Nancy

Lazyboy released his album Lazyboy TV last year along with this track Underwear Goes Inside The Pants. I personally find the lyrics both funny and true.

Take a minute to read the lyrics and watch the musicvideo and tell me what you think. I'm particularly interested in your opinion about his statements about some of the America-related issues:


Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal?
It’s a natural plant that grows in the dirt.
Do you know what’s not natural?
80 year old dudes with hard-ons. That’s not natural.
But we got pills for that.
We’re dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we’re putting people in jail for smoking something that grows in the dirt?

You know we have more prescription drugs now.
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.
I can’t watch TV for four minutes without thinking
I have five serious diseases.
Like: “Do you ever wake up tired in the morning?”
Oh my god I have this, write this down.
Whatever it is, I have it.
Half the time you don’t even know what the commercial is…
people running through fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean.
I’m like that is the greatest disease ever.
How do you get that?
That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy.

The schools now… It is all about self-esteem in the schools.
Build the kids’ self-esteem,
make them feel good about themselves.
If everybody grows up with high self-esteem,
who is going to dance in our strip clubs?
What’s going to happen to our porno industry?
These women don’t just grown on trees.
It takes lots of drunk daddys missing a lot of dance recitals
before you decide to blow a goat on the internet for fifty bucks.
And if that disappears,
where does that leave me on a Friday
with my new high speed connection?

CHORUS:
baby sing, sing, sing, sing, sing your song,
sing for me,c'mon now sing, baby sing sing sing, sing your song,
sing to me, sing a song

Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these uh these terrorists masterminds
that get killed in the middle east.
Terrorists masterminds.
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe
what these guys do, don’t you think?
They’re not masterminds.
“OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in backpack.
Then you get on bus and you blow yourself up.”
“Why do I have to blow myself up? Why don’t I put…”
“Who’s the fucking mastermind here? Me or you?”

Americans, let’s face it: We’ve been a spoiled country for a long time.
Do you know what the number one health risk in America is?
Obesity, obesity.
They say we’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
An epidemic like it is polio.
Like we’ll be telling our grand kids about it one day.
The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004.
“How’d you get through it grandpa?”
“Oh, it was horrible Johnny,
there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere.”

Nobody knows why were getting fatter
Look at our lifestyle.
I’ll sit at a drive thru.
I’ll sit there for I'll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to
make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter.
Everything is mega meal, super sized.
Want biggie fries with that?, want a jumbo fries with that?, want to go large.
You want to have thirty burgers for a nickel you fat mother fucker.
There’s room in the back. Take it!
Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that?
It’s only three more cents.

CHORUS:
baby sing, sing, sing, sing your song,
sing for me,c'mon now sing, baby sing sing sing, sing your song,
sing to me, sing a song

Sometimes you have to suffer a little in your youth
to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school,
do you think there’d be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
You got to spend a long time stuffed in your own locker with your underwear
wedged up your ass before you start thinkin
“I’m going to take of the world with computers! you'll see, I’ll show them.”

We’re in one of the richest countries in the world,
but the minimum wage is lower now than it was thirty five years ago.
There are homeless people everywhere.
This homeless guy asked me for money the other day.
I was about to give it to him and then
I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol.
And then I thought, that’s what I’m going to use it on.
Why am I judging this poor bastard.
People love to judge homeless guys.
Like if you give them money they’re just going to waste it.
He's gonna waste the money.
Well, he lives in a box, what do you want him to do?
Save it up and buy a wall unit.
Take a little run to the store for a throw-rug and a cd rack.
He’s homeless.
I walked behind this guy the other day.
A homeless guy asked him for money.
He looks right at the homeless guy and says,
"Why don’t you go get a job you bum?"
People always say that to homeless guys "get a job" like it's always that easy.
This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants.
Outside his pants.
I’m guessing his resume isn’t all up to date.
I’m predicting some problems during the interview process.
I’m pretty sure even McDonalds has an
“underwear goes inside the pants” policy.
Not that they enforce it very strictly,
but technically I’m sure it is on the books.

CHORUS:
baby sing, sing, sing, sing, sing your song,
sing for me,c'mon now sing, baby sing sing sing, sing your song,
sing to me, sing a song"



You can get the video for free here (slightly unsuitable for work!)

