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These are the 100 most recent news entries. The focus of the news on amIright is towards items about the site, such as parody contests.
| May 18 | www.inthe00s.com |
| WANTED: Parodies. OS must be a Beatles song. Parody must somehow relate to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Follow the link for info. Limited spots available :cD. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 9 | xkcd.com |
| The online geek comic xkcd has published a partial but amazing parody of The Major General's Song. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Jan 16 | Rolling Stone |
| For the weekend of January 13 2012, Rolling Stone Magazine is asking for feedback on the question "What Is the Best 'Weird Al' Yankovic Song?" (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Jan 2 | YouTube |
| On New Year's Eve at a restaurant in Maui, Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler performed "Come Together" with Weird Al. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 1 | www.cbs.com |
| Weird Al Yankovic appears in the latest episode of "How I Met Your Mother" (Noretta, Episode 7, Season 7) (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 22 | http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/ |
| Gaga changes her mind! Apparently her publicist made the decision, and when she heard the song and the outcry, she loved it and gave permission. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 20 | YouTube |
| Lady Gaga denies Weird Al permission to parody her lousy song. You can still view the parody on YouTube however. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 2 | Amiright February SOTM |
| Did you post a parody song on Amiright during the month of February 2011? If so you can sign up of for the SOTM (Song Of The Month) Contest and feedback exchange here (up until the 8th). (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 21 | Inthe00s |
| Amiright Holiday Special: New Year's Day/ Eve. Enter your parody about the New Year today! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 6 | Amiright |
| Did you post a parody song on Amiright during the month of November 2010? If so you can sign up of for the SOTM (Song Of The Month) Contest and feedback exchange here (up until the 8th). (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 22 | Inthe00s |
| Thanksgiving time is approaching so submit your Turkey Day parodies into the Amiright Holiday Special Contest! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 5 | Amiright |
| Did you post a parody song on Amiright during the month of October 2010? If so you can sign up of for the SOTM (Song Of The Month) Contest and feedback exchange here. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 7 | amIright News |
| Nothing wrong with your browser, amIright is changing it's design/appearance. Nothing is finished yet, but the goal is a larger, easier to read font and better layout if information to increase ease of reading. Follow the link to inthe00s for more updates or follow the amIright Facebook page for more updates. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 4 | Amiright |
| Did you post a parody song on Amiright during the month of September 2010? If so you can sign up of for the SOTM (Song Of The Month) Contest and feedback exchange here. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 19 | AmIRight Artistry: Round 80 Tears for Fears |
| Have you taken on Tears for Fears? If so join the Artistry Round in their honor! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 12 | amIright News |
| Malcolm Higgins, amIright's first author to reach 1000 parodies, has passed away. We're all going to miss ya Malcolm. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 30 | Michael Jackson Artistry Round 79 |
| Have you taken on the King of Pop? Michael Jackson's round is up, enter your parody of any of his many hits (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 26 | www.inthe00s.com |
| Don't Miss Your Chance To Be In Matthias's Song Parody Documentary!!!! ALL PARODISTS WELCOME!!! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 20 | www.inthe00s.com |
| Help Matthias out with a Song Parody documentary. Parody author Matthias Stove is working on a documentary about the world of parody from its roots with Tom Leher, to the man who made it popular Weird Al Yankovic and even the Indie Parody scene. I want as many people in this video as possible. I can predict only great things to come of this! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 20 | AmIRight Round 78 Britney Spears |
| Have you parodied Britney??? Join the Artistry round in her honor (or dishonor depending on your tastes) (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 11 | AmIRIght Artistry Competition: Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Don't miss your chance to enter the Lynyrd Skynyrd Artistry Round, each artist is only drawn once! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 28 | amIright News |
| The hard drive for the amIright webserver is in the process of failing. There may be some downtime for the site in the next day or two while we move the site to a new server. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 26 | Elton John Artistry Round on AmIRight |
| Don't miss your chance to enter the one round for one of the top musicians of all time, Elton John. Pay your tribute by entering the artist round in his honor. . .any song by Elton is eligible for parody as long as you've posted your parody here on AmIRight by the entry deadline. GOOD LUCK! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 31 | amIright News |
| Happy Ten Years - April Fools Day. As of April 12th, amIright as a standalone site is 10 years old. I'm celebrating a bit early by placing the original homepage design back on the site for a day. If you missed it, you can still see it with this link. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 14 | AmIRight Artistry Competition: Stevie Wonder |
