Because apparently “venison” sounds like “innocent” (and yes, I had to look up the lyrics!)
But still not funny.
Is that a tag: SNF? Should be: once the collected wisdom deems it thus…
A steer is a castrated male bovine. So it would seem that Brittney is neither venison nor a steer.
Is that really her voice? Sounds like Alvin & the Chipmunks . . .
That’s almost exactly how I described her the first time I heard her sing!
Though as I recall I added “on helium.”
I seriously never heard her sing before . . . I thought in the first video(30 seconds of which I watched), it was a put-on . . .
Good lord, does Richard Thompson always come off as this pretentious?
I don’t think Hilburn is necessarily confusing two Britney Spears songs. The joke (such as it is) works equally well (or poorly) whether it’s based on lyrics from a single Britney Spears song, or from combining two Britney Spears songs.
Britney Steers is a perfectly acceptable pun.
But “moo” for “oops” is not acceptable.
And neither “venison” because cows and deer are both meat, not “venison” because it sounds like “innocent” are at all acceptable.
Hillburn had an idea for a joke, but he couldn’t find a good way to tell it. So he used his bad implementation.
Winter, Hillburn didn’t combine lyrics from two different songs. I think the point is that the famous (sort of) video with Britney in pig tails walking down the halls of a school is not for the song being referenced in the comic. Not that I would have known that had Cidu Bill not pointed it out here.
Yes, Bill, Richard Thompson is always that pretentious. I find it hard to listen to his music – as much as I like it – because I just can’t separate it from his embarrassing pomposity. And then I listened to his ex-wife Linda on Fresh Air, talking about her life, their career together, and losing her voice from dysphonia, and I became increasingly convinced that her dysphonia was caused by what an awful person he was.
I hate to burst his bubble, but I’ve never heard of him . . .
The thing is, Britney will ALWAYS be that pigtailed, school-uniformed girl, forever, no matter what else she does. It was THAT iconic. Much in the same way that Phoebe Cates is ALWAYS going to be that girl coming out of a pool in “Fast Times”, or, in reverse, the way not-Sean-Connery will never be James Bond (for some people).
That version of Britney is layered onto whatever else she does. For me, a jarring case was seeing Susan Dey when she was on L.A.Law, and I kept seeing Lori Partridge.
Given what we usually talk about here, I think it’s worth pointing out that Bill & The Bad Seed are discussing Richard John Thompson (musician, see the You Tube link from Grawlix), and not Richard Church Thompson (Cul de Sac).
Oh. My. Dog. I don’t think I ever consciously heard her before.
And I wonder how long it will be before I stop hearing her.
Mark M: My comment could have been clearer, but what I was saying was that it doesn’t matter to the joke if the comic is combining two songs – the lyrics from one, and the music video from another. I can imagine that Hilburn knew this when he made the comic, and decided that it didn’t matter to the joke.
I have a certain fondness for the “I’m not that innocent” lyrics, because the first time I heard it, it was being sung by a bunch of six-year olds. :)
“Hillburn had an idea for a joke, but he couldn’t find a good way to tell it. So he used his bad implementation.”
I’m not entirely sure why that pisses me off as badly as it does. I actually think this cartoon would be better if the dialog balloon simply had the real lyrics… Or no dialog balloon at all.
…. but on the theory we’ve often heard “Anyone can make a pun” I can’t believe the are the only cow puns he could have made. As a pun fan I have to state, a stretched pun is worse than no pun and the cartoon is lessened for having made them.
Thanks for clarifying WW. I agree with your assessment that the joke works regardless.
I have to say I’m amazed at the number of people saying they hadn’t heard these songs. I couldn’t escape them when they came out.
Yes, definitely: I was referring to the YouTube video.
“Just sing the @$!# song: you don’t have to lecture us first on why your version is more worthy.”
I stopped listening to radio sometime in the 80s – tapes, CDs and now SONOS. Got tired of commercials and DJs talking talking talking. Didn’t like the music much, either.
Maybe I should have dug for a different video of RT’s performance. I’ve heard his cover on the radio from time to time and thought it a tongue-in-cheek rendition of an otherwise horrid song. :-)
Maybe you’d like this one better, Bill
Voodoo Chicken, I’ve always liked this version because Travis respects the material rather than feeling the need to assure us it’s beneath him.
Here’s another example of a seemingly-incongruous cover where the singer did it his way and it worked:
CIDU Bill, I see what you did there.
Tori Amos did a well-regarded cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, too.