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

RenaissanceII

i agree with the sentements....but of course living in this "paridise" i sometimes become a bit of a bomb throwing anarchist, at least in my own mind....

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K-Wise

I've actually already seen that video before and I loved it. I thought it was great. Especially the part about the homeless.

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Sleepyjack

I believe the comdeian doing this is greg giraldo under the alias Lazyboy. When i first heard it i thought someone had blatantly ripped off Giraldo's act
Interesting song nevertheless, but i prefer his normal stand up routine as opposed to this condensed version. Still it gets alot of relevant points across. which is good, revelancy with humour!

Nancy

It is Greg Giraldo talking yes, but Lazyboy is Søren Rasted former member of the Danish band Aqua. He provides the music whereas the lyrics in both this and Facts of Life are by other people

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Cervantes

Most of the things mentioned in the lyrics apply to several european countries aswell.

I think I'm going to buy Lazyboys album now.. Good stuff.

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Lockjaw

Eh....sounds like he's pissed at himself deep down.

Nancy

I never said it didn't. I'm just curious to hear the Americans opinions about the statements regarding their country to find out whether they agree or not. Especially the part about obesity because I'm not aware if you Americans are well aware of how big a problem obesity is and will become if nothing is done soon or if you're all just happy-go-lucky about it

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Nancy

What makes you think that?

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

RogueHunter65

That was the single greatest song I have ever read. Thanks. My favorite part is: That is hilarious and yet so true. Nancy, awesome post!

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Squishor

Yes, we're aware of it - it's all over the news and such, you can't avoid it. Personally though, as one American, my perspective is that it sounds like he's talking about someone else, since I don't spend a lot of time at fast food drive-throughs. Or any time at all, actually. I haven't eaten at a MacDonalds for at least 10 or 15 years. I'm not wanting to sound smug or anything but that's just the truth. I'm not sure about the rest of the country (it's a really big place) but at least where I live, there's a fairly sharp divide between the people who eat MacDonald's and those who don't. That's a meaningful point from my perspective, because although I'm aware of the problem from the news and my own observations, there's really not much for me to do about it. I know one guy who admits to eating fast food fairly regularly and although he's growing a bit of a gut, I'm not ready to sit him down and talk to him about it because he can think for himself.

So basically it sounds like a comedy routine where he's poking fun at the fat lazy people who won't get out of their cars (which it is). Do you think he's one of those people? I don't. Anyway it was pretty funny stuff!

pinkie

I agree with every word, and I always try to give the homeless money. One time I handed a guy a $20. and he was so grateful. I really can't stand this country, especially Texas, Florida, and Missouri.

Greedy rich politicians monopolizing on the ignorant...

I'd love to move to Canada...

braisler

Yeah, they play this song with some frequency (get it, a music pun) on Sirius radio's Alt. Nation channel. That's what I listen to at work, so I hear it at least once a day. The song has gotten a little old for me, but I still always laugh at the "obesity epidemic" line. "Oh yes, it was horrible! There was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere"

On obesity, the song/stand up makes a good point. We need more personal accountability when it comes to weight management. There are too many media channels telling people that being fat is not their fault. You choose what foods to put into your body. You choose whether you walk a mile after dinner or plop down on the couch to watch Seinfeld reruns. These are the choices that make you fat or not.

I am overweight right now. Not obese, but overweight. I don't put the blame for it on anyone but myself. And I am taking steps to change it.

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Cervantes

Ah.. sorry, The statement was never meant to counter something you said or didn't say, it was merely a rethorical statment to signal my worries for the society I live in.
Sorry if it was unclear.

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kurtisj

that is a great song that makes a lot of good points

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Scorps

so thats a rant that we all have to listen to?

