🎵 TWISTED THERAPY (Oedipus Rex | Tom Lehrer | Cover Song) 🎵
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Tom Lehrer wrote and performed many clever, twisted songs in the 1950s and 60s - here’s my version of his classic “Oedipus Rex” with a few lyrical updates. You might need real therapy after watching it. :)
Project was filmed following all safety guidelines.
** CREDITS **
Producer, Director, Additional Lyrics, Performer: Whitney Avalon
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Orchestrator*, Music Mix, Master: Ryan O’Connell
Cinematographer: Merlin Showalter
Executive Assistant: Caroline Sharp
Assistant Editor: Kate West
Props: Kim Brunner
Colorist: Ryan K. McNeal
Associate Producer: We Make Movies Inc
*based on the original by Tom Lehrer, now in the public domain tomlehrersongs...
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** LYRICS **
From the Bible to the hottest new vlogs
There’s one theme each one catalogues
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood
There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim
Some called him Pat. Pat Ricide. That’s a dad joke.
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's index
Cause he loved his mother
His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother
Yes, he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
Tried to avoid the prophecies but strolled right into their atrocities
Though Oed got famous for his ploy
Just wait, this fate would not bring him joy
For history’s biggest Mama’s boy
Sure loved his mother
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out, one by one
A tragic end for a loyal son
Who loved his mother
So be sweet and kind to mother now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat
But maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And you may end up like Oedipus
(Better to marry a duck-billed platypus)
Than end up like old Oedipus “T.” Rex
Oh, that’s all our time for today. I’ll see you next week.
** THANKS FOR WATCHING! :) **
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YO MAMA!
🤔🤭😂🤯 and also, This is motherf--king great
i wait everyday for you to post, i am so happy (:
My wife and I had "The Masochism Tango" as our first dance at our wedding, the guests lost their minds. Lol😀
You and your wife are my kind of people 😆
Now that’s iconic
OMG i love that song!! I need to show it to my gf she'd adore it
This is damn delightful!
I keep thinking I'm weird for wanting to do something like that, but in reality I just need to find the right weirdo. High five to you and your awesome wife!
You and your wife are my new heroes.
Just goes to show Tom Lehrer has still got it after all these years. The references may be so dated as to qualify as historical, but it's still just as funny. And he continues to prove how cool he is by making his work public domain and enabling things like this.
Crazy how relevant he is to this day.
I have read in some of his videos how people "discover" him and are flabbergasted that "Who's Next?" was about the arms race back in the day and not the current world.
In Oedipus' defense, his mother wore a necklace that prevented aging.
And he didn't know she was his mother because he had been adopted
@@Angelwitch99 and wasn't told that he was adopted
as a greek; yes it was very tragic. I believe Antigone was his daughter too.
tragic family I'm telling you. She fell in love with her cousin.
@@chrissie3294 oh, yeah, I had to look up that Creon & Jacosta were siblings.
@@chrissie3294 Cousin marriage wasn't seen as strange until fairly recently in a historical perspective, and really it's only many first cousin marriages in a row that really cause a problem not one or two, it just used to be seen as a good bet that your cousin would have a lot more in common with you than some random person, and also for the nobility there was also the problem of them all already being interrelated and not wanting to dilute the pure and prestigious family bloodline with filthy commoner swill.
The audience: has come to expect songs based on modern pop culture fandoms
Whitney Avalon: "Have some ancient Greek tragedy!"
Greek mythology is really good though. and greek mythology is not only really good, but is the largest fandom pretty much, since almost every fantasy/science fiction has something based on greek mythology. there is a hercules in marvel's comics and wonder woman who is an amazon. harry potter has fluffy and centaurs, ariel from the little mermaid is the daughter of triton, who is son of poseidon. percy jackson who doesnt need and explanation, clash of the titans.
Not to mention nike.
@@GhostW1thTheMost Hell, even the word "echo" is a Greek myth. Moral of that story, like many other myths, was DON'T PISS OFF HERA. And also, don't ever enable Zeus. Just don't.
I’m one of the ones just super happy to see artists covering Tom Lehrer. His work has long been some of my favorite and I hope you and others will continue to bring it to modern audiences. (We will all go together when we go has been rather relevant these last few years with what’s going on in North Korea)
I love reading through some of the comments on his songs and finding people who "discovered" him in the last couple of decades get their minds blown when they realized his songs are quite possibly older than them!
Tom Lehrer made his songs public? That's amazing!
Yep! Check out tomlehrersongs.com for all the info.
@@WhitneyAvalon I don't know what to do with this information, but it's amazing. Thank you for spreading the word!
Tom Lehrer is a genius and a true gem of a man.
I think I'm gonna play this song on mother's day, right before I play Lonely Island's "Motherlover".
Oh that is brilliant!
