There are so many song parodies floating around YouTube, but few are as clever as “Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind),” a parody of Jay Z and Alicia Keys’ ode to New York City.
Those Yanks may be enamored with The Big Apple, but these proud Welsh folk have no need for Broadway or the Empire State Building. And why would they? They’ve got bendy roads and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch instead!
So many jokes that rely on regional humor fail to translate to a wider audience, but even as an Aussie who’s never set foot on Welsh soil this gave me a laugh.
The lyrics are brilliant, and those subtitles come in handy for the foreigners that can’t understand those thick Welsh accents.