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MSD

Our country is full of fat lazy idiots who can't be bothered to get off their asses and turn themselves into the Arnold Schwarzenegger or Barbie that TV tells them they should be. All they do is look at the TV, then get depressed because society didn't give tehm what they wanted, not realizing that you have to work and earn success. I know because I'm one of thsoe fat lazy idiots. It's just easier to buy three double cheeseburgers for lunch and wash them down with a liter of soda than it is to get out of the car, walk into a deli, and pay 8 dollars for a nice grilled chicken sandwich on whole wheat with lettuce and tomato. Instead of doing something about it and improving our lives, we decided to abandon our future and create the self-esteem movement. "Fat is beautiful," kids under the age of 14 in a lot of places aren't allowed to keep score at soccer (football) or baseball games because "it would make them feel bad about themselves." Never mind that we're fucking these kids over when in five or ten years they can't understand why they're at a community college and not an ivy league school after they spent all this time "just doing their best" and "being themselves." Sure, people should be treated with respect and not discriminated against when they have genuine disabilities, but when theyre able to pass off laziness as an illness (I'm not implying that ADD isn't real, only that it's seriously overdiagnosed,) we're only hurting them if we don't try to help them make themselves better. We can't keep telling ourselves that nothing is ever our fault. The ease of getting fast food compared to the effor of making a healthy meal isn't the reason I'm fat. I'm overweight because my mom had to get a night job to help support the family and I didn't bother to exercise the willpower to make myself a salad instead of a microwaved cheeseburger.

We are a product of our fast food culture. We want instant results. If a diet doesn't make us thin in a week, we drop it. If a marriage runs into a bump, we drop it. If something is a little bit harder than we deluded ourselves into believing it would be, we drop it. We've been trained by society to get something in the easiest way possible, and then get rid of it if it doesn't perform up to expectations. You can drive up to a talking box, open your window, pull up to the first window, pay, pull up to the seoond window, get your food, and stuff your face with 1200 pounds of greasy, cheese-covered, simple carbohydrate-wrapped beef that's been cooked to a disgusting, unappetizing brownish-gray, all without getting off your ass. Drive by the trash can, and you don't even have to reach, there's a little arm on the can so you don't have to lean out the window to throw out your grease-soaked wrapper. Then you can drive to the office, have a valet park your car, and park your ass on a chair for the next 8 hours. You don't even have to stand up, because the chair has fucking wheels on it. You can roll your lazy, rapidly expanding ass around the office instead of walking. The only times you have to stand up are if you want to go outside, light up, and give yourself cancer, or if you have to run to the bathroom to deal with the by-product of that burger, which, by the way, hasn't changed much colorwise.

What's worse than that? You can do that with every aspect of life. Need medicine? We have drive-through pharmacies. You can wait in line for half an hour instead of walking up to an empty counter to get your medicine, and not one of the ten people ahead of you is handicapped and unable to walk. This isn't about efficiency, it's about laziness. You can even do this with your marriage. Drive up, giver your name to the talking box, pull up to the next window, hadn over $20, sign a form, and get married right there in the car. If you really want to, you can pull into a parking space and consumate the marriage wtihout having to move farther than the back seat. If you decide that it's not going to work out, or you realize that you were drunk at the time, yoiu can get divorce papers out of a vending machine. Sure, you have to walk, but there's none of that pesky human interaction to worry about.

I could go on, but I shouuld be working right now, and I have to pick up my borhter from school soon. Perhaps I'll continue ranting later.

Lockjaw

Comes across as mad at the world and to me that screams unhappy with something in his life. He may not be but I wouldn't put it past him to swallow the end of a .45 at some point.

Astrocloud

Um, that guy is a local Boston Comedian. Thus HE IS AN AMERICAN.

Personally he spouts a bunch of true-isms that about 1/2 of Blue America and 1/4 of Red America will find funny.

Yes, I thought it was funny the first time I heard it. By the time they played it on WFNX for the 100th time -I was sick of the music that went with it.

Idunknow -is the rest of the album like that song?

Mr. Spacemonkey

Greg Giraldo's a funny guy. I actually saw him on tv perform some of that in stand up. I'm not sure if it was the exact same thing. It was a long time ago. I don't know why it was made into a song. It's much better for just a regular stand up act.

I think some are taking these lyrics to seriously. Since he's a comedian, he's trying to be funny, which in my opinion he is. As far as some of the lyrics being true. I guess to a small extent, but I don't take it too seriously. I take it for what it is, which is comedy. I don't need to listen to a comedian to know that obesity is a problem but I like to listen to a comedian make fun of the problem.

