Blog: Stereogum

Name: The Lonely Island Progress Report: America’s mightiest novelty band slip on a Turtleneck & Chain The genre known as "comedy music" is often regarded as the sad realm of the one-hit wonder. It’s fair to say that most comedy songs - no matter how clever or funny or particularly zietgeisty they might be - tend to have a pretty short shelf life. Much like the very 21st century phenomenon known as the viral video (generally the necessary visual component to any kind of successful “comedy music”), most songs created for [...]