#195. Yang Is Tough

Oh... to be young again.  

Uh... on second thought.  I think I'll begrudgingly stick with where I'm at.  Hey, maybe there's an upside to the Covid pandemic after all.  As in No Kids on the Block.

(At the 4:45 mark they should have altered the "we will, we will rock you" snippet to "New Kids, New Kids block you."  And just for the record, a 50 year old dumb ass, hetero-Jew from Wheeling, West Virginia shouldn't be the one who figured that out)

 

Yang Is Tough
sonofsaf

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Listen up everybody I’m like Moses in short pants
Sopranos reruns let’s do the Andrew Dance
My name isn't funny ‘cause it sounds like wang
And even if it did I wouldn’t give a God dang
'Cause you gotta know Yang is tough
Yang is tough, Yang is tough,
Enough!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Everybody in the race is runnin' nonstop
Give Scott a bath the comptroller got comped
On the campaign trail there’s a constant attack
In all the five burrows you know I’m gonna have your back
And you know that Yang is tough
Yang is tough, Yang is tough,
He’s got the right stuff
Yang is tough, Yang is tough, Yang is tough,
Enough!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Get out your god damn wok ‘cause we’re makin’ chicken wings
Gonna teach the big apple about my Asian zing
Yang is tough, Yang is tough, Yang is tough
He’s got the right stuff
Yang is tough, Yang is tough, Yang is tough
Enough!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
‘Cause Yang is tough, oh, Yang is tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
‘Cause Yang is tough, oh, Yang is tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Yang is tough,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Yang is tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
‘Cause Yang is tough

 

Hangin’ Tough
New Kids On The Block

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Listen up everybody if you wanna take a chance
Just get on the floor and do the new kids' dance
Don't worry 'bout nothin' 'cause it won't take long
We're gonna put you in a trance with a funky song
'Cause you gotta be hangin' tough
Hangin' tough, hangin' tough,
We're rough

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Everybody's always talkin' 'bout who's on top
Don't cross our path 'cause you're gonna get stomped
We ain't gonna give anybody any slack
And if you try to keep us down we're gonna come right back
And you know we're hangin' tough
Hangin' tough, hangin' tough,
Are you tough enough?
Hangin' tough, Hangin' tough, hangin' tough,
We're rough

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Get loose everybody 'cause we're gonna do our thing
'Cause you know it ain't over 'till the fat lady sings
Hangin' tough, hangin' tough, hangin' tough
Are you tough enough?
Hangin' tough, hangin' tough, hangin' tough
We're rough,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Just hangin' tough, oh, hangin' tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Just hangin' tough, oh, hangin' tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Hangin' tough,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Hangin' tough
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Just hangin' tough

Backstreet Boys:

3-28-91, Civic Center, Wheeling, WV (Didn't see the concert.  But I did scalp the hell out of it.  Also worked the McLure Hotel parking garage where the "band" stayed.)

6-14-15, Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA

That 2012 London performance of Hangin' Tough was a little bit too retro-medley-experimental.  Not to pontificate on the finer points of NKOTB, but I prefer a more traditionally old school, generically choreographed approach.

Just a couple of notes regarding the parody.  Junior Soprano and Big Pussy both used the "back when Moses wore short pants" reference in early episodes of The Sopranos.  

Scott Stringer is one of the political heavyweights in the NYC mayoral competition.  He's the current New York City comptroller.

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