| Enter the Artistry Round for Stevie Wonder with your best Stevie Wonder parody. . .each artist only comes along once!!! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 7 | amIright News |
| New interim design is now active, if you're having issues please visit this link to InThe00s and leave a comment. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 30 | amIright News |
| AmiRight parody author Johnny D wins Boston.Com's Holiday Song Parody Contest (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 11 | amIright News |
| Today's parodies are now listed, sorry for the delay. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 7 | amIright News |
| Fixed the problems with the site sections that used amazon for retrieving album covers. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 12 | Badave Bi-Weekly Radio Show (7-12-09) |
| This Bi-Week's show features many AmIRight Authors including: Spaff.com, Below Average Dave, Phil Alexander, Jeff Reuben, EmiLoca, Merry & Pippin, Mikey Squirrel, Rick Cormier, Matthias, Slyth66, Medemia and Ann Hammond! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 28 | Badave Bi-Weekly Radio Show |
| Bi-Weekly Badave Show this week tributes Video Games, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. . .Played lots of parodists including AmIRight's own Below Average Dave, Mikey Squirrel, Wolverine, Phil Alexander, Merry & Pippin, Matthias, Rex Ungericht, Rick Cormier, Jeff Reuben, Red Ant, and Ann Hammond (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 14 | Badave Parody Radio Show on the Mad Music Archive |
| The Biggest Badave Show ever, featuring AmIRight authors Emi Loca, Jeff Reuben, Red Ant, Conqueror of Parodies, McKludge, Phil Alexander, Spaff.com, Below Average Dave, Matthias, Ann Hammond, Merry & Pippin, Rick Cormier, Cheeky Monkeys,, Mikey Squirrel, Agrimorfee and several non-AmIRight authors whose music you've probably never heard like Peter Coffin, DJ Particle, Sharm and much much more (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 1 | badave.com |
| Did you post a recording or youtube video during the January, February or March 2009? Enter the Performance of the Quarter competition! It's free, it's fun and hey it's free exposure. . .read about the rules first please... (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 30 | AmIRight Idol Winner Announced |
| Congratulations to the AmIRight Idol 2008 Winner: Matthias!! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 29 | amIright News |
| nally has done the impossible, and reviewed the entire misheard lyrics corrections backlog of over 9000 entries after 9 months of work. Thanks nally! We can finally turn on the corrections suggestion script in the misheard lyrics section again. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 9 | amIright News |
| An ALL NEW second misheard lyrics book is now available. This time we focus on the 80s and even included some sections from inthe80s.com in this book. Makes a great Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Birthday gift! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 16 | amIright News |
| Do you remember a time when all Amirighters were combined for one common goal? A time when brother was against brother in a contest to end all contests? A time when time itself was in random disarray and humor was pouring from every pore? If you do then you probably remember "Ages of Amiright" a Matthias created project and the same man who brought you such classics as "The White Trash Story" and "Decathlon: Mark 2" now bring you the sequel to a much awaited challenge and that is "Ages of Amiright Part 2"!!! Join Today! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 22 | amIright News |
| Updated parody author merchandise will be available this December. If your name appears on the 2008 list before the end of November, you will be included! 10 submissions to the site from Jan 08 to Nov 08 qualifies you. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 4 | badave.com |
| Congratulations to Matthias, Agrimorfee, Art Paul Schlosser, Rick Cormier, Insane Ian, Red Ant, McKludge, Mikey Squirrel, neillien, Ann Hammond, Jack Wilson, Invisible Boy, Jeff Reuben, and Confission on their Badaves of the Month! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 7 | June 2008 Badave's of the month |
| Congrats to AmIRight regulars: Matthias, Spaff.com, Robert Lund, Agrimorfee, Rex Ungericht, Mikey Squirrel, Neillien, & Ann Hammond on your respective badave's of the month (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 26 | Wishmaster Misheard Odysseus' Idealist Alchemical |
| A bizarre and erudite mishearing of "Wishmaster" by Finnish metal band Nightwish, that turns it into a song about Odysseus, Star Trek, Immanuel Kant, communism, and the occult! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 18 | AmIRIght Parodist Idol |
| Deadline for AmIRight parodist idol extended to June 3rd, no voting required, just your favorite hobbies, enter today! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 28 | amIright News |
| amIright Idol 2008. Parody writers take note, there's a new contest to be judged by Red Ant, Agrimorfee and Below Average Dave. Follow the link to read how to enter! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 16 | AmiRight Parodist Convention 2008 in Tampa, FL |
| Free Hotel Stay at the Tampa Hilton, The 2008 AmIRIght Parodist Convetion, meet your favorite parodist like Red Ant, Below Average Dave, Matthias, Jeff Reuben & More, all you have to do is get the tickets for June 20th through the 22nd (or the 23rd if you prefer) This is a once in a lifetime opportunity DON'T MISS IT!!! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 7 | fro.gg |
| President Bush accidentally admits to being a music file sharing pirate, has Beatles on own playlist despite you can't get them on any legal music downloading platform and ripping your own legally purchased CDs is also against the law in the US! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 1 | Badave's of the Month March 2008 |
