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I first got turned on to Garfunkel and Oates here at fdl back in 2008, when a commenter linked to one of their early songs. Soon afterward, their song about Pat Robertson and Proposition 8, Sex With Ducks, became their first big Youtube and internet hit. Their early work as a singing group was markedly low tech and low budget, with Ricki Lindhome (Garfunkel) playing a cheap electric keyboard and Kate Micucci (Oates) playing ukelele. They were gifted with a sense of self parody from the beginning. With Sex With Ducks, they began producing fairly slick music videos that not only are more expensive to produce, they sometimes parody such videos made by others.
The “official video” of Save the Rich does just that – it parodies such iconic music videos as We Are the World. Here is the official version of Save the Rich:
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Cool; thanks ET.
love these adorable brilliant girls.
The lyrics suggest the ideas the Left wing blogs have been talking about are reaching the popular mind this is very interesting since we don’t get tv or media coverage.
How can I not link to this in a Garfunkel and Oates thread – to me one of the succinctest, most hilarious summations of the horrors of capitalism ever
(lyrics NSFW)
A satire to make Aristophanes proud. Thanks, and recc’d.
great way to start the day.
i love the casting of the rich old guys and the wonderful singers.
I totally love these guys. Miucci and Lindhome are both actors, and are just as much fun at the movies or on TV.
Don’t watch hardly any TV myself beyond Iron Chef and Chopped on the food channel. Garfunkel and Oates are among the singers and troubadours I follow on youtube, though. Another favorite of mine is David Rovics.
Great. Wish it would go viral.
I love this and Garfunkel and Oates!
I posted this on my facebook page and an old, dear friend–who inherited 3 million dollars as a kid and burned through it in half a decade, has been living poor ever since–accused me of being like Hitler in scapegoating wealthy people!