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Because apparently “venison” sounds like “innocent” (and yes, I had to look up the lyrics!)
But still not funny.
Is that a tag: SNF? Should be: once the collected wisdom deems it thus…
A steer is a castrated male bovine. So it would seem that Brittney is neither venison nor a steer.
Is that really her voice? Sounds like Alvin & the Chipmunks . . .
That’s almost exactly how I described her the first time I heard her sing!
Though as I recall I added “on helium.”
I seriously never heard her sing before . . . I thought in the first video(30 seconds of which I watched), it was a put-on . . .
Maybe you’d like this cover better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU
Good lord, does Richard Thompson always come off as this pretentious?
I don’t think Hilburn is necessarily confusing two Britney Spears songs. The joke (such as it is) works equally well (or poorly) whether it’s based on lyrics from a single Britney Spears song, or from combining two Britney Spears songs.
Britney Steers is a perfectly acceptable pun.
But “moo” for “oops” is not acceptable.
And neither “venison” because cows and deer are both meat, not “venison” because it sounds like “innocent” are at all acceptable.
Hillburn had an idea for a joke, but he couldn’t find a good way to tell it. So he used his bad implementation.
Winter, Hillburn didn’t combine lyrics from two different songs. I think the point is that the famous (sort of) video with Britney in pig tails walking down the halls of a school is not for the song being referenced in the comic. Not that I would have known that had Cidu Bill not pointed it out here.
Yes, Bill, Richard Thompson is always that pretentious. I find it hard to listen to his music – as much as I like it – because I just can’t separate it from his embarrassing pomposity. And then I listened to his ex-wife Linda on Fresh Air, talking about her life, their career together, and losing her voice from dysphonia, and I became increasingly convinced that her dysphonia was caused by what an awful person he was.
I hate to burst his bubble, but I’ve never heard of him . . .
The thing is, Britney will ALWAYS be that pigtailed, school-uniformed girl, forever, no matter what else she does. It was THAT iconic. Much in the same way that Phoebe Cates is ALWAYS going to be that girl coming out of a pool in “Fast Times”, or, in reverse, the way not-Sean-Connery will never be James Bond (for some people).
That version of Britney is layered onto whatever else she does. For me, a jarring case was seeing Susan Dey when she was on L.A.Law, and I kept seeing Lori Partridge.
Given what we usually talk about here, I think it’s worth pointing out that Bill & The Bad Seed are discussing Richard John Thompson (musician, see the You Tube link from Grawlix), and not Richard Church Thompson (Cul de Sac).
Oh. My. Dog. I don’t think I ever consciously heard her before.
And I wonder how long it will be before I stop hearing her.
Mark M: My comment could have been clearer, but what I was saying was that it doesn’t matter to the joke if the comic is combining two songs – the lyrics from one, and the music video from another. I can imagine that Hilburn knew this when he made the comic, and decided that it didn’t matter to the joke.
I have a certain fondness for the “I’m not that innocent” lyrics, because the first time I heard it, it was being sung by a bunch of six-year olds. :)
“Hillburn had an idea for a joke, but he couldn’t find a good way to tell it. So he used his bad implementation.”
I’m not entirely sure why that pisses me off as badly as it does. I actually think this cartoon would be better if the dialog balloon simply had the real lyrics… Or no dialog balloon at all.
…. but on the theory we’ve often heard “Anyone can make a pun” I can’t believe the are the only cow puns he could have made. As a pun fan I have to state, a stretched pun is worse than no pun and the cartoon is lessened for having made them.
Thanks for clarifying WW. I agree with your assessment that the joke works regardless.
I have to say I’m amazed at the number of people saying they hadn’t heard these songs. I couldn’t escape them when they came out.
Yes, definitely: I was referring to the YouTube video.
“Just sing the @$!# song: you don’t have to lecture us first on why your version is more worthy.”
I stopped listening to radio sometime in the 80s – tapes, CDs and now SONOS. Got tired of commercials and DJs talking talking talking. Didn’t like the music much, either.
Maybe I should have dug for a different video of RT’s performance. I’ve heard his cover on the radio from time to time and thought it a tongue-in-cheek rendition of an otherwise horrid song. :-)
Maybe you’d like this one better, Bill
Voodoo Chicken, I’ve always liked this version because Travis respects the material rather than feeling the need to assure us it’s beneath him.
Here’s another example of a seemingly-incongruous cover where the singer did it his way and it worked:
CIDU Bill, I see what you did there.
Tori Amos did a well-regarded cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit, too.
Agreed. I like that one too.