's new to you, but I recorded this long before there was a Xanga, or a World Wide Web, for that matter. (There was an internet in 1988, but is was text based, and I don't think HTML had been invented, again , for the geeks out there.) 4. The videos should be less than a minute. Again, this is an audio clip, and it's over 2 minutes.

  You know, I really don't understand some of the rules, but I posted a link to the entry, so you can go over there and read them yourselves.

  SIGN UP, XANGANS. YOU HAVE TALENTS. I'VE SEEN AND HEARD SOME.

  Perhaps I'll even "tag" some of you talented Xangans out there. Strut your stuff. Sign up. Enter the contest.

  Okay, enough of this advertising. On with the show. Hope you enjoy this, and tell your friends. I'm going to tag a few folks whom I think might enjoy this little performance, so if you came over here and said "What the hey did he tag ME for, just listen below. If you were voting, I don't even know where you are supposed to, and I don't think poor Beth has any contestants yet. So don't vote here, just enjoy, and then hopefully you'll have someone to vote for when PEOPLE ENTER THE TALENT SHOW. Me, I've always said I have no talent, but I'm damn creative!

  To hear the song, click the little "play" button above.

   

   

   

  

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