FIRST Song Parody Contest Playlist and moving foward

[Ringo5tarr]

I saw stuff like "FRC Rhapsody" and the other one, "We're gonna build a robot", which are the two that I consider actual parodies that are good, (I don't think "First can change the world" is actually parodying anything) to be good not because they advertised FIRST to the rest of the world, but it was a product of love for FIRST and all of the things that it had built up as their own inside jokes, people watch them and laugh at all the inside jokes and get sucked in by the references that are going by so fast that you con't even pick them up by the time they've past, but then the majority of parodies are A.) SLOW, allowing you to think Oh god, so much cringe. B.) not really using references, the songs ended up about being about FIRST in general, and usually in a way that doesn't let people say things like WATER GAME, and TOTES MA GOATS. C.) somehow, these people who (some of which) are going for an award that is based upon a video, don't know how to edit a video or manage audio.

If my team wasn't already making a parody, I would've tossed in my own video, it would probably be a parody of REMs "It's the end of the world as we know it" but instead we get a top cringe "Uptown Girl" parody, RIP.

[TheMilkman01]

Alright, so I'll admit: I made this post prematurely. After watching the parodies that were added in the last day I was pleasantly surprised and genuinely enjoyed some. I understand that some people really do love making parodies and have fun making them -– I'm not denying that. I generally have a blast as well. I'm making this response to essentially clear up my point: I'm not against parodies in FIRST, I'm criticizing the way FIRST implemented it. There was so much room for improvement from FIRST since last year's contest, to supply more helpful resources, to promote better, and to generally improve the experience. It seems to me that FIRST didn't promote it as much, in fact, they gave less time to complete the parody (I believe last year's due date was after Thanksgiving), and left most of the responsibility to the teams. Granted, FIRST has every right to do that. I just disagree, and at the end of my original post, left some ideas to throw around about how improvements could be made, and highly encourage everyone to consider that too. FIRST media is so much more than parodies, and if we do every year in the future, it will get stale. Even if contests were every other year, with parodies being one year, and another different contest the next, then back to parodies, I believe that would be a better model to implement than having yet another parody contest next year.

All this being said, I support every single team or individual who submitted these past two years. It's not easy, I'm proud of you all for getting involved, and I'm sure we all gained some invaluable experience in the process. No one who participated should regret that decision.

[bobbysq]

Originally Posted by Ringo5tarr

B.) not really using references, the songs ended up about being about FIRST in general, and usually in a way that doesn't let people say things like WATER GAME, and TOTES MA GOATS.

We should make our own FRC parody album based on a bunch of CD memes and general FRC satire. Chief Delphi The Musical?

[Ringo5tarr]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

We should make our own FRC parody album based on a bunch of CD memes and general FRC satire. Chief Delphi The Musical?

ROCK OPERA

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

We should make our own FRC parody album based on a bunch of /r/frc memes and general FRC satire. /r/frc The Musical?

FTFY