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Songs of the wicked: Montreal native Jon Lajoie (pronounced la-jwah) sings filthy, profanity-laced and flat-out hilarious songs. The chords are Trojan horses for lyrics that go for the jugular of anyone who is hypocritical, self-important, sexist or racist. Out of context, you might call him those things. In "Show Me Your Genitals," he comes off as a misogynistic sex fiend.
"I'm making fun of that kind of music and stuff, but I am saying a bunch of horrible things when I do that," he says. "Some people don't get it."
Using a tough-guy gangsta image, his "Everyday Normal Guy" juxtaposes run-of-the-mill accomplishments with the violence and braggadocio of rap.
"When I go to the clubs, I wait in line ..." "My parents are very nice people ..." "I'm somewhat afraid of heights ..." Each of the lines is punctuated with an unprintable expletive that makes the incongruity hilarious.
Lajoie is a musician and actor who has had a role in a French Canadian soap opera and now plays a character not unlike himself in "The League" on FX. His "Birthday Song" song at a children's party on the show, delving into what happened with the birthday girl's parents nine months before her birth, is hilarious.
"I do have a few clean songs," he said, and he means very few. "One I actually wrote for my mom because she is a very kind, religious lady and I kept telling her, 'Do not watch my stuff!' I wrote 'Stay at Home Dad' kind of clean for my mom."
Lajoie recently developed his stage act, a mix of live songs, stand-up and video, after becoming a viral sensation on YouTube and other video sites. He had done some sketch comedy videos, but after he posted his first song, the title of which we cannot print, he realized he was on to something.
"Instead of getting a few hits a day, I was getting a thousand hits a day," he said. (He now counts his hits in tens of millions.) He became a do-it-yourself media star. His part in "The League" was written specifically for him by the show's creators, who love his videos.
"It really doesn't cost any money to do this," he said.
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