Kanye West is currently at the top of the Hit Parade singing about the fact that “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”.

These are clearly the words of a man who has never spent any time with recovering stroke victims. Well Kanye, I have, and I can tell you now, I have never won so many arm wrestles in my life. Even with my bad arm. Stronger my arse. I almost felt guilty taking the money off them, but a bet is a bet. I would have paid them if they had won.

After listening to this song, the following track was by Gym Class Heroes and has taken the Jermaine Stewart song that goes, “We don’t have to take our clothes off, to have a good time.” and changed the lyrics to, “We have to take our clothes of to have a good time.”

Do you see what they did there?

Perhaps it is a sign of the times we live in, and final confirmation that fully-clothed fun is a thing of the past. Or maybe they are just utterly desperate for a shag and think that singing about going nude will offer them a better chance of getting off with a woman. They are probably right thinking about. Honesty is the best policy after all (unless you have done something really really bad, in which case, get an alibi, quick), so asking for, and subsequently getting, a woman naked is normally a pretty good sign that you are going to have the sex.

Anyway, this song has got me thinking. Which classic songs should we change the lyrics to, given the chance, so that they better reflect the society we live in today?

Marvin Gaye’s – I heard it on Facebook?
Hot Chocolate’s – It started with a Poke?
Culture Club’s – Do you really wanna (MSN) block me?
Duran Duran’s – Girls on memory-card?

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