PPC 4: Music Parody, Spoken Word Poetry, Memes, Hugot

Music Parody

• It involves changing or copying existing (usually well-known) musical ideals, and lyrics

• Copying the particular style of a composer or performer, or even a general style of music

• Although the intention of this may be humor (as in burlesque), it is the re-use of music that is the original defining feature

• In music, parody has been used for many different purposes and in various musical contexts: as a serious compositional technique, as an unsophisticated re-use of well-known melody to present new words, and as an intentionally humorous, even mocking, reworking of existing musical material, sometimes for satirical effect

Hegemon of Thasos

• According to Aristotle (Poetics, ii 5), he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems, he transformed to sublime into the ridicullous

Weird Al Yankovic

A major contender, musician, and leading parody-man.

• He made a career out of his parodies of American popular music.

• He made popular musical parodies in the 1980s that rivaled many of the artists’ work that he ridiculed

Some of Weird Al Yankovic’s parodies

1. Eat it (Beat it)

2. Amish Paradise (Gangsta’s Paradise)

3. Smells like Nirvana (Smells like Teen Spirit)

4. Like a Surgeon (Like a Virgin)

5. Couch Potato (Lose Yourself)

Spoken Word Poetry

• It refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer’s aesthetic qualities

• It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of recitation and word play, such as the performer’s live intonation and voice inflection

• It’s a “catchall” term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues

• Unlike written poetry, the poetic text takes its quality less from the visual aesthetic on a page, but depends more on phonaesthetics, or the aesthetic of sound

Jonel Revistual

Isang Magsasaka, Dalawang Panginoon

Carlo Hornilla

Adik sa Bato | Ampalaya Monologues

Louise Meets

Someone of doe spoken word poetry

Juan Miguel Severo

Ang Huling Tula na Isusulat ko para sa ‘yo

Write out Loud POM, Sev’s Cafe

Hugot Lines

• It is a verb, which means “to pull/to draw”

• It means that someone draws out certain emotions through something that he or she says

• Some of these lines are witty, but they are tinged with emotions

• Feelings come from “deep within” so you have had to “____” your emotions first “from deep within” before you would’ve actually blurted them out in somehow emotionally undertoned words, subconciously or otherwise

Hugot Lines Examples

1. It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.

2. Hindi magiging madali and paglimot mo sa kanya, kunf patuloy mong aalahanin kung paano ka niya pinasaya

3. May mga maswerteng tao na nahanap na yung taong para sa kanila. May mga taong patuloy na naghahanap at mau iba na sumuko na. Pero ‘yong pinakamasaklap eh yung na sa’yo na pinakawalan mo pa

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Memes

• Merriam Webster defines it as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”

• An amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially though social media