Parodies get old, particularly when they’re associated with a song that gets a new parody uploaded to YouTube every other day. Case in point: Call Me Maybe, the wildly popular song by Carly Rae Jepsen. There have been parodies made that desecrate Star Wars, the Muppets, and the US Olympic team to the point that we won’t even link to them here. There’s nothing wrong with the song. The parodies have to go… …except for this one. …

Social media has clearly permeated out lives so much that it is now influencing the other media that we consume. This is extremely clear in the world of music. I see the songs popping up on my Facebook news ticker and it seems like my entire friends list is listening to the same songs. For the most part people have always listened to very similar music, but more and more I am seeing an increasing trend of the “ironic” hit. I don’t know if this is a new phenomenon, but I first noticed it with the rise in popularity of Rebecca Black’s song Friday. We all know and love (or hate) it. The song features timeless…