| Congrats to the badave's of the month (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 31 | amIright News |
| Yup, I played a funny on the front page. Check the link on this news article for a list of the past ones. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 31 | amiright.com |
| Congrats to Kristof. . . Kristof. . . and Kristof on your podium finishes, and a diverse top ten (after the podium of course) !! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 26 | CNN |
| Free Dr Pepper for everyone in the US, if Axl Rose releases Chinese Democracy in the year 2008. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Mar 16 | amIright News |
| 10 Day Parody Contest - Obsolete Political Parodies (ends March 27). $25 Amazon gift card for first place! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Feb 29 | badave.com |
| Congrats to AmIRighters: Spaff.com, Agrimorfee, Mikey Squirrel, Ann Hammond, Below Average Dave, Red Ant, The Conqueror of Parodies, Jeff Reuben, Rick Cormier and Matthias on your badave's top 10 of the month in February! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Feb 25 | Associated Press |
| Maxim is now releasing reviews of albums without listening to the music. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Feb 15 | Rolling Stone |
| "More Than a Feeling" writer does NOT heart Huckabee. (Or his use of the Boston song.) (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Feb 6 | www.seattleweekly.com |
| Pearl Jam (without Eddie Vedder) records a parody of "Rock Around The Clock" to support their favorite Presidential candidate (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Feb 1 | Badave's of The Month-January 2008 |
| Congrats to: Red Ant, Agrimorfee, Below Average Dave, Mikey Squirrel, The Conqueror of Parodies, Jeff Reuben, Josh2, and Rex Ungericht on badave's of the Month (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Jan 10 | vocalo.org |
| Below Average Dave will be performing Live via phone on 89.5 FM Vocalo.org Chicago, along with doing an interview--you may listen on air or live with their host Robin to hear the first ever fresh backing track performance to Mix Two Chemicals, and classics Pepsi Dependency and BAD Disgrace LIVE on 1/11/2008! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 30 | badave.com Live New Years Eve Countdown |
| Broadcast begins at 1pm EST, Below Average Dave is counting down the top 100 most active parodists of AmIRight, and the top 100 Recordings at badave.com live all day (should end around 10pm/10:30 EST) (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 27 | Woodpecker Records |
| How BMI and ASCAP extort business owners into paying music performance fees, even when music that is not licensed by them is played exclusively there. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Dec 2 | Badave's of The Month-November 2007 |
| Congratulations to Red Ant, Rex Ungericht, Mikey Squirrel, Matthias, The Conqueror of Parodies, Rick Cormier, Silly Nelson Duncan & Nuclear Bubble Wrap on Top 10 Badave's of the Month for November in respective sections! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 19 | E! Online |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers file Californilitigation against Showtime show using the title of one of their songs. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 12 | The AmIRight BAD recording Contest Results! |
| Congratulations to Red Ant for winning the first ever badave.com "Get Your Parody Recorded Contest" with his version of Loosing My Religion by REM, I have recorded it as promised for whoever won the round. The next round is SexyBack by Justin Timberlake (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Nov 1 | Badave's of The Month-October 2007 |
| Congrats to Red Ant, Mikey Squirrel, Rex Ungericht, The Conqueror of Parodies, Matthias, Rick Cormier, Spaff.com, Jeff Reuben & Below Average Dave on Hitting Badave.com's top ten in respective categories for October 2007, for more info check out the news story. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 30 | amIright News |
| What would be a bad choice for a cell phone ring tone? We're looking for situations when a particular song would be inappropriate if you got a call. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 18 | inthe00s |
| I need a list of songs with clapping in them. My two year old likes to clap, and I want to see what pop songs he might enjoy. Visit this inthe00s.com link and comment please! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 18 | YouTube |
| Philly talk show host reads an embarrassing misheard lyric on the air. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 16 | amIright News |
| Testing out a new layout for the site. Let me know if you have any problems with it. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 12 | badave.com Reaches 100 Recordings |
| Rick Cormier's "I Wonder if She's A Girl" becomes the 100th badave.com recorded parody! (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 4 | amIright News |
| Top ten contributors lists will soon begin to be added to all 90+ sections on amIright. I started with the parody fragments section. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Oct 3 | CNN |
| Owner of the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" is suing over the Family Guy parody in the episode, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 30 | Artistry: Allman Brothers (Rd 8) |
| Congratulations to Matthias, Rex Ungericht and Syncronos on your podium finishes in the Allman Brothers Artistry Round (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 17 | badave.com Artistry |
| Garth Brooks Artistry Round Completed, Congrats Rex Ungericht, Agrimorfee and Matthias (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 6 | amIright News |
| 100,000 misheard lyrics milestone now reached. Thanks to everyone who has submitted them over the past ten years. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 5 | amIright News |
