From Beauty and the Beast to Bohemian Rhapsody: five coronavirus parodies to keep you smiling through lockdown
- Many people are coping with the coronavirus lockdown through music and coronavirus parodies are becoming a genre
- From Neil Diamond to the Bee Gees, here are five songs to let you laugh in the face of the pandemic
As people isolate themselves during the coronavirus outbreak, many are turning to music for solace.
From police singing and dancing in Spain to living-room concerts by famous artists to celebrities performing Imagine and getting ripped for it, pandemic-related tunes are there for us.
And then there’s the stuff people are singing to laugh in the face of doom. Coronavirus song parodies are popping up everywhere; some have even gone viral. Here are some of the best to ease your suffering right now:
Beauty and the Beast – The Corona Version
Not sure how Disney feels about this, but YouTuber Sharon Luxenburg (with lead vocalist Miri Zhavi) dubbed over the “Belle” scene from the animated Beauty and the Beast (1991). In Luxenburg’s version, Belle strolls through town obliviously as villagers plead with her to observe social distancing and other guidelines, especially in a morbidly hilarious reworking of the scene in which she takes a new book to read.
Lock Down
The entire Marsh family of Kent, England, put together Lock Down, an impressive reworking of One Day More from Les Misérables.