{"id":1494685,"date":"2022-05-27T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494685"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:45:27","slug":"5-classic-songs-that-were-meant-to-be-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-classic-songs-that-were-meant-to-be-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Classic Songs That were Meant to Be Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-classic-songs-that-were-meant-to-be-jokes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Certain songs over the years were written to be joke but not exactly a novelty either. However too many people can\u2019t see the jokes or the satire in those songs either because the audience eats it up and is into what the artists are mocking or even getting back at someone else or mocking a certain product or whatever. Regardless here a short list of classic songs that were meant to be jokes but were taken seriously enough to be hits in their own right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Beastie Boys: \u201cFight For Your Right (To Party)\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their breakthrough was meant to be a mockery of the popular Glam\/Hair Metal bands of the day, especially Twisted Sister and Motley Crue. However, fans of those respected bands ate up this Glam Metal anthem from guys that did not really do the hair metal thing. They were more about a hybrid of Punk and Hip-Hop. Beastie Boys disowned the song and parted ways with producer with Rick Rubin and Def Jam and signed with Capitol Records. Good thing Capitol did not drop them like a rock either when the 1989 album \u201cPaul\u2019s Boutique\u201d was not an instant smash. Today it\u2019s one of their respect albums. In 1994 they released the single \u201cSabotage\u201d whichhas a legacy of its own\u2026including being one of Captain Kirk\u2019s all time favorite rock tunes (i.e. featured in the 2009 and 2016 Star Trek movies).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Nirvana: \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d<\/strong><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image2-9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image2-9.png 970w, https:\/\/linkiest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image2-9-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image2-9-768x432-1.png 768w\" \/><br \/>Believe it or not this song was written to be as a joke but it became Nirvana\u2019s signature and they were proud of it. The story goes like this. Bikini Kill\u2019s Kathleen Hanna spray painted the statement \u201cKurt (Cobain) Smells Like Teen Spirit\u201d on this bedroom wall. Kill\u2019s drummer Tobi Vail (and one time dated Cobain) used a deodorant brand called Teen Spirit that was targeted towards teen girls and young women. Kurt Cobain did not make the connection with the deodorant product and saw the term \u201cTeen Spirit\u201d is a state of rebellion and archery. Eventually the term Teen Spirit was redefined as Nirvana broke out and the deodorant brand faded away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Billy Joel: \u201cHonestly\u201d<\/strong><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image3-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image3-5.png 345w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image3-5-296x300-1.png 296w\" \/><br \/>Maybe the line should have been \u201csuch a funny word\u201d instead of \u201csuch a lonely word.\u201d The inspiration at least the chorus of the song was when Joel\u2019s longtime drummer Liberty DeVitto sung the line \u201cSodomy\u201d when trying to find a hook. Joel quickly changed it to Honestly and it was minor hit from his \u201c52th Street\u201d album which was basically a Jazz\/Classical styled album. Overall the song\u2019s message is about the lack of shame that the singer of the song has. Chuck Klosterman of the New York Times says; \u201cthe only way you can tell that someone really cares about you is if they tell you you\u2019re bad.\u201d Author Ken Bielen says; \u201c\u2018Honesty\u2019 is a plea for truth, not only in romantic relationships but also from the politicians who affect our lives.\u201d This slow tempo 4\/4 time song done at 80 bpm, would be covered by R&#038;B singer Beyonce and her version would hit number two on the South Korea international chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Norman Greenbaum: \u201cSpirit in the Sky\u201d<\/strong><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image4-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image4-7.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image4-7-300x200-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image4-7-1024x683-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image4-7-768x512-1.png 768w\" \/><br \/>Greenbaum was Jewish in his blood heritage but did not practice any faith. However, when he saw TV personality and Country singer Porter Wagoner do a Gospel song, Greenbaum committed himself to writing a Gospel song which he did in 15 minutes and set to the musical trends of the day. That being psychedelic Rock. While some of lyrics are not biblical it did ride on an emerging sub culture called The Jesus Movement in which artists like Love Song, Mustard Seed Faith and Larry Norman did similar styled music first called Jesus Music then later Contemporary Christian Music. CCM pop group DC Talk however did a more biblical honest cover of the song for the Jesus miniseries pop soundtrack in 2000.So, what was not biblically honest. Well if the lines were a snake you would feel its bite. Greenbaum wrote the line \u201cNever been a sinner I never sinned.\u201d That became in DC Talk\u2019s cover; \u201cYou know that I\u2019m a sinner, we all sin .\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Quiet Riot: \u201cCome On Feel The Noize\u201d<\/strong><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image5-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image5-8.png 300w, https:\/\/linkiest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image5-8-150x150.png 150w\" \/><br \/>The song was really a cover originally written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea for their band Slade. Holder wrote Noize as an expression about how he and his band felt about the atmosphere found and during their live concerts. The \u201cBaby BabyBaby\u201d intro was part of a sound test and not intended to be part of the whole record\u2026but it was Slade\u2019s concert anthem.Quiet Riot did it what it took to make sure their cover would flop big. For them they wanted their version to sound like a joke. Instead it becomes their biggest hit peaking at #5 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100. Instead of \u201cBaby BabyBaby\u201d Riot\u2019s version kicks off with a drum riff and the cover kicks off with the chorus sung by Kevin DuBrow before going into the first verse which Slade did not do. It became one of the power anthems in Heavy Metal thanks to Quiet Riot and not just another Glam Rock tune. As Noddy himself said at the time of Quiet Riot\u2019s popularity of the Slade cover; \u201cThe really nice thing about the whole affair is that it proves how strong our songs are. After all; \u201cCum On Feel the Noize\u201d is now ten years old, so it\u2019s obviously stood the test of time rather well!\u201d Kind of makes Quiet Riot\u2019s own composition \u201cMetal Heath\u201d aka \u201cBang Your Head\u201d the novelty song here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Randy Newman: \u201cShort People\u201d<\/strong><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image6-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image6-7.png 576w, https:\/\/linkiest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image6-7-300x190.png 300w\" \/><br \/>If you follow Randy Newman, many of his songs are written in a sarcastic manner and mocks people with certain opinions that Newman might disagree with and then some. \u201cShort People\u201d is no exception. It would be his only Pop hit as an artist (\u201cMama Told Me Not To Come\u201d was written by Newman but a #1 hit for Three Dog Night). While the singer declares that he wants no Short People in his life\u2026the bridge of the song (sung by Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit&#038;J.D. Souther) does tells us that the people challenged in height are just as human as you and me. Newman eventually hated the song, but still is featured on just about any compilation album featuring Newman\u2019s best known songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain songs over the years were written to be joke but not exactly a novelty either. 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