You know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for “Sweet Caroline”: Gloria Gaynor sings “I Will Survive” while washing her hands.
Below are parody videos that made me laugh. Some are also lovely and/or rocking, and serve in effect as public service announcements too.
The Marsh family, parodying “One Day More” from Les Miserable
How can we play when we are parted
Our grandparents are miles away
They can’t work Skype! We’re brokenhearted
Neil Diamond parodying his own song “Sweet Caroline”
“Hands washing hands/Reaching out/ don’t touch me”
Brent McCollough, Alex Kilroy (twice), and Adrian Laird, plus a dog, parody The Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive
Well, you can tell by the way I wash my hands,
I’m Corona-free, won’t take no chance
Sara and Jordan Benis parodying Elton John’s Your Song. This is as funny for the visuals as for the new lyrics
Reordered my pantry
I closed it and then
Messed it up on purpose, so I could do it again
Chris Mann parodies The Knack’s “My Sharona”
M-m-m-m-my Corona
Mann spoofs Madonna’s “Vogue”
(Mann has four more pandemic parody videos, all worth watching.)
Zach Timson offers the Broadway Coronavirus Medley, offering new lyrics for some half dozen Broadway musicals
Maestro Ziikos spoofs Queens’ Bohemian Rhapsody, and manages to get President Trump to lip-synch!
Shirley Serban adapt Do Re Mi from Sound of Music. (an even better job at lipsynching Julie Andrews)
Once you have this in your head, you can do a million things at home to stay sane:
Sleep, eat, whinge, tweet, snooze, blog, think
Loaf, mooch, doze, smooch, binge watch drink
Mr.Bankshot parodies Pretty Ricky’s “Grind With Me”
Melanie Wilson and Zach Kessel adapt Don McLean American Pie
Bradley Skistimas, who goes by Five Times August, has created some dozen coronavirus videos, all of which are worth watching (although I wish he’d figure out how to fill the whole screen.) This is my favorite
@gloriagaynor It only takes :20 seconds to “SURVIVE!”👏💕🎶 #iWillSurviveChallenge #fyp #coronavirus #handwashing
My contribution. (Feel free to perform.)
And I am telling you
I’m not going
There’s no way I can ever go
No, no,there’s no way
No, no,no, no way I’m leaving outside here
I’m not leaving outside here
I don’t wanna expire
I’m staying
I’m staying
And you, and you
You’re gonna glove me,oh ooh mm mm
You’re gonna glove meeeee pic.twitter.com/dnxEIcHZDR— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 12, 2020
No one to follow too close
No one to trespass six feet
No one to sneeze on your chair
And ruin your sleep
And make you beware of staying alive
Staying alive
Staying inside! pic.twitter.com/XolpLwIR9G— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 11, 2020
