{"id":193842,"date":"2019-09-11T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/village-people-fuming-over-missouri-farmers-ymca-spoof"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:40:01","slug":"village-people-fuming-over-missouri-farmers-ymca-spoof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/village-people-fuming-over-missouri-farmers-ymca-spoof","title":{"rendered":"Village People Fuming Over Missouri Farmers&#039; &#039;YMCA&#039; Spoof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-114782\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">        \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n        \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"29.2853470437\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"70.5045781557\">\n<section id=\"cb-91da02553c73d3e9e46171274851235c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"w-100\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive-item\">\n<div id=\"video-player-389410ac-e204-5bbd-af93-5888d9d98f48-1797083550-image-holder\" class=\"video-block-image-holder vilynx_enabled vilynx_audiopolicycta vilynx_hidectaicon\" data-vilynx-id=\"www.tmz.com\/videos\/091119-village-people-parody-4630063-0-so17cm2j\">\n              <button class=\"embed-responsive-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-389410ac-e204-5bbd-af93-5888d9d98f48-1797083550-play-btn\"><br \/><span class=\"sr-only\">Play video content<\/span><br \/><\/button><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Village-People-Fuming-Over-Missouri-Farmers039-039YMCA039-Spoof.jpg\"\/><span class=\"media-swipe video-block__media-swipe\">Exclusive<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-63a9ca6662c95197181a824b895156a2\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"35\">\n<p>The <strong>Village People<\/strong> definitely see a need \u2026 to \u2026 be \u2026 unhappy \u2014 in fact, they\u2019re PISSED The White House helped a \u201cYMCA\u201d spoof video go viral, because no one got their permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5995d920979a1804e3ab383b7d6f8489\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"43\">\n<p><strong>Victor Willis<\/strong>, writer and frontman for the Village People, tells TMZ \u2026 his group is NOT impressed by the Missouri farmers who threw down their best disco moves \u2014 while standing in corn fields with lots o\u2019 chicken, milk and even soy, mind you. The intent of the \u201cUSMCA\u201d spoof is to push Congress to pass the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-a4d063ca6a7a89635da94a6f8891cc87\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"39\">\n<p>No offense to dancing farmers everywhere, but Willis says, \u201cBecause the Missouri Farm Bureau failed to obtain a license for use of my song in addition to intertwining my original lyrics with new lyrics, I must decline this specific use of the song in conjunction with the \u2018USMCA.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-b2e1358f423ab0f123376bdf55cec6ad\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-de3da9ae1232b008a06c02bc186e759d\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"41.4451219512\">\n<p>Legal stuff aside, though \u2026 ya gotta give the farmers credit for giving their all in the parody. Seriously, they worked soy, steel and a bucket of fried chicken into the lyrics! The White House was clearly into it \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><strong>President Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s down with the USMCA, after all \u2014 because it tweeted the video to its 19 million followers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-d3e96ae8d654f7a7289e59c8ef0e2d14\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"35\">\n<p>Still, the Village People took action and reported the infringement to YouTube. The vid\u2019s been removed from that platform, and we\u2019re told it will be taken down from others Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-47a1adb54419aebed46efb3a8724bf23\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \" readability=\"37\">\n<p>So, to review: there are many ways to have a good time, but singing and dancing in a cornfield while spoofing \u201cYMCA\u201d without permission \u2026 is not one of them, apparently.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/09\/11\/village-people-farmers-ymca-spoof-video-white-house\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/village-people-fuming-over-missouri-farmers-ymca-spoof\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video contentExclusive The Village People definitely see a need \u2026 to \u2026 be \u2026 unhappy \u2014 in fact, they\u2019re PISSED The White House helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}