Pinkie Pie: Okay, I got it! And a-one and two and three and four!
I, know a girl, and her name is Raritina
She is dressed, for the best, lookin' like a ballerina
I, wanna talk, to that girl named Raritina
Heyyyy Raritina!
Boy, that you're with, he is really kinda mean-a
He has paid, hired thugs, that are straight from the arena
Girl, don't be fooled, by his opulent marina
Heyyyy Raritina!
When, he's around, critters bolt like the hyena
Seems to hate, all your friends, but he won't make a big scene-a
You, might find dirt, if you serve him a subpoena
Heyyyy Raritina!
Applejack: Woo! Encore!
SFX: (CLAP CLAP CLAP)
Fluttershy: Sh-Should we have been dancing during that? Did no one tell me...?
Rainbow Dash: Who even remembers that dance these days?!
Twilight Sparkle: How... subtle. How innocuous and covert.
Rarity: Did you have to include most of my real name...?
Pinkie Pie: Sorry that it was only a parody of the chorus. That's all I had time for.
DM: There's more to that song? I don't believe you.
My thought process: The show goes with the Hokey Pokey, a participation song so common that every child has or will have heard it at some point in their life. Therefore, the best adaptation (and the one that makes my job easier) of this scene is to pick another participation song so common that most of my audience will have weird nostalgia for it. Thus my brain landed on butchering the chorus of Macarena.
Also, what is this now, four? Four poems and songs I've done for tabletop-style Pinkie Pie? "Glib at the Ghosties," "Evil Enchantress (sonnet style)," "Better Party Bard," and now this?
See, it's pages like this that make me so disappointed in our D&D party's bard. She doesn't try to apply song lyrics to this effect (parody or otherwise), she doesn't write any stories or songs to help our party's PR rating (We killed several high profile monsters and most towns still don't know about that!), and in combat she prefers to go fight in the front lines melee instead of utilizing all those juicy support powers and spells (well, she uses bardic song, but that's it).
Bards are designed to melee, and not necessarily to sing (although it's a good one to pick for bardic music if you want to melee since it doesn't take up your hands). In 3.5 I uaed a longspear so that I could fight from behind the people with more hit points. n.n
That character was before FIM but she was basically Pinkie Pie.
In 5e I was the party healer but I had the best AC of anyone (because everyone else was dual-wielding or otherwise focusing on damage)... they wouldn't let me tank, though.
That character wasn't a singing bard. He was a veteran who encouraged people by swearing at them, and during a short rest he'd tell old war stories to give everyone temp hit points.
The Bard can melee, if you focus your build on being good at a certain style of fighting. Our bard didn't. She's very hodge-podge in her design, better suited for a fighter/cleric build than bard/cleric.
I've done that without being a bard. Maybe not that frequently, but when it made sense - especially in campaign 'verses where characters normally broke out in verse.
I didn't recognize the song at first, so I made up my own melody loosely based on the last thing going through my head (Dentist, from Little Shop of Horrors). Then I read the title, got the joke, and now I have to go find the original.
My thought process: The show goes with the Hokey Pokey, a participation song so common that every child has or will have heard it at some point in their life. Therefore, the best adaptation (and the one that makes my job easier) of this scene is to pick another participation song so common that most of my audience will have weird nostalgia for it. Thus my brain landed on butchering the chorus of Macarena.
Also, what is this now, four? Four poems and songs I've done for tabletop-style Pinkie Pie? "Glib at the Ghosties," "Evil Enchantress (sonnet style)," "Better Party Bard," and now this?