Released: October, 2023
Genre: Pop, Parody, Hip-Hop
Runtime: 43 minutes
Hailing from Melbourne’s western suburbs, Cougar Meat is a collective of young males (who would like to remain anonymous) who create fun, lighthearted parodies of your favourite tunes. As their name suggests, lyrics focus on their obsession with older women.
I was fortunate enough to get sent a rough demo of the album. Popular songs include DNCE’s ‘Cake By The Ocean’, creatively dubbed ‘MILFs By The Ocean’ as well as Bowling For Soup’s ‘Stacy’s Mom’, called ‘Stacy’s Son’ sung from the perspective of a woman interested in her friend’s son. Cougar Meat have created a set of unique songs with influences from The Lonely Island, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and their own individual musical palettes. The level of creativity is equivalent to a Grade 2’s imagination on the playground. There were many times I found myself actually cracking a laugh listening to some of these songs, because of the clever wordplay and creative and nonsensical situations these lads put themselves in.
For years Cougar Meat were known amongst their local group as ‘The Greatest Band To Never Exist’, but in 2019 they grinned their creativity to exciting heights. You may be thinking ‘Rhys, surely this is a joke, you can’t be serious?’. My friends, I am serious and I have jumped on the Cougar Meat bandwagon.
7.5/10
