Carthehorse,

I don't know how exactly this blows up my version of how it breaks my rules of how the music business works. As far as concept, this has been done to my knowledge as far back as the 70's, and probably before that. It is kind of a long running comedy gag, done the best by Christopher Guest and company on "This is Spinal Tap." Dana Carvey did a rip on it called "Chopping Broccoli" on a Saturday night live skit in the 80's. Weird Al made pretty much a career doing variations of the same thing. Have heard pretty much the same lyrics a few dozen times on writer's nights in Nashville. It is one of the first songs you write after about six months here. I think it is probably required as a right of passage. We all do them. Although I can't remember if I did or not. Sure I probably did. Just wasn't any better than the other ten million of them.

Glad he has 100 million hits on You Tube. Great. Susan Boyle got 278 million and the guys who wrote the song she did, "I dreamed a Dream" didn't make a dime. You tube and assorted views like this rarely transfer into sales. They bring attention to the artist and sometimes that can translate, but most time does not.
Got to be careful not to confuse parodies, flash in the pan, and momentary attention getters as the music business. They are satire. Two very different art forms. Takes talent to be in both. But there are rarely much in the way of cross over acceptance, which is why Robin Williams and Jim Carey rarely have a serious movie work out in sales and why the worst movie in history was ISHTAR with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty tried to do a spoof on songwriters.

Funny, yeah. Liked it the first two hundred times I have heard it over the years. Still gets a chuckle. Keep attention? Not much. But to each his own.

MAB