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Charlatan

We have poor, homeless and greedy politicians up here too... we're just more polite about it all...

The upside is if you move to Canada, when you get bummed out about it all we could meet and commiserate together...

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Thermopyle

Hmm, isn't Lazyboy one of the old Barbie-girl members?

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flstf

Well, he certainly hit on a lot of the things that I think are wrong here and did it in a very entertaining way, maybe a little too much like preaching but that's OK for a song.

The part about prescription drugs is so true. The commercials will sometimes say "Ask your doctor if XYZ is good for you" without even telling you what it is or what it does. I can imagine thousands of folks making doctor appointments and asking for a drug they have no idea about except the commercial showed a picture of some flowers or something.

I think that the analogy of using the angry nerd to explain Bill Gates success is probably a stretch though. Would he say the same about Jobs and Wozniak?

It would be interesting to hear him take the opposite approach and tell us what is good about our country. Something like:

"They say we’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic."
"But we defy the pundits and are living longer than ever."

or Byron MacGregor's song "The Americans" from 1974

Charlatan

I think the reason the ads in the US say -- "Ask your doctor if XYZ is good for you" without even telling you what it is or what it does -- has to do with advertising regulations. I don't think pharmaceutical companies are allowed to make claims about what their pill can do.

In fact, I don't think they were allowed to advertise at all until very recently.

I know they can't run those types of ads in Canada.

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Janey

please come! I have space in my house. we can diet together.

Jeff

That kicked so much ass. So many good points. My fav line:

"This homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought, that’s what I’m going to use it on. Why am I judging this poor bastard?"

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Thome

When I clicked on the post I thought it was going to be about this story about Virginia passing fines on 'anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."'. Colour me pleasantly surprised.

This is the first thread I've visited outside the newbie forum, where it all seems to be 'What's a guy gotta do to see some boobage around here?', and I've gotta say if they're all as interesting as this I've got a lot of good reading to do here.

I live in the UK, and I've never visited America, but a lot of the lyrics there can apply here. Has anyone previously homeless here tried to go up to a store and ask them if they'd pay you to stay away from them and bum somewhere else? I saw someone try that the other day. Didn't work so he just sat outside the door and guilted everyone that looked like they'd go in.

omega2K4

Hahahaha. That's funny stuff.

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clavus

Look, I love my country. I'm proud to be an American. Overall, we make the world a better place. But we also do some absolutely stupid, embarassing crap, and it seems like this crap is increasing exponentially.

Funny song. I laugh because its all true.

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Suave

I like it. Also looks like he gave some homeless people temporary employment, which is nice.

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Nancy

Yes he is:

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

mokle

Yup. I believe the regulation was that if the company said what ailment the drug treated, they had to disclose all known side-effects. Not saying the disease was some sort of loophole to get around listing side effects.

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Nancy

Exactly!
Of course there are a few examples of people getting fat because of some rare illness but the vast majority is fat because of what they do and don't. It ticks me off when they won't realize or admit that.

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Nancy

I'm aware of that. However this song is just one American's opinion. I asked for all of yours in here.

I've only heard Facts of Life so far. It's also Søren providing the music (nothing like in this one) and a woman doing the talking

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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Nancy

It may not apply to all the successful people out there but there are numerous examples of people being tread on as a teenager that becomes very succesfull later in life as sort of an revenge

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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Nancy

I see this as more of a wake up call.

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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

animosity

I have this song on my computer. I dont watch much TV so I have not seen the video, but the statements are both funny and true.

I know everytime I see a bum I get pissed off that they are asking for my money. I always think to myself, "get a job you bum! Try working for a living!" ...and then I remember that I don't have a job either.

ironmaiden7o7

His statements are quite entertaining and humorous. It's realistic, sad but true.

Scorps

I guess so, but its on CNN everyday

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pinkie

Yeah, it's not really a wake up call. It's on the news, and has been on the news almost daily for decades. But corporate marketing and the fast food industry play mind fuck games with the ignorant. And with so many other obese people, homeless people, or filthy rich greedy corrupt politicians around, it just becomes accepted as the norm. It's disgusting, it's pathetic, it's low-down-dirty-awful, but a news flash, it's not...