| Song Parody Hall of Fame voting has begun and will run for two weeks (end on August 20th). You need an inthe00s account to vote. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Aug 2 | Artistry by AmIRight & Badave.com |
| Congrats to Red Ant, Below Average Dave and Stu McArthur on their podium finishes in Round 6 of Artistry--Frank Sinatra (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 26 | amIright News |
| A list of all the new sections added to amIright in the past month. We also have a new "music trivia" category to place sections that didn't really belong anywhere else. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| July 9 | badave.com |
| badave.com announces the SOTM for recorded parodies on it's site. Congrats to Below Average Dave, Rex Ungericht, and Matthias on the individual section wins for June 2007 (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 30 | WhatFreaks |
| The new owner of WhatFreaks has opened the door to the dirty version of amIright. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 30 | POTM May 2007 on AmIRight |
| Congratulations to Red Ant, Rick Cormier and Phil Alexander for the top 3 performances of the month. . . (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 23 | YouTube |
| Pearl Jam Black - Misheard Lyrics? (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 18 | amIright News |
| Help us figure out which famous parody authors should be nominated for a parody author hall of fame. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 14 | amIright News |
| List of new sections appearing on amIright this weekend. Some may go away or get changed, hence the reason it's not in the official navigation list yet. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 13 | Artistry News (Round 3) |
| Rolling Stones Rounds Recap and Standing Changes. Congrats Matthias, Rex Ungericht and Stu McArthur (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 8 | amIright News |
| We're back!!! After three days of being up and down, I have finally bit the bullet and purchased a new server with a new hosting company. I doubt we'll see nearly as many issues as we did with the old one. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| June 2 | Song Of The Month Contest |
| Congratulations to Stu McArthur, winner of the April Song of the Month Contest. Read all winners and runners-up, past and present, here. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 17 | badave.com |
| Congrats to Matthias, who won the first round of the Artistry Contest (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 9 | amIright News |
| New section, song titles not used as lyrics. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 4 | Userbars.org |
| Good news to all AmIRight parody authors out there: You can now download the Am I Right userbar image, for use as forum signature for Inthe00s.com, or any other forum. Just follow the links to the signature image, and presto! No registration required. I made this one for you parody guys out there for use in forum sites, just to show how much of a proud AmIRightist we are... (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 3 | AmIRight |
| Congratulations to Chris Frederick on his victory in the March SOTM with "88 Lines about 44 Cartoon Females" and the runners up Kristof Robertson and Wannabemustangjockey (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 3 | AmIRight |
| Congratulations to Phil Alexander for winning the March POTM for best Performance of the Month with "I've Got Body Hair", and the runners up Johnny D and Below Average Dave (Comments & Parodies) | |
| May 1 | Stereogum |
| Two great bands reunite at Coachella. Unfortunately the one with the hostile nimrod fans is scheduled after the more talented group. What do you think is going to happen? (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 24 | amIright News |
| New section, musical performer nick names. Bruce Springsteen is the Boss, can you think of other nick names performers are known by. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 17 | amIright News |
| New voting scripts, line breaks in comments, and shorter security images. All new stuff on amIright this week. Any problems or praise, let me know in the comments. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 11 | inthe00s.com |
| Yup, the messageboard is down again. Yup, it's my hosting provider's fault, AGAIN. Normally I'd want to scream and rant and rave, but it's such a normal thing to be disappointed by crappy web hosting companies at this point, that I just expect it. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 7 | amIright News |
| Seven years and counting... happy birthday amIright. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 6 | Song Of The Month Contest |
| Congratulations to Kristof Robertson, the 2006 AmiRight Parody Author of the Year. Congratulations to Arwen and Kristof (again), for sharing the Song of the Year Award. Check out some of the best parodies AmiRight has to offer, right here. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 6 | Song of the Month Contest |
| Congratulations to Kristof Robertson, winner of the February Song of the Month contest. Read all the winners and runners-up, past and present, here. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 5 | flickr |
| How an iPod saved a soldiers life. Excellent picture. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 5 | amIright News |
| Made some more changes to the comment system. People were complaining the site was slow, I think it was caused by the large number of scripts needed to pop open a window for reporting messages, so I changed the report tool. Let me know if there are still problems. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 4 | Blabbermouth |
| RIAA sues Nine Inch Nails fans for posting leaked tracks that the record label leaked intentionally for promoting on the web. (Comments & Parodies) | |
| Apr 1 | amIright News |
| As part of the comment system upgrade yesterday, I installed an IQ test. Press CONTROL-W (command-w on Macs) to find out how smart you are. (Comments & Parodies) |
