YMMV / Cledus T. Judd

• Covered Up: Very rare since he usually writes his own non-parody material too, but it has happened:
  • "Ricky Tidwell's Mama's Gonna Play Football" was originally recorded by Tim Wilson.
  • "Stephon the Alternative Lifestyle Reindeer" was originally recorded by Mac McAnally.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "If Shania Was Mine" has a line about hoping that Shania Twain will divorce Robert John "Mutt" Lange, which they did in 2010.
  • "(Weight's Goin') Up Down, Up Down" ends with Cledus joking about Joe Diffie being mad at him about an earlier line in the song while a heart monitor flatlines. Diffie died of COVID-19 in 2020.
• Heartwarming Moments: "104 Amanda Street", the closing track on his final album, is a heartwarming (and completely serious) ballad dedicated to Cledus' daughter.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Hell No" laments bad country and bad rap almost a decade before the advent of rap-influenced "bro-country" in 2013.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: One of the main criticisms of the Boogity, Boogity album (at least according to Allmusic) was that most of his takes on Ray Stevens' songs were too close to the originals.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • "Gone Funky" references Salt-N-Pepa, 2 Live Crew, and Snoop Dogg (by his original name, "Snoop Doggy Dogg").
  • "Quit Teasin' Me Ed" refers to Ed McMahon's appearances for the sweepstakes company American Family Publishers, which went out of business in 1998.
  • "1-900-Sheila": 900 numbers went out of vogue in the late 90s.
  • "Christ-Mas" references Tickle Me Elmo.
  • "My Cellmate Thinks I'm Sexy" (Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy") is a reference to an incident in 2000 when Kenny and Tim McGraw got arrested after stealing a Mounted Reserve Deputy's horse.
  • "It's a Great Day to Be a Guy" references Ally McBeal.
  • "More Beaver" name-drops Seinfeld, Home Improvement, and Nick at Nite.
  • "Don't Mess with America" (Brooks & Dunn's "Only in America") could not be anymore obviously tied to the era right after 9/11.
  • "I Love NASCAR" (Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar") mentions several NASCAR drivers, including Kyle Petty, Sterling Marlin, Mark Martin, Ken Schrader, Jeff Burton, and Mike Skinner, all of which have since retired from the NASCAR Cup Series (or, in most cases, racing in general). Additionally, many of the sponsors mentioned (including Havoline, Sharpie, Nextel, and DuPont) are no longer affiliated with NASCAR.
  • "Natalie, Martie, and Emily" (Brad Paisley's "Celebrity"), besides being tied to the then-Dixie Chicks' Creator Killer moment in 2003, has the line "You are The Weakest Link, goodbye!", a reference that was dated even then — and only even more dated when the song reappeared on Bipolar and Proud a year later.
  • "Waitin' on Obama" (Brad Paisley's "Waitin' on a Woman") references Barack Obama's election in 2008.
  • "Let's Burn One" centers on the novelty of illegally downloading MP3s and burning mix CDs, dating it firmly to the peak era of Napster.
  • "Momma's Boy" with John Anderson references Elián González, Titanic (1997), and audiocassettes. It's also clearly inspired by Scott Rouse's late-90s remixes of Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall standup routines. (Incidentally, Rouse worked with Judd on "Everybody's Free to Get Sunburned".)
  • Many of his parodies came out over a year after the original song, with the gap narrowing considerably over the years. Parodyziac! zig-zags this, as some of the parodies are of songs from 2010, while the album also includes parodies of Little Big Town's "Pontoon", which had just fallen from the charts when the album came out, and Eric Church's "Creepin'", which hadn't even peaked yet when he spoofed it.
• Values Dissonance:
  • It's unlikely that he would have gotten away with "The Change" (Neal McCoy's "For a Change"), which plays a sex change operation for laughs, in the modern day. Especially since Judd himself has since spoken in favor of the LGBT+ community.
  • "Illegals" is rife with negative stereotypes of Mexican immigrants. These include rampant use of El Spanish "-o", along with jokes about fixing cars, buying too many groceries on welfare, stealing jobs from Americans, and having to press 2 for Spanish phone options. Also, some of the Spanish subtitles in the music video aren't even translated correctly.

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