Would love to see your moms expression after hearing that Lmao😂🤣
@@leoct1985 lmao she's use to my shenanigans. She'd just stare off into the camera like on an Office episode😂😂😂
This just goes to show that Tom Lehrer's songs transcend decades. My friend introduced me to his works in high school (circa 1998) and I still sing and enjoy them to this day. Well done Whitney! 😃😃
That Dad joke. Oh yes. I am adding it to my arsenal.
im gonna repeat my comment here since no one(but whitney, thanks for the heart) saw it most likely, but its literally a dad joke. (patricide =murder of your own father, father = dad)
@@GhostW1thTheMost 😂🤣🤣🤣
Tom Lehrer really is freaking rad!!!
I love the manic, upbeat tempo of all his songs, but I'm excited to see other artists interpretations of his work. Even if they are just a fraction as good this version, it's gonna be a blast.
Love it! So much possibility with that catalog going public domain. I’d love to see you poisoning some pigeons in the park with your puppet friends.
Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park is tied with We Will All Go Together as my favorite of his songs.
Although can you ever go wrong with any of his songs?
I love the one about plagiarism! (But remember to always call it, 'research')😉
I would have never thought I would have listened to a song about Oedipus... like, YOU'RE A GENIUS
Then you need to look up Tom Lehrer and listen to his songs. This is his genius song she's covering. Also, he was a mathematics professor at Harvard, besides being an amazing pianist, songwriter, and savage wit; so, an actual genius.
@@maxnorton1209 thank you! I have never heard of him! I'll check out!
@@maxnorton1209 also claims to have invented the jello shot
@@athena8794 That sounds like something he would have invented.🤣
I bought his albums when they first hit the marketplace many hundreds of years ago. Still have them, but also bought his complete Tom Lehrer CD collection. Thru these years, I don't remember anyone ever doing a "cover" of any of his material, especially Oedipus. Thanks, you did a great job in putting a new swing on it!
Now I'm imagining Tom Smothers shouting "mom liked you best!" at Tom Lehrer.
Tom Lehrer, Alan Sherman, and the Smothers Brothers... would that not have been the PERFECT concert?
Ooh, is this a precursor for more Greek mythology songs? If so, I am all for it!
More likely, and hopefully, it is a precursor to more Tom Lehrer covers.
I really expected her to say ,,That's 400$ now" at the end
Haha, the video's free here on UA-cam, but if you feel the urge to support my work after this little 'therapy' session, you can join the club at patreon.com/whitneyavalon for as little as $2! :)
@@WhitneyAvalon I would be even more willing to pay for actual therapy from you😋
@@WhitneyAvalon opedius rex.. Havent heard that name since high school,and was 15 years ago. Are you trying to say something or hinting on current events 👀?
@@hbluemole6941 therapy from Whitney, now that could be interesting
In greece we of course had to learn that story and I'm not even joking, it's way weirder than the song says
Is there a webpage that tells the story? I tried to Google "Oedipus", but all I get is the original song.
@@blockmasterscott I can tell it
@@blockmasterscott you can also check sparknotes, Oedipus Rex is listed under Oedipus plays I believe. Anyway, after you click that, it's the one called Oedipus the king.
Isn't it? I was a theater major so the play is very familiar to me. His parents were so misguided as to how to handle the prophecy, it boggles my mind.
@@WeShouldStabCaesar Thanks! :)
I've loved Tom lehrer's songs ever sense my mom entroduced them to me when I was a kid
Im always up for a tom lehrer cover! Personal fave is Poisoning Pidgeons In The Park
Mine as well!
I like to think that Tom would have loved this adaptation. You did this beautifully and had me cackling all the way through.
I love Tom Lehrer! This is such a great cover! Excited to see what else you get coming down the pipline!
I had no idea anyone remembered Tom Lehrer. You continue to delight me, miss.
Thanks for the trip down Nostalgia Lane. Dad's dad was a DJ back in Lehrer's day and introduced Dad to his & all kinds of other off the wall music. Dad of course passed the tomfoolery down to me and I grew not only listening to his music but with the song book That Was The Year That Was. Though some of it is certainly dated, his music has never not been relevant.
So glad to see Tom Lehrer getting some attention. I’ve loved them for years!!!
Bringing Tom Lehrer’s genius to a new generation. Thank you Whitney!
As someone who has been a life long Tom Lehrer fan, I was most impressed by this.
Literally was re-listening to That Was The Year That Was when this came up on my algorithm! Great cover. :)
I adore Tom Lehrer and I think you've done him justice. It was a fun little video!
That was so entertaining!! So many fun Tom Lehrer songs to hope you’ll cover / I’m crossing my fingers for “be prepared”!!
Be prepared but its sung by hitler
I'm so happy to see someone covering Tom Lehrer! Plus I always like your work.
LOVED this! I first discovered Tom Lehrer about 25 years ago and have been a fan ever since. Your updated version is fantastic (you even kept the platypus line)! If you were to make an entire album of Tom Lehrer songs, I'd buy it!
Thank you so much for introducing me to Tom Lehrer! He's so great!
Nice to see honor given to the great Tom Lehrer. Well done!
Omg, I love Tom Lehrer! Poisoning Pigeons in the Park is my favorite. I did a project on him in school
Combining two of my favorite performers.
