Now this isn't my favorite song by The Presidents of the United States of America, but it is a good one. (My favorite is of course Peaches.) The topic of the song isn't very happy, but the beat is fun to listen to and the band sort of keeps you from thinking to much about what the song is about.
We have an unclear subject referred to as Lump. We get scant details about her situation and her life, but it's hard to know what Lump's condition is at this point. Just check out the chorus:
She's lump, she's lump//She's in my head//She's lump, she's lump, she's lump//She might be dead
The Parody-Gump
Gump takes a different kind of twist from your typical Weird Al spoof. Sure he's done lots of pop culture cross overs. We've already seen I Love Lucy and Star Wars so what's the big deal about Forest Gump? Well this is one time where we don't see Yankovic playing the lead role. You'd think with a song parodying Forest Gump that he'd be Weird Al, but he also likes to be the lead singer as well so in this case, he decides to put on the bad cap and dance around in the swamp.
The video is what really makes this song work. You get to see the guy dressed up as a very close match to Tom Hanks trying to connect to the people around him. You of course get the box of chocolates offered to a variety of people including Ruth Buzzi in her famous Laugh-in character, Gladys Ormphby, who swats Gump with her purse. You also get to see Gump edited into scenes just like happens in the movie, but for comedic affect. This is another great combo to watch back to back so you can see the similarities and differences.
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