Fun Music Information -> Janis Ian
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Performer Pseudonyms:
Also known as: Janis Eddy Fink. Submitted by: MOR
Better Names for Current Songs:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "At Seven Drinks " | "At Seventeen" | MOR |
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "What's My Age Again?" | "At Seventeen," Janis Ian | Peter |
| "What Child is This?" | "Society's Child," Janis Ian | Raphael |
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Ate Seventeen" originally "At Seventeen"
What did you eat 17 of?
Hilary Duffelbag
"Eat Seventeen" originally "At Seventeen"
Eat 17 what?
Hilary Duffelbag
"Cat Seventeen" originally "At Seventeen"
Hilary Duffelbag
"Hat Seventeen" originally "At Seventeen"
Counting her hats?
Hilary Duffelbag
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"Society's Chill" originally "Society's Child"
Nobody
"Society's Chili" originally "Society's Child"
Nobody
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Seventy" | Merry & Pippin |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Halloween" | B Alcorn |
| "At Seventeen" | "At 115(MPH)" | Scathe |
| "At Seventeen" | "At 33" | Susanna Viljanen |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Thirty-three" | Stuart McArthur |
| "At Seventeen" | "The Batmobile" | Merry & Pippin |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Thirty-Three" | Royce Miller |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Twenty-Seven" | Jules |
| "Society's Child" | "I Can't Watch You Anymore" | Sammy Reed |
| "At Seventeen" | "At Thirty-Two" | Doug Raiden |
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Fly Too High | Icarus' Answering Machine | FussBudgetVanPelt |
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Stupid Girl Garbage | At Seventeen Janis Ian | Stupid Girl At Seventeen She won't graduate high school. | Ed |
| When A Child Is Born Charlotte Church | At Seventeen Janis Ian | When a Child is Born At Seventeen Now that WOULD be an amazing birth. | Stephanie Craddock |
| Tired Of Sex Weezer | At Seventeen Janis Ian | Tired Of Sex At Seventeen | Gretchen Wieners |
| Touch Of Grey The Grateful Dead | At Seventeen Janis Ian | Touch Of Grey At Seventeen | Mare Ego Round |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
Misheard Lyrics:
"At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
American and infantile. Original Lyrics: And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who marry young and then retire. | "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
American and infantile. Original Lyrics: And high school girls with clear skinned-smiles
Who marry young and then retire. |
"At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: And those of us with radish faces
Lacking in the choice of races. Original Lyrics: And those of us with ravished faces
Lacking in the social graces. | "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: I murdered, faked insanity
All ugly girls like me, at seventeen. Original Lyrics: And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen. |
| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics: And those of us with rabbit's faces
Lacking in the social graces. Original Lyrics: And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: SusanJH After mishearing the lyric, I was real surprised the first time I saw Janis Ian and realized she didn't look like a rabbit. I had envisioned her with big ears and truly enormous front teeth, like the Trix cereal rabbit. |
Misrhymed Lyrics:
"At Seventeen"
The Misrhymed Lyrics: And high-school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired. Why They're Misrhymed: That's a pretty lame effort, Ms. Ian.
Submitted by: Doug Montgomery
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Song Lyrics That Name Check Celebrities:
"Murdering Stravinsky"
The Lyrics: We're murdering Stravinsky
Shooting at Ravel Burying Picasso Slaughtering Caetano at the gates of hell We're bringing down The Beatles Dylan and his pals We're working very hard to be the avante garde Murdering Stravinsky Who They Mention: Composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, and Caetano Veloso
Artist: Pablo Picasso The Beatles Submitted by: Tania WYEP
| "Boots Like Emmy Lou's"
The Lyrics: If I had boots like Emmy Lou's
I'd wear my hair like Loretta used to do I'd sing like Patsy Cline And Kitty Wells combined ... I'd buy my clothes from Nudie Have fingernails like Tammy Tease my hair like Dolly Who They Mention: Emmy Lou Harris
Loretta Lynn Patsy Cline Kitty Wells Tammy Wynette Dolly Parton Submitted by: Tania WYEP
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| There are additional celebrity lyrics available. | |
Band Name Anagrams:
Is A Ninja Submitted by: Lucinda Blair
Lyrics Pronunciation:
"At Seventeen"
The Lyrics: And debentures of quality
And dubious integrity Why: She pronounces "debentures" as "DEB-en-churs", not "duh-BEN-churs", the correct pronunciation.
Submitted by: crazydon
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