Another New Rainbow
Okay, here's the new parody song video from Randy Rainbow that I mentioned yesterday. It's wonderful. The lyrics are clever and smart, the rhymes are excellent -- in fact, it might be his best song, or among them. (And it's long, with many verses, since he has a lot to cover.) And the production value is top-notch, as well, with excellent editing.
As much as his "Kamala!" song that I posted yesterday seemed up-to-date and fresh, even though written four years ago, with this one there's no "seems" about it. He just nails it all.
It also may be the first time I've heard him reference the provenance of the song he's parodying, mentioning that it's Rodgers & Hammerstein. (It's from Oklahoma!, based on the song, "The Farmer and the Cowman."
My only quibble has nothing to do with the song, but after his previous video, Randy Rainbow now has a sponsor. And good for him, he should be able to monetize his work as much as he wants. But he's blended his ads into his videos in ways that for a while they seem the same, and something seems off, and it's a bit disconcerting. Some people over the years have incorporated ads into their work (Ernie Kovacs was legendary for it, with his ads for Dutch Masters cigars that he smoked as funny as any sketches in his show. They would be really funny pieces that, only at the end, something related to cigars occurred, and that's when the sponsor would be mentioned.) He just doesn't do it with his ads as effectively. And so, coming at the beginning, it takes a moment to readjust to the song.
That aside, it is the song that counts. And it's terrific. One word of "warning" -- the lyrics go flying by. Happily, he always embeds the words on the screen. And so this is a really good time to keep yours eyes on those words, if you usually avoid them and only listen.
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