Party in the USA, by Miley Cyrus.
I was playing some Weird Al for the 10-year-old on the way home from soccer today. He’s been getting into Monty Python (a little) and I had run out of, uh, 10yo-appropriate material from them, so I tried Al. Landed an unexpected win with the Captain Underpants Theme Song (though he complained it’s not the regular one – maybe this was from the movie?) and then moved on to The Saga Begins (Day the Music Died, but make it Episode I), which made me tear up with laughter, and, indeed, tears.
And then Party in the CIA came on, and he kinda recognized this song a little, and I had to explain the CIA, so there was that, but we live in Northern Virginia, so he should know these things.
I played it a full step lower than the internet told me to. Sorry, that had more to do with the state of my left wrist and size of my fingers than my vocal range, which is bad enough as is. Was I going for emo? Johnny Cash? Lin Manuel? Could’ve had some fun with autotune on this one.
Spent a little Saturday afternoon time on this, which was a good way to lower my heart rate after (watching my child play) soccer.
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