Okay so I was stumbling, as so much of my free time is filled of, and I found this really great adaptation-like collaborative piece of the famous "I like big butts" song.
I thought it was really cool. I just happened to read it aloud to a friend and it ended up sounding like a quirky poem.
http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2011/04/reddit-hilarious-i-like-big-butts-thread/
What do you guys think? I think these accidental collaborative pieces are great. I'm pretty sure no one was trying to make a poem out of it, each stanza just followed a pattern so it turned out that way. Did you guys think it sounded poetic or is it just funny changing the song around?
Happy blogging! :)
6 comments:
I think this post is really hard to judge for me haha. I don't feel that the threads really flow enough to be thought of as a poem. I like collaborative pieces like this, I think it is always fun to see the outcome. However, I don't find this to be as successful. I think about the exercise that we had in class where we looked at the portrait and wrote a line each. The outcome was really amazing! I guess you can't expect that to happen with every collaborative piece. Although it was funny, it was not really a good example of poetry. It was just a funny change-up.
I agree that is it is pretty funny! Several of the lines seem to flow really well while others are bit long winded, I think that this a great example of how words on a page can begin to sound poetic even unintentionally. I agree with Candace that the "piece" in its entirety can't really be thought of as a "poem" but it has some of the feel (especially when read out loud) of some of the beat poems we read last week. Thanks for sharing!
HAHA!! That's really funny, but like Candace and Priscilla I didn't consider it poetic. It's funny that they changed this song up and gave it a completely different meaning, using the same style and idea. In my other honors class, we did the same thing with the theme song from the French Prince of Bel Air to describe the Harmonic Series, It's really cool when it turns out good.
I agree with everybody else, mostly. I could definitely see the idea here being turned into a cool spoken word poem, but as it is I couldn't really call it poetry. However, it does remind me of something called a "found" poem I learned about in a creative writing class; you basically take random lines or words you find in magazines or books or wherever and arrange them into a poem. Like I said, though, this would need some more poetic "tweaking", but it's definitely funny!
Ahaha this is like an awkward nerdy man's version...you know the guys that don't feel comfortable saying certain words like ass??? I liked the twist on the song...shows more in depth WHY men are drawn to a lady's figure rather than stating the obvious that they like a woman's curves. It gets so old hearing the same chorus over and over again "shake it" "grind on me" "let me touch your junk" blah blah blah blah. While this version was entertaining it really was the same statement over and over... men are drawn to women with curves because it indicates fertility and the ability to have children...which is funny because most guys will run at the idea of getting a girl pregnant. I also found myself reading it to the beat of the original which might have messed up the flow of the lines. Entertaining post thanks for sharing!!!
This was odd. It was very funny but it also has a sort of awkward feel to it. I feel that I must agree with everyone who said it didn’t really come off as poetry, but it did have a certain flow to it. I have never been particularly fond of parodies in whatever form they appear, but I do think there is something to be said for the ability to twist a piece so mockingly and still have it recognizable in the end.
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