Satirical music

Satirical route in music has been explored countless times; from premodern ballads such as the 4th-century BCE Song of Songs to classical, avant-garde, and modern popular music. Such examples are: ;Classical :Satirical ballets, operas, ballads, and plays include Le Bourgeois gentilhomme , surreal funk musicians George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys grindcore band Anal Cunt , Negativland , Culturcide , and the so-called Americana absurdum movement comprising monks , The Residents especially their albums The Residents Present the Third Reich and Roll (1976) and Commercial Album (1980), DEVO , and Talking Heads . Another example is a digital hardcore album Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley (1998). ==Satire in counterculture==

Counterculture and avant-garde music scenes characterized by being "aggressive in sound, challenging in content" that spawned popular music such as hip hop and heavy metal display satirical taboo transgressions. According to British sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris, "tongue-in-cheek attitude" and irony has been a fundamental "part of the UK extreme scene" by often adopting camp and comic elements to transgress what outsiders to the scene find "acceptable;" e.g. appropriating Holocaust imagery to advance a position pertaining to abortion or animal rights. exaggerating tropes and behaviors within music cultures or society. In hip-hop culture, especially gangsta rap and 1990s rappers like Missy Elliott, One of vaporwave albums utilizing satire is James Ferraro's album FARSIDEVIRTUAL (2011). ==Satire in popular music==

Ambiguity of satire has contributed to popular misinterpretations of music that adopted it. For instance, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." (1984) listed in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and RIAA's Songs of the Century was written as a satire yet canonized as a "patriotic rock anthem," a designation that ignores the message "how far political leaders had strayed from the values the country was founded on," criticizing the establishment with the memorable chorus. As Springsteen adds, it is about the working-class man going through ==Popular satires==

Parody Parody music in the truest sense is a type of work that seriously imitates a well-known original and simultaneously covertly satirizes the environment of which that original is a part (compare, pastiche which does not perform the latter and is conflated with "homages") while at worst is copying an original composition for a "parodic effect" only. Comedic satire Overtly comedic strains of satire include comedy and novelty music, typically focused on broad-appeal jokes and caricatures. Both arriving with popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, comical spoofs of music genres and performers contributed to a popular mainstream strain of satire. Stan Freberg's satirical contribution was "Green Chri$tma$" (1959) which targeted and offended advertisers but he was not against advertising and personally created an effective Coca-Cola campaign himself. Popular satirical comedian Weird Al Yankovic contributed with "Frank's 2000 TV" (1992)—song about a love/hate relationship with pop culture and technology and "Young, Dumb & Ugly" (1993)—song about snotty outlaw posturing. California punk band The Offspring expressed a humorous satire style in "Come Out and Play" (1994)—song about teenage gang violence and "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" (1998)—song about 1990s poor youth posturing adopted by an upper-class young suburbanite. On the other hand, Tom Lehrer is known for his style of comic morbid juxtapositions and satirical culture criticisms, fused old time-style music with sardonic off-color lyrics and has contributed to satire with 12 Songs (1970), Sail Away (1972), and Good Old Boys (1974). Newman's song "Rednecks" (1974), banned in Boston, Massachusetts and its airplay restricted for containing the word 'nigger', starts as a stereotypical depiction of "racist rednecks" from the South and ends up illustrating less overt racism in the Northern United States: ==Notes==