I love Tom Lehrer! He is so brilliant! Great song, and your version is awesome!
i always loved Tom Lehrer... thank you for covering this!
This song is so unique, funny and amazing. You always put a very fun, funny and interesting spin on Mythology.
Throwing love at The Professor, well done !👍
It is BRAVE to take on a Tom Lehrer song, but - you carried it off. Brava!
Let's not forget the Sphinx and the famous riddle.
Yesss, I needed more Tom Lehrer content in my life lol
I just watched jreg's freud, refresh my subscriptions and voilà!
That was amazing.
Of course, *everything* Whitney Avalon does is amazing, so....yeah.
Also, anything Tom Lehrer does is *also* amazing, so....yeah.
Please do more of his music!! Thank you!!
Whitney, your sillines( and voice) are incredible! Love you so much
I love Tom Lehrer, and this was just great!!
Oooh I great, I grew up singing all his songs on road trips 😂❤️
I love this song. Tom Lehrer is an under appreciated song writer. Glad he is getting some love here! Brava
omg you should totally redo more Tom Lehrer songs!
I have an idea for a rap battle I'd love to see. Ever since Disney bought Fox, fans have been making jokes that Frank N Furter from Rocky Horror is now a Disney Princess, and then Deadpool fans have done the same (I even think Ryan Reynolds himself tweeted about it) and so a rap battle between the two of them and their side characters (like Riff-Raff and Magenta with Frank for example) arguing over their status as Disney Princesses would be hilarious fun. :)
Omg, I love this song! A friend of mine found it after we studied Oedipus Rex at college and it's just so good!
I love Tom's work and this is a fantastic cover!
From Princess Rap Battles to this Whitney has never let me down. :-)
"Thats a dad joke"
I was crying-laughing
I think a therapist telling me personal information about another client probably means It's time to get a new therapist.
HELL YEAH, TOM LEHRER COVERS!!! 💖
I can't believe I didn't know this news. I love that he's done this. Also, was explaining his career to my wife and described it as "He's seen satire die, then come back, then die and come back again, then die again and come back."
OH MY GOSH??? This is a crossover I couldnt imagine in my wildest dreams- PERFECTION, PERFECTION!!
(also tomfoolery in that pinned comment xD)
Well this is something I didn't know I wanted on multiple levels
"Some called him Pat--Tricide." XD I laughed so hard...
I love a dock-billed platypus, but it sees me more as a friend
I don't know english very well so I didn't knew until the eye gouging thing what was all about but this was really amazing and i wish to come back next week.
Omg yes yes yes she posted love u whitney
Dood, if every history class was like this I wouldn't have flunked out.
Oh my God,this blessed Voice.Incredible Just incredible.
Princess Rap Battle Idea: Wanda, the Scarlet Witch vs Winnifred Sanderson.
Tom Lehrer ... simply genius.
Springing this on us after your appearance as mother gothel on one of peter hollens videos. Not fair, whitney, not fair.
I've literally been listening to Tom Lehrer since I first knew what music was, and I'm quite sure this is the first time I've ever heard one of his songs covered. Here's hoping it won't be the last.
He recently gave all his music rights to the public domain, which opens up a TON of possibilities for covers!
(I read it's normally something like 70 years after the death of the artist? That means if someone wants to cover a song they not only have to pay rights, but have to figure out *who* to pay- which descendant is the heir? By the time 70 years have passed, does anyone even remember the artist and care anymore? I think Mr. Lehrer made a genius move here, as his works can be kept alive so much more this way!)
While I will always love the original I'm over the moon that more people are being exposed to Tom Lehrer genius
Cool... i love it so much its the best😉😉😉😁😊
FINNALY I KNOW YOUR GONNA UPDATE IN UA-cam
We had that in pedagogy a year ago😂
Freud's Oedipus complex
Great job, love this cover.
Omg I’ve adored this song my whole life so well done!
Brilliant!
No matter what you ding about, your voice bewitches me.
Happy Easter
YESSSS TOM LEHER
Mama's boy.... Damn got bad memories with a dude who was a MASSIVE mama's boy
you're fabulous !!!!
Finally u posted
As always beautiful voice.amazing job!thank you!!
Wonderful! Masochism Tango next please!
I still feel an urge to say 'That was an accident'
Great cover
Ah! I’ve been a huge fan of Tom for 20 years! Would you consider do The Vatican Rag?
😂😂 omg I love this!
You are brilliant
She saved my life 😌
Yep, he's one cool guy!
I wish u could do a rap battle about starfire and black fire
Ha! This is delightful!
The thing I always find funny about the Oedipus complex is that if the character Oedipus actually had it he might not have had quite such a dramatic downfall.
Except he was abandoned to the elements so soon after birth that he was far too young to even begin to. Also there's the small matter of how Freud made that all up so Viennese society would stop ostracizing him for daring to reveal that incest was rampant amongst them.
Oedipus doesn't really deserve this legacy
He did his best, he didn't know he was fucking his mother. I blame the Fates.
Ahhhh I love Tom Lehrer!
In Oedipus's defense he didn't actually have an Oedipus complex.