"sk8er boi": Can this be done?

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Forgive me for I am a complete smartarse living nowhere in particular, and I may be plotting some great blasphemy in the circles of Chartpop. However...

Do you think it would be possible to play "Sk8er Boi" w/ only Rebirth, a kazoo, and an inflated sense of my own self worth, and make it actually sound GOOD (this being the operative word, as opposed to 'faithful to the original recording'l which isn't)? Is the tie and whiny demeanor ABSOLUTELY essential to the song being any good at all, even if I don't show my arse, midriff or tits?

And just so you know, EVERYONE who this would be performed for would have heard it beforehand. I mean it.

Thanks in advance...and please don't yell at me.

― show all details if you MUST know (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

answer my unfunny thread you bastards

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i sang it on new years without a tie or a whiny demeanor, but i found that near alcohol poisoning helped immensely

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim, you could play Wagner with just Rebirth and a Kazoo (and your self-worth). What about a real challenge?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*just read the other thread*

I think your thread is very funny you bastard.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hooray!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's that funny.

So that's one for, one against.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

such are the risks of parody

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

parody!! i thought esoj was considering a change of direction after the theft of his vox ac6h4j523thingy

― minna (minna), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

well yeah but that's more into kraftwerk-meets-style council territory rather than terrifying canadian karaoke

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

vox, guitar, bass, drums

― Simon H and (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I totally forgot that I was going to do a cover of Fr33 Ja22 Boi tonight... shee-it! I wonder if there's still time, I think Reason is still on this machine...

― kate, Friday, 21 February 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, you should play some Winger songs! Winger rule!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe not yet, but I bet Avril will be a standard "ironic" cover choice a few years from now - just like "Baby One More Time" was covered at least once or twice.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

No, play some WINGS songs! Not Winger, Wings!

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

well i do a cover of "im with you" non ironically.

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 21 February 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim, you've heard the bootleggy synth version of Sk8er Boi, right?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna do a cover of "miles away"

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Dsico's cover version of Avril Sk8er Boi

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Saturday, 5 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet it's probably good.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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