In case you’re stressed out with taxes, Passover, mass shootings, war in Ukraine, and the news that WordPress is getting rid of its paid plans for personal bloggers, I’m posting another music collaboration I did with Timothy Price for some comic relief.
This is a video of a parody of “Slow Hands” by Niall Horan titled “No Pants”.
I originally wrote these parody lyrics early in the pandemic when working from home was still novel. Later, I started blogging, met the incredibly talented Tim Price, and Tim encouraged me to record the vocals, and then he put together the instrumentals and this awesome and hilarious video starring Princess Jasmine Barbie® as an homage to our last music collaboration in which I played Princess Jasmine. I will note here that I look absolutely nothing like Princess Jasmine Barbie.
This video features Barbie nudity. There is no human nudity in this video.
Here are the lyrics for the Barbie nudity sensitive readers:
No Pants parody lyrics by JYP Doing all my work at my place Cause I can’t go to the office space So I work from bed Yeah, I work from bed I’m on conference calls all-day Laptop camera pointed at my face But I’m stuck at home And I’m all alone, so No pants When you’ll see my face and not my body No, no chance That I’m going to bother doing laundry Can’t go Coronavirus has been stoppin’ All plans, so I’m wearin’ No pants No pants I can’t exercise in quarantine Been puttin’ on the COVID-15 Now my belt won’t close Can’t go buy new clothes, so No pants When you’ll see my face and not my body No, no chance that I’m going to bother doing laundry I know Coronavirus has been stoppin’ All plans, so I’m wearin’ No pants Buttoned up to my collarbone Looking so professional it’s what I wear when I work from home Work from home, work from home Buttoned up to my collarbone Just don’t ask what’s down below No pants When you’ll see my face and not my body No pants Cause what’s the point of doing laundry I know Coronavirus has been stoppin’ All plans, so I’m wearin’ When you’ll see my face and not my body No pants Cause what’s the point of doing laundry I know Coronavirus has been stoppin’ All plans, so I’m wearin’ No pants No pants No pants

Note: I am not disclosing whether these lyrics are inspired by real life experience.
Enjoy!
JYP, aka “Princess J” (Thanks equips!)
Very clever lyrics! Parodies are revealing, sometime, and mostly fun. I read Tim’s post, and commented. In my debut book, Three Years of Her Life, the main character deals with bigotry in 1960, many in her family hate Jews. She,a nurse, falls in love with a Jewish doctor, and the story takes wild twists & turns. Looking forward to reading more in your blog. 📚🎶 Christine
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Thanks! I love parodies. Nice to meet you.
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Fun video.
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Well I’m glad to see you have the common decency to not disclose any autobiographical influence.
Well done! Clever lyrics.
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I’m keeping it classy. I only take my pants off in my lyrics
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Ok, I confess: The “COVID 15” weight gain part is pretty true to life.
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Thanks!
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Cute video.❤️
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Thank you! Tim (https://offcenternoteven.com/) deserves credit for putting this awesome video together
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I’m happy you got to make your wonderful lyrics into a parody. I hadn’t thought about if you were inspired by real life. When I write parodies, there is often a real life inspiration, but there are times I just think of the most bizarre things and put them together. When I read your lyrics I thought about a series of Dilbert cartoons on telecommuting from years ago.
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I’m with you in that 1) with poetry and fiction generally, I never assume it’s autobiographical or that the narrator is the author and 2) with parodies specifically, they work far better if you’re writing about something widely known and general vs. something specific to you*. But I find on WP, a lot of people assume the opposite re: #1, so I figured I’d clear that point up.
*The exception being if you’re writing a parody for a particular audience only and that audience all has the same context. Like in karaoke league when it was parody week, I did parody lyrics that were super-specific to that karaoke league. They were well-received, but would have made no sense if shared to a wider audience.
Dilbert is great.
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I notice humor is often taken seriously on WP, also. On my Wormhole fiction, El is me, because I don’t really know how to make it work otherwise. I’m not very good when it comes to fiction. So many stories that will never see the light of cyberspace.
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I think part of it is that when you are reading the blogs of strangers, you have no context. That said, I was taught in my writing classes to never ever assume that the narrator is the author in fiction or poetry.
I’ll have to check out your next installment! I find fiction hard – less because of autobiographical elements (my life is boring, so it isn’t worth trying to write fiction based on it) and more because of important things like creating a plot. I suspected “El” might be somewhat autobiographical, but again, I never assume.
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The plot. Exactly. And then there’s character development. Not one of my strong points.
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You came up with a whole time travel story line and another character who isn’t “El”, so you’re doing all right so far!
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True. But you haven’t read any of my failed attempts.
