I noticed that Daniel posted about a parody of Taylor Swift’s song,“I Knew You Were Trouble.” In his post he argued that the pokemon parody he posted about in fact fell under fair use for obvious reasons that it was a parody and not actually taking away from the popularity of Taylor Swift’s song. However, he also made the point that the video was aimed at audiences that didn’t like Taylor swift. To me that is an interesting point. It does logically make sense that if someone does a parody of another song that means that they are making fun of it, and that they probably don’t like it. But as a Taylor Swift fan, I still enjoyed watching the pokemon parody of her new song, as do I greatly enjoy the goat parody of her new song. Thus, I would have to disagree that such parodies are aimed at audiences who are anti Taylor Swift. I think that these were created more simply for entertainment purposes. Especially in regard to the goat video, I do not think that the message is that the creator thinks Taylor Swift sings like a goat. But rather, I think the creator thought (and thought correctly) that the incongruity of a goat popping up and screaming the one part of the song would be hilarious. Thus, I do not believe that all parodies have to be anti the original creator of the work.

That being said, most of the time, parodies probably are poking fun at the original work to appeal to audiences who are anti the original creator. For example, as Im sure everyone has seen, Rebecca Black’s Friday song video, has loads of parodies made from it.  But unlike the goat or pokemon video, these parodies are in fact “hating” on Rebecca Black’s song.