Monday, March 5, 2012

30 Days/30 Songs. Day 25: A Song that Makes you Laugh

Your Horoscope For Today - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Well.
This one was a lil' difficult. The immaturity in me laughs every time I hear MC Vagina's (Jon Lajoie) 'Show Me Your Genitals' or 'Guns don't Kill People'

Seriously. Even if the 'Show Me Your Genitals' (...and its remix, SMYG 2: E= MC Vagina ) is hugely offensive to women and decent thinking people... there's another song that constantly comes back as  THE song that makes me chuckle at it's simultaneous ridiculousness, and blatant, sardonic TRUTH.

From the polka-esque beat, to his cheering of each zodiac sign in the background, to the fortunes for each one resulting in shame, death or near grave injury- this song is genius.

The best part to me is the bridge(**)- where he rapidly states the condescending point of the song- purposely said at a breathtaking pace to not insult people too bad.


...but that's what makes the song hilarious- because there are people out here that really believe
that half a billion people in the world are going to have the same day- nevermind that your horoscope isn't ever personalized, so it applies to a twelfth of the world's population.

No, that's not crazy at all.


Because you're probably reading this shaking your head and considering all the books and psychics ya paid, saying "But, my horoscope has come true on several occasions!"
Yeah, see that's called subjective validation -which means you pick up on coincidences and assign them to an incorrect meaning. This especially happens when it's something that has personal meaning to you: when you want it to be more than a coincidence. You know... like that timeless saying "If you're looking for it, you'll find it."

Here's another example. When your cell phone rings out your line of sight, and you think "Oh, I bet that's just my baby callin' me" and holy shit! It is? Spooky, huh? Psychic, huh?

No, fool.

Because I bet you're not considering all those times you think it's your baby- and it's a bill collector.


Whatever.


**: Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the
relative position of the planets and the stars could have a special deep
significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you, but let me give
you my assurance that these forecasts and predictions are all based on solid,
scientific, documented evidence, so you would have to be some kind of moron not
to realize that every single one of them is absolutely true.

Where was I?

"My dreams were all my own, I accounted to them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed- my dearest pleasure when free." -Mary Shelley; 'Frankenstein' or 'The Modern Prometheus'