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"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" And Other Pop Songs Expressed With Graphs

cry-for-me-argentina.pngBefore now, rap songs dominated the "song's lyrics expressed through ironic graph" genre. (The most famous was the Village Voice's analysis of This Is Why I'm Hot.) Now a bunch of loveable webtards have done the same to pop songs. Some favorites are below.

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There are more here and here. Commenters are of course encouraged to top this.

7:39 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Nick Douglas
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  • I put together a pie chart, but I don't know how to enter it into the comment box. Help, anyone?

  • Eh. Fuck it.

    Reasons to Leave on a Midnight Train to Georgia:
    (In %)

    Would rather live in his world than in own world (50%)
    LA 'too much for the man' (10%)
    Go back to simpler place in time (25%)
    Find out what's left in world in world let behind (15%)









  • @adminslave: let=left. Back to work/sleeping with eyes open.

  • Proof for the proposition: "That we should be together is undeniable."

    1) A [You are like a dream come true.]
    2) B [I just want to be with you.]
    3) C [You are the only one for me.]
    4) D [I believe my work is done.]
    5) F [We should be together undeniably.]
    Where:
    6) If A and B, then C.
    7) If A, B, and C, then you will fall in love with me.
    8) If ~[A, B, C, or D], then ~F
    9) If F, then A.
    ______
    A

    Proof:
    A (1)
    B (2)
    A v B (1, 2 addition)
    C (6 modus ponens)
    D (4)
    C v D (3,4 addition)
    A v B v C v D (1,2, 6,4 addition)
    F (8 double negation)
    A (9 modus ponens)

    The proposition F is affirmed; however, the necessity to start back at one is simultaneously thereby established.

  • @Victor Ward: You left out a few:

    1.See the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue.
    2.Note that Security does not see him as he walks through the gates of Graceland because they are huddled around his tomb
    3. Walk with your feet 10 feet off of Beale Avenue
    3. If asked whether you are a Christian child, reply in the affirmative




  • Someone please leave directions for putting in pie charts/graphs/ Jpegs. PLEESE??? Richard?

  • Image of Hez Hez at 08:39 PM on 02/23/08 *

    I'll try and post instructions on your Commenter Profile Page here.



  • @Hez: Thanks Hez! I'm so glad the family is back together on the weekends.

  • @MisterHippity: LOVE your work! Reminded me of a cover band that used to do this song in a bar I worked in years ago, and the guy would always sing "There's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, 51 if You're Claudine Longet."

  • Sorry, guys, I am a low-techie...
    -
    Things I Have Done
    (Only To Be With You):

    * climbed the highest mountain
    * run through the fields
    * run (again)
    * crawled
    * scaled these city walls

    Things You Have Done:

    * broke the bonds
    * loosed the chain
    * carried the cross of my shame

  • @She Blinded Me With Omniscience:

    So... Alaska Dreaming?

  • @lilpupdog: I was going to go back and fix that right after I typed it, and I hoped that people would deduce that I meant "largest (in population) state."

    Plus, your correction is funny. :-)

  • People Interested in Achieving Immortality

    a woman's man
    a mime in a hurry
    a formerly abused child

    a brother
    a mother
    the staff of the New York Times

  • @MisterHippity: When Pete Seeger sees this, he's going to start your fan club.

  • What makes me your man:

    Photobucket

  • @Ms.Hatfield-McCoy: I must stay deep, 'cause talk is cheap: great reference!

  • @MisterHippity: Awesome

  • @MisterHippity: You just keep getting exponentially better