Great Big Sea Meets ELVIS!
Dec. 1st, 2004 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperOkay, so there I was on the way in to work this morning, listening to my Elvis Favorites playlist on the iPod. The thing gets to the remixed version of "A Little Less Conversation"... and I find myself trying to figure out exactly how I'd arrange that song using Great Big Sea's instrument set.
Then, on several subsequent songs on the playlist, I kept finding myself thinking, "Now would this one be sung by Alan or Séan?"
I think, that least for this morning, my Great Big Sea fandom may in fact have eclipsed my Elvis fandom. ;) But I don't even want to think about how I would probably die from swoon overload on the spot if in the middle of a show GBS ever burst into an Elvis ditty. I can just hear Séan belting out "It's Now Or Never", or Alan crooning "Don't" or "Love Me" or "Don't Be Cruel" (Alan would get all the perky Elvis ditties, but Séan, I think, would have to do anything requiring good ol' fashioned leg-shaking :D ).
Followup 10:50am--I have now learned from the fine folks up on the OKP that GBS has, in fact, covered an Elvis ditty in concert. Apparently, Séan went into Elvis mode with "All Shook Up". To which I must now have myself a fangirl moment. Ahem: "SQUUUEEEEEEEEEE!" Okay done now.
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solarbird tells me it is for the best that I wasn't there, on the grounds that my brain would have exploded, and it would have been all embarrassing and stuff. And I would have jumped up on the stage right then and there and done things that polite girls do not do in public, not to mention ruined what little dyke cred I have on the spot!
Then, on several subsequent songs on the playlist, I kept finding myself thinking, "Now would this one be sung by Alan or Séan?"
I think, that least for this morning, my Great Big Sea fandom may in fact have eclipsed my Elvis fandom. ;) But I don't even want to think about how I would probably die from swoon overload on the spot if in the middle of a show GBS ever burst into an Elvis ditty. I can just hear Séan belting out "It's Now Or Never", or Alan crooning "Don't" or "Love Me" or "Don't Be Cruel" (Alan would get all the perky Elvis ditties, but Séan, I think, would have to do anything requiring good ol' fashioned leg-shaking :D ).
Followup 10:50am--I have now learned from the fine folks up on the OKP that GBS has, in fact, covered an Elvis ditty in concert. Apparently, Séan went into Elvis mode with "All Shook Up". To which I must now have myself a fangirl moment. Ahem: "SQUUUEEEEEEEEEE!" Okay done now.
solarbird tells me it is for the best that I wasn't there, on the grounds that my brain would have exploded, and it would have been all embarrassing and stuff. And I would have jumped up on the stage right then and there and done things that polite girls do not do in public, not to mention ruined what little dyke cred I have on the spot!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-12-01 06:54 pm (UTC)i would just SWOOOOOOOON!
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Date: 2004-12-01 07:08 pm (UTC)So when I say I found my brain trying to imagine the B'ys singing those songs, it was rather disorienting. ;D
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:27 pm (UTC)Love em sweet
Chicken fingers are fine.
Oh my darlings
I'll eat you,
Till the end of time...
Thengew, thengew verimuch
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(Sorry, this is really a pet peeve of mine. I AM an Elvis fan, and I'm sick and tired of people making jokes like that about him. It reduces him to a parody, and it really diminishes the impact of his music on my life. So please don't make jokes like that at me, okay? :) )
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:44 pm (UTC)I grew up on elvis too (my dad is a HUGE Elvis fan and has probably every album he ever did) and one of my favorite christmas songs is Elvis's Blue Christmas... I just happened to be chowing down on some chicken fingers when I read your post, and it made me think (yes, I am addicted to the ones McDonald's sells now.) But, you can't be so caught up in Elvis that you can't have a little fun with it either... My all time favorite band is Moody Blues, and I make my own parodies of their songs... But, my dear, if you wish me not to make silly elvis parodies in your presence, I shall respect it...
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:58 pm (UTC)It ain't a matter of me not wanting to have any fun with it. I like good Elvis-related humor. For example, I really loved that Lilo in Lilo and Stitch was an Elvis fan. I also really loved that Perry White in the TV show Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman had as his favorite swear phrase "Great Shades of Elvis!" And one of the things that I really liked about Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels was her extremely funny depiction of what happens to Elvis in her universe, when everybody thinks he actually died. Tanya Huff makes funny Elvis jokes in her writing. So does Esther Friesner.
Hells bells, I have Elvis-related humor in my own book.
However, any humor that relies on linking Elvis with food just pisses me off. Sorry. I've seen too damned many stupid Elvis impersonations that rely on Elvis having gotten overweight at the end of his life for their Funny--and it's not funny to me. It's sad.
Same deal with the overuse of him saying "thank you very much". That just strikes me as rude. I mean, the man was thanking his audience for listening to him, and so what if he said it after every song? I don't see any Funny there. I see him being polite, and what do people do but make jokes about him for it? It annoys me.
Sorry if I come off harsh about this, but like I said: it's a MAJOR and I mean MAJOR pet peeve with me. So please don't do it. Thanks. :)
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 03:01 am (UTC)Alternately, if you have web space, just stick it on a web page somewhere and give me the link.