Negative Øhio - The Swaggerific Bones of Cletus the Parrot lyrics

It all started when his marriage failed
Squack! (Rosebud)

While it was revolutionary for it's time
Citizen Kane has not aged particularly well
There's no arc explaining how
He lost his innocence
Simply skips over his entire
Childhood in a flash to cram in more of
A boring storytelling gimmick
The beginning of the film spoils the rest
Everything else ends up as a tedious recap
The middle of the movie especially drags on
To the point wherе you might fall asleep
Then suddenly, the parrot jumpscarе appears

Why not just trim the film?
Why add in a random jumpscare?
It has nothing to do with anything
Literally added to wake up the audience
We all got trolled by Orson Welles
As his parrot laughs in our face

Rosebud, ugh
You see, the sled, it symbolizes
Uh, his childhood, and, uh
(Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense, yeah
Yeah) and, uh, since it's very important
(Oh wow)
It means it humanizes him and then, you know
(It's so deep and stuff, right)

The movie also works too hard
To humanize a fascist
Seen shaking hands with Hitler
Treated as forgivable just because
He changed his mind
Implications of antisemitism never explored

The lack of clear condemnation has
Lead to a misaimed fandom
With fürher 45 idolizing Charles Foster Kane
And white leftists today keep trying
To convert the Nazis
A platform is what they crave
They're not going to sway

What about the women he abused?
What about the workers that he fucked over?
Does an innocent childhood somehow
Make it forgivable?
Old white man circlejerk commence

Bree, bree, bree, bree, bree
Bree, bree, bree, bree, bree
Bree, bree, bree, bree, bree boo!

We're not saying the film is
Worthless or without merit
Simply that classic works show
Their cracks with age
And if society keeps holding these
Works up on a pedestal
Critiquing their problematic elements has
To be done and when nobody else does
We have to do it ourselves
Even if we're not movie critics

Nothing is flawless, nothing is pure
Perfection is meaningless
Perfection is meaningless
Art reflects the time and place
It was produced in think when you consume
Think when you consume
Nothing is flawless, nothing is pure
Perfection is meaningless
Perfection is meaningless
Artistic relevance might fade with time
Think when you consume
And analyze the way the story applies today

No sympathy for the wealthy
Fortunes are made with blood
Kane died alone without a soul
It is what he deserved

All in all
It's hard to go back to Citizen Kane
The biting satire now seems
Toothless with age
And the screenplay is not Welles'
Best work in hindsight
Two out of five stars, would not recommend

And also, it's mainly achieved the status of
"greatest film of all time"
Due to being an American export to
A USSR-friendly European film scene
Meaning it gained popularity
For right-wing reasons
Despite being a supposed left-wing movie
But that's a story for another time

Enough with the past
(Don't let nostalgia blind you)
Enough with the past
(Don't let nostalgia blind you)
Enough with the past
(Don't let nostalgia blind you)
Enough with the past
(Don't let nostalgia blind you)
Enough with the past enough with the past
Enough with the past enough with the past
Enough with the past

Enough