Oompa Loompa Song: 2020 Version

Welcome to the final Song Parody Wednesday of 2020.  I don’t always post song parodies on this blog, but when I do, it’s on a Wednesday.  For this rendition, with 2020 almost finally over, I thought I would take the Oompa Loompa song from the 1971 movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

I remember this movie from middle school music class, as our teacher showed us this movie on multiple occasions, with the excuse that it was a musical and it was music class.  This particular song from the movie provides some good lessons from the Oompa Loompas.  These grotesque orange creatures always seem to appear and sing whenever a combination of bad choices and misfortune eliminates one of the kids from the tour group.  (I imagine that modern-day Oompa Loompas would be quite busy singing as more and more people get COVID.)  This parody version provides some thoughts and lessons from 2020.

“Ryan Started the Fire”

Ladies and gentleman, I would like to wish you all a happy Song Parody Wednesday! I don’t always post song parodies on this blog, but when I do, it’s on a Wednesday!

Soon after I started this blog, I introduced my first two song parodies, Where’s the Toilet Paper Gone? and Westside. At the time, I thought those might be my only two that I would ever come up with. But now I have a third (and again maybe final) one to add to the list. This one, titled Ryan Started the Fire, is based on Billy Joel’s 1989 hit, We Didn’t Start the Fire.

“Westside”

Last Wednesday, I posted my first song parody, “Where’s the Toilet Paper Gone?” Today, here’s my second (and perhaps final) song parody. Perhaps I’ll think of more to put on here, but no guarantees. This one came to me after listening to the 2018 pop hit Eastside on the radio.

The same caveats apply to this song parody as on the first one. There’s no music video of the parody song here – just the lyrics. Perhaps there will be a music video to this later on, performed by someone much more qualified than myself, but no promises there either. Dibs on the rights to it though. In the meantime, the lyric video to the original song is at the bottom, in case you need a frame of reference.

“Where’s the Toilet Paper Gone?”

In our current era of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most bewildering things in our America culture has been the sudden shortage of toilet paper in stores. With that in mind, a friend recently suggested to me that we had to have a parody song of Paula Cole’s 1996 hit, “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” titled, “Where’s the Toilet Paper Gone?” I took that idea and ran with it.