Randy Rainbow sings 'MAGADU' plus the Marsh Family sings two songs about Trump and Harris

Spooky season is over. It's time to return to election season. Fortunately, Randy Rainbow returned with MAGADU - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody to make it entertaining.

Election drama is in full swing—how are you staying sane?
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Parody of “Xanadu” (Music/Lyrics by Jeff Lynne)

Parody Lyrics by Randy Rainbow

Song Produced, Orchestrated, Mixed, Mastered by: Michael J Moritz Jr @michaeljmoritz

Vocal Arrangement - Brett Boles @thebrettboles

Lead and Backing Vocals - Randy Rainbow
Piano, Synths - Michael J Moritz Jr
Drums/Engineer - Billy LaGuardia
Sax - Andrew Snapp

I'm going to repeat what I wrote in Stewart, Meyers, and Colbert take closer looks at Trump 'working' at McDonald's.

I don't think convicted criminal Donald Trump learned one useful thing from this experience. He's too old a dog to learn new tricks.

Repeating the fiction of Haitian immigrants eating pets doesn't count as a new trick; it's just another example of his vulnerability to conspiracy theories. Woof.

Project 2025 doesn't count, either. That's someone else's new trick, which prompts Trump to do his best Sergeant Schultz impression, instead claiming Agenda 47 as his own. That's full of old Trump tricks as well. The possible exception is "freedom cities" to solve the housing crisis, one of the "cyberpunk villain ideas straight out of Snow Crash that I examined in Rachel Maddow examines Curtis Yarvin, one of JD Vance's influences. JD Vance can certainly learn new tricks.

As for all the garbage references, those came out of Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden. That deserves a post of its own, but I don't know if I will have time before Tuesday. I'll dispense with it for now by remarking that the one in 1939 was enough.

Follow over the jump for two song parodies by the Marsh Family, who I featured in Randy Rainbow sings 'JD, JD... (Married Lady)'.

I begin with "Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen about Donald J. Trump.

Well, with the polls so tight a week out, we decided to revisit US Election politics one last time, and ambitiously to have a stab at building a parody around one of the greatest songs ever written, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” which was the inimitable mock opera lead single from their album “A Night at the Opera” released in 1975. It was a monstrous production, created across eight generations of 24-track tape and with hundreds of overdubs, complex layered harmonies, subsections, innovations. And at its core, the spectacular vocals of Freddie Mercury – one of the finest singers ever, on top form.

It has been parodied so many times already, including an iconic version by the Muppets (which the kids loved and grew up with), and it’s been twisted to fit subjects from the menopause to coronavirus. But our chosen subject is the willingness of so many decent people to hold their nose and - likely - vote for Donald Trump in the forthcoming US Presidential Election. We know we’ve sung about it already twice, and we don’t live or vote in the USA. But the whole world has a stake in this election – and it’s a free world. At least, for now. We chose not to riff off the many daft claims, stories, or issues (the cat ladies and cats and dogs have been cut up plenty), but just to try to cut to the fundamentals, and think about behaviours, facts, values, and history. Some of the footage is from the US Congress hearings.

Yes, why is the presidential election so close?

Now for something more positive, "Gimme Hope Kamala" - Marsh Family adaptation of Eddy Grant "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna" for Trump vs Harris.

With only a matter of weeks until the pivotal US Presidential Election in November, and the Democratic National Convention having begun today, we decided to revisit the magnificent Eddy Grant's controversial and catchy anthem about international politics in the time of Apartheid in South Africa - "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna". The original song was written and recorded in 1988 by the British-Guyanese artist as an anti-apartheid British musical intervention (it didn't chart in the US) and it was banned by the SA government for daring to critique and offer hope for change in Johannesburg (Jo'Anna) and beyond.

So we've flipped the concept back to a person - because that's how the US contest is always configured - and set up Kamala Harris as the centre of the chorus as she now occupies the centrepiece of hope for those wishing to avoid another Donald Trump administration. There are a few lateral references to Trumpisms (such as his claim that he shared a helicopter ride, or that Americans would never have to vote again if they elected him). But it just felt a good fit to be able to sing something upbeat and positive - and for our two girls to see the most powerful person in the world might be about to be a woman for the first time, in contrast to Trump's track record on gender and rights.

So they put the accent on the wrong syllable — it fits the song.

Tonight is the end of Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. I don't plan on writing a post about it. Instead, I leave my readers this meme.


Stay tuned for a highlights post of tonight's Saturday Night Live as the Sunday entertainment feature.