Kyle Gordon is Great and Kyle Gordon is Wonderful - Kyle Gordon

Kyle Gordon is Great
Kyle Gordon is Wonderful

Kyle Gordon

2024 + 2025 / Bertelsmann Music Group

Written by: Jack Kuzma | April 16th, 2025

Comedy music has always been one of my interests. As a kid, I was super into Weird Al and his music, getting into him via his album Mandatory Fun (specifically the song “Foil”) and ever since then, comedy music has remained somewhat present in my listening habits. When I first started expanding my music taste in high school, Flight of the Conchords and They Might Be Giants were both bands that helped in that. Flight of the Conchords, obviously, is the more comedic of the two, but their genre-parodying songs got me to explore more.

However, I feel the case with comedy music is it is either funny music or good music, and rarely are any songs both. As much as I love Weird Al, he doesn’t really have many bangers in his discography. They Might Be Giants are great, but they are also not really a comedy band, with their comedic lyrics often being secondary and not consistently present. I think Kyle Gordon is a pretty big switch up in that game.

Kyle Gordon is one of my favorite working comedians right now. His YouTube Shorts/TikToks are some of the funniest skits I’ve seen online (‘90s hacker and old-timey baseball insults are two of my favorites). He has also expanded his comedic efforts into music, though! He first started with some comedic musical shorts, such as the 1950s rock and roll song, but later expanded into full songs, starting with “Planet of The Bass.”

“Planet of The Bass,” from fictional popstar DJ Crazy Times, is Gordon’s first released song and also his first single off of his debut album, Kyle Gordon is Great. This song instantly blew up online and became a massive hit, an achievement it absolutely deserves. It is a fantastic disco-pop song that parodies the Eurodance scene excellently with pretty funny lyrics, too! It works well as a parody with its lyrics while also still being a fun dance song to listen to.

Kyle continued releasing singles before dropping the full album of Kyle Gordon is Great on March 1st, 2024. This album is pretty solid! It’s an 8 track album with radio station interludes between each song, as if the listener is flipping through a radio station on their drive. The album continues the trend of Kyle Gordon’s funny lyrics with some good music alongside it.

The album opens with “Girls Are The Best” from the character Tanya McCabe, which parodies 2000s girlboss country music. This song is really successful in its satire of girlboss country in the fact that, despite the “girls being the best” mantra of the chorus, the song just reaffirms gender roles and simplifies women in the song while still keeping in place American cultural norms. Gordon effectively criticizes the dual messages held by the songs: “Girls are great and can do everything! But they are still defined by their gender.” The culture of the time is satirized extremely well all while sticking to the sound of the genre expertly.

“Girls can be anything that they want to, smart or beautiful You can be a CEO or a fireman, too Or should I say firewoman? Hoo-hah!

Girls can be doctors, hooray!

And a girl will be the president of the USA

No way! Well, maybe someday!”

“Girls Are The Best” – Kyle Gordon

The album then continues with my personal favorite song, “My Life (Is the Worst Life Ever),” from the fictional band Our Wounded Courtship. I am a pretty big fan of pop punk/emo and so this song was right up my alley. My main complaint with it is its generic lyrics, which do nothing really new to make fun of the genre. However, the spoken interludes in the song did make me laugh the first couple of times I heard it, just due to how great Kyle’s performance of the character is, which is a highlight of every song on the album. The song’s pop punk verses are very addicting to me, though, and with a pretty short runtime (at least in the “Shitty Radio Edit” version), it’s a very fun and quick track that does a good job of lampooning pop punk’s sound and self-absorbed lyrics.

Kyle Gordon is Great is a pretty solid entry into the comedic music genre, proving that Kyle Gordon is one to be watched in the comedy music scene.

After taking a nine month break from releasing music, Kyle Gordon returned with a parody of 1980’s Christmas music, with the single “My Husband’s Ghost (This Christmas)”, which would be the first single of the then-unannounced album, Kyle Gordon is Wonderful. The single is a pretty fun Christmas song, although it’s one of the weaker songs on the full album.

Kyle Gordon is Wonderful had three additional singles after My Husband’s Ghost before the release of the full album. “We Will Never Die” by fictional band Kody Redwing and The Broken Hearts was the first of these and it parodied 2010’s indie pop rock music and is incredibly accurate to that genre, pretty much being indistinguishable to something actually released at that time. The lyrics also point fun at the optimism of the genre at that time in a really great way.

“Yup, we did a thing, we let our voices ring.

Politicians, hear us sing, stop lying

So now let’s fill our cups, with what?

We’ll fill them up with love!”

“We Will Never Die” – Kyle Gordon

My favorite of the singles, however, is the last one before the album was released. Only two days before the full album drop, there was the single “Crawl To Me”, parodying nu metal bands of the ‘90s, such as Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit. The song from fictional band Stool Sample, expertly gets the sound down of the genre while also having pretty funny lyrics that take shots at the edginess the genre had at the time. The song directly takes the majority of its lyrics from a YouTube Short that Gordon previously made, which featured the same character saying what ended up being the lyrics.

This is a constant theme in Gordon’s sophomore album, taking characters originally from Shorts and dedicating a whole song to their character, often taking direct quotes from the videos they originate from. Kody Redwing’s character and the songs “Selekta,” “Satan Will Molest You,” and “Every 1950’s Rock N’ Song (For Some Reason)” were also taken from what were originally short skits. I think this tactic works well for the album – as those videos on their own are all pretty funny, expanding them to full songs works for the most part.

Where the album mainly struggles is the fact that certain songs just kind of have one joke to them and don’t have a strong character to carry them for the full length of the song. The two primary songs that have this problem are “I Love Cheating On My Wife,” a parody of 1970s culture, and “Ooh My Boy,” a parody of late ‘90s, early 2000s R&B songs. These songs both kind of just repeat their one joke throughout and don’t go much further than that, making them the clear weak points of the album. “Ooh My Boy” is also pretty much just a worse version of “Mutha’uckas” by Flight of the Conchords, with the song being a clean version that censors the harsh language meant to be present comedically. “Mutha’uckas” works much better in comparison due to the fact that the song’s censoring is done manually in the actual pronunciation of words rather than in post-production. Additionally, one of the verses begins censoring words that shouldn’t be censored (such as fruit salad), leading to a much more comedic song.

The pop star DJ Crazy Times returns with a second song that is almost just as catchy and opens the album excellently. “Satan Will Molest You” and the 1950s rock parody also are highlights of the album due to the very funny lyrics they offer. “Selekta” and “When Will College End…Never” are also very catchy songs that keep the album afloat, being placed between the two weakest songs of the album. The recurring bit of a Top 10 Wonderfully Ridiculous Songs Of All Time list coming between each song also offers some good jokes to go along with the songs. Despite its weaknesses, Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful remains a step up from Gordon’s debut.

Kyle Gordon has proven himself as a comedy music force to be reckoned with, having genre parodies as good as Weird Al’s and lyrics that remain funny throughout most of his work. Whether in his short form content or his music, Kyle Gordon is worth checking out and one to keep on your radar for his future releases.