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"Vance VP" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA [1]

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Date: 2024-07-26  

Here is a delightful satirical song on J.D. Vance, created and performed by the U.K. based Marsh Family. Some you have seen it already, but here it is for those you haven’t, along with some background info.

The song is well-performed with its catchy tune; but the lyrics are so funny and so very accurate in how they describe J.D. Vance, his dark vision and his opportunistic character. Bravo!

Background on the song from the Marsh Family —

We chose for the parody subject matter the official approval at the convention this week of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate for the presidential ticket for the Republican Party. It’s probably fair to say that Vance is very little known on this side of the pond – hence the need for some additional info and graphics on this video – but he made an ill-advised splash in our world by mouthing off about the UK, pretending a concern about nuclear proliferation (when for a long time he’s been helping facilitate Putin’s aggression) and half-jokingly describing the UK as an “Islamist country”. This prompted politicians from across the spectrum to condemn his comments – on which you can find details here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk.... So since he dished it out, and since - for obvious (but different) reasons - now is not an appropriate moment for a song about either Trump or Biden, here’s our less-than-impressed profile of yet another populist politician with highly flexible morality, worrying contempt for democratic process and discourse, but big funding and a big mouth who’s happy to tap into ordinary people’s fears while claiming to be an example of their dreams.

Here are the lyrics from the video —

Ooh, J.D. Vance: you’ve arrived!

Nothing you won’t sacrifice

Ooh, Hillbilly Elegy

King of hypocrisy

Anti-Trump a few years ago

Called him out as a ‘Hitler’ show

Now you’re playing his sidekick, kissing Donald’s ring

Looks like you’d do anything

Lots of money behind that guy

Pretty young and the beard is … fly

Seize the state and abuse it – January 6th was fine

It’s just a move for Vance

And if he gets the chance

He’ll be the Vance VP

One heartbeat from autocracy

Cash machine

Feeding votes to the tangerine

Oh, yeah

He’ll advance climate change

Let Putin conquer Ukraine

Ooh, screw the world, G.O.P.

Chasing a fantasy

He’s a real chameleon

Social media posts have … gone

Atheist to a Catholic, names he’s had a few

Doesn’t like immigrants

Unless they help finance

Him being the Vance VP

One Big Mac from the nuclear key!

Bad mouthing

All the Muslims in OUR country

Oh, yeah

He might turn out to be

A New Right replacement theory

Ooh, watch out world:

Note Putin’s glee at the Vance VP

Rubbing his hands, you see!

The song barely covers all the creepy and icky details about JD that have come in the past few days — we won’t get into them here.

The Marsh Family

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