The organizers of Singapore’s National Day Parade have found themselves the object of ridicule after they modified the lyrics of a Lady Gaga hit to create a song about the parade’s goodie bag.They performed the ditty, called the Fun Pack Song, once at last Saturday’s rehearsal for the parade, and had planned to repeat it for the pre-parade segment on Aug 9.
The clip of the performance of the song, which modifies the lyrics of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, has gone viral and been panned by netizens on YouTube.
Last night, the parade organizers said they had secured the public performance permit for a series of songs, including that hit.
‘But we did not realize that the rights obtained did not include rights to modify the lyrics of the song. We are currently working to rectify this,’ said the chairman of the NDP show segment, Col. Ong Tze-Ch’in, in a statement on Tuesday night. Full story
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