At the weekend, we watched WEIRD: the Al Jankovic Story, which I had imagined was a conventional biopic, but turned out to be quite something else!
Anyway, I too like to play around with lyrics to songs, but with substantially less hair and no accordion.
This morning, a mid-1980s song popped into my head. It’s just a *great* tune, but the theme behind the lyrics had never occurred to the 22 year old me, or in any of the 38 years since…
…the tune in question is Digging Your Scene by the Blow Monkeys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no5XeOJHxK8
and the lyrics that had passed me by are “one of the earliest songs about AIDS”.
Which has a certain poignancy in 2025, as Trump and his monstrous cronies ramp up the vilification and endangerment of trans and queer people
…Anyway:
WEIRD’s not got the message, baby
It’s sad we’re gonna fade away
(What in the world is this feeling
To catch a breath and leave us reeling?)
It’ll get us in the end, overshoot revenge
Oh, we know we should come clean
But we prefer to deceive
(Every day we walk alone
And pray that overshoot won’t see us)
We know it’s wrong
I know it’s wrong
Tell me why
Are we digging the #WTFcene?
I know I’ll die, baby
Props to Dr Robert.
Not as upbeat as Weird Al, I know 😔
…
WEIRD AI Jankovic
Just beat it (beat it), beat it (beat it)
Christo fascists, fk off and beat it
Bin curs-ed DeepSeek
Bin OpenAI
Bin the whole lot or we’re all gonna fry
Just beat it (beat it), just beat it (beat it)
Wooh!
Jonathan Schofield