Tom Lehrer wrote original music to accompany his brilliant parodies in the 1950s and 1960s. Since 2005, Marcy Shaffer has supplied original lyrics to accompany contemporary pop hits. Today, on NPR's "Day To Day," the show closed with the latest parody from Versus that provides "Your Campaign" to the tune of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain." If this is (fair & balanced) musical savagery, so be it.
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Versus: Where Politics And Culture Do Their Time In Rhyme.
[FROM THE PRODUCERS OF VERSUS
So many wrongs. So little time.
Thus the genesis of VERSUS. Born of the conviction that musical parody is mightier than PowerPoint, VERSUS is an equal opportunity skewer-er of the ruthless, the truthless, the reckless, the feckless.
VERSUS parodies are written by Marcy Shaffer, whose professional writing experience includes television, film, lyrics, verse and … musical parody. The parody lyrics on the page become the audio of VERSUS courtesy of some of the best musical talent in the business.
VERSUS is co-produced by Russ Meyer, a private equity veteran whose industry expertise includes financial services as well as entertainment.
With VERSUS, our goal is to produce and distribute the finest musical parody available: on the web, from the web and in live performance.
Since its October 21, 2005 debut, VERSUS has attracted an enthusiastic audience that, based on comments received, spans the political spectrum. We hope to keep it that way. As Americans, our commonalities far outweigh our differences; when we laugh together, we can resume talking to each other and working with each other.
Were such an idyllic world to evolve, of course, VERSUS would lose its material. And a certain Stanford MBA would lose his job.
We're betting our MBA stays employed.
Welcome to VERSUS.]
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