“True Crime TV” exploits our collective paranoia from being shut in with too much time for Netflix. Our holiday parodies are the product of too many years spent consuming Weird Al and Dr. It lays the foundation for an album that may be more evocative of Festivus than Christmas in its countless odes to mundanity. We actually liked it enough to expend a little more time and care into orchestrating and recording it than the rest of this album. “Latchkey Kid at Christmas” is a song that is beautiful, sad, and funny. We are so often overlooked between the wailing of the Boomers and the gnashing of the Millennials, and we’ll soon be eclipsed altogether by the self-righteous indignation of our own Gen Z children. It is a paean to our generation, Gen X, who have weathered this pandemic era in silence, drawing strength from our latchkey kid roots, and perhaps even enjoying the ongoing excuse to avoid social gatherings and to work from home. Tell us about A Latchkey Kid’s Christmas Album.Īt the heart of the album is our original song “Latchkey Kid at Christmas,” which is also our single. It was quite a project, but a bit more manageable than the All-Sock Puppet virtual production of Urinetown that we took on earlier this year (still available online through April 2022 - see the DCMTA review). Most of them weren’t ready to get back into the performing saddle just yet, but Melissa had already written a lot of funny lyrics, so we decided to start off with an album. We reached out to a number of musician friends that we work with regularly. We sat down with the Baughmans to talk about this unusual project:Īs theaters and performance venues were starting to open up, we thought it would be neat to form a holiday parody-music group for performances this season.
#Dr demento christmas free
It’s 14 twisted tunes and it’s free for the listening. Demento, and dropped their first album, A Latchkey Kid’s Christmas Album, on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon Music on December 14, 2021. The Landless Theatre Company’s Artistic Direction team, Andrew and Melissa Baughman, have taken on a new project this season: they formed a comedy band called The Bingle Jells in the spirit of Weird Al and Dr.
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