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But that’s the point. Revision is part of the process. You also didn’t read my previous attempt at writing up the “How I Almost (But Not Really) Starred In A Wildly Successful Movie Franchise” story because the first draft written several years pre-WordPress blog was pretty bad. I am a huge believer in the power of revision.
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I agree.
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Love those lyrics!
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Hehe, thanks!
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Oh I love those lyrics. Time to release our minds off the current overflow. 😌 Amazing, my friend.
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Happy you enjoyed, and happy I could take your mind off some of the general craziness.
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Sure, i enjoyed and I’m grateful for it. These times are so chokeing that good music and reading really helps for me.
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Exactly. Sometimes, we all just need to laugh
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Indeed, my JYP friend. ❤
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Wow, that absolutely made my day! Go Princess Jasmine and Princess JYP!!!
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I am SO glad that I made your day! Mission accomplished! Thanks!
-Princess JYP
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💖
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Barbie! That’s lewd, crude, and rude! Put on some pants! 😀 HA HA HA HA HA! Oh no!!
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“That’s lewd, crude, and rude” – I love this! I want to find context to use this in real life conversation. 🤣
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Awesome!!
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Thank you!!
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Ha ha, Barbie fanatics know the joy.
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Hehe
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loved it!!! 💖💖💖👏👏
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😍 Thank you!
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You’re so welcome!! 💖
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[…] extrovert and I fucking hated the introverts’ paradise of COVID lockdown [even if it meant not having to wear pants. (I have nothing against pants, to be honest.)] But also, introvert or extrovert, there’s […]
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Much appreciated humour! And…. Wtf WordPress seriously? I just closed down my self hosted WordPress and transferred it here for the easier community interaction etc. bought the personal plan for a year. I still get emails reminding me to choose my free domain name that came with the plan. Pretty soon they’ll be telling all us personal bloggers to just go over to tumblr , maybe that’s why they bought it. Le sigh.
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Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed.
I have the free plan and I am still annoyed with WordPress because of how this is going to impact all the other bloggers in my blogging community.
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Absolutely. I had a lot of pics and such with my self hosted and many important memories I didn’t want to lose when I migrated to .com from .org so I opted for the paid version, though free may have been sufficient. BUT after reading this I went to my account and it allowed me to renew at the same plan for a year at the 4.00/month. Maybe those plan fees are only for new blogs? Still crappy if it’s going to dissuade folks from making WordPress their choice because I love discovering folks like yourself and interacting on a non FB platform.
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Same. Facebook is awful, I lasted one day on Instagram before quitting, and Twitter doesn’t appeal to me at all. I considered Blogger, but I don’t like the platform. Honestly, I just wanted an anonymous blog. Anyway, I’m planning to stick around, and I hope WP doesn’t manage to push the community away.
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Confirmed with support that if on that plan, one may still renew for that plan, or whatever plan they are on. Just not new blogs . Still sad that some people may no longer find their way here, but I’m heartened to know that you use the free platform and find it to meet your needs. My boyfriend and I both enjoy reading your posts ❤️
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Yeah, I just saw that on the WordPress News Blog https://wordpress.com/blog/2022/04/05/introducing-wordpress-pro-one-plan-infinite-possibilities/. I am happy that bloggers with existing paid plans will essentially be grandfathered, but that is unfortunate re: new blogs. I had toyed with the idea of upgrading my plan at some point, although the free plan will still meet my needs for good while. Thank you, love the feedback ❤️
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Oh man this video is fucking hilarious. The doll’s perpetually serene expression just adds to it. Singing and lyrics on point. Just really grateful it’s Jasmine and not Jeffrey Toobin.
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🤣🤣🤣 I think we’re safe until Mattel makes a Jeffrey Toobin Barbie!
Thanks – appreciate the feedback and support!
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that’s hilarious! great job on that, i really enjoyed
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Thanks! Yeah, we all need some comic relief. Tim gets credit for putting the Barbie video together and making it happen. Glad you enjoyed!
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This is such a catchy song lol. And I might go out without underwear (I have actually) but no pants is a little too much. Though if I start working at home, I might just do it. That will be the apogee of laziness, and I’m already super lazy. I put on the Covid 15 too. Now I’m a fat ass who can’t be bothered reducing. Great stuff!
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I’m glad you enjoyed!! I’ve gone out without underwear too (sometimes laundry doesn’t always happen at the right time) but yeah, I would never go out without pants. I would say that I mostly wore pants while working from home during COVID, the key word being “mostly”. By this point, I’ve put on the COVID 20+ – “COVID 15” just rhymes better. So glad you enjoyed